Imagine you're responsible for a 5 year old Access Database, running on a 8 year old Dell, using Win 2000.
To tell your boss how much access sucks, turn to Ending 1. If you continue the job, read the next line.
On restart, the system halts, noting "Back System Fan missing, press F1 to continue" As it loads, you see a file share, with all the company financials between excel and quickbooks.*
If you move everything to a new 2003 server, you roll a critical failure, as the Access file is hard-coded to the share name, and more importantly booed off this site for not providing TRWTF.
Suddenly there's a power outage, and a klaxxon alarm screetchs when the power is resumed. 1 Logical Drive Failed. Configuration manger tells you the entire disk, a RAID 0 array, is offline becuse ID1 failed.
If you ask why the entire company uses RAID 0 for financials and database shares, see Ending 1. If you weren't booed of this site, see Ending 2. If you were booed, see ending 3.
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ENDINGS
Ending 1: You find out that the boss's son developed the database, and you're soon surrounded by your fellow patriotic Americans in the unemployment line. You complain vaguly about the outshoring taking your jobs and employers who fail to undertstand your leet mainframe skills whilst smelling of faint cabbage. (+5 Sanity, -10 Finance, +2 cabbage)
Ending 2: Congratulations for being fired with cause, my friend. I bet you think the other person goes away when you play peek-a-boo, and you can't be blamed if you don't touch them. I hope you find work soon, so we can hear about your adventures in the next thread of "Choose your own WTF"
Ending 3: Thank god, you migrated everyone to a SQL based CRM last
year, you lucky bastard. Most of Access is used for referernce only,
giving you a week to save your hide. You force the drive online, but Windows gives a page fault error. You use your leet Linux skills and mount the NTFS and USB drives, and copy what you can. You've wasted your chance of getting laid this weekend, but at least you'll have a paycheck. Because the budget doesn't include a replacement server, you rename the XP desktop after the server share, and soon fall to a heart attack. Your sucessor who's now sired many children thanks to your absence from parties sees your XP based "server" and posts your story to this site. Contratulations, for you are the TRWTF.