The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/vampyrewolf on 2024-10-10 04:06:45.

I still have no idea what happened to that missing week, 11 years later.

Gather round, story time.

I graduated as an Electronics Technician in 2006, and pushed my career path hard and fast. Production tech for a year, Warranty for two years, QA for 6 months, QA Reliability Tech for a year, then into regional management with 7 direct reports for 2.5 years.

For that 7 years I was pushing my body and mind working 12hrs a day on average. Working my day job and then IT work in the evenings, or just getting more work done than should have been humanly possible towards the end of it. 205-250hrs a month average, over 300 a couple times… For 160 salary.

I lost the company lottery in 2013, and was one of the lucky few. Long story but the company hired based on projects & bids, then let management fire whoever they wanted.

So now I’m downsized in May 2013, while every group I was part of was shutting down for summer. Which means I have time to kill. I managed to kill May. June I spent 2 or 3 weeks online, quite literally. I even slept a couple hours a day at my computer, if I slept. Did you know lolcats and icanhascheezeburger have an end? YouTube takes you to the weird side and back to the normal side if you click random videos long enough.

Then? I lost a week. No computer records (see: IT), no bank records, no phone records, no mystery food in the fridge, no laundry. If I spent anything it was less than $100 as I normally have 40-100 on me. I went from sitting at my computer to sitting in my recliner, and a week had gone by.

I still have no clue what happened, just a momentary hiccup and missing time.