I've been working on a project for my boss. A project that my target date for completion was today. Initially I thought I'd have today to work on it, but after talking with my boss I realized she wanted it this morning.
With the change in timing I knew I'd have to do some work from home, but I could definitely get it done.
Last night I stayed up very very late working on this project.
And then when I was done I saved all my documents, closed them, and went to bed.
I woke up early this morning (I didn't even snooze once!) to get into the office early to wrap up a few loose ends.
And then, and then, and then I tried to open my word document from my flash drive. And then I tried again, and again. Nope. My file has a problem and word won't open it. Neither will Open Office, or any other programs I thought of to try to open it.
And when my boss came to me this morning wanting the files, I stammered a bit explaining about the corrupt file, and how I had put together another file for her, but it wasn't the full project.
I had hoped to be able to give her a flash drive that she could just take with her with the entire project on it. Instead I cobbled together a pitiful "it's better than nothing" file.
Good news, my supervisor thinks he can at least recover the text even if we can't find a solution for the whole file. He's working on that. In the mean time I've been sent home to take a break.
And then this afternoon and tomorrow, I'll be reconstructing the lost file. Because while my boss was fairly understanding this morning, she still wants it by Sunday.
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4:45pm Update: I never did get the whole file recovered, but my supervisor was able to recover the text. And truthfully, though it's pain to put it all together again and copy and paste the figures again, recreating the lost text was the part that I was dreading most.
Still frustrating.
Plus, I appreciate my supervisor's understanding in telling me to come home and take a break when I was at a peak in my frustration. Plus he even mentioned comp time for having to work this weekend.
6 comments:
Oh, Peanut! I'm so sorry! I hate that. That happened multiple times on one project I did a few years ago. It is SO frustrating!
Oh, that feeling of panic in the pit of your stomach when that happens. I'm srry you had a terrible, horrble, no good, very bad day. I hope you are recovering from it! I think a mani-pedi is in order for you.
Wish big girl hurts were as easy to fix as a kiss on the finger! Mom sph
I always go and get mani-pedi's when I've had rotten days...Hope it all works out!
Ugh! Thus the love-hate relationship with technology. Sorry about your ugly day. Hope things smooth out quickly at work.
I hope you didn't move to Australia (apparently they have bad days there too).
Technology can be good, but sometimes it is full of Gremlins.
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