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Tech Support People Are Sharing The Worst Cases They’ve Seen While On The Job (30 New Pics)
You don't need to be a computer person to know that exposed wires are trouble. Or that driving a bolt through a screen might cause it to go black. But to some people, technology is so foreign that even these concepts are hard to grasp.
So when they inevitably damage their software and hardware, someone needs to show up and fix the problems... As well as take a picture and post it on the subreddit 'Tech Support Gore' to remind everyone that IT literacy matters.
Continue scrolling to check out the sub's latest posts and for the older carnage that appeared on it, fire up our previous publications on this funny online community here, here, and here.
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So Mac Doesnt Support Windows But Atleast It Supports Doors
Time To Hang Up The Wreath
I Drove Over An Hour For This
Engineers be like: "Let's create different and very distinguishable shapes for plugs so that no one could possibly mix up the cables and the right sockets!" N00bs: "Challenge accepted!"
They Said "My PC Shut Off Suddenly And Won't Turn Back On"
Just Realised I Haven't Had To Do This For Years
Wondering The Story Behind This
Two-factor authentication. You need to have both parts before you can log on...
As a two factor victim, I wish I could give you more upvotes. I never seem to have my phone in the same room as my computer.
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Only a paid extended warranty would cover that (more akin to insurance). Certainly not the manufacturer warranty. Those tend to only cover defects. I can certainly see someone who doesn't know that to try something like this in an attempt to get a new one. Some people will try anything to skirt the system.
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We’re going through a divorce and we are splitting everything half and half!
The jolly green giant's grandma is gonna be pissed that someone used her pinking shears without asking.
I have never wanted to know the story behind a picture more in my LIFE.
There is definitely an interesting story behind that one... You would need to purposely saw through the laptop with a band saw to do that, and not to mention it would be really hard to to
Honestly, who of us has never wanted to do this when the laptop is acting up?
My mate has a laptop nailed to his van door due to "technical issues"
Bob: "Oh yeah? I'll bet your laser won't cut through my laptop!" Voiceover: "Bob learned an important lesson that day..."
Its truly awesome what you can do with high enough water pressure.. seen them cut thru 2" steel plate like a hot knife thru butter... Well a slow hot knife
Replace caps and optos, some apoxy, a replacement screen and it will be good as new
I find this oddly soothing. I've worked many days in admin where I've felt like doing this.
Holy smokes, that is an IBM laptop, the older series for Lenovo Xs... it is almost unbreakable... and that cut is pretty clean... ... now I also wish to know what happened to that machine! :D
Service shop just got a laser deck, and some idiot forgot to check before her turned it on..
I CUT THIS COMPUTER IN HALF TO SHOW YOU THE POWER OF FLEX TAPE
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One use for a crappy Intel machine - turn it into machine performance art!
This reminds me of an old boss who quit in a big huff. But not before drilling a half inch hole through his not backed up laptops hard drive
It must be a great assistance service, if someone thinks they can fit that.
My Mom Said That It Once Shocked Her When She Plugged It In
Travelled 1000km To Fix 5 Brand New Desktops Which Are Slow For Strange Reasons. Strange Reasons:
Dj Electrocutioner
Braided Cables
"On A Scale Of One To Ten How Recoverable Is The Data On This Disk?"
What Does The Word "Fragile" Mean?
I'm A Computer Noob But I Open My Laptop To Look For Tracking Devices
I Tried Setting My Alarm For Tomorrow… I May Need A New Clock
Not Oc But This Hurt Me Enough To Hurt You Too
Why Won’t My Call Go Through?
Anybody Up For Char Broiled GPU?
If they managed to do this by simply using the computer then that is impressive.
Not My Image But Oh Dear
Burned Cigarette Marks On A Ps4 Brought In For Repair. Device Was Filled With Dead Roaches
My Grandma's TV After The Housecleaners Cleaned Her TV With A Mystery Liquid (Gone Wrong)
God Sucked A*s At Cable Management
Ladies And Gentlemen: The US Government
Brand New Laptop Off The Truck
PC Has Been Up Against My Desk For A While. That Won't Be Continuing
My Cousin Cleaned The Laptop While I Was Away For A Bit, I Come Back To This
My Boss Placing A Deada*s Pot Of Ice Twice A Day On The Transformer (If That’s What It’s Called) Cus It Keeps Overheating And The Entire Pos & Internet Server Goes Down
My Laptop Isn't Working
Someone Knows Where Can I Get That Router Skin ?
So, How Much Thermal Paste Should I Use?
