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Edit: Thanks everyone for kindness in the comments! It makes me feel a bit better about the situation on my end. I definitely made a mistake by not warning anyone, but at least I don't feel completely at fault anymore.
Read this if you feel like you fucked up today, cause you probably didn't fuck up more than me.
This happened a few moments ago. I was running the vacuum in my room and my power went out. No big deal, I'll just go to the circuit and flip it back on. Lo and behold the circuit breaker is old and since then the rooms have been switched around, so it's not labeled properly. I know, however, the one side is the downstairs rooms and the other is the upstairs rooms...or so I thought. I'm downstairs, so I flip a few on the one side. My room doesn't come on. I flip a few more. My room surges to life.
In hindsight, I should have warned people that I was going to do this. My father, whom I forgot is working from home and is a lawyer, yells down the stairs at me in anger that he just lost $2000 of work because he was working on a document for 5 hours, unsaved, which is now lost because I flipped the wrong switch.
Obviously upset, I go upstairs to try and help him with document recovery. I say that nowadays a lot of programs have it built in. Unfortunately he hasn't updated his computer since the early 2010s and he uses a very old program. The document cannot be recovered.
I kind of just want to hide forever. We were going to have a family dinner to celebrate the end of my college semester, but now I think I'll stay in my room and starve.
TL;DR I flipped a switch on a circuit breaker which turned off my dad's computer. He was working on a document he hadn't saved in 5 hours which is now lost. It was about $2000 worth of work.
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