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50 Times People Mishandled Their Tech So Badly It Made Tech Support Cry (Best Of All Time)
How you look after your work tools can tell everyone a lot about you as a person, your character, and your values. In the Digital Age, that usually means your personal computer, laptop, or smartphone. The reality is that most people simply don’t take good enough care of their devices. And who’s left to pick up the pieces? Tech support workers!
Our team here at Bored Panda has collected the best posts of all time, as shared on the massively popular ‘Tech Support Gore’ subreddit. The online group is a niche for tech support workers to share the worst things they’ve ever seen on the job, and some of their experiences are truly mind-boggling. Scroll down to see what horrors they’ve had to face!
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#1
Ticket Said "Camera Flickers To Fuzzy Brown Image Often"
AngelWingsYT 1 year ago
Birb: you will look at my butt n you WILL enjoy the view i am gracing you with...your welcome
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Back in the day, I had cable/internet from AT,&T. I didn't have a phone. I used Yahoo phone on my computer. At the time, I lived a block away from my parents. The internet started going out, over and over. I was tech-savvy, but only on the actual computer. I knew very little about the how of the internet. Since the internet was out, I'd have to walk to my parents' house to call. They would, of course, tell me to unplug/replug, and reboot. I had already done so, over and over. It wasn't the computer, or a software crash, and not was it an ID10T error.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
So I'd have to go back and forth between the houses several times when this happened, before I could get the first tier help desk to escalate the ticket. By the end, the internet was failing every five minutes or less. Finally, in exasperation, they sent someone to check the outside lines. They also let it drop that they had at least one other customer in my immediate vicinity with the same problem. Well, the person who checked the lines discovered a squirrel family, living in the router.
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#2
4 Hrs Later
Mike D 1 year ago
Bird butt is above. Should use something to say which post as they move.
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#3
Ancient Temple Of Asus
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Should we photoshop Indiana Jones into this picture Indiana Jones and the Dell of Dust Bunnies.
R Dennis 1 year ago
I literally thought "Okay, someone made a scale model of a temple. Wait... this is a tech article... OH MY GOD!"
Michelle C 1 year ago
This is when a small vacuum cleaner designed to clean computers and related devices specifically might become necessary to use! I’m curious how this worked out for the technician resolving the problem!
Comedy Clumbers 1 year ago
I have found mushrooms growing inside a user's case. She regularly spilled coffee with extreme sugar on the pc and never bothered even wiping it off. →⚡¡FLASHBACKS! ⚡←
"A lot of the content on the subreddit does rather well, except for people coming for actual tech support, they get redirected to the right subreddit,” one of the subreddit’s moderators told one of our colleagues at Bored Panda previously.
“In a time where most of the internet can be incredibly serious and most times saddening or angering, r/techsupportgore is fun because you go on it and you can laugh (and/or cringe) at the crazy posts. Where else can you see a post like, ‘Wow, these cables really are messy’ to ‘A lizard fried my motherboard’ back to back? I love our growing community. They're a bunch of people that just enjoy tech and to some extent, the worst of it.”
#4
Told A User To Shutdown Their Virus Infected Computer And Ship It Back And To Label It As Infected. They Did Good
Boredest Panda 1 year ago
Very infected! Could give you an error(you never know how contagious computer bugs can be...)! I'd rather not my brain.exe have an error while I'm doing my job!
Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
My brain.exe has an error whenever I even think about doing productive things
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Surprised the postal service allowed it to go through the mail. If I had a package with an infectious sticker on it I wouldn't want to be near it much less deliver it
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Oh, you all behave yourselves! The person listened and did as requested! How rare is that?
Channon Doughty 1 year ago
I bet they laid waaaaaay too much to ship it with that label. Yikes
#5
End User Had A Heater Next To The PC Which Was Randomly Shutting Off And She Thought She Had Smelled Burning A Couple Of Times. It Is Literally Screaming
Little Wonder 1 year ago
I see it too! A little "uh oh" face looking at the damage.
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Michelle C 1 year ago
Considering the PC was literally melting in the heat, I wonder how she didn’t notice that! Goodness, I hope no one got hurt!
Tayler 1 year ago (edited)
Pareidolia is the phenomenon in which people see faces or other patterns in ambiguous images. There's been several BP posts on pareidolia.
Bewitched One 1 year ago
I thought that was fear of holey objects? Or am I confusing that with something else lol
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Comedy Clumbers 1 year ago
If I had $20 for every similarly melted pc I've dealt with at work I could buy another guitar. And yes, personal heaters are forbidden for fire prevention. Some will always insist a rule applies to everyone else, but certainly not to themselves.
