Hats off to Phillippe! Oh I wish I could do the same
The school I'm a minion at has network drives mapped to every computer in the school, especially the staff laptops. This is important as the network drives are backed up every night. The laptop local drives are not. Staff are told on day 1 never to save important work the the desktop or anywhere else on the C: drive as in the event of a drive failure or worse, all the data will be lost forever.
Enter Mrs "Don't tell me what to do, my husband knows computers!" She came into work one morning to say that she'd lost her laptop. Actually, she'd been to the pub leaving the laptop bag on the back seat of the car in full view. Oddly enough, when she got back to the car the rear window was smashed an no laptop. The boys in blue were duly summoned and advised contacting her insurance peeps who promptly told her the laptop was uninsured as she'd left it on display.
The worse news for her was that she had to explain to the head and the parents and students she taught that the 12 months of coursework she's been storing on her desktop was gone forever because IT hadn't backed it up!!!!! <facepalm>
The codicil to this story is that last month her laptop came in to have a fault looked at and (you guessed it) the desktop was full of student files.
To paraphrase Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz 'Death's too good for some people'
Biting the hand that feeds IT
