>About to create Helperclass for JSON parsing and writing
>Realises there's the GSON-library by Google
>shamefully and silently like a fart deletes 1 hour of work
>repeatedly bangs head against desktop

But I'm sure you learned a lot during the process.

Please write it, i refuse to use google stuff

My coworker is about to lose a year's worth of work because a product released by a team of developers does what he developed over the course of a year but better and more. And now he is on the hook for integrating with that product whose interfaces are way different than what he wrote.

Myself and two of my coworkers once lost 6 months of work each because we were tasked with improving the performance and reliability of the web apps we were maintaining. I did a huge back end overhaul and my coworkers did a huge overhaul of the interfaces and GUI. Meanwhile the management had hired a contractor to completely redesign and reimplement our products so all of our work got tossed about a year later.