#6
Quality Repost Here. (I Assume This Has Been Posted Before)
WickedLibra70 1 year ago
Showing my age but I am pretty sure a magnet on a floppy disk corrupts the data
Surenu 1 year ago
Not necessarily corrupting, more like physically destroying. No real difference in the grand scheme of things tho
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Smiley Rie 1 year ago
If you actually get this & laughed, you are either a computer nerd or old enough to know what happens when a floppy disk meets a magnet
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
And if you know what happens when you use a hole punch on a 5”, you’re ancient!!!
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David 1 year ago
I get the magnet joke but that must be a boot disk. I've been installing operating systems since MS DOS on 5.4" floppy disks and a system install never fit on one floppy.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
We had a Tandy 1000SX with DOS 3.2. It only took one floppy to install.
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Steven Meyer 1 year ago
I love this "do not erase" and then they posted on the wall with a magnet which essentially erased the disk.
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Apparently that's the joke, but I wouldn't have got it if some kind pandas had not explained it here. (Supposedly I'm old enough to understand, but never used floppy disks myself.)
Load More Replies...The r/techsupportgore subreddit was first created a whopping 12 years ago, way back in 2012.
Over more than a decade, the community has grown to 622k members from all around the globe. It’s mainly composed of tech and IT workers, as well as anyone with a penchant for tech-related comedy and horrors.
#7
The Computer Keeps Overheating
Maartje 1 year ago
This is the second time in two days that I upvote someone to make it an even 100. I wonder if I should leave my house today.
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Melinda Landis 1 year ago
Where does a kitteh keep its USB port? Sun not shining, gotta charge up someway.
#8
First Day On Job; Set Up Those 4 Wireless Speakers For You
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 1 year ago
Hmm, wait, this person might be onto something. You could hang coats and hats on those tripod legs, snd the speakers would still work. 😎
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
You could hang your clothes on it and listen to music at the same time
#9
I Can't Even
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
1) *REALLY* good face mask. Like 'Biohazard-Level' Quality. 2) Industrial-Grade Shop-Vac. 3) LOTS of replacement bags for the Shop-Vac. 4) Replacement filters and motor for the Shop-Vac. 5) Hospital-style elastic pull-on booties and disposable paper coveralls. 6) Good Luck, We're all counting on you.
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
One with a .3 micron filter otherwise it will become airborne and settle all over everything again.
Thomas Grant 1 year ago
"And the darkenss shall come and drag the damnable printer back from whence it came!"
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
In a panic, I snuck down the back stairs, moved across the country, changed my name, and applied for a new job. They can keep my paycheck. It's the least I owe them.
Some of us might not care how computers work as long as they do, but we enjoy poking fun at someone who doesn’t take care of their device. But the more familiar you are with IT and its culture, the more painful looking at some of these photos is bound to be.
If you’re any kind of creative or craftsperson, it hurts watching someone disrespect your work tools, whether they’re computers, paintbrushes, or musical instruments.
#10
“The Printer Isn’t Working”
Little Wonder 1 year ago
This happened to me at work once, everyone complaining the printer wasn't printing and no one owned up to loading the paper.
Michelle C 1 year ago
I’m grateful the tech-support people at work are patient with all of us!
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Anxious Aardvark 1 year ago
I'd guess an act of passive-aggressive nature. "It's not MY job to load paper into the copier."
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
And I thought the idiots I work with are bad. "I didn't refill the paper because I'm not using it!!!" Said AFTER using it.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago (edited)
Who wants to bet it was an engineer? (source: have worked with numerous engineers)
#11
Look How They Murdered My Boy
Sage da therian 1 year ago
Why do I imagine the feeling of this being like when the dentist scrapes your teeth??
QueenKittyCat 1 year ago
Let the poor thing be anesthetized and get proper surgery first! This should be a crime 😭. That person needs to have their brain removed and swiped. Without being drugged first.
Larry Helms 1 year ago
Daisy... Daisy... Give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, All for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two!
#12
Mouse
The team managing the entire community behind the scenes describes the sub as a place that will make you “cringe to the brink of passing out after a few minutes.” According to the moderators, something to keep in mind is that the online group isn’t meant to help people sort out their tech support issues.
The moderators urge you to try reaching out to the r/techsupport subreddit (a separate community) if you need some actual help with your tech. Meanwhile, if you plan on posting on r/techsupportgore, make sure that you don’t post pics of cracked screens or computers coated in dust. Both of these situations are so common that they’re usually not worth sharing. Well, unless things look really atrocious!
