Tech Support People Are Sharing The Worst Cases They’ve Seen While On The Job (30 New Pics)

Finally a good use for anything (cr)apple.

Are you expecting Ram-bo?

I see someone never had that toy where you gotta get the right shape block in the corresponding hole.

Holy jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Cat hair and cigarette smoke mixed with carpet dust. The dumbest pc clean out I ever had was a woman who kept her pc in her sewing room. She had recently been cutting velvet, but couldn't figure out why her pc wouldn't turn on. Opened it up and not only was her powersupply packed with velvet so were all of her fan screens and IO radiators...

I used to love doing that, and if you could get the grime off the ball in one long piece it was LEVELLED UP \o/

That's not how to partition a hard drive.

shocking indeed

Hope they paid you well.

Man that DJ's beats were on fire last night...

LOL. So much effort to make something bad. For those unfamiliar, winding wire amplifies the magnetic field. In transformers and electromagnets this is a good thing. In data cables not so much. So even with "normal" network cable you want to minimize how much extra cable you have coiled up to prevent signal interference. To add a bunch of unshielded tight windings intentionally is just a big NOPE. It's a data cable, not a macrame key ring fob

Seems like a negative ten to me ;)

"Fragile; Must be Italian"

What do you do? Put it back in.

That's clearly just upside down, it's supposed to be 66:11

I have this keyboard. It magically replaces my usual one when I'm drunk.

Now that looks more like the US government.

If they managed to do this by simply using the computer then that is impressive.

It... it's on. How is it on? Why did this work? Did they really get lucky and manage to miss every circuit and wire in all the corners?

I have a feeling the owner of this PS4 doesn't have a lot of friends.

Powerful solvents, especially acetone-based ones, aren't very kind to plastic.

Definitely IT guys

Makes it quicker to tap the line.

Literally fell off the truck

Got petz?

Did he clean it with sulfuric acid?

Hello condensation!

Are you sure it's no out of battery?

more like Wi-Fry

All

Have you tried putting it in rice?

That took effort to do that with vice grips

three fiddy

Ouch! That hurts.

Looks like it got shot

The computer might be working great, but I don't think the OP will be working at all for much longer

Well logic tells me that it is someone testing charging points, but my brain screams that someone is trying to burn the house down and I'm trying to follow the cables to see if they've crossed them over!

How? Why?

Mmmmmmm rats. Extra fun!

Wait, flew with a spicy pillow problem?! Geez, that could have ended very badly.

I think it is a software problem!

This is a great way to fry your motherboard. Might not happen the first few times but it will eventually happen.

8 generations of rust, dust, dirt, and the devils crust are on that PSU

Flood? Or outside and damaged by storm?

they were in a sticky situation

I've done IT for 30 years. Smokers computers are the worst. Tar from the smoke is sticky and dust sticks to it. That's what it does to your lungs too.

That's amazing, that's the same combination I've got on my luggage

That is worryingly close to those solder points.

It's a scanner, not a listener.

Battery turned into a shiny murder pillow perhaps?

I've run into similar things at work. We've had drop ceilings that have had voltage in them. Twice..

😨 Yes, let's hope...

Preeeeeetttyyyyy 😍

get them a right angled kettle lead

Looks like a piece of good bye and good luck cake?

Wear gloves.

That must be one stressful job, the guy has.

Fun prank that used to be done back in the earlier days of windows (guess you could still do it), would be to take a screen shot, move all the files from the desktop into a folder and make the screenshot the desktop background. I, of course, never did this...seriously....I didn't.

My cyrix processor used to overheat so bad in my already hot house I just left a box fan on it

What reason does anyone have for putting tape over the vents?

i mean if a ton of kids are gonna be near it, yes.

Ewww, eColi infested server rack 😖