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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bromeister 6
Dont worry, the NSA uploads them automatically
thomcmoore 23
Yes, "stupidly" surely is everywhere.
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False_Stupidity 42
The way I interpret this is that another co-worker has been taking OP's work and uploading it to a server, which may or may not be authorized, without the OP's knowledge and now he/she is finding out be cause they failed to upload the most recent one. I'd definitely be checking with the boss.
onceugoasian 1
Why wouldn't they give you clarification? I'm a Project Manager. ... If one of my crew members doesn't do something right, I let them know and train them so they don't make the same mistake again. However, after that, it's they're responsibly to follow procedures.
XTheDesertSongX 17
In my opinion, if you've never heard about it or gotten in trouble about it before, your coworker is ******* with you or doesn't know what (s)he's talking about.
RebelNikita 3
very well put & good point
tehdarkness 21
He probably just said "server" to sound smart. I'll bet it's actually a shared hard drive.
saidoh_fml 26
Man that sucks, but I'm assuming you've got most of that stuff on your desktop/hard drive and can go back and upload it. Hopefully it'll work out.
ItsJustMe1616 26
Yeah I'm sorry but I really don't understand what about this exactly is the FML part. This could go several different directions. Either OP has somehow been doing his job wrong for over a year and no one has noticed, or said coworker is completely clueless as to where the reports are typically stored. But then again the specific mentioning of the reports taking a whole day to write makes me wonder if knowledge of this server would've been making his job easier? Yeah, I'm confused. Also, I apologize for being confused so I would appreciate responses around helping me understand this FML as opposed to people just called me stupid for not understanding.
RebelNikita 3
you are not stupid...it can go so many different ways, I agree...lm not sure wich one tho lolz