• Facepunch, you're the jury. Give me the verdict!
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Some unfair stuff has happened recently. Facepunch, tell me your side. So my hyperactive and aggressive "stepdad" is a sales manager for something but ironically always has me doing some stupid stuff on the side. His cousin, who was surprisingly nice, understanding, and respectful needed me to purge her Windows 7 Pentium PC. It had some adware, probabaly installed from "offers" in other programs. I upgraded it to Windows 10 and slapped on a cheap OEM key (because f**k manufacturer support). I needed installation media to actually do the upgrade of course. The only USB big enough (I know, it's sad) was this age old red and black one that had some old pictures nobody cared about. Apparently so, because it was my stepdad's who left it with me for about a week. I moved the pretty useless contents (things that, albeit, had maybe about 20 copies of floating around) onto my laptop (which I'm also in the process of giving an exorcism). I finished the job and that was that. The very next day, he needs a large usb for something. I hand him the red and black one, and he's asking all kinds of questions and being super loud and making assumptions that I'm just like N*** and I "stole the pictures because I wish he never had a baby with my mom" or some stupid stuff (apparently priceless baby pictures were on there, which is kinda bullshit). I scramble to my laptop, and realized that it was just gone. My laptop deleted my stuff once before, but I just put it off. It was RIGHT THERE. In fact the folder which had the contents was still there, taunting me. He keeps bringing it up now, adding some more claims and such to bring me down further each time. I needed to know- is this really my fault? P.S. N*** is a brother I haven't seen for a very long time, who had made some really bad mistakes. He's not an amazing nor blood brother, but he really felt like one. He wasn't a bad person, he was a brother from another mother who really did care about me. Their mom (him and an equally sweet girl) might have just been a little too forgiving.
Your stepdad is an awful person for making assuptions like this out of his ass. But you should have asked him about using something that belongs to him, i know you wanted to get the pc done but ultimately it was his possesion. I'd suggest just apologising for using his usb storage without him knowing about him and letting him know that you didn't mean to erase the data and just happened to need that specific dongle to do his cousins PC. And if he refuses to see reason in that don't bother with him them, that'll just mean he's an idiot.
Why would your PC randomly delete your files? Was this some kind of cloud sync folder?
[QUOTE=Amic;52576520]Your stepdad is an awful person for making assuptions like this out of his ass. But you should have asked him about using something that belongs to him, i know you wanted to get the pc done but ultimately it was his possesion. I'd suggest just apologising for using his usb storage without him knowing about him and letting him know that you didn't mean to erase the data and just happened to need that specific dongle to do his cousins PC. And if he refuses to see reason in that don't bother with him them, that'll just mean he's an idiot.[/QUOTE] Well, yeah, I said sorry because otherwise it would just be a lot worse. Most of the time, though, he doesn't really think that I feel sorry or did anything to make things up on purpose (I saved a heavy wooden chair from falling on my sister (his daughter)'s face once, he still thinks I want to hurt her.) Anyways, thanks Amic. [QUOTE=bitches;52576566]Why would your PC randomly delete your files? Was this some kind of cloud sync folder?[/QUOTE] No, some excel documents and steam games just dissapeared, and that was that. I even looked in my PC security for false negatives. [editline]15th August 2017[/editline] (Also, unless you can contract viruses through local FTP connections, I'm not sure how I would get a "virus" or anything like that. I'm usually careful with this stuff.
While I can sympathize with you, you did take it without permission and place them on a computer that once had deletion issues before and you're supposedly performing an exorcism on. So that's a guilty mark from me. I don't really agree with your dad's responses though.
[QUOTE=Daemon White;52576793]While I can sympathize with you, you did take it without permission and place them on a computer that once had deletion issues before and you're supposedly performing an exorcism on. So that's a guilty mark from me. I don't really agree with your dad's responses though.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I get that. I really just feel that allthough that I did make a mistake, he made a ton more. Mistake 1: Actually asking me. Apparently he had someone else in mind to do the job, but I guess he can't get enough of having me do things. He knows very well that he looks at my every move as a result of a lack of trust. Naturally, he asks questions, and when he gets answers, he tells me that he doesn't care about what I do, just do it. I mean, he obviously does. Apparently this antisocial behavior towards me is my fault. As is every god damn argument that happens between him and my mom. Great to have a chance to press something else against me, isn't it? Mistake 2: Leaving the USB behind. The reason I believe nothing priceless is on there is because he left it in my hands. I can pretty much confirm that everything on there is also somewhere else. I'm working on coallating the sources of these files together. Oh- and the baby pictures. Right. A quarter of them are developed and some are saved on his phone (the same one he left on the roof of his car shortly after boarding a highway). So even if they were on there, they are somewhere else with a plethora more. Mistake 3: Reacting. Ho-ly shit. We almost called 911 before he realized he's either there or homeless at this point. Whether or not that means he is at fault, this post solely exists because my conscience is a little foggy and I really don't know how to deal with the things he puts on my shoulders.
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