Don't usually rant bout life here in teh Temp, but since I'm pissed, the storm's raging outside, my flu/cough is bugging me, and my head's all contorted and I can't write, i'll just go right along...
Here's the deal. I do this sideline where I write, research, encode reports and stuff. You wouldn't believe how inept some people are, even just Googling stuff...
Anyway, pay's not too bad, but my mum needs the money more [and I live at home and everything anyway] so that's where it all goes. Now, I haven't been doing this for the past few months [summer vacation here - thus, less people need reports and such] but last weekend I was asked to do one by my mum's friend.
Long story short, I did it [read:rushed it] last monday evening because when I asked when they needed the report, I got no answer and I assumed they needed it at once. Yesterday I found the flash disk and the questionnaire still there, and they were all "Oh, no this was for Saturday [today]" etc etc... And it turns out she needed more than the one page I did beforehand, so I promised to finish the job and went back to what I was doing.
So anyway, I woke up last night [don't ask; weird sleeping patterns] to find the flash disk and the questionnaire gone. I was like
but as luck would have it [and cos I actually had a brain] I made a copy beforehand and so I worked with that. It still took me an hour or so, and of course I've had to get the flash disk back to save it, but so far, so good.
Well, if you don't factor in that it's shitting up a storm outside and the report might never be passed today anyway... Dammit! And I did mention having the flu/cough, right?
tl/dr version - Storm outside. Reports. Stupidity.
PS
Moral of the story: make a backup, for chrissakes!!!
Here's the deal. I do this sideline where I write, research, encode reports and stuff. You wouldn't believe how inept some people are, even just Googling stuff...
Long story short, I did it [read:rushed it] last monday evening because when I asked when they needed the report, I got no answer and I assumed they needed it at once. Yesterday I found the flash disk and the questionnaire still there, and they were all "Oh, no this was for Saturday [today]" etc etc... And it turns out she needed more than the one page I did beforehand, so I promised to finish the job and went back to what I was doing.
So anyway, I woke up last night [don't ask; weird sleeping patterns] to find the flash disk and the questionnaire gone. I was like
Well, if you don't factor in that it's shitting up a storm outside and the report might never be passed today anyway... Dammit! And I did mention having the flu/cough, right?
tl/dr version - Storm outside. Reports. Stupidity.
PS
Moral of the story: make a backup, for chrissakes!!!
