WTF Stories of the Week

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

I just had this call. In preparation for a computer replacement later this afternoon, this user attempted to copy the contents of her My Documents folder to a USB drive. What she actually did was make shortcuts to all of her files instead of actually copying them. Unfortunately, she didn't become aware of this until after she deleted all of her My Documents on her hard drive and emptied the Recycle Bin.

What the fück were you thinking lady? Why would you delete the source files in the first place, let alone before you verified they copied okay?!?

As a tech why would you trust a user to backup their own files? I always make that my job when doing a computer replacement.