#13
"My PC Shut Off Suddenly And Won't Turn Back On"
Maartje 1 year ago
What I like about this post is that there are people that have never seen this or dealt with it. My millennial son even- he was panicking because his electronic music thingie that he uses to DJ was not working- I am a retired geek so even though I do not know enough about DJ thingies I know enough to take that keyboard contraption, turn it over and smack it on the back to get the c**p out. The pedestal he keeps me on got just ten times higher.
NightFox 1 year ago
"electronic music thingie". This is gold! I'm laughing so hard right now. Thank you!
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Bettye McKee 1 year ago
I hope you treat your clothes dryer better than that. It's only a matter of time until your house burns to the ground.
#14
So Mac Doesnt Support Windows But Atleast It Supports Doors
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Right. These days Macs are so lightweight that they don't even make good boat anchors anymore.
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Boredest Panda 1 year ago
"Oh no! We can't afford a doorstopper! I know, we can take that old mac off the reception desk!"
KatZen 1 year ago
Had one of those. Went completely obsolete after a couple years. This is a good idea.
Mary Peace 1 year ago
I thought you meant the BMW driver went obsolete after a couple of years! (Slap Shot's comment)
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#15
Hospital Server Room
Nonplussed Puss 1 year ago
Not quite, what is pictured here, while messy, actually works.
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Charles Whitaker 1 year ago
Generally it starts out with just a few cables that were probably installed nicely. Then more drops are added, singles, doubles, or just a few at a time, in a hurry, understaffed, overworked, until this is what you have.
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Sandeigo 1 year ago
Oh my days I know exactly what your talking about 🤣🤣🤣😆
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Highball 1 year ago
When you fix it, add a new wire, don't remove the old one. That was how the phone system worked in Vietnam. Whenever there was a bad connection, they just strung another wire over all the old ones. I remember a telephone poll that had so many wires 4 or 5 people could not reach around it with hands joined, it was so low to the ground you could not walk or even duck under it.
The subreddit isn’t just home to photos, though. Videos are welcome, too. However, the moderators urge all of the community members to focus on short-format clips. That means that the videos should not be longer than 30 seconds. According to the mods, “This is plenty of time to show what needs to be shown.”
#16
Customer Describes A “Slight” Burning Smell
Pink kitty 1 year ago
Maybe they were sick of all the emails that kept coming through so put it into the oven next to the phone
Boredest Panda 1 year ago (edited)
Maybe they're nose blind. Maybe their used to burning tech. I mean, if you're gonna treat your tech like that, you're probably irresponsivle enough to do it multipe times.
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Entirely possible it had a slight burning smell when the customer sent it/dropped it off. Then the spicy pillow did the thing. Or customer was absurd, both are just as likely.
#17
"My Fan Was Making Too Much Noise!"
Boredest Panda 1 year ago (edited)
You should turn the volume of your computer down. I'm sure that'll help. /s
Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago
This is like putting a bag over a hostage's head because they're screaming.
#18
I Should Tell Them It's Not A Touch Screen
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
I had so many co-workers in IT who simply could not point at an area of the screen, they HAD to mash their finger against it. No matter how many times I said Don't touch my screen, and when I did say it, they looked at me like I had said something insane. Never could understand that weird compulsion. So annoying.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago (edited)
My boss used to always touch my screen when discussing something and every time data would shift and every time I'd say, it's a touch screen. And then 2 minutes later. Repeat. Like stop touching the screen dude!
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WakandaPanda 1 year ago
I had a call this week, User: "The touchscreen has stopped working on computer 'blah''" Me: "It doesn't have a touchscreen" User: "It does, I've used it before" Me: "It doesn't have a touchscreen"
Boredest Panda 1 year ago
I think someone wrote on it "Yass" so yes you should. Either that or I'm blind. Either way, you should.
Ephemera Image 1 year ago
Graphic designer here, every time boss would come by and *show* me what changes they wanted by putting their fingers on my screen. Grrr. Then you wonder why a detail is blurry.
AlchemisT 1 year ago
I carry a screen cleaner and a small microfiber cloth in my bag :D
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Ineke Pronk 1 year ago
At my work we have black personal laptops with touch screens for working with our client and a silver non-touchscreen shared laptop for our company email. It always takes a few taps before we remember the silver doesn't have a touch screen.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
my screen is nearly this bad, but it's from me mashing small bugs on it
Seadog 1 year ago (edited)
IT friend gave me about 2 dozen Dell monitors because someone just put them all in a box at some business he services. The silver paint from the casing of course transferred to the screen faces.. I took them home, took an SOS pad and gently scrubbed the paint and it all came off without a scratch. That was about 10 years ago. I'm still using every one of those monitors. Back then each one cost a few hundred bucks.
