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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
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
RIP. The roaches were the engineering team that kept this PS4 running.
That's what I wondered - thus the marks on the outside...
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I had to repair an alarm system at a Chinese restaurant. I was told it was a simple keypad swap. It was not. Remove the keypad in the kitchen that was supposedly the culprit. It was caked inside with roaches and roach eggs. Replaced it and hit a drop cord that they had ran behind the paneling with a screw that started a small fire inside the wall. Manager pulls back the paneling and a sea of roaches covered the floor. The cooks and servers never missed a beat. It was most definitely not their first time seeing that many roaches there. I haven't eaten Chinese food since.
Serves as a warning to little cockroaches about the dangers of smoking when they grow up.
Can only imagine that they live in their car with the console on their lap for warmth.
I used to do repairs on game systems. Roach infestations we're common enough that whenever we brought one in for repair, it was immediately placed in a large clear zipper bag. Then when we were ready to work on it, we would bring it to an outdoor bench to remove the housing. The heat gaming systems give off is very inviting to roaches
At least they were dead. I used to get equipment in to my shop and have to bag and spray it before I took it inside
Now picturing a house full of cockroaches that smells like an ashtray. No wonder they want to play games to escape reality.
I tossed an old boombox seconds after I saw a bug scurried in/out! The Horror!
We had a PS4 in where I work (someone was selling it) and a live roach crawled out of it...
I gagged a little thinking about the dead roaches. In my brain it's completely filled with them.
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??"
Got A New Stand For My iPad I Love It
How Much For A Repair?
Now Thatsa Spicya Apple - Full Airbag Deployment
Speed Holes! They Make The Switch Go Faster!
Mercury Thermal Paste
Which Ev Charger Would You Like Installed? “Yes”
This Is Why My Company Doesn't Buy From This Vendor Anymore
On A Fishing Boat Where Everyone Stands Around Soaked In Salt Water 👍
Visiting My Mother For The First Time In A While. 'Oh, I Have A Computer Problem You Could Maybe Help Me With' She Has Been Using It Like This For Months, Including Flying With It
Wait, flew with a spicy pillow problem?! Geez, that could have ended very badly.
Snap
No, Just No
A PSU That Hasn't Been Clean For At Least 25 Years
8 generations of rust, dust, dirt, and the devils crust are on that PSU
I Don't Think I Can Salvage This One
Yep, That Is Honey
I Saw Your Nicotine PC And I Raise You This
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.
It Security Is Job Number One
I See Your Band-Aid Fix, And I Present My Own, Bent-Paperclip-Bit-Around-Screw Fix
I.t. Knows
Colleague Got This Today
Reached To Unplug This Power Supply And Got A Good Jolt. Old Prongs Sticking Out Of This Live Extension Cord In A Drop Ceiling At A Bowling Alley I Was Working At
Well, F**k. Hopefully It's Just A Bypass Cap That's Not Actually Needed
The Pink Screen Of Death (Chip On LCD Board Is Broken)
When The Users Push Their Tower PC As Far Back Against The Desk Privacy Board As It Will Go
Someone Sent It This After They Got Fired
Oh My. Customer Claimed It Was Used In A Cattle Feedlot. Wont Boot And Stinks Like Really Bad. Wish Me Luck 🤮
Ignoring The Filthy Keyboard, This Thinkpad's Trackpad Was Cracked By Sheer Finger Pressure
Hes Tiled His Desktop. Creative
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.
Employee: Hey The Cooling Fan Died, I Can Salvage One From A Dead Computer In The Back. Management: Nah, I've Got A Way Better Idea
I Don't Know Why But My Computer Is Shutting Down After 5 Minutes
This Cpu On Display In A Children’s Museum
Gives Meaning To “The Networks’ Gone To S**t!”
I Was Trying To Create A Partition Of 1 Tb
Nah, someone bent that in a press. That doesn't happen on accident, not that clean and precise.
Fiber Switch
Our Freenas Server Sometimes Becomes Unavailable. Could You Check What Is Wrong With It?
My 3070 Ti Wouldn’t Fit, So I Made Some Room. This Is Fine?
I’m Guessing This Will Work
My Ssd Failed To Boot… First Time I’ve Seen This Error Lol
Didn't know you could change your language to Old prospector English. (There is Gold in them there Chips).
Best Way To Measure This Cell's Dimensions?
Spicy MacBook Pillows
My Co-Worker Sometimes Misses A Screw
Rip 2020-2022
I Thought You Guys Would Enjoy This
The Contractor Built The Endpoint On The Wrong Side Of The Wall
Be Careful When Unplugging The Laptop, The Stores Security System Might Go Out With It :,)
Mouse I Am Currently Using At Work… Delivery Guy Better Get Here Quick
This Came Over My Works Group Chat This Morning
Does This Count? "Beat Up Like Crazy" Core 2 Duo On Ebay
Did A Battery Replacement For An UPS, We Recommend To Do So Every 3 Years, This Is 5 Years Later
One time at helpdesk, we were changing the battery pack on a rack mounted ups, and the some idiot wired one of the cells backwards (+ -> +, - -> -). We turned it on, there was pop, some smoke, and the smell of burnt silicon.
We Had A Company Come Today To Valuate Our Old Fleet Of Macbooks. I Had Them Neatly Stacked Vertically Along The Shelf…. They Decided They Want To Play Expensive Jenga
"It Definitely Didn't Get Wet"
Note that sometimes people don't realise that it has gotten wet. Roommate in Beijing had her laptop seize due to the summer humidity; and my last one died because housemate spilled drink on the table with it on, cleaned everything up, and told no one until a rant about the computer tech being an a*sehole about not knowing why it had gotten wet.
M.2 Ssd Screws Are Over-Rated
Holy Broodmother
Spent 10 Hours Looking For The Cause Of Our Network Storm And
Great Cable Management At A Sports Bar
When Your Pet Rat Escapes With The Intention Of Burning Down The House (Little F**ker Was Completely Fine)
Rats are amazing pets, like tiny dogs! You can even teach them to walk on a leash and do tricks!
The Rear Side Of Linus's Main Server Rack
Would You Believe I Work In A Place With All The Knowledge And Tools To Make This Connection The Correct Way?
Needs A Small Amount Of Cleaning
Ethernet Abuse
Sorry For The Social Media Screenshot, But I Couldn't Not Repost This. Yes, I Had To Censor His Card Number
Fires Are Cool Too
User States The Device "Pops And Smokes A Little"
I’ve Seen Worn Out/Broken LCD’s, But Never Like This
Costumer: "No I Don't Want To Pay For You To Build My PC. I'll Do It Myself"
Found On Aliexpress
My Worplace Dead Battery Storage
Customer: “Can You Back Up My Data Onto This? It Was A Good Deal At 40 Bucks!”
This is very much fake. Currently, 2TB flash drives would never be so cheap, and they can't be produced reliably so aren't going to the commercially available to the layman. This is definitely hacked to read 2TB but is probably 8/16GB. If you need this much portable storage - get an SSD or external HDD.
Don't Store Your Rfid Access Card In Your Phone Case If You Use Wireless Charging
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.
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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."
