Today, we spent an entire day without being able to do work because our internet connection was down. Turns out, only the router had crashed and nobody bothered to reset it "to avoid doing further damage". FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after two weeks with no internet, we had a technician repair our service at our apartment. An hour later, one of my neighbors at the same complex yelled at us because the same technician disconnected her service by mistake. 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, I was doing a job interview on Skype when my roommate decided to reboot the wireless router because "the internet was too slow". The interviewer didn't bother calling again. FML
Today, while working the dinner rush at my job, every single computer, credit card machine, and printer froze for an hour and a half. The reason behind this issue was a large wire ripped from the mainframe, the same wire I tripped over 20 seconds before while my boss watched. FML
Today, after a 16-hour day fixing the computer network at my workplace, I didn't even get a "Thank you". I did, however, get people whining about how, "That computer crap never works" and, "Why do we need IT anyway?" FML
Today, I was unable to connect to the Internet. After calling support, I was informed that due to a cut cable, the whole country will have no service from that provider for some time. The. Whole. Country. FML
Today, my internet was so slow I couldn't even load an internet speed test to see how slow my internet was. FML
Today, my computer stopped connecting to the corporate network. I know what the problem is, but our tech support is so clueless that the only thing they do is utter the dreaded words, "Did you try turning it off and back on?" Meanwhile my boss is yelling at me for not getting any work done. FML
Today, I spent hours and hours trying to figure out why the wireless internet on my laptop wasn't working, but everything I tried completely failed. At the end of the day, my older brother came home, and fixed the problem in under 10 seconds by turning the wireless internet switch on. FML
Today, I disconnected and hid the WiFi router and told my kids and husband I wanted an hour together doing family stuff. I failed miserably. Rather than spend an hour together, they spent nearly 2 hours separately tearing the house apart for the router. Now the house is a mess and I’m still lonely. FML
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Top comments
afkwarrior 25
Aw. All you had to do was delete System32. Why are people so fearful of IT still?!
thisguy22 33
At least now you know how to slack off at work. It may come in handy the next time you go to work hung over.
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Comments (42)
worldclassrager 41
Well if they damaged the router by reseting it there would be a bit of trouble...not that would happen...unless they don't know what they are doing
xSLEEPYxHEADx 22
We can assume OP's co workers didn't know what they were doing since resetting a router fixes internet "problems" 90% of the time.
worldclassrager 41
Well they never did try...unless they believe the other 10% was too big of a risk to take
skatoolaki 24
They didn't know what the hell they were doing is the point.
afkwarrior 25
Aw. All you had to do was delete System32. Why are people so fearful of IT still?!
azelk 8
Ewwwww, Winblows.
Sandman366 6
Apple's dumb enough to make an aluminum phone and very little is properly supported by Linux. Win8 may deserve hate, but win7 was good. (What rhymes with seven?!)
Ltturner234 12
Eleven?
thisguy22 33
Heaven
PhinIt2WinIt 24
Devon. Levin (Japanese Toyota corolla) shovin'. lovin'..
thisguy22 33
At least now you know how to slack off at work. It may come in handy the next time you go to work hung over.
xSLEEPYxHEADx 22
First world problems
badluckalex 23
why were you waiting for someone else to fix it? could've been solved a lot sooner.
laden_swallow09 35
It's allllllways someone else who'll fix it, amirite?
Brandi_Faith 34
Op probably wasn't in a high enough position to do anything about it. Sounds like op was told that the internet was down and wasn't even aware that no one had tried resetting the router until later when it had been fixed.
nider 19
You don't have someone internal or an IT services company that helps support your business? Or maybe everyone just wanted an excuse to not do any work.
Brandi_Faith 34
Sounds like they should hire someone for IT stuff or at least someone with a good knowledge of computers if no one thought (or knew enough to) reset the router.
xSLEEPYxHEADx 22
First world problems
PattonGilette2 18
LOL!!!
patrickalamo 48
Or the zero of the month for making everyone go back to work.
Soundslikeothers 15
Did you try turning it on and off again? Oh that's right you didn't!
B3thyB3thy 5
ha ha...that's the first thing I thought of...IT Crowd!!!!
simsimbeep 13
Very nice.