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Worst. Day. Ever.
Worst. Day. Ever. I had about the worst possible day one can imagine yesterday. Let me just take a moment to set the stage here - both of the people on my team at work are out of the office, meaning that I am covering the entire function by myself not only this week, but next week as well. My job sucks in general, so it is not a fun place to be when everyone is there, but when they are gone, it is downright torture. With this little version of hell going on with the work thing - it seems to be an excellent time to do a bit of job searching. Finally, last Friday, a fabulous company called and asked me to come out for a full day assessment/interview on Tuesday. I frantically rearranged my schedule and flew to the armpit of America (where this company is located) and put all of my energy into be intelligent, capable and charming (it was really exhausting). Come this Friday, my day immediately started going downhill when I found out this company went with an internal hire for the position - strike 1. Since my entire group at work is gone, I was responsible for taking care of all the nit-picky-stupid-ass requests that come in for our group. About 2:00 yesterday afternoon, our server decided it was unhappy too, and pretty much just gave up actually delivering data (I am so there with you, server baby). At one point, I was actually to the point of being on my knees, begging - quite literally - the almighty computer to give me some data - any data! - that I could use to appease the corporate overlords who were demanding results immediately, or better yet 2 hours ago. It was pitiful and demeaning (much like the rest of my job - but still, I don't usually have to do it in front of the directors), but there you have strike 2. At least I was going home soon - safe haven, thank god. After all, what could possibly go wrong at home???? I was leaving all of my problems at the office and it was the weekend. Turns out the fates are cruel or have a really really horrible sense of humor. I decided to spend my evening drinking my bad day away and hang out on the couch watching cheesy chick movies when all of a sudden, my hotmail account starts popping up little messages like "Congratulations! You just won a $2000 4 megapixel digital camera with eBay's Buy It Now" Given my day, I started praying that my friends were fucking with me, when another message from eBay congratulating me on winning a laptop popped up, followed by another and another. I immediately tried to get into my eBay account to see what was going on and proceeded to feel one of the most horrible, nauseating feelings I had ever experienced - all of my passwords had been changed - eBay, email, you name it. Needless to say, I was a little upset. I spent the rest of the night trying to straighten all this out, and $10,000 in electronics bids later, I finally got my eBay account turned off. The email account is gone - I have no idea whether it can be retrieved - with 9 years of history, a good email address and everything that went with it. Damn! Just Damn! So there you have it - possibly my worst day ever. Oh, I do realize that it could have been much much worse and that really this stuff is more annoying than anything, but I do fully intend to wallow in self pity for the weekend and open a bottle of the good wine, hang out with my buds, Ben & Jerry and pretty much just recoup and gird my loins to get through next week. Here's to some good vibes coming my way. Back off, man! I'm a scientist - Bill Murray, Ghostbusters |
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You might also want to check out your Pay Pal account. To make sure that didn't end up being hacked too. It is owned by eBay. Run a good virus scan, like AVG. Run something to check for backdoor trojans that AVG might miss. It sounds like you somehow downloaded a password stealer, or like you were phished. The email can possible be retrieved, if you can get them to work with you. I've known people who have gotten their accounts restored there. But it does take time and effort.
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I hope that's the total extent of it and that by this time your half drunk and enjoying a funny movie. I'd make funny faces to make you laugh but my ASCII art is a little rusty and nobody gets it anymore anyway. Might I recommend a Lambic wheat beer, even if your more of a wine drinker it's something your likely to appreciate.
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I hope your weekend and next week gos bater. Always have fun & MAKE_IT_WILD out there
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Yikes. Which mythic Greek deities did YOU piss off? I hope things start looking up for you soon.
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4/23/2008 2:02 pm |
Nothing a good bonk won't cure...
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