Work: Jesus Saves

Jesus Saves

By workaholic - 06/03/2014 16:24 - United States - San Francisco

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

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By ProjectDude - 20/10/2021 17:00 - United States

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

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Unfair!

By Anonymous - 18/11/2023 08:00 - France - Paris

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

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Great replacement

By Bottom feeder - 08/01/2016 03:41 - Hong Kong - Ngau Tau Kok

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

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By tiredInMD - 12/07/2017 18:39 - United States - Pasadena

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

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By TTR - 13/11/2011 00:36 - United States

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

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Overachiever

By Is he stupid? - 26/12/2023 08:00 - United States

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

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Suspicious activity

By Anonymous - 06/12/2023 00:00 - United States - Los Angeles

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

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And then it hit me

By Anonymous - 06/05/2024 01:00 - Russia - Moscow

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

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By Anonymous - 13/06/2014 15:36 - Afghanistan - Kabul

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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Get on with it!

By Anonymous - 11/02/2023 12:00

Today, I went to turn in a coding project a few days early. After months of working on a code and saving backups, everything is gone or corrupted. I have to start from square one and turn it in less than 48 hours from now. FML

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You deserved it 151

MortenM 17

Thursday 6 March 2014 23:14

Yea. Always use autosave. or Ctrl+s frequently. FYL

emilycardona7 18

Thursday 6 March 2014 23:15

Always make sure you save.

Comments

mad_hatter0666 22

Friday 7 March 2014 4:34

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

Friday 7 March 2014 8:46

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

Friday 7 March 2014 5:15

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

Friday 7 March 2014 5:18

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

Friday 7 March 2014 6:46

I'm sorry, OP. That's terrible! FYL.

Simbaby 23

Friday 7 March 2014 8:05

Goodness, that would absolutely suck.

ohishkabibble 21

Friday 7 March 2014 8:45

Save early, save often! And double-check that it's saved properly. But I'm sorry that happened, OP!

Larsh 4

Friday 7 March 2014 9:06

Many applications have auto backup. Find a guide on the application you are using and see where such would be stored.

Fou_Lou 20

Friday 7 March 2014 11:21

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

Friday 7 March 2014 15:37

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

Friday 7 March 2014 15:52

Or google docs saves it automatically as you change each word

Avaene 7

Friday 7 March 2014 15:51

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