30 Examples Of The Worst Cases Tech Support Workers Have Ever Seen (New Pics)

Depending on the data drive the data could be very well preserved though you might need to disassemble it and read the parts individually.

I just had my laugh of the day. Thank you!

I had one where the remote terminal in the shop kept dropping. Turns out they had used two of the wires in the CAT5 cable for the landline phone. I was assisting over phone, not in person so it took a bit of conversation to arrive there.

This is a catastrophic problem!!! This causes a network loop and even corporate-grade switches struggle to disable the ports after the "traffic storm" takes place. it can take down entire parts of a large corporate. Many corporates now avoid a wall-box entirely. Cheaper to run the cable straight from the network room and there is a massively reduced risk for creating a network loop because it's so much harder, with there being no actual way "on the floor" to do it. The biggest risk is actually in the network room. Also why 2 LAN ports on a wall-box is heavily disliked by networking guys: Keep them away from each other. 1 Curious kid is all it takes to being down a hotel's entire network and it will take AGES to find the looped ports

I was on out of hours one weekend, get a call saying no one can make financial transactions, try all the normal stuff, nope. Eventually have to go into work to take a look (I was a Dev at the time). I get into the server room and it's been completely recabled, everything is now cable tied together, lovely and neat (and impossible to follow cables and routings). I find the banks router behind a rack and start tracking the cable, cutting cable ties as I go, it leads into a huge pile of spaghetti hidden behind a server, cue lots of swearing. I untangle the spaghetti and track the cable (about 50m so far) and then I find the end plugged into nothing. Apparently the 2 idiots who did it got bored at 9pm the previous night and just went home. Were they disciplined? Nope, the company had just scapegoated the entire IT management and sacked them for something different so there was no one to discipline them

Robert T, I have now added "plonker" to my list of insults. Thank you for sharing!

Wouldn't that require a crossover cable (often blue like in the photo)?

I found a wireless xmitter/receiver installed in a trailer that the PD used for target training. Apparently they were too lazy to build/purchase a long data cable to hook up a printer. On top of that the devices were running unsecured/open with no security set up. Login ID: admin/Password: admin.

Put it in some rice!

Maybe try restarting it... from the beginning of the manufacturing process.

LOL!

ahahahahahahah

It might work

There's a race between designers trying to make things idiot-proof and evolution producing more advanced idiots.

Hedge clippers and start over!

This is IMMENSELY prevalent in American homes and Businesses. given their addiction to "Drywall" it's the case if if it cannot be seen, then fine. We've had to retrofit our house and it's a challenge since everything is concrete.

You try wireless solutions. Easier in American houses as they're made of cardboard.

There's also an incandescent bulb and a compact fluorescent bulb laying on the ground, while an LED currently lights the area.

Yep, everything except token ring.

both?

A three year old on fire?

Printer toner cartridge dropped next to it?

Looks like cement or tile adhesive.

Only a three year old could do that

A three-year-old fire.

Telling the difference between fire damage and toddler damage may be more difficult than the halting problem

this looks a lot like someone was throwing clay with it nearby

A fire started by a three year old

yes

I'm going with elderly person tried to wash it with scrubbing powder.

Same difference...