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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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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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)
Cwilson3388 11
I'm not sure I see a problem here. I figured you still got paid for a full day of work. So you got paid to do nothing the whole day? This would happen more often!
littlekellilee 45
This is a problem if people have work that needs to be done within a time frame. no customer is going to hear "our Internet was down for two weeks" and decide that's a valid reason for their project to not get finished.
vikky538 29
and people blame internet service providers...
metalwolf 17
The router might have been supplied by the ISP. Still bothers me when people dont want to try for themselves on technology just because it is a different color or the face plate looks different. "how do you open this thing?" "Press eject." "how was i supposed to know? it doesnt look like the one at my house."
Brandi_Faith 34
I don't think it's necessarily a lack of effort but more a lack of knowledge. People may know the basics of a computer but that's it, anything related to problem solving or router stuff is out of their spectrum. IT stuff is a language and a lot people don't understand it. Best to explain it all slowly and without judgement showing them how it's done so they can learn and do it themselves next time. The worst thing to do is to just breeze through it and make them feel stupid for not knowing it.
SillyBeanie 8
Sounds like you had a day of rest now you can just make up the work tomorrow :) though I think this FML has something to do with the stupidity of your coworkers/boss which sadly you can't fix :o sorry OP
chill99 15
What they meant was "to avoid doing further *work*"
omrfzn 3
That's good.
Chiroptera_Man 10
Kinda sounds like no body wanted to work
skittyskatbrat 19
Makes me wonder if the company has torn into/fired/reprimanded workers for stepping outside their job descriptions to fix things in the past. If that's the case, the company just lost a day of work from many people for their draconian behavior :D FYL, but a probable YDI for the place you work.
Shade1982 21
As an IT specialist, I can tell you it is definitely better if people just don't touch what they don't understand instead of messing around themselves. That being said, I wonder why the company has no IT staff on site...
grbsk 7
Gauchos, they're the best at everything, sis ;)
blackrose3033 4
Your co-workers are idiots.
Mike_Oxhard 14
That's better than coworkers who take it upon themselves to fix something out of their scope of abilities and **** it up even more. Either way you're still fixing it.