Everything Bad Happens To Me

"Brrrrrrrrr"

"Brrrr"

"Brrrrrrrrr"

"Bzz Bzz" "Bzz Bzz" "Bzz Bzz"

"WHO THE FUCK IS IT!" Iris jerked her body awake after ignoring her phone for several calls and messages.

"AH! So bright; It's 3:47 am sons of bitches," Iris started going through her phone which was flooded with messages and missed calls.

Charlie(Boss): Iris pick up.

Charlie: Iris servers are down. You are needed ASAP!

Charlie: Please pick up.

Normu(IT junior): Ma'am our server went down (ˉ﹃ˉ)

Normu: Nothing is working (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Normu: Charlie just came in

Normu: He's being stupid(•_•)

Normu: We are getting scolded please help us(┬┬﹏┬┬)

Tyler: Bitch what did you doooo!!!!!!!!

Tyler: You fucking crashed the servers.

Tyler: When are you coming in.

Tyler: Are you coming in.

Tyler: Pick the phone Charlie is getting on everyone's nerve.

"Bzz Bzz" "Bzz Bzz"

Tyler(online): Finally you read the messages.

Tyler: What the fuck did you do\ I ma calling pick upp.

"FINALLY you picked up the call I have been calling you for 30 mins." Tyler seemed stressed. After all, their servers are down. "What happened, how did this happen; I didn't do anything," Iris couldn't even open her eyes properly.

"See I don't know, But whatever happened. Happened after your code got pushed to the stack and now half the servers are down". "Oh that's… I am– fucking hell man,"

"I can't handle Charlie on my own, I need you here right fucking now; so bring your ass here. Bye, I will get things off the Stack,"

"Wait wait wait! Can you pick me up there won't be cabs at this hour," Iris was helpless in matters of transportation. "Aargh, okay get ready in 10 mins I will be there," Tyler is a chill guy but when he sounds serious you know shit is about to go down. Iris jolted herself out of the bed and ran to the bathroom door where she hung her office clothes and put them on.

Sever going down is the worst thing that can happen to a Tech startup. Every second the server is down thousands of people are going to other sites and resources to get their things done. In the world of tech you can become irrelevant in matters of a second, so keeping your Site up is the most important thing. Iris got ready to the best of their ability and ran downstairs.

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"Norman, what exactly went wrong," Iris Asked Norman(Normu) about everything that went wrong and what they are going to do about it. The company only have two senior site reliability engineers. First is Iris and Then an Indian guy named Sanjiv who was on vacation. So everything boiled down to Iris.

"Norman, Show me the logs,"

All of the logs were nothing more than a catastrophe:

*** STOP: 0x00000019 (0x00000000, @XCOOEOFF0,0xFFFFEFD4, @xCQ0Q000 BAD_POOL_HEADER

CPU ID: Intel Xeon: 1f

SYSUER @xf0880565

Dil Base DatestMP

80100000 3202c07e 80001000 ntoskrnl.exe atapi.sys aic78xx .S

31ed06b4 802c6000 31ed6bf CLASS2.5 Floppy .S FsRec.S KSec

80201000 31ec6c7a fc698000 DD.SYS i8042prt.sy kbdclass .sys

31ec6c7d fc90a000 31ec6df? Mga_mil.sys Msfs.SY NDIS.SYS

fc864000 31ed868b fc6d8000 Mga .dll TDI.SYS tcpip.sys e159x.sy

31ec6c98 fc874000 31ec6c9 netbios. sys Parallel.SYS Serial.SYS

feffa000 31ec6c6 fc708000 hal.dll SCSIPORT.SYS Disk.sys

31ec6cc fefbc000 31eed262

fefa4000 31f91a5 feb8c0@ 31ec

eacf@@@ 31f130a? fc550000 31601a38 fc718000 31ec6e7a fc870000 31ec6c9b fc5bao@ 31ec6cb1 fea3bago 31f7alba

KSecDD.SYS - ntoskrnl.exe

ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.exe

Restart and set the recovery options in the system control panel or the system start option.

