Weird and Cringe things you've seen while working in IT - Since everyone is too lazy to make such a thread where IT bros can vent

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Disco Inferno said:
I've taking help desk work as a side gig for some extra euros. A few days ago, I had a lady complain that her laptop "cup holder" was stuck and wouldn't close.
Turns out she has been using her optical drive as a cup holder for literal years and didn't know its designed use.

i fucking hate my job
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like... dont optical drives automatically close after awhile?

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I'm not IT but I've probably pissed off the militarys IT department many a time when I routinely knock my gamer fuel mt. dew by accident onto the computer sitting on the floor next to my desk. Maybe had that happen a good five times in one year, with two happening in a week lol. Sorry guys.
 
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Megaroad 2012 said:
like... dont optical drives automatically close after awhile?

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I'm not IT but I've probably pissed off the militarys IT department many a time when I routinely knock my gamer fuel mt. dew by accident onto the computer sitting on the floor next to my desk. Maybe had that happen a good five times in one year, with two happening in a week lol. Sorry guys.
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Drink fluids with the hand opposite of your tower.
 
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Not my story, but some Military Redditor (lol here we go) actually decided to delete the black hole on their military network because they didn't know what it was for. He was then later accused of collaborating with the Chinese since this gave a bunch of Chinese hackers access to their shit. Turns out he was just incompetent.

Another story from the mid 2000s, some elderly woman digging with a shovel in the desert of Armenia found an internet cable in the ground and drove her shovel through it & caused an internet blackout for the whole country.
 
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It would be easy to type "basically everything at my last job" lol (cool place tho) but one of my favourite moments was when we were talking to clients about how secure our system was and that we all used secure administrator accounts.
What we didn't tell them was that we all used the same ones because we didn't want to shell out for extra Microsoft licences.
 
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Listening to multiple departments try to explain why they all think they can't use the new ticketing system we have as it's set up and need it customized. They don't. I realize why people shoot up their workplace when one of them asks "can't we just set up an new ticketing system instead of this one?"
 
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Big companies with "fuck you" money. Someone calls me in, $120 an hour, to fix their problem. What is the task, Outlook/Exchange shit the bed again because someone keeps a 30GB inbox or do they need someone that signed the NDAs to take instructions from qualified people to repair the printer? Turns out the mouse ran out of batteries, diagnosed in five seconds, client will be charged for the whole hour while they take a 45 minute break so their computer can be fixed. It was a good source of income but it was fucking stupid and things like that happened so often. Women in the workplace was a mistake.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Big companies with "fuck you" money. Someone calls me in, $120 an hour, to fix their problem. What is the task, Outlook/Exchange shit the bed again because someone keeps a 30GB inbox or do they need someone that signed the NDAs to take instructions from qualified people to repair the printer? Turns out the mouse ran out of batteries, diagnosed in five seconds, client will be charged for the whole hour while they take a 45 minute break so their computer can be fixed. It was a good source of income but it was fucking stupid and things like that happened so often. Women in the workplace was a mistake.
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I want that job
 
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0x0000C1A said:
The amount of folders with anime totalled over 600 or so, some had 400+ episodes in them.
I shudder to image how much it took to download it all on a ratshit 100mbps connection back then.
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Oh that's easy. Someone must had gotten a torrent client running all day and night, and considering that's in a university, 100mps was probably today's 5gps back in the day.

I can attest to this because some of our relatives who lived near a major state college let us sneak in and download a bunch of emulators and ROMs at the computer lab in like the early 2000s.
 
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MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
100mbps is ratshit to you?

How would you feel about a 2.5mbps connection?
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Yes

I would use it for a guide to tie a sailor noose to hang myself

Coolio55 said:
How much of it was good and how much of it was also porn?
The idea of a university knowingly running a massive porn server (Cos 6TB doesn't just go unnoticed) is very lol to me.
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It had hentai on it if I recall correctly. Can't exactly remember what kind it was.
 
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For anyone that has to do physical work, I think we can all agree that some (if not most) people live in their cubicles, which means going underneath them to re-wire/unhook stuff can sometimes be a disaster. Garbage and junk on the floor, dust all over the place, sometimes it stinks down there. I've seen pillows, shoes, papers all over the place that are at risk of a fire hazard near the wires/computer/powercords. Wires that have gotten sticky due to them spilling shit on them.

I've always been of the opinion that computer towers should be ontop of the desks and never below. Half the time the side where the vents are on the tower are always facing the wall, which could cause the tower to overheat, not to mention everyone is always kicking them and doing other stupid physical damage to them.
 
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SSF2T Old User said:
For anyone that has to do physical work, I think we can all agree that some (if not most) people live in their cubicles, which means going underneath them to re-wire/unhook stuff can sometimes be a disaster. Garbage and junk on the floor, dust all over the place, sometimes it stinks down there. I've seen pillows, shoes, papers all over the place that are at risk of a fire hazard near the wires/computer/powercords. Wires that have gotten sticky due to them spilling shit on them.

I've always been of the opinion that computer towers should be ontop of the desks and never below. Half the time the side where the vents are on the tower are always facing the wall, which could cause the tower to overheat, not to mention everyone is always kicking them and doing other stupid physical damage to them.
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It's catch 22ish. Places that have them above desk are generally employing smart enough people that aren't gonna do damage that makes you go :stress: but places where they will say "it's too ugly, 'keep the tower thingie below your desk'" are going to use the disk drive as a coffee mug holder, use the tower as a backstop for one of those mini-bike-pedal things, and store their blankets by the tower vents "to keep them warm".
 
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