Terrible Day with my Associate

I am M(23) 1st year analyst at a EB. Yesterday I was walking to my building from west village and was having a terrible day. A homeless person had tried to throw a can at me, I had gotten into a fight with my girlfriend the night prior and I was behind on a pitch book I was suppose to present to my associate the next day for this massive deal we had been working on for months. I entered my building late my team makes me get to the office at exactly 9am and immediately I get put into an office with the associate. The associate then berates me on why I haven't gotten the pitch book done and why I was late. I apologize profusely and said I would work harder to get my work done on time. He lets me out of his office and go work on a presentation that I was suppose to finish by the end of the day. I was making significant progress so I decided to take lunch. During lunch my associate calls me into his office and tells me that he had chosen me specifically since I "can't seem to finish anything on time" for this specific task. He tells me that a managing director in a needs some client information delivered uptown by 4pm that day signed and that he can't do it himself because he is busy. I tell my associate that I don't have any bandwidth, he then points out to me that if I don't do this task I'll be next on the chopping block. I then reluctantly accept to deliver the documents. At this point I decided to finish my presentation on my phone. The associate hands me the documents. I took a taxi uptown and had decided to finish the PowerPoint on my phone. It was 80 degrees outside and I was sweating profusely in my suit while sitting in the car. I get to the location and I go up to the apt that was on the directions the associate had text me. I knocked on the door and a maid answered. She quickly called over the client and he took the documents from me. At this point he offered for me to come in and I told him I was on a time crunch and unfortunately couldn't. The client took the documents and lightly looked over them. He then came over to me and said that a page of the document is missing. I start looking around frankly for the other page. But it was gone. I then asked to go to the bathroom to hide my panic. I sat down on the toilet and heard a plop I looked down and my phone was fully submerged in the toilet. I scrambled to take it out but it was too late. My phone was dead as a brick. At that point I was freaking out because I didn't have a page of the document. My phone was completely fried and I couldn't finish my presentation. I went back outside and the client then told me he wouldn't sign the documents and gave them back to me. He told me when I had the proper documentation to come back to him. He then directed me to the door and out I went. I had no idea what I was going to do. I don't have a phone and don't have the documentation. I don't have a phone so I don't know in how much trouble I'm in. What do I do?

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If you work at an EB why don’t you just ask them to advise you on not being a lil bitch

 
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