"Even the Logs are F'ed up!" For a site reliability engineer, This is the most daunting day. It's a test of both skills and mental capability of working under utmost stress. For every hour servers are down company can lose hundred thousands of dollars, it comes down to how fast can an engineer get everything up to the speed. It took over 2 hours to resume all the services and 10 hours to audit and document everything.

"Iris, Charlie is calling you in the office," Tyler told Iris and expressed his gratitude with a shoulder grab. "You did great, Iris, you were fucking amazing". Tyler tried to comfort Iris before she go to Charlie's office as this might be the last time he'll get to do this. "He's gonna fire me?"

"Dunno. It's not exactly a small blunder you caused." Tyler told her honestly. Iris nodded and walked toward charlie's office, Everyone in the department looking at her; Guessing her odds. Iris could feel their eyes, all glued to her as if she is doing a walk of shame. "Sir, May I come"

His office is extravagant. The right side of the wall is full of books and a vintage collection of wine. Wide Curve display and a 10,000 dollar pc. This office can also compete with that rug place if we are talking prized possessions. "SO, Iris I see the report just reached my table, But I would like to know what exactly happened from you before opening this report," Charlie is passive-aggressive so he can talk to you like he is your best friend and then fire you.

"Urmm, Yes Sir uuh… Well, there was a dependency issue in one of the modules. When It stopped working due to errors, other functions that depended on it also stopped, so on and so forth," Iris stumbled at first but she gulped up the fact she is gonna be fired and regained her composure.

"Okay, Why was there a dependency issue,"

"Because the new module version was not thoroughly tested-"

"And Whose responsibility was to properly and THOROUGHLY test the module before putting it online," Charlie was really pressing it this time.

"Mine, Sir. It was my mistake-"

"How did this mistake happen," Why don't you just lay me off already. I have been here since 4 am.

"Well, I merged the code without checking the dependencies, By mistake-."

Charlie was just not buying it. "You don't do mistakes, how did this actually happen,"

Oh, come on stop interrupting me in the middle of a sentence. And I am telling you how it happened, why won't you listen…. Fuck. He thinks I am covering for someone else. He is not gonna stop at me, he wants other names. No one else is getting the short end of the stick; this is my mistake and mine alone to bear.

"Sir, When I initially tested it worked fine without showing any red flags, So no one could have seen this small discrepancy. I am glad the crash happed just a day after the codebase merged. Because it was so minute, it could've gone undiagnosed for ages and we would never know." Iris has vigor in her voice and even though her body was chipping away. She held her ground strong.

"Right, So Iris you did your fair share of work today. For now, you can go home and take the day off tomorrow." Wow, really! NO, what the fuck' damn.

Iris couldn't believe her ears, "Thank you S-Sir," Iris felt her body getting warmer. "Make sure something like this never happens,"

"Sure, I will make sure of it," Charlie gestured to her 'you may leave'. And Iris came out of the office untouched. She walked back this time looking back at all the people whose gazes felt dreadful just a minute ago, but now… Nothing. Tyler looked at Iris with both hope and despair in his eye. A smile from Iris tipped the balance to hope, "Damn, Iris. I thought you were a goner," Tyler moved into a hug.

"NoT so soon," Iris's voice muffled because Tyler hugged her a little too tightly. "Whatever you wanna drink, it's on me,"

"I am going home," But Iris declined Tyler's offer, picked up her purse, and walked into the abyss.

_____

"You going?"

"Yeah," Adrian said to Gush as he folded his uniform neatly. "Okay, Thank you for your work Today, take care"

Adrian nodded. Gush is the best Manager, polite and kind. A trait not so common in his profession. Adrian fixed his hair and entered the parking area from the backdoor. He noticed a presence, sitting on the side curb, crying. Adrian tried his best not to look, but that's the beauty of the human mind. You tell it to not do something, It will do exactly that no matter what.

"Iris?"

Iris looked up but her vision was blurry. "Adrian?" It's his distinct voice she recognized. "What happened… is everything okay?" Adrian didn't wanna get involved but she looked very devastated. Adrian kneeled down to see eye to eye with her and not intimidate her by standing.