Tech support, at its core, means solving all kinds of problems related to tech products or services. These workers essentially fix, manage, and maintain various IT systems. It’s an essential job, especially when computers and IT systems are so ubiquitous.
Most often, this support is provided to customers via phone or chat. However, there are times when the customer meets the support staff in person. Say, when they bring in their laptop or phone for fixing. Or if they have issues with their hardware or software at the office.
#19
Is This The Worst Spaghetti Cabling Ever?
GoldfishCrackers 1 year ago
As a not IT or electrically inclined person, can I ask what even leads to this level of craziness? Like how does it get this out of control?
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
"I need to plug in this cable RIGHT NOW! And besides, it's only temporary." Repeat a couple hundred times.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 1 year ago
At least they used different colors, so it should be relatively simple to redeem.
Boredest Panda 1 year ago (edited)
That's 2 terrifying situations in a row... is BP trying to scare me? Does it enjoy watching me suffer as I stare at these horrific images? EDIT: It is no longer 2 terrifying images.My comment has become irrelevant 🥲
Highball 1 year ago
When you fix it, add a new wire, don't remove the old one. That was how the phone system worked in Vietnam. Whenever there was a bad connection, they just strung another wire over all the old ones. I remember a telephone poll that had so many wires 4 or 5 people could not reach around it with hands joined, it was so low to the ground you could not walk or even duck under it.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
Worst? No. I worked in a corpo building that had 25 stories of computers running networked to 6 server blocks on the 10th floor. The server room looked like spider-man's webshooters had exploded.
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
Nope. The hospital is even better. Though this one is more colorful.
#20
Forbidden Caprisun
Data1001 1 year ago
I had a phone that had a battery which expanded almost half that much. Couldn't afford to replace it, so I just crossed my fingers every time I had to fire it up that it wouldn't burst. Pretty stupid as I look back on it now.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
IDK this was a possibility. Great! One more thing to worry needlessly about.
SerpentKng 1 year ago (edited)
Congratulations your phone is pregnant, now the only thing that you have to do is to find the USB that impregnated her
Michelle C 1 year ago
What in the world could possibly cause that type of inflation in a battery besides the obvious, if there is any other cause? It’s a miracle that didn’t burst!
Charley128 1 year ago
I had a hotspot that did this even worse. Never knew they could explode.
#21
One Of My Co-Workers Was Eager To Unpack Her New Mouse
Nonna_SoF 1 year ago
To be fair, f**k that type of packaging, the inventor, and the executives who choose to use it.
Rosie 1 year ago
And, you have to be careful not to give yourself a plastic cut by wrestling with it.
Load More Replies... robin aldrich 1 year ago (edited)
Well, if they didn't pack everything in that dang hard to open plastic.
Tech support workers earn an average of $21.55 per hour in the United States. That amounts to roughly $56,572 per year, according to Indeed. Of course, this is just the average. Some companies, for instance, ‘Oracle,’ pay their tech support employees around $83,614 per year, while the average wage at ‘Novogene Corporation’ clocks in at $69,020.
#22
This Key After 10 Years Of Entering Orders At My Grandmothers Shop
Charity Angel 1 year ago
Yeah, I'd have been cleaning that regularly. I was known for taking keyboards apart to clean out the scuzz. Weirdly, they kept moving me from desk to desk
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somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
my wasd, spacebar, and left alt/windows keys (the latter two remapped to be left control and left alt, respectively) are close to this, after about four years of 10+ hours a day use, every day. all the keys have two layers of color on them, red and then black, and wasd are all completely clear of both colors in the center by now.
#23
Apparently Someone Got Tired Of It Ringing, So The Put It In The Oven
Boredest Panda 1 year ago
Okay wait. Why the actual f would you put a piece of TECHNOLOGY made of likely very EXPENSIVR MATERIALS in the oven. What have we come to? This is why we should just let some smarter animals rule. Who votes cats?
Cassie 1 year ago
Who puts anything in the oven when the problem can be solved by simply unplugging it? I vote elephants.
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Thomas Grant 1 year ago
I mean... it looks pretty awesome. Functionally its a pile of rubbish, but say its art and someone will pay big money for it.
TomBeingPushed 1 year ago
Put this thing in an arts museum and claim the worth of 100k dollar.
#24
I Need Somewhere To Set This Candle... Oh Here’s A Good Spot!
Realistic Optimist 1 year ago (edited)
A lot of people who don't know better in corporate offices. Heaters right against towers, power strips plugged into each other, covering computer vents and fans completely, etc. Outside of IT/tech people often dont think about it. Also, it's weirdly common for people to run over their laptops 🤷♂️.
