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
Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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mad_hatter0666 22
Something similar happened to me and I DID use the save button. I later discovered it was a known bug in Word 2010. Don't feel bad, OP. You're not crazy.
katties 27
The same happened to me 3 days ago! When I opened the document I was to hand in, none of the changes were saved, and I DO remember saving many times. Then Word began giving me the "auto-save doesn't work" message, the opened 7 (!!!) documents I had been working on that it hadn't saved X|
Alchemist_21 26
Why did your boss make one worker make the hundreds of changes? There should have been at least 3 people doing this. Maybe this will teach your boss not to put all his eggs in one basket. FYL
jellenwood 35
This happened to me just yesterday!!! I saved it constantly. Next morning, it reverted itself back to its original version! What the heck?!
musicforhearts 15
I'm sorry, OP. That's terrible! FYL.
Simbaby 23
Goodness, that would absolutely suck.
ohishkabibble 21
Save early, save often! And double-check that it's saved properly. But I'm sorry that happened, OP!
Larsh 4
Many applications have auto backup. Find a guide on the application you are using and see where such would be stored.
Fou_Lou 20
Learning that Control + S is your best friend should be first part of any computer course. I sometimes press it even if there is nothing actually to save. For example this comment.
xXxJaGsTeRxXx 11
Use dropbox and open your document from there. Save frequently and if anything goes wrong. You can use dropbox's last revised document.
Avaene 7
Or google docs saves it automatically as you change each word
Avaene 7
YDI... the number of times that you hear stories of people not saving their work and losing hours of their life is crazy. You'd think we would all know better by now