Some of you who follow the Organising Queen feed will have seen this post on Wednesday…
This is not about a pencil case.
Of course, there is the fact that I have to replace all my stuff but I have the money so that’s not an issue.
What really threw me are three things:
- the fact that it has not been found is actually almost impossible so I now think it was stolen, and this brings with it its own set of challenges. Do I work with colleagues who would steal someone’s things? Maybe I’m naive but we’re in financial services… honesty and integrity…..where is that?
- then almost no-one even seemed to care about the loss. I get that people don’t have the same attachment to things but when things like this happen to others, I care, and for me to get no care kind-of threw me. I really wasn’t myself for 2 days.
- my flash drive was in that pencil case. I’d backed it up thoroughly on 22 Dec, but I did lots of work in January which is all gone (created printables and such), and then lots of new budgets and stuff. I keep thinking of more and more things now missing which is how these things normally go.
Yesterday in church I realised that I need to move on from this. It is not going to matter in a year’s time so best I start taking steps to put it behind me.
I actually made a list in my bullet journal of documents I need to recreate/ update and folders I need to copy from my external hard drive. I felt some relief the minute I looked at that list because I realised it wasn’t that bad. I also prayed that that flash drive malfunctions for the person who has it.
And now the hard work starts. Redoing 3 months of my budget (while buying and selling a house)
Of course, I’m never walking with things in my arms again.
I’m on holiday at the moment and sadly, I will use up a good few hours to work on all these documents.
When did you last have a techno malfunction?
How would you have reacted in this situation?
Ugh, I’m so upset for you. It’s so wrong stealing someone’s stuff. I’m working on printing photos amd have stuff stored in dropbox, so will be okay with a hard drive loss. And we’ve taken to using google docs, so can’t lose things there. It helps somewhat.
thank you, Cassey!
Finally the new link worked…
It’s terrible when things go missing and it is not about the thing but just the thought that there is a thief around you and the admin around trying to retrieve the contexts. My wallet got stolen in the office in 2014 and it took me a long time to get over it, there were people doing some construction work at the time so it was blamed on them but for some weird reason I just feel like it was someone I work with and that was difficult to handle.. I threw a little tantrum because it turns out we have a camera but it is only at one end of the floor so virtually anything that happens on the floor can’t be viewed which was also a big issue for me. But I wore my big girl panties canceled cards, got a new wallet and moved on very sadly
The techno malfunction that stays fresh in my memory (11years after it happened) was when I was doing my masters and was working on my dissertation and my computer got infected with a horrible virus and all my back up was on the computer (this was the days when you were excited to have a 32mb usb flash and that thing cost me close to $30). Thankfully I was only on chapter two but after that my trusted means of back up was to email things to multiple emails (gmail and yahoo) and hope that I can at least retrieve near enough versions in case of a malfunction)
Exactly Mrs FF, you get that whole work suspicion thing. It’s exactly that. I know it is someone that is there permanently, and someone that works on my floor too (so closest in working relationship than others).
on the bright side, I’ve now recreated most of what was lost…………………. now I’ve prayed that God “disabled” that disc.
I am having one RIGHT NOW! My phone is still missing and I am trying my utmost not to lose my nuts.