2d ago

Uodate: The work presentation did not go well

My coworker told me to put my presentation in OneDrive so she could do some edits. Never got those edits... but when I sent the file to the MC of the meeting (which they didn't tell me I had to do until I was literally about to step into the board room) it rolled back to an old version without warning. Burned through a lot of my presentation time trying to fix it before just going ahead with the unfinished version which had casual placeholders. I was thrown off and sweating and out of time and it was just not good. The board was nice and seemed to pity me but I know it was bad.

I had a moderate crash out on the way back to the office but my boss said not to worry about it so just trying to move past it.

Lesson learned: fuck OneDrive. I'd heard horror stories but didn't listen...

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If both the board and your boss were nice about it, they probably already know you’re a competent worker and don’t give a shit about one bad day as they know you’ll your job done.
And if it helps to reframe, if your audience was a much higher rank than you and your boss, they’re so far removed from your work that they have bigger things to worry about than the specifics of one office drone.
Sounds like a relatively high performing and healthy organization, all in all (compared to the horrors I’ve seen and heard of). Best of luck!

Shit happens, nobody cares enough about work to remember this except as just another "haha technology amirite" story in a few months.
Learn a lesson about having a backup plan for presentations and move on. She'll be right.

OneDrive ruins lives. Not your fault at all

No worries. Everybody will just blame Onedrive and rightfully so.

After the revolution, OneDrive will be among the first up against the wall.
- Inshallah

get usb stick, and no worries, everyone fumbles this some times
- That would've been the move... I used to be the one with tons of USB sticks I yoinked from my dad's job
  
  you know it's like a kid touching a hot thingy for a first time
  after first time of "it's on dropbox, i can download it" i used usb stick, with pdf copy just in case

The Bad: Shit went south and hard.
The Good: You continued with the presentation the best you could.

It happens, and it wasn't your fault. Microsoft software is like an evil pearl - a tiny kernel of functionality wrapped in protective layers of insulting bullshit.
I have a folder on OneDrive named FUCK ONEDRIVE. I created it after hours of panic as I couldn't find my writing folders, or their backups, and I now cannot delete it. Luckily I found the folders in a parallel backup structure made so it could roughly interface with a different program.

okay yes I said it would go fine, that's true... but that was because you didn't mention OneDrive

OneDrive sucks.
Unrelated work fuck up, I tried to remote work while on a road trip, went through some mountains when I was supposed to host a meeting with my boss, and got a tense convo the next week about how remote work is a privilege

OneDrive is a fucking atrocity.
We moved to using them for our file storage. I work for a Fortune 500 company.
It went as well as you would expect. I still despise having to deal with the 'fun' of trying to open a file too soon after exporting it off, autosave being automatically enabled on everything, the general sluggishness of it all.

The future sucks

True professionals would save Presentation-2025-05-20--v7-final-2.pdf to a thumb drive.
Jk OneDrive is terrible and it's not your fault for expecting it to do the only thing it is supposedly good for. Sounds like everyone was understanding so it is all good! And your boss is on board, so everything considered that's a pretty good work situation.

Awwwww I’ve been there before and I know how awful that feels D: Don’t beat yourself up though. Everyone has things like this come up. This kind of thing happens and I’m sure everyone understands. I’m sure the next time will go much better. Lesson learned with one drive though. It’s amazing how shit Microsoft stuff is for a multibillion dollar company.

Damn, feels bad...
- Got me on that 2013 pepe the frog type shit

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