Herkfixer 1 year ago
It's weirdly common for people to run over their laptops... when they want a new one and IT says their old one works just fine...
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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
My (thank you, God) former SIL put a pillar candle on their new TV, without a holder/plate under it. She forgot about it and went to bed. Yup, melted a channel in the new TV. She was an idiot overall, so I wasn't that surprised.
Michelle C 1 year ago
I’m not a super high-tech person and even I’m shaking my head at this! I can only imagine what the tech whizzes in my family would say!
Charity Angel 1 year ago (edited)
Having absentmindedly set a candle down on a radiator, I get this one. In my defence, it was summer when I put the candle down. Shame it wasn't by the time I noticed it...
DefinitelyNotTheDuolingoOwl 1 year ago
Kirby's just eating your computer, don't pay him any mind.
The most highly paid tech support employees in the US live in Houston, Texas (they earn an average of $62,425 per year), Boston, Massachusetts ($61,937 per year), and Nashville, Tennessee ($61,230 per year).
Workers based in Orlando, Florida, as well as Las Vegas, Nevada, earn slightly less than the US average. Meanwhile, tech support staff also get paid far less, on average, if they’re based in Austin, Texas ($54,045 per year), compared to Houston.
#25
German T-Mobile Found 3 Snakes Inside Their Network Unit
Kira Okah 1 year ago
The snakes were taken to Cologne Zoo for a health check and identification. They were unharmed and not danger noodles, so they were released back outside near where they started.
Zoey Rayne 1 year ago
The head shape indicates that the snake pictured is definitely a venomous danger noodle.
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Dave Platt 1 year ago
Three adders doesn't seem to be enough to handle the sort of billing calculations that T-Mobile would be doing.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
The word "adder" means "venomous"? Is that the German word for it?
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#26
When They Get Creative With The Only Working Audio Output They Have
Trophy Husband 1 year ago
That looks like a sound board for an old radio station, but a radio station wouldn't need that many outputs in the studio, so maybe this was staged?
DC 1 year ago
Oh my ... at least, if that truly is the only source available, you could connect it to an amplifier that has multiple outlets, and distribute from there further. I mean, you can fück up stuff this way, of the decent way that actually kinda promises to kinda work, kinda...
Krd 1 year ago
I could be wrong, but it probably wouldn't damage anything. If anything, the speakers would be getting a very weak signal. Usually under-powering something won't damage it.
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I Found This While Scrolling Through My Camera Roll From 2018, Enjoy
Boredest Panda 1 year ago
AAAHH! IT'S LIKE A GODZILLA MADE OF WIRES! WIREZILLA!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!
Billy Maguire 1 year ago
And perched right on top, the TECH HELP guy we all LOVE to talk to.
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Highball 1 year ago
OK, ok, I'm repeating myself, but it seems so appropriate. When you fix it, add a new wire, don't remove the old one. That was how the phone system worked in Vietnam. Whenever there was a bad connection, they just strung another wire over all the old ones. I remember a telephone poll that had so many wires 4 or 5 people could not reach around it with hands joined, it was so low to the ground you could not walk or even duck under it.
What is the worst thing that’s ever happened to your computer, phone, or other device, Pandas? Have you ever worked in tech support or asked for help from someone in that line of work? Have you ever had to deal with clients who took awful care of their devices? What’s the best and worst experience you’ve had with support staff?
We’d like to hear what you have to say. Swing on by the comments if you have a moment.
#28
I Said "Put It In Rice." Not "Put Rice In It"
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
I think assuming thought was involved might be overly optimistic.
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#29
“My Space Heater Stopped Working”
Cassie 1 year ago
A surge protector should have tripped way before it reached that point. Also, make sure your surge protectors are rated for what you intend to plug in.
Charles Whitaker 1 year ago
My wife is currently working from home full time because someone left there heater on over the weekend. The entire hospital system corporate office, which is in an old Sam's Club, working remote now. Thankfully it's mostly just smoke, soot, and water damage.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago (edited)
Ya think?!? Lots of the culprits of these IT f#ckups are candidates for the Darwin Awards.
#30
Just Set It On Fire
Eric Williams 1 year ago (edited)
Reminds me of our shower drain after my wife's done with her shower.
#31
Printer From Hell
Cat Chat 1 year ago
One would hope. I'd ask "who would take a picture instead of put the fire out?"....but, these day, could be anybody.
Load More Replies... JessieJ&LilyLovebug 1 year ago
The one in my office at work was literally smoking last weekend. Still smells like burning paper.
