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

[CHARizard]

My favorite was when a guy got fired he took a bunch of oreos and mashed them up using his laptop.

I just opened it up and wrote it off, it had been shipped across the country and he must have used an entire sleeve.

 

[Mealy Mouth Spittle]

Discovered that 2 employees (both married) were having an affair. They knew the company could have access to your email, so they thought they would be super smart and send all their sexy messages to each other via word documents they stored on the server to prevent getting caught. They never got rid of any of the messages, so everyone knew every steamy detail of the stuff they liked to do to one another. One of them had to get transferred out since dating within your team wasn't allowed. As far as I know, neither one got divorced.

 

[Coolio55]

Discovered that 2 employees (both married) were having an affair. They knew the company could have access to your email, so they thought they would be super smart and send all their sexy messages to each other via word documents they stored on the server to prevent getting caught. They never got rid of any of the messages, so everyone knew every steamy detail of the stuff they liked to do to one another. One of them had to get transferred out since dating within your team wasn't allowed. As far as I know, neither one got divorced.

Had a similar thing at a family member's job ...except they were pissing in the company lift.
They thought it was super hot for some reason.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Had a similar thing at a family member's job ...except they were pissing in the company lift.
They thought it was super hot for some reason.

One place had a unisex locker room, just lockers to hang your coat and change shoes, nothing more intimate than that. Something that repeatedly happened, over several years according to the people there, was that during a shift someone would sometimes sneak in there and drop a turd in the middle of the room. No one knows who it was and a shift was 12-14 seemingly normal people that all knew each other to some extent. Personally I suspect one of the ladies.

 

[seri0us]

Having to format their machine not only because malware they installed, but because various functions are broken. Tried making it clear beforehand what data I backed up, and that we would be starting from mostly scratch. After reinstall, "WHERE DID ALL MY ICONS GO!"

 

[eDove]

Having to format their machine not only because malware they installed, but because various functions are broken. Tried making it clear beforehand what data I backed up, and that we would be starting from mostly scratch. After reinstall, "WHERE DID ALL MY ICONS GO!"

This person was old, right? I hope they were old.

 

[rdrr]

One of my favorites was 20 years ago a woman wanted her cubicle, not even office PC, "Fixed". I have no idea what the issue was, but I saw the tech guy helping her with the computer. What drew my attention over to the cubicle was that she was sitting on her desk, legs up to her chest type of posture, right next to the computer monitor and keyboard. I walked by, and I am thinking that is what caught my eye and made me step into the cubicle to see what was going on. You could see up the woman's dress/skirt. She was fine too, not an old hag. Panty on display.

I was told later that was her way of saying, "Thank you for fixing my computer".

 

[seri0us]

This person was old, right? I hope they were old.

Yeah, about 85 years old.

 

[llllIllIllIIIIllI]

I'm a programmer now but when I used to do IT, I'd either have someone walk in with one of these or see it at a client's place. They always say the same shit, and always in a loop: "BUT THE CABLE EXISTS, SO IT HAS TO WORK!"

(Point them to websites showing thousands of one star reviews.)

"...BUT THE CABLE EXISTS, SO IT HAS TO WORK!!!!"

(Try to explain the difference between an adapter and a converter)

"... ... BUT THE CABLE EXISTS. SO IT HAS TO WORK!!!!!"

(Well, for fun, while THE CABLE EXISTS, how do you know the ends are fake and don't actually connect to each other inside it?)

"... ... ... BUT THE CABLE EXISTS SO IT HAS TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

This shit exists because some gay camera or equipment you don't have, already has the converter built inside it. They don't listen to that either. For the people who walked in, I'd get one at least once a month so I had to put up a sign. They actually listen to it when it's a sign.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

I'm a programmer now but when I used to do IT, I'd either have someone walk in with one of these or see it at a client's place. They always say the same shit, and always in a loop: "BUT THE CABLE EXISTS, SO IT HAS TO WORK!"

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(Point them to websites showing thousands of one star reviews.)

