Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 15:01     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
Have you talked to your firm's IT guys? Maybe they can find it?

That's awful. I'm so sorry.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:57     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
Anonymous wrote:COVID/work/trying to homeschool, I had to have 4 surgeries in April (unrelated to COVID but an emergency), spent 10 days in the hospital, barely back on my feet....and now it turns out that the legal brief I had completely finished, except one section I had a junior working on, before my illness was somehow deleted from my hard drive and cloud during all this and the resulting kids on my computer trying to distance learn.

I just want to give up. I spent weeks on it and not to pat myself on the back, but it was REALLY good. Now I have nothing but my random thoughts the first day I made the file, which changed so many times after that. At least I opened it today to add the junior's section and found out.

I just can't. At least I have a little more time to recreate it, but honestly this is just devastating. I don't have the energy to do it all again.

Also, my file of notes also poofed and has nothing but the names of the committee I was working with. NOTHING ELSE.

I want to cry. I am so tired.

Feel free to share your own vent, no matter how small. I am sure in a year I'll laugh about this, but now I just don't have it in me.


You should not be using your work computer for distance learning, lesson learned, get them their own computers. what the hell, i am sure this is a corporate violation and if nothing else bad practice
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:54     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
Anonymous wrote:OP here, if anyone has suggestions please let me know. I bought "Disk Drill" and tried a few free recovery programs but they didn't find anything. Well they found some gibberish and then some blank things. but not my brief.


OP do you have a system backup that runs, like Mozy (now Carbonite)?

I know this is a dumb suggestion, but have you checked your recycle bin? You might want to also see if previous versions of the document are available too.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:42     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
I’m gutted for you, OP...I would be so upset. Sorry that happened & I hope you can get the file back somehow!

I had to LOL at the parent who yelled at her son until she peed. That rang extremely true.

And I would have very hurt feelings if my therapist snapped at me. I feel second-hand embarrassment & frustration as it is.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:41     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
Anonymous wrote:I have three kids 6 and under and my two girls, ages 1 and 2, fight ALL damn day. It's exhausting and I'm just trying to figure out what, if anything, I'm doing wrong. My brother and I are 10 years apart so maybe this sibling rivalry is normal.


You are not doing anything wrong. I have two kids (3 and 5) and this whole time I've been so thankful I don't have a 1 or 2 year old. YOU HAVE BOTH. Those are the HARDEST AGES besides maybe a surly 14 year old, to go through all this with. They can't watch a full movie! They can't play alone together for long! They try to claw the other's eyes out! It's tough PP. Just remember, you aren't doing anything wrong and try to channel your inner Janet Lansbury.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:41     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
I am in-house and don't have a tech dept. but thank you for those suggestions. My junior is a freelance post-law student connection. I checked my email. I'm kicking myself for not emailing it ever but I've searched several times and there is nothing except that Trash folder trail that is empty.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:38     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
OP here, if anyone has suggestions please let me know. I bought "Disk Drill" and tried a few free recovery programs but they didn't find anything. Well they found some gibberish and then some blank things. but not my brief.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:37     Subject: Re:OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
Your cloud backup should have the document somewhere? Can't your firm tech people help? Did you email it to someone (like the junior you are working with) at any point?
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:36     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
OP, have you asked the associate if they downloaded a copy at some point while working on your file? I hate sharing files this way and there are time I downloaded shared files for my reference later.

Also, I would recommend post in Website feedback and in other forums. There are so many IT people on this board they might have suggestions. Nothing is ever really deleted.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:31     Subject: Re:OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
We sent our kids back to daycare this week. It was just too much having to school our older kid, both of us work and watch the kids. I feel awful, because it’s only 6 kids total there but we needed our sanity.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:28     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
Anonymous wrote:I'm so, so sorry. I can only imagine.

This is relatively minor, but I'm just having a day... work, kids, covid, blah. So this AM I had a virtual session with my therapist, who I've been seeing for 10 years and has helped me through some major life stuff. I often think I'd be friends with her even if I didn't pay her. She always makes me feel better.

Well I made an offhand comment about agreeing with a friend who had had COVID - pretty severe, but she's ok now - and had said "I'd go through it again just to open and be done with this." So my therapist goes "PEOPLE ARE DYING [MY NAME]!"

OMFG I know that, and this is supposed to be a safe and nonjudgmental space, and I'm not even DOING anything (as in we are following all the rules etc), I was just expressing frustration. She backtracked and I know she is close to people who have died etc, and she's human, but it just upset me. She KNOWS me, she KNOWS I'm a good and empathetic person, but damn I can't even be honest about my frustrations in THERAPY?

Vent over. So sorry OP- agree with others can you try to bring in a tech guru to try?


OP here. Oh man. OF course your therapist should know better! we are all just so done with this. Maybe chalk it up to her being under crazy stress too. I think people are doing all sorts of thoughtless things they wouldn't normally because everyone's nerves are frayed and we are all tired. but that gives you every right to vent and be annoyed she did this, as much as it explains her lapse in judgment!
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:26     Subject: Re:OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have a small vent.

When I go to the grocery store with plastic gloves and a face mask, it takes me 3 mins to open up the plastic produce bags. I usually lick my fingers to get the plastic produce bag open but now with the plastic gloves and not being able to use the saliva from my tongue, I can not get the produce bag open to put my green onions in (or whatever vegetable I want to buy).

Certainly nowhere in the realm of losing a major document for work (sorry to hear that by the way) but it's my own personal struggle with COVID and something that gets me way more frustrated than I care to admit.


OP here -- valid complaint! rub the end of the bag back and forth between your fingers really quickly, it might help. That's how I open those bags.


I'm the PP. Believe you me, I have tried everything but when you are wearing plastic gloves, the plastic on plastic does not create friction.

Since this is an anonymous forum, I'll share a story that will hopefully make you laugh, at my expense. There was one time where I walked briskly in the supermarket for 5 minutes and then returned to the produce section where I then used the condensation from my armpit to open a few produce bags. Voila. I'm not proud of it but a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do to get her produce.



OP here, thank you for the laugh! that's hysterical. I could so see myself doing something like that.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:23     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
I'm so, so sorry. I can only imagine.

This is relatively minor, but I'm just having a day... work, kids, covid, blah. So this AM I had a virtual session with my therapist, who I've been seeing for 10 years and has helped me through some major life stuff. I often think I'd be friends with her even if I didn't pay her. She always makes me feel better.

Well I made an offhand comment about agreeing with a friend who had had COVID - pretty severe, but she's ok now - and had said "I'd go through it again just to open and be done with this." So my therapist goes "PEOPLE ARE DYING [MY NAME]!"

OMFG I know that, and this is supposed to be a safe and nonjudgmental space, and I'm not even DOING anything (as in we are following all the rules etc), I was just expressing frustration. She backtracked and I know she is close to people who have died etc, and she's human, but it just upset me. She KNOWS me, she KNOWS I'm a good and empathetic person, but damn I can't even be honest about my frustrations in THERAPY?

Vent over. So sorry OP- agree with others can you try to bring in a tech guru to try?
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:20     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
I am sorry OP this is the worst!
I think maybe you need to get a chromebook or even a more decent laptop for your kid? I mean, distance learning won’t go away any time soon...
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2020 14:20     Subject: OMG. I am just so done with all of this. work/COVID/kids nightmare.
Sorry OP that is frustratingly. What cloud service, they should be able to retrieve anything in last 30 days.

I would get kids their own computers or iPads stat.

iPads are $300, and you can rink dink HP streams fro $130 which barely can do the job, but will help save YOUR job.