Bang Head Here

Wednesday night, a guy on one of the TDY crews called Alan to see if one of his crew was on the promotion list to Major, so he could let him know before the list was released publicly.  Alan didn't have the list at home, so he offered to do something nice and drive back to work to check.  It's not far and the kids were in bed, so it should have been easy enough.  But what always happens when you try to do something nice?  Throw in the fact that he's a Dayton and it can't turn out well...

He gets to his computer and sees a weird message on the screen and a seemingly unresponsive computer, so he turns the computer off and then back on.  When he turns it back on, his entire hard drive is wiped.  So, he calls the Com Squadron and they tell him they were patching Widows 7 through (with no notice, on a day that was several days before when they said they were going to do it).  "Well, fix it," Alan tells them.  "We can't," they reply.  "You'll have to call back in the morning."  So, Alan comes home, disappointed that he couldn't let the guy know whether or not he was promoted.

In the morning, he calls Com, who sends some guys over.  They tell him that the patch had some sort of glitch and that if there was an interruption of power during the patch, it would erase the hard drive of the computer.  They knew the patch had the glitch, but went with it anyway.  With no notice.  So he has possibly lost years and years and years (16!) of archived data and emails and reports that he uses every single day.  Had they done the patch when they said they were going to do the patch, he would have had all of his data backed up.  They took his computer apart and took his hard drive to see what they might be able to recover, but it doesn't look good. 

All because he tried to do something nice.  That, my friends, is a true "Dayton day-to-day."  It's hard to be a Dayton sometimes.  If you're the praying type, say a little one for Alan.