"Go, Away"

"Why are you sitting here, it's cold. Come in if you want,"

"They kicked me out, I am banned from the cafe 'sniff sniff'," Iris floundered her words. Adrian remembered she got banned because of her act a few days ago.

"Don't worry I'll talk to them," Adrian hesitated to hold her forearm but eventually did to help her stand up, But Iris refused to get up. "I am not going In. He was rude to me. Everything bad happens to me," That's true a lot has happened To her in the past few weeks.

Everything kinda snowballed into tears when she was kicked out of the Cafe she loved the most. Her body gave up, Tears which know no stop imprinted eye mascara on her cheeks. And before she could get a hold of herself she spent 3 hours crying on the side curb at the parking lot of the cafe. "It's okay, I will bring whatever you want, first get up." Adrian helped Iris up and sat her down in the passenger seat of his car. She stumbled and almost tipped her way through the car.

Your legs tend to give up when you sit on cold concrete for 3 hours in the same position. "You want Strawberry Cheesecake, you love them right," Adrian found himself as if he was talking to a kid; High pitch and eating t's away.

"Yeah," God so adorable. Adrian didn't stand a chance. She had him with her post-crying voice. With all this hardcore armor outside, Adrian is still running on Cave men software. If a girl is crying, he's helping.

Adrian ran inside and picked up a pack of 6 Strawberry cheesecakes. He handed the Box to Iris as he entered the car. "Thank K-you…" she snorted and a tear escaped her eyelids. Adrian clenched his hand trying his hardest not to wipe it off her cheeks.

"You wanna go home?"

"Yeah," Oh these one words and her sweet voice... going to be the death of me.

Every time he turned his head towards her, a slight smile appeared which he couldn't brush off his face. Stooping and hugging the cake box like a little kid. Adrian wanted to pet her head and tell her that everything will be alright and nothing in the world could her hurt her now that he is with her. But he didn't cause. He'll look like a creep… to himself.

"I don't wanna barge in and push you, But you gonna tell me what happened right?"

"..." No answer.

"Did any family member…"

"..." Adrian was feeling awkward. She didn't say anything the whole ride and they were just around the corner to their building.

"Bad day at work? or did anyone say anything harsh to you?" Adrian tried to get in the ballpark of the things. "Our servers crashed," Finally the princess talked. "Oh that must be… difficult," Adrian didn't know much about computers. "Yeah," Again with that mumbled yeah, every time Adrain heard her voice. He felt most protective of her.

"I was working since 4 all day, I only had 5 cups of coffee and 2 blueberry muffins." Iris's voice was still nosey. "4? like am," Iris nodded. Oh My God Poor baby. " You can open up the box and eat one, you must be very hungry,"

"No, I will eat it when I reach home," Iris stopped weeping right about now. She got out of the car insisting she can go alone. Adrian had to park the car so he let her go first, But he parallel parked and run upstairs as fast as he can. He wanted to see her one last time before she enter her apartment and to his wish he did. He saw Iris standing at her door with her eyes nailed to the doorknob.

"Hey what happened?" Iris looked at Adrain and again started crying. "I forgot my purse where I was sitting…" Adrian handled the situation before Iris could bawl her eyes out again. This time he took the leap and wiped her tears, ensuring her he will get it back. To be truthful how can someone be so stupid but She was too adorable to be taught a lesson right now. Adrian called Gush and asked him to look for a purse. "Iris, which color-"

"Turqoise"

"Light blue dude, see if it's there. Just look for it, man… Yeah right around the curb. You FOUND IT! Fucking great."

"Iris, he found it. He will be dropping your purse in 30 mins or so. Till then you can stay here". Iris was sitting on Adrian's couch and brushing her feet against his soft rug. Which she puked on 2 weeks ago.

"Adrain…"

"Yes, You want something?"

"Can you make me the coffee, like last time? It was very good,"

"Anything for you," Adrain smiled.