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Input: Text: well, yesterday.

update for day 2 here: http://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2uev9k/tifu_by_throwing_away_the_wrong_box_part_2/

pt 3 here: http://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2uii4a/tifu_by_throwing_away_the_wrong_box_and_getting/

*latest update: 10:28*

**edited tl;dr: i threw out 5 years worth of company work. and 4 hds worth of coke. dave cheating. jim dealing. i'm fucked. plan is to break in tomorrow to retrieve hds if it's not too late. dealing with it tonight by drinking. dave at mistress's i'm on couch.**


i'm a manager of the it 'department' (there's 3 of us) for an archiving company, and we're on the up!  as we've expanded we started to outgrow our old office space (just one floor), and so the decision was made to move to a new place.  which was exciting for a lot of reasons, not least i get my own office now, plus it's a new building, all leased by our company, etc.

as a consequence, last week was very busy getting everything packed up ready for the move.  as the directors were keen on minimizing down-time, we agreed that the it department would set up everything this weekend (as much as possible), and get a couple of extra holidays in lieu, plus another couple as a bonus.

we'd been in the old building a few years and as such had collected a lot of crap, which i made the decision wasn't worth taking to the new building (costs money to transport it all, plus it's a good time to do some spring cleaning).  there was a few old cables, cd drives, that sort of thing, which i plan to take down to goodwill or something.  all well and good right?  that's where the fu starts.

there was also a couple of generic boxes of tapes and drives i found at the back of the server room.  as they contain data, and i wasn't sure what, i was keen to burn them all, but turns out the company we hired the dumpster from (there was lots of garbage to get rid of) do data disposal (apparently just some sort of industrial shredder).  they came round to pick everything up late yesterday afternoon before i clocked off.  most of the hds, which we have used to store data for the last 5-6 years, also went inside a box (well, inside a rack then inside a box) to be transported to the new building.

come this morning.  i got in about 6 am.  i thought if i get a good start i might get my extra holiday days plus tomorrow off, before a manic monday helping everyone with their computers.  i open the boxes, which were transported over yesterday afternoon, and start to move the server crates.  all well and good.  except about 45 minutes ago i open the box with the hds in.  and was met with tape disks.  the last 5 years of my company's data, payroll, admin, plus the actual archived data, is gone.  backups, gone.  profiles, e-mails, all gone.

i'm fucked reddit.  i now have 48 hours to figure out what the fucking fuck to do.  i'm left with some tape disks that i can't even read (the box with the tape drives in went out along with the hds), and about 40 hours before management are expecting to come in monday morning with the server humming along nicely.

jim and dave get here about lunchtime.  no idea how i keep this from them until then.

 

*edit #1 (9.14):* company have called back on phone right now!

*edit #2 (9.19):* the disposal company would not give me any info until i gave them the account number for the contract we used. gave me some bullshit about how it could violate any confidentiality or put any sensitive items at risk. it's garbage! so pissed. can't call anyone to get it otherwise they will know the mess i'm in. couldn't even get a yes or no as to the status of the boxes.

*edit #3 (9.25):* going to re-pack the stuff i unpacked this morning, try to make it look like nobody was here, that can at least buy me some time when jim and dave arrive.  looking through laptop e-mails too to see if there's been any mention of an account number anywhere.

*edit #4 (10.25):* when i was moving boxes around (put our stuff at the back of the piles so it should give us a few more minutes here today) i found a sheet with all the details on! going to give them a call back now. will update as and when i have more info about the next step.

*edit #4 (10.35):* so. they don't do data disposal! at least not directly. the 'e-waste' as she called it is contracted out to some other company, who i have the details for and will call now. the stuff they collected was sorted and disposal/recycling has started, but the computers and hds have gone to this other company yesterday. she has no idea what they do. my info on the shredder was from the project lead. hoping it's wrong now. anyone work in the field who can let me know what you do?
ps i had no idea some people chucked away computers! jesus.

*edit #6 (10.56):* i rang and got a message saying offices not open until monday at 9. taking your advice though reddit and driving down now in case someone's there. also sent a couple of e-mails. it's about a 2 hour drive away so this will be my last edit for a while. going to tell the guys it's a family emergency or something and they will have to set things up to begin with. see you soon...

*edit #7 (11.13):* **fuck dave fucking knows fuck**

*edit #8 (13.03):* burnt rubber to get here fast, whole place is locked up though. can't see anything out the back. trying the number again. any ideas before i start the drive back? spoke to dave too, it's not as bad as i thought. he is doing one of the hr girls though: http://imgur.com/8pz8jxq http://imgur.com/hpvc9da

*edit #9 (13.11):* left a note under the door. hopefully someone gets in touch before monday morning. heading back now to figure out what to do with the rest of the fucking stuff. may have to explain to jim what the fuck is gong on but he doesn't need to know until i figure out what to do.

*edit #10 (15.08):* i'm back now, dave and jim have only been here for about an hour, all the stuffs unpacked, asked them to do a lot of the cabling and i'll figure out my next step.  jim's been looking through the boxes for the hds.  the box of tape disks is in my trunk.

*edit #11 (15.19):* maybe i should chuck jim in there instead of the tapes...this guy is seriously panicking wants to tell the higher ups. could i pin it on him?

*edit #12 (15.42):* i pulled the fire alarm. that gives me a few hours to think about what to do. we're heading out for a few beers and food whilst this gets sorted. dave knows. i know. sofia knows. jim doesn't know. dave hasn't told anyone. but jim looking nervous.

*edit #13 (16.39):* http://imgur.com/bnpejhv food and beers. dave is a genius. he suggested three rounds of this weird chinese liquor and now we're all a little tipsy we carry on and reveal it when he's too impaired to do anything bad. then we discuss our plan of action for tomorrow.

*edit #15 (19.02):* **omfg**. the reason jim looked so worried is because some of those drives are full of coke. contents stripped out and then sells them on as an intermediary (he said who but not making this worse now, changed 'jim's name too). uses our safe so the stuff never goes through his place long, and no-one would suspect a thing. hell i didn't. there's 4 of them that were stored with the backup hds. it's ok tho. plan is now crash at jim's then to head back down tomorrow to the facility and find a way in. no one there to let us in means no one to stop us. we can fucking do this guys!

*edit #16 (19.06):* fuck. so drunk already. fixed layout shit will update in the morning.

*edit #17 (21.48):* hitting the sack now. jim had a 'friend' come over who dropped a sack of tools off, for tomorrow i guess. did not look happy. do not want to see him right now. dave has gone round to sofia's place, i'm sleeping on the couch.

*edit #18 (04.13):* someone is banging on the door reddit. i'm scared. hungover and scared.

TIFU by throwing away the wrong box.