Dan St John 1 year ago
Happy Birthday to you, Happy birthday to you. Now blow out the printer and let's go get beers.
#32
Customer States "Our Intercom At The Gate Doesn't Work" Meanwhile In The Connections Box
Boredest Panda 1 year ago
BP stop sensoring p a w n and start sensoring scary images like this
Maartje 1 year ago
Why do they censor p**n? Inquisitive minds want to know.
Load More Replies... Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
I feel like my skin is going to burst open when looking at beehives like this (perhaps I’ll burst open in hives) but I also want to rip off a chunk and eat it
Jen Exer 1 year ago
I call BS. The honeycomb is not formed the way bees would form it in a tiny space like that. I think this is staged. But the idea of it is still kind of terrifying. A wasp nest would have been more bee-lievable.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
Those are wasp nests. Also, most bee species don't make the classic hive structure honeybees use.
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User Spilt Coffee On His Laptop - So He Put It In The Oven To Dry It Out
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
It is possible to bake circuit boards to melt the solder just enough to fix small cracks. It is a specific temperature and time. I have seen it fix an error in a HP multifunction device.
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#34
“There’s Something Wrong With The Printer In The Lab...”
#35
Slpt: Laptop Charger Panini Press
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
Don't worry, most laptop power supplies have a high tolerance to bacteria.
Load More Replies... Five Years 1 year ago
My dad says when they used to go to work out in the woods they'd wrap hamburger, sliced potatoes and onions and carrots, seasonings, a little bit of water in tin foil and place them on the exhaust manifold of the vehicle. Come noon hot lunch!
Michelle C 1 year ago
I know someone who uses the summer heat in our part of Maryland to bake cookies on her car’s dashboard- quite a few people in my life do this, apparently!
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#36
Improvised Way To Supply Power
Hume 1 year ago
I know you're joking, and I could somewhat agree, like, hey, if it works it works! I even once had a fuse blown in a powersupply so I opened it up (this was back in 2002 or 03) and ran a little wire through the fuse which made the PSU work, used it like that for maybe two years. But the thing is, the powersupply is the one thing you don't want to mess with, it can fry your whole computer and is dangerous to even yourself if messing around with it. And a little fun fact, a PSU that's been off, and unplugged, could be dangerous to open and mess with for months after, it keeps an electrical charge for a long time.
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Michelle C 1 year ago
I’m surprised the client didn’t experience hospitalization or an untimely demise from an electric shock or fire!
#37
Pretty
Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 year ago
You know if somebody manufactured one that looks sort of like that people would buy it
Jesha 1 year ago
I mean, I would. I'm exhausted with so many electronics being big unicolor rectangles. Say what you will about iMacs, but they had style.
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Manana Man 1 year ago
Dear Mrs. Smith, Little Billy is making good progress with his fine motor skills. In art class he has shown a willingness to use unconventional media. A+
SirWriteALot 1 year ago
I dunno ... this looks almost too perfect to have actually been done by a kid who doesn't know that you don't draw on electronics.
#38
This Must Be The Work Of A Madman
Robert T 1 year ago
Best way to keep them cool! I've run them outside the case when doing drive replacements, but not in normal usage.
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PandaGoPanda 1 year ago
I'm wondering what the grey fluffy thing below the monitor is, and whether it is alive ...
#39
Dont Use Lemonade To Clean Your Mouse. I Thought The Acidity Would Clean Off The Buildup Of Crumbs And Cheeto Grease But It Just Attracted These Ants. I Left Home For 2 Days, Just To See This On My Desk
Ivy at Eve 1 year ago
Of course, my personal choice is cola as it kills the germs. And if it gets too wet, you can always put it in the oven for a quick dry...
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Ace 1 year ago
Tell me you look like this without telling me you look like this MV5BM2ExNm...@._V1_.jpg 
#40
Ps5 In For Hdmi Replacement. Kid Said “I Pushed The Cable In A Little Too Hard”
Dekker451 1 year ago
The PS5 HDMI port is pretty fragile though. I've had one for just a couple of years and I've already had it to get it replaced twice and now it's broken again. If I'm lucky the Pro will be sturdier, but I'm not holding my breath.
JustYourAveragePANda 1 year ago
How old is this kid, where were the parents, and WHY THE F*CK WOULD YOU NOT CHECK TO MAKE SURE IT FITS PROPERLY????????????
#41
Wondering The Story Behind This
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Cut with a water jet by a YouTuber who was demonstrating how cleanly their system could cut almost anything.
#42
I Think My Psu Has Some Kind Of Error
Kylie Chapman 1 year ago
They said I needed to install a fire wall, so I installed a fire wall.
