Likely Normal

I’ve seen far too many cases where employees treat security protocols like vague suggestions and file organization like an abstract art project. You ask for a report, and suddenly you’re spelunking through 12 layers of shared folders, each named “Misc,” only to find the document you needed was accidentally uploaded to “Karen’s Vacation Pics 2017” in an archived cloud bucket that nobody has access to anymore. “Wait, why is Q4’s financial forecast saved as ‘draft_final_FINAL_v3_OLD_USE_THIS_ONE.xlsx’ in the company picnic folder?”

Then there’s the email chain of doom—where critical data gets casually attached to a thread titled “LOL look at this cat” and accidentally CC’d to “vendor_who_definitely_does_not_need_this@whoops.com.” The cherry on top? When someone panics and forwards it to 15 more people to “undo” the mistake, like throwing gasoline on a fire to put it out.

And let’s not forget the ”temporary” solutions: “I’ll just save it to my desktop and move it later”—famous last words before IT finds it three years later during a “why is the server full?” investigation. “Oh, that file? I thought it synced to the cloud!” (Spoiler: It did not. It’s living rent-free on a laptop that died in 2019.)