She should have been the one to get fired, considering she's the one who deleted them. It's not like you told her to do anything of the kind! Why did she have access to those documents if she's that bad with computers?

Good Lord. This woman is evidently too stupid to find her ass with both hands and a map and has no business going anywhere near a computer. FYL.

o_O What the hell are you supposed to say if "close windows" is too technical? What alternative is there?

This should be posted on www.notalwaysright.com (As in the customer is NOT always right) It has stories just like this one and worse.

the stupid should stop reproducing. -_-

"Hello, this is IT, have you tried turning it off and on again?"

what the hell do they mean by too technical? u get fired for someone's stupidity. that just really sucks.

Why the hell should you be fired? It's not your fault. How dense do you have to be to select important documents, then select *Delete*? If you can't understand simple computer lingo, then you shouldn't work with one. Or the woman could at least *ask* how to close windows instead of blinding doing things.

When files are deleted over the network (where I assume the company files were) they do not go into a Recycle Bin. Usually on a corporate network, there's also a competent Network admin who performs regular backups. YDI for not having a backup.

Ugh. Computer illiteracy is unacceptable in this day and age. Computers are very easy to use. Almost everything I know about computers I learned on my own, and I know more about them than the average user, though that is certainly not saying much when the average user is a damn idiot.