I Present The: "Hey Guys, Dropped My Phone, Can Ifixit??"
Note: this post originally had 105 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
I do a monthly de-dusting on my pc, a little bit more during shedding months, rabbit fur gets everywhere as its such fine fur.
When i had my lionhead, i forgot to dust my PC one month and ended up blowing whole rabbits out of it the next time. It builds up pretty quick.
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*Don't have a pick, honestly it's for the best it was nasty.... Anyways, One time at helpdesk, customer brings in their laptop in saying it won't start up. We open the laptop and their is this familiar stench that I can't quite place floods the room, and there are these gross looking brown crystals all over the system board. Turns out their cat peed in their laptop bag and just SOAKED the laptop. Ugh.
Yeah, ammonia. I once had one of those super nice viewsonic screens that had a way better refresh than most. Same fate. I almost killed a cat, but instead starting bagging my monitor when I wasn't using it.
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I worked tech support when I was like 18-19, but I've always sounded much younger than I really am. Plus, I'm female, so somehow I always ended up getting the callers that demanded to talk to a man because obviously a "little girl couldn't know much about computers." One night I got one of thise callers, but all of the other guys on my shift were on calls. Guy starts ranting about how we sold him a bad computer, it had turned on earlier and was working fine but it just stopped. It was a Dell laptop (I don't remember the model, but 2001-2003 was when I worked there), so I ran though my normal troubleshooting. Nothing worked, so I told him I was starting the RMA process, and I apologized for all of the trouble, when he goes "oh wait, the power in my building just came back on." He seriously didn't understand why his power being off would affect a dead laptop battery.
In Drama this year we were working on some scenes we'd written and our director (An older student taking the directing class my school offers) walks out to go do something. One of the girls goes up to perform her scene, accidentally drops her Chromebook, and the screen just... pops off... We all just stare at it for a moment because despite being detached, the screen is still on. So the girl just clicks it back onto the rest of the computer and says "We do not tell [director] about this"
Are you sure it wasn't a 2-in-1 Chromebook? Where it's a hybrid tablet
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I read these pretending to know anything about technology meanwhile I don't even know my own wifi password
Weary lieutenant sent in a piece of ASW gear to my AIMD shop. Guess he had enough of USN acronyms for the day. Work order said "Does not work in OFF position."
I do a monthly de-dusting on my pc, a little bit more during shedding months, rabbit fur gets everywhere as its such fine fur.
When i had my lionhead, i forgot to dust my PC one month and ended up blowing whole rabbits out of it the next time. It builds up pretty quick.
Load More Replies... *Don't have a pick, honestly it's for the best it was nasty.... Anyways, One time at helpdesk, customer brings in their laptop in saying it won't start up. We open the laptop and their is this familiar stench that I can't quite place floods the room, and there are these gross looking brown crystals all over the system board. Turns out their cat peed in their laptop bag and just SOAKED the laptop. Ugh.
Yeah, ammonia. I once had one of those super nice viewsonic screens that had a way better refresh than most. Same fate. I almost killed a cat, but instead starting bagging my monitor when I wasn't using it.
Load More Replies... I worked tech support when I was like 18-19, but I've always sounded much younger than I really am. Plus, I'm female, so somehow I always ended up getting the callers that demanded to talk to a man because obviously a "little girl couldn't know much about computers." One night I got one of thise callers, but all of the other guys on my shift were on calls. Guy starts ranting about how we sold him a bad computer, it had turned on earlier and was working fine but it just stopped. It was a Dell laptop (I don't remember the model, but 2001-2003 was when I worked there), so I ran though my normal troubleshooting. Nothing worked, so I told him I was starting the RMA process, and I apologized for all of the trouble, when he goes "oh wait, the power in my building just came back on." He seriously didn't understand why his power being off would affect a dead laptop battery.
In Drama this year we were working on some scenes we'd written and our director (An older student taking the directing class my school offers) walks out to go do something. One of the girls goes up to perform her scene, accidentally drops her Chromebook, and the screen just... pops off... We all just stare at it for a moment because despite being detached, the screen is still on. So the girl just clicks it back onto the rest of the computer and says "We do not tell [director] about this"
Are you sure it wasn't a 2-in-1 Chromebook? Where it's a hybrid tablet
Load More Replies... I read these pretending to know anything about technology meanwhile I don't even know my own wifi password
Weary lieutenant sent in a piece of ASW gear to my AIMD shop. Guess he had enough of USN acronyms for the day. Work order said "Does not work in OFF position."
