Technology Inteligence Limitation

The level of effort the person using it is willing to exert. The jist of the story is this: I lost all of the projects I had saved on the computer at work. But their is a server that backs up all of the hard drives every night in case something like this happens. The tech guy who took a week to do 15 minutes worth of work then said to me, "What have we learned?" I want to say, "That you're a lazy bastard who would rather everyone else spend an hour doing work that only takes you 5 minutes?" but I didn't. I did say, "That the server backs up all the hard drives for a reason."

He didn't find that to be as clever as I did. His response was, "No, that's why we save to the server." No i must fill you in on a the scoop on the server. My boss always tells me never save to the server directly. They want us to drag and drop files onto the server instead, because Final Cut Pro unrealiably saves to the server. With the logic being that you can then have access to your files on any of the other 4 edit suites. This was an excellent plan when we had 6 people sharing 4 computers, but now we have 4 people sharing 4 computers, and we all use the same (our own) computer everyday thereby negating the need to move shit to the server all the time. So I felt extremely justified in my argument (that never left my head) that saving to the server was an unecessary step in this instance for any reason other than the tech guy's own unwillingness to do what is needed to be done in the event that something happens. Because what he negelected to acknowledge is that my project was not the only project lost. Everything that has been done on that computer for the last year was gone, graphics, TV shows, stock footage... it goes on and on. And so I write in a silent smight, touche bitch.