#43
Broken Clip? No Problem!
The Rogue Adventurers. 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure a duck gave us duct tape
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
I had a roommate who, after I cabled internet to everyone in the house used a staple gun on the cable that ran down the hall. THROUGH the cable. Wi-Fi is a good thing.
Margalus 1 year ago
How do you figure running a piece of metal through wires shorting them is going to work?
Marcel 1 year ago
It probably still works. All cables inside the shroud have their own plastic shroud.
Load More Replies... Poured Banda 1 year ago
This appeared on BuzzFeed a while back. The author said "we don't know what that cable is, but it probably shouldn't have a pin through it" I felt old.
Charity Angel 1 year ago
... Cat 5 cables still exist, though? I mean, I have several. Caused a fabulous argument with my ISP one time, when I called them because none of my wired devices could access the internet, but WiFi was just fine. Apparently I didn't *have* any wired devices. Weird how he could be so sure of that while sitting somewhere that was not my home, and that it totally wasn't just that there was something wrong with my router and the wired devices weren't connected...
Load More Replies... Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
My "fix" suggestion for this problem: small paper wedges in port to keep plug in.
Charity Angel 1 year ago
I used a small piece of white tack on the blank side. Not blu, because that can conduct electricity.
Load More Replies... JNDauterive 1 year ago
Never mind the moron is punching holes in the table top. Gawd, I hate people like this.
MalibuClassicMan 1 year ago
They have not got a clue for real; so scary to think they actually drive a car also.
#44
"You Can Fix Your Sisters Phone Right? It Gets Hot Sometimes And Turns Itself Off A Lot". "What's That Smell?" Battery Acid. Literally Battery Acid
Gwyn 1 year ago
I'm always amazed how long teens will use phones with screen cracks, banged up corners, and scratched up camera lenses.
Kathleen Pearlman 1 year ago
It's an iPhone, isn't? Teens and some adults think they are indestructible.
Nonplussed Puss 1 year ago
Phones have charge--management circuits that prevent overcharging.
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#45
User Calls About Disc Being Stuck In Another Computer, Mentions Off Hand About This Laptop. They Had Been Using And Charging It Like This For Weeks
Kira Okah 1 year ago
If you want to make a bomb, sure. Put it in something fireproof and call a professional for recycling.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 1 year ago
Spicy pillow battery. Spicy pillows are commonly caused by damage or overcharging, but can be other causes. They do this to not cause a fire or explosion, though impeding the expansion can risk it, as can any further damage. Unplug, if you can then move to a fire safe box, and call a professional.
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Atom Bohr 1 year ago (edited)
My mother came to visit me last autumn and was having problems with her laptop, so I told her to bring it and I'd sort it out. There wasn't really a problem so much as she knows nothing about computers. Except, when she got here, after spending hours on a plane, her laptop looked a lot like this one. Apparently it'd been like that for a while and she hadn't questioned it. I was not impressed. At least I was able to remove and dispose of it, and fit a replacement... Edited a typo
Rodney McKay 1 year ago
It's weird... It's only our HP laptops that do this (frequently!) and never our Dells—the latter just eat their SSDs. HP needs to buy charging circuit designs from Dell, and Dell needs disk controllers from HP.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
i was only halfway into the photo and was wondering why the screen appeared to have such a weirdly wavy reflection in it. now i know.
JNDauterive 1 year ago
I’m a dinosaur. I get that a) this is not good, b) the battery is puffed up and will apparently explode, but... everyone acts as though it is really dangerous and could go off like a bomb. Is it really that serious? Will it be go a bomb? How big an explosion would it make? Does a lay person really need to turn it over to, like, a fire squad or something? Tx.
Kathleen Pearlman 1 year ago
Took me a minute to see that the screen was reflecting the keyboard
#46
Go Check The Switch Closet. We Think Something Might Have Gotten Unplugged Somewhere
Clown fish 1 year ago
I'd unplug it all and go back and say "yes something is unplugged"
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#47
Customer Brought In This Imac For Not Powering On... This Is How He Apparently Uses It
The Other Guest 1 year ago
You guys are never happy. First you say don't touch the screen, it'll leave smudges. Then you complain about the smudge preventer...
Fack Suckerberg 1 year ago
Boring idea: Maybe he just wrapped it for transport. I would do that.
#48
The Nastiest Mouse I Have Ever Seen In The Field. Make No Mistake, That Is Not Dust. That Is...uh...hand-Grease
Karma Black 1 year ago
My husband has psoriasis. I have severe eczema. We both have to use a ton of creams, ointments, etc on our hands. We've NEVER had a mouse get like this. Just... HOW?!?
