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14 Of The Most Disturbing, Random And Gross Things Found By IT Guys On Customers’ Computers
Article created by: Rūta Zumbrickaitė
Once, years ago, I went to my mother's house to check on her computer, which she said had become very slow. When I asked her on the phone if she had ever cleaned it, she said yes. Who could have known that by "clean" she actually meant "wipe the dust off the top and sides" only?
Then, having unscrewed the side panel, I saw that the computer was almost half filled with dust and dog hair. However, as it turns out, the IT guys fixing customers' computers sometimes come across much more unexpected and strange finds.
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#1
Was swapping out some old PCs for an accounting firm whose offices were in an old farmhouse in a fairly rural area. Picked up the old computer and heard a rattle of something inside.
It was filled with acorns presumably collected by a field mouse.
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#2
A user told me they kept hear strange scratching or clicking noises from inside the PC under their desk. We opened it up and found a foot long lizard that got in when it was little and grew too big to get out. I live in Phoenix so lizards are every where. It's kind of gross to think that enough bugs were in the building and going in the PC to keep it fed.
#3
My stepson was in IT. His first job was general user support with passwords and other mundane things.
He told us of a time when the person he was on the phone with took several minutes to explain his laptop issue, then finally when IT asked him to perform a task, the person replied "just a minute, let me pull over"...DUDE WAS DRIVING AND LAPTOPPING SIMULTANEOUSLY.
#4
Brick dust, feathers, hair and an actual mushroom growing inside the case. This was all in the same pc.
#5
An entire photos folder filled with folders, each titled a different woman’s name. inside those folders were very explicit photos of him plowing them. that was not a fun data transfer.
#6
Different clients:
Nest of snakes
half a box of condoms (still wrapped)
cigarette butts (multiple)
top of my list was a tower PC at a hospital that had red warning tape along the top (bump/trip hazard) but the nurses thought it was bio waste and would slide syringes, used bandaids etc in there and the tower was easily half full of this stuff.
#7
maybe not the weirdest or most disturbing, but certainly the most awkward:
I was helping fix a guys tablet that would not connect to wifi, (he also wanted to go through some other settings with me to check they were right).
After a bit of fiddling I got it connected, causing a huge rush of notifications to appear for various apps that could now connect to the internet again, including about 3 minutes of messages of varying levels of explicitness from grindr popping up and me doing my best to ignore them while going through other settings.
#8
A high-level employee was setting up strip club and hooker meets on his agency-issued system via his assistant. Dude did not give a single f**k. Unrelated, and on the other end of posts in here, but I had to scrub CP from systems after it was used as evidence.
#9
Someone had a bit of a problem with google not letting them create shared files.
Mostly out of curiosity, or maybe luck, I open Task Manager and find that the computer has not been turned off in something-and-80 days.
#12
I find it disturbing how gross some people let their computers get. Sticky crumbs, goop, gunk, just nastiness. Recently found some strange goop smoking in an hdmi port. I think it was coffee.
#14
First off: The American Federal government computer had five languages installed, including Greek and Russian.
Secondly: I didn't know there was even a shortcut to trigger a language input change. FYI, it's Alt+Left Shift. And in never in my 10 years of IT have I've seen anyone accidentally trigger a shortcut that's basically coming up a little short on Alt+Tab.
Third: The guy on the team doing Help Desk for the first time immediately knew what had happened.
I've never felt so bewildered, by something so harmless.
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