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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
this is how time should be. half an hour should be 50 mins, not 30 (although if I were at school and I had 1 hour (100 min) periods, I have 5, so 500 mins=8.3 hours. If I start at 8, I would end at 4:30
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How can a clock be cursed enough to having surpassed it's own built-in code of 7- segment
When I worked tech for a famous coffee company that also sold coffee makers - got a call saying no matter what I do, the time stays at 3:33. I told them to peal the plastic protection strip off
Another quality piece from Five Finger Harry's Bargin Center
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."
