Today, I thought I'd finally finished the special project my boss gave me of changing the eligibility details on several hundred loans. My coworker later pointed out that the document was the same as it had been hours before, and that the changes I made hadn't saved at all. FML
Collection
Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, a group project for work was due. I honestly forgot about it and edited some words to make it seem like I worked on it. Did you know that Google Docs spreadsheet can track not only the changes made, but who made the changes? My colleagues were pissed. FML
Today, while trying to document another unfair incident, as well as suspected fraud in my toxic work environment, I accidentally replaced months of text in my document with a single period. Cloud backup saved over the actual note I needed. Months of diligence gone and I'll probably continue to be stepped on. FML
Today, I was fired because of a "poorly executed" task. My boss claims that I just copypasted an existing document in a new file; I was instructed exactly to take the document and move its content to a new table without changing anything. It was discussed beforehand, but looks like his own messages are not a proof. FML
Today, my boss dropped a highly important and dense report on my desk that had to be finished by the end of the day. After the initial panic attack and hours of scrupulous work, I finished. She then asked me to pick up the revised copy, where my name was replaced with hers. FML
Today, after retyping a 22-page report for work because the orginal had gone missing, i realized I had used a different laptop the first time. I now have 2 copies of the same report, both of which are late. FML
Today, I finished a very important but annoying presentation that took four hours to complete. Only after writing a paragraph to explain the presentation and sending it to my boss did I realize that I saved the document as "Shit I have to do to get a promotion." FML
Today, due to being stressed and overwhelmed by my tasks, I made a mistake and completed a few of my colleagues' tasks as well. When I informed my boss about it, he said that I did an outstanding job, but I shouldn't have messed with other people's documents. As a result, my promised raise is cancelled. FML
Today, I was working on entering a lot of information in the system. When I'd finished, I closed the screen to move on to the next steps, my boss came by to see how I was doing, just in time to see me looking at a now-blank screen. I'm convinced that my boss thinks I closed a screen that wasn't work related. FML
Today, there's a company I want to get a job at, and I've worked for a long time to get in. However, I realized that in the test task I'd been doing for almost a month, there was a small mistake in my calculations that makes all my results false. And, of course, I'd already sent this task to HR two days ago. FML
Today, thinking we'd still be able to finish our project in time for tomorrow's deadline, my work group put off doing any work until today. When we logged into the website we have to use, we found it was down for maintenance all day. FML
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Top comments
MortenM 17
Yea. Always use autosave. or Ctrl+s frequently. FYL
emilycardona7 18
Always make sure you save.
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Mauskau 36
Use 'save as' and rename the file. Save every few minutes. That way you know it has saved :)
tj4234 36
If the pc hasn't been switched off, it is theoretically possible to recover it even though it hasn't been saved. Your pc creates temporary backups every so often. Let this be a lesson though, always save frequently (and if it's important create a backup as well).
gracehi 33
Wouldn't it still be likely to have a backup if the PC had been switched off? I've experienced several occasions in which I was working on a PC, something happened to make it turn off, and then why I started it up again and opened Microsoft Word, there was that thing I was writing as a recovered document...part of it anyway.
tj4234 36
Not necessarily. But it is still possible. It's not as easy to recover though as it would be if the PC had been kept switched on. If the PC did create a backup, it may have been cleared during shut down.
LittleBlackbird 20
#22 That will only work if you've saved the document at least one time before. Maybe that is why it doesn't work always for you :). Anyways, I'm sorry for you it happened OP!
gracehi 33
No, that's the thing. I hadn't saved it before.
mikbrooke 25
#40 - i havent saved documents whatsoever before and they have been able to be recovered.
LittleBlackbird 20
#56, Hmm my bad! I have been told you needed to save a document on Microsoft Word once, before Word autosaves it, so I always make sure I save it once and that works perfectly fine. You could be right tough, I haven't been in a situation where I haven't had saved it before in a long time.
LittleBlackbird 20
*though
OhWhoCares 42
I'd be kicking my own ass for that one. Especially since I'm guessing it involved numbers and all kinds of math and took forever to complete. Sorry OP. We've all been there.
holliepong 8
remember next time!
skipper2009 18
You must not be a gamer OP. You learn quick ALWAYS SAVE!
blackonblight 33
And have multiple saves, under different names, just in case.
Traitoro 9
25 Morrowind taught me that one. Can't remember how many times I lost HOURS to a sudden crash. Ah games before auto save existed.
blackonblight 33
Morrowind is amazing. +100 points for good taste in games. Have you seen what it's like with graphic update mods? My game may be modded to hell and back but it's gorgeous and much more fun character building than skyrim offered.
Traitoro 9
No I haven't seen that. But hell ya Morrowind is waaaaay bigger than skyrim.
worldclassrager 41
I sure hope you didn't have a ton of changes made....
Sassie8810 9
I believe the word 'hundreds', as well as the fact this is FML, means there was a ton of changes involved.
Traitoro 9
And the phrase "thought I had finished"
inner_peace 19
One little feature of modern technology that can save so much time and effort from being wasted.
kittie77 10
Aww :( auto save?
sweetestbitcheva 14
You should've been constantly trying to save. No worries OP everyone makes mistakes! :)
nyahz1 7
WTF type of operating system do you have at your job..that sucks, im thankful we have macs at my job, no matter what we do, its saved immediately
Dthsapprntc 23
Your operating system doesn't have anything to do with your editing software's auto-save capability. All my writing and editing gets automatically saved as well, and I do not use a Mac.