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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/OrangeBreddLaof on 2024-10-25 12:15:45+00:00.

I (21F) Have been working for a small family owned funeral home for about 4 months now. I have since realized that I don’t really like working at this job because of its nature. I actually enjoy the physical parts of the job (e.g. embalming, sanitary care, helping set up funerals, making prayer cards) but what has pushed me away is the people I work for. Maybe its just the nature of the job or how interning is supposed to go in this industry but I have been shouted at infront of other vendors, power tripped on multiple occasions (they threw out my punch in card before I cam in to work), and overall they don’t respect me or my time. They know I am a student and keep me after hours when I need to be studying for exams, the worst part is that during the actual work hours they will have me sit there and do legit nothing. I ask if I can help and they tell me theres nothing to do right then, but when it comes time for me to clock out, they give me tasks that could last 2-3 hours long. I don’t really know the point of this but that’s the backstory to my work environment. They obviously don’t like me that much but I may have set them off the most this past weekend.

So, after work, I was looking through my phone via google photos. I had just gotten a new phone so google photos was setting itself up and trying to find my main account. However, for some reason It chose my work account to set up with instead. For context, my work account is shared between everyone in the office so everyone has access to it. But the absolute nightmare starts when I see a notification saying “backup from device in progress”. It started to upload all the pictures and videos from my phone onto the public work account. All my photos from 2016-2023 were now on the work account for anyone, including my easily angered boss, to see. Like any normal adult I started to freak out. Scrolling through the feed, I saw pictures of them, work pictures, then a selfie of me, or a picture I used as a drawing refrence. Thank god I had no suggestive photos on my phone but I did have those of me in my natural hair. For context, I am black, in fact, the only black person that works here including all of the outside contractors that they hire to work occasionally. And I am extremely sensitive over my hair. I wear a wig and don’t really want other people to see my natural hair as it is kind of a vulnerable place for me to be in. So needless to say I was an absolute wreck. Luckily, I found a way to filter all the photos that came from my device and deleted them. Good news, they all came off the work account! Bad news, I have no more photos on my phone since It wiped them from the DCIM file too. I am really sad about the loss of all my photos but I guess that’s the price I have to pay.

When I went into work the next day though, everyone was upset when I told them that I turned off backup on the google account. (I did not tell them why I just said I was having issues with my phone so I turned it off) They told me that I disrupted procedures and I was being careless. However, this whole thing happened when I was off at like 2am in the morning. They managed to change the backup settings on their computers within the hour they walked in so I don’t necessarily see why they are so upset. I also think my boss is particularly perturbed because I may have seen photos of him with other people than his girlfriend (there was some girl in a bikini on his boat that definitely didn’t look like her). So now my boss won’t even look me in the eye when he is talking/scolding me and keeps giving me tasks that keep me away from him. I don’t think my environment is hostile but I also can’t handle all this collective negativity from my co-workers. I don’t think I did anything particularly wrong in this instance, but that is technically 4 (grown ass) people all saying that I am the worst against my word. Normally that would mean that I’m in the wrong but I can’t tell for sure.

TL;DR: I basically logged into my work account on my new phone and it took all the pictures off my phone and put it on that account for everyone in the office to see. I had to delete my photos off my phone to fix it and turn off backup on the account. Now everyone is mad because I turned off backup even though they have already turned it back on. I really hope none of them have seen my photos and I feel absolutely humiliated.