Today, a coworker asked me why this week's report was not uploaded to the server. I've been writing these reports once a week for a year and they take a whole day to write. Upload them to what server? FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, a coworker sent a last-minute request for a highly complex custom report based on a spreadsheet. It took most of the weekend and Monday to get right because he'd screwed up most of the calculations. The client was pissed; they'd wanted it done by 5PM GMT that Friday. He'd sat on the request until 5 EST Friday. FML
Today, I have to show my boss daily reports on my work over the last three months. She told me this yesterday. They're mandatory, but nobody has ever wanted to see them in the three years I've been working here, so I have long since stopped doing them. It's now 3 am, I start work at 7.30, and I'm not even close to done. FML
Today, it's been a week since I was supposed to be moved. I've had to work over because of network, data issues, and now a computation that's slightly off. The computation is optional, and there's no one at the federal office to even accept the report, but my stupid brain won't let me stop until it's fixed. FML
Today, one of my colleagues was asked to rewrite an entire project, which I wrote last week. I'd spent more than 4 days writing it. FML
Today, my boss is writing me up for not signing a report before I left work. He refused to print the report that day, and I don't have access to the printers. FML
Today, my research partner emails me 2 hours before our deadline saying that she can't complete her half of our 20 page report because when she woke up this morning she couldn't see. How did she write the email? FML
Today, at the office, my most annoying client asked me to send her a document. I have now sent it to her over 5 times, in a different format each time, and every single time she replies with, "Not in the requested format". She won't tell me what the requested format is. 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, 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
Today, at work, I had to analyze timecards data and generate a report on the least billed / occupied people at work. I found myself at the bottom. I sent it to my boss too. FML
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Top comments
bromeister 6
Dont worry, the NSA uploads them automatically
thomcmoore 23
Yes, "stupidly" surely is everywhere.
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Comments (72)
vikky538 29
is your co worker is a to be manager or something like that... sorry OP.. jerks are all around ...
maharb01 17
So there has been some problems with your TPS Reports?
nickspluglife 7
how could someone not notice 365 times in a row?
MissMegan711 5
You realize that would be 52 times if she had been writing them once a week for a year...
Goblin182 27
Are you supposed to be uploading the reports and didn't know it or did the co-worker just think you were supposed to upload these and had never noticed they don't get uploaded anywhere?
cjwayy 22
I don't understand this FML ._. Can someone explain it to me?
Brandi_Faith 34
He's been writing out these reports for a year and now he's finding out they were supposed to be uploaded to a server all this time, which he's never done. Also, he may have to go back and upload or type every report for the past year and put them on this server. Hopefully he doesn't have to though.
greentide 9
I would tell them you did and ask to see if it's really not on "the server"
problemsproblems 6
There is no server, only zuul
thomcmoore 23
Are you the gatekeeper?
worldclassrager 41
Ask where they get uploaded to problem solved
SEPO79 1
I am not sure why so many people are assuming that "writing" implies hand-written... It can just as easily mean that it was typed. Writing is a process, not the method.
RebelNikita 3
agreed a hundred
kalbrek009 20
So, if you haven't been typing them up on a computer & uploading them....who has been? (Assuming, that is...there may be a server to upload them to that you didn't know about?)....or...maybe your coworker is either kidding or just plain stupid?