The Bad: Shit went south and hard.
The Good: You continued with the presentation the best you could.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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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!
okay yes I said it would go fine, that's true... but that was because you didn't mention OneDrive
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.
The future sucks
No worries. Everybody will just blame Onedrive and rightfully so.
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
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.
After the revolution, OneDrive will be among the first up against the wall.
Inshallah
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.
OneDrive ruins lives. Not your fault at all
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.
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.
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
Damn, feels bad...
Got me on that 2013 pepe the frog type shit
