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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Muffintop_Neurospicy on 2024-11-20 16:02:56+00:00.

I (31F) work full remote. I’m working from home and usually my fiancé (36M) is too, but today he was at the office, so I was alone with our crazy fur ball, our 1yo cat.

Let’s call my cat AH for the purpose of the explanation. So, I was having a loooong meeting, one-on-one with the owner of the company. AH had been running around pulling cables, pushing stuff off tables, meowing as if his life depended on it, but at some point he calmed down. He even sat on my lap during part of the meeting, which my boss found adorable (thankfully). I usually take turns with my fiancé checking on AH to make sure he’s not destroying anything, but since he was calm and I couldn’t hear anything, I was at ease and carried on with the meeting.

Queue disaster. At some point, my internet connection failed. I was confused, tried to reset the router, called the technical support, followed the troubleshooting and nothing worked. At some point the tech support agent asks me if there’s any compromised cable. I’m like “I’m gonna check but no, nothing happened, I had internet just some momen-…” and that’s when I saw it. AH chewed and cut the internet cable. Not even the one that goes from the router to the computer, no. The one that goes from the distribution point to the router.

So basically, AH was silent because he had his mouth occupied, and that didn’t cross my mind. Now I am skipping work and this is not a justifiable absence, had to reschedule all my meetings and probably have a hefty repair bill to pay. Thanks AH!

Tl;dr: my cat was silent so I assumed he was just sleeping while I was having a meeting, turns out he was chewing on the internet cable and now I have no service, and I might lose my job because of that.

Edit: here’s the perp