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
Burn it NOW! Apparently very few people actually sanitise the IT components they use daily: recommendation is to wipe your keyboard (not shared/hot-desked) once a week.
#49
No Charger? No Problem!
David Paterson 1 year ago
Exactly. Feeding 12v into a socket designed for 5v. Shudder.
Load More Replies... Nicola Thrope 1 year ago
In user's defense, I too have been angry enough at windows to torture my laptop with a carbattery. I didn't DO it of course, but I understand the impulse!
#50
“Can You Recover The Data?”
JACKSON NIESE 1 year ago
Unless the user put it in the oven, this isn't a stupid request is it?
#51
Say Hello To Big Bertha, A 1.69 Tb Text File. Over 108 Billion Lines
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
Are you *SURE* that's not the Vulcan Database with the file extension changed?
Brandon Sheumaker 1 year ago
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play..."
Ryan Mercer 1 year ago
I'm guessing this is the result of a recursive write function, so the text file kept doubling its size and grew exponentially with endlessly duplicated text.
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Something like a database of telephone calls can get that big. I had to deal with terabytes when looking at the BT calling database in the early 1990s.
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Came Across This Atrocity
Patrick H 1 year ago
Since I touch-type, I once rearranged all the letters on my keyboard at work. I only need the nubs, so I even swapped the F and J keys. It was my work computer, so I was usually the only one to use it, but my boss sat down to work on something with me and tried to type. It didn't go well for him. He politely requested that I put them back. (For the record, he was not an àsshole boss.)
Dark Pigeon 1 year ago
When you have parrots that love removing the keys..... I have this problem, and can not be asked to put them back in the right place. Also, sometimes a key is destroyed by the beakes of these talking tropical chickens, so you just replace it with a lesser used key. The Frankenkeyboard is out there!
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Seem normal for Dell I have received two computer keyboards from them misprinted.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The guy who used to do TV commercials for them apparently has been transfered over to manufacturing.
Load More Replies... Rodney McKay 1 year ago
No worries, as long as they remapped the keyboard to match. I mean, how is this any worse than QWERTY?
Vanessa MacKenzie 1 year ago
Someone moved the keys on purpose, this is not a manufacturing error lol.
#53
Shipping Thousands Of Dollars Worth Of Computers With No Packaging Material
Anxious Aardvark 1 year ago (edited)
We were told to loan a core switch to a customer for a project. Shipped braced in a wooden frame, with padding. Unit was returned in the outer cardboard box. Damage was considerable. GBIC blades bent like pretzels. 10GBe Gbics shattered. Replacement cost for the complete unit was north of $500k. We managed to salvage enough to get the replacement cost down to around $220k. The people that insisted we loan it were somehow surprised that we would not simply eat the cost of replacing our lab kit.
#54
"On A Scale Of One To Ten How Recoverable Is The Data On This Disk?"
#55
One Of My Clients Upgraded His Phone But Kept His Old Screen “Protector”
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
Would be fine, with appropriate Velcro tapes on the protector and on the back of the phone.
#57
Got A Treat For You All
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
My money is on a delivery company of some kind. It probably said do not bend. Them's fightin' words.
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#58
The Things You Find Working A Helpdesk Job At A Failing University
#59
Work From Home Equipment Returned
Matthew Savestheworld 1 year ago
Ah so they worked for Stericycle Comsol before it was sold to Map Communications.
#60
Just Had A Laptop Returned That Has A Used Bandaid As A Webcam Cover
PhaseWitFact 1 year ago
A lot of engineers do this, especially software programmers bc we know we're being spied on by Google, our ISP, various web sites, and any decent hackers. But most of us just use a bit of a post it note or painter's tape.
Kevin Hickey 1 year ago
Tell them that the camera can scan their DNA now. That's how they get ya!!
Kira Okah 1 year ago
The OP said that the underside confirmed it, so I am guessing that they removed it.
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
I use black electrical tape on my laptop so it blends in. Fabric bandages are for covering the fingerprint sensor on a phone (with a protective case to cover it).
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Snowy Ashton 1 year ago
I'm disturbed at just how many people decided to put their computers IN OVENS.
David Paterson 1 year ago
I can't help wondering what percentage of these are recoverable or data-recoverable.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
This post seems to show just how dumb the tech addicted people really are.
Snowy Ashton 1 year ago
I'm disturbed at just how many people decided to put their computers IN OVENS.
David Paterson 1 year ago
I can't help wondering what percentage of these are recoverable or data-recoverable.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
This post seems to show just how dumb the tech addicted people really are.
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