"...BUT THE CABLE EXISTS, SO IT HAS TO WORK!!!!"

(Try to explain the difference between an adapter and a converter)

"... ... BUT THE CABLE EXISTS. SO IT HAS TO WORK!!!!!"

(Well, for fun, while THE CABLE EXISTS, how do you know the ends are fake and don't actually connect to each other inside it?)

"... ... ... BUT THE CABLE EXISTS SO IT HAS TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

This shit exists because some gay camera or equipment you don't have, already has the converter built inside it. They don't listen to that either. For the people who walked in, I'd get one at least once a month so I had to put up a sign. They actually listen to it when it's a sign.

Had exactly the same thing, one of the women brought in VGA to HDMI convertor, she said it was "broken" because there was no sound. Went through that same conversational loop for about 20 minutes.

 

[Moths]

Had exactly the same thing, one of the women brought in VGA to HDMI convertor, she said it was "broken" because there was no sound. Went through that same conversational loop for about 20 minutes.

Its amazing how autistic people are when they come to you for help because theyre retarded but also wont accept any advice you try to give them because they're well... retarded

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Its amazing how autistic people are when they come to you for help because theyre retarded but also wont accept any advice you try to give them because they're well... retarded

Most people bullshit, bully and pull rank to get though life. Then they come up against a hard limit where those techniques absolutely don't work with technological facts and they deem the person telling them no is already beneath them (IT nerds). And here we are.

 

[56 others]

1. Hate latinas, always cunts to do IT for.

2. I did college IT for student personal laptops and Emeriti. Had a guy get catfished and blackmailed with pictures of him jacking off plastered all over the university's official facebook page.

3. I got fired for fucking with the clients, like not looking at them the entire time I helped them or putting on an extremely lispy gay voice. You can call me immature, and I was, but those nursing students were the dumbest fucks you could imagine. Also it was a shitty college job that paid nothing.

 

[spastic_bag]

Elderly client shares his screen during a meeting so he can discuss some specifications for a project. Has like 50 tabs open in his browser. Starts looking though them for Trello, opens Gmail, computer hitches, his inbox sticks around on-screen just long enough for us to spot his read newsletters from sex toy sites among unread work mails.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

1. Hate latinas, always cunts to do IT for.

You HAVE to be more specific with that, I've never met a latina that gave me a hard time doing IT work for them.

 

[Moths]

"Okay we've sent a reset code to your email if you can enter-"
"Im using a phone I cant use my browser and email at the same time"
*supressing inward agony*
And this person claims to run a business

 

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"Okay we've sent a reset code to your email if you can enter-"
"Im using a phone I cant use my browser and email at the same time"
*supressing inward agony*
And this person claims to run a business

What percentage of Android users know how that task-switching button on the bottom-left of their devices really works? I bet it's less than 50%, with most going 'home' and then opening another app.

 

[seri0us]

What percentage of Android users know how that task-switching button on the bottom-left of their devices really works? I bet it's less than 50%, with most going 'home' and then opening another app.

Phonefags aren't very smart.

 

[Wright]

What percentage of Android users know how that task-switching button on the bottom-left of their devices really works? I bet it's less than 50%, with most going 'home' and then opening another app.

It's crazy to know that there are people out there that're actually like that. The dedicated task-switching button is practically half the reason I use Android lol
(also only communists have that button on the left. As God intended, it should be back button left, home button middle, task-switcher right. Or maybe it's just because I'm left-handed.)

 

[Lemurakk]

It's crazy to know that there are people out there that're actually like that. The dedicated task-switching button is practically half the reason I use Android lol
(also only communists have that button on the left. As God intended, it should be back button left, home button middle, task-switcher right. Or maybe it's just because I'm left-handed.)

While the old three button layout is quite comfortable, i'm also left-handed and the new swipe the edge to go back and swipe the bar at the bottom for the task viewer has been a godsend, it just feels smoother and faster.

Also, to contribute with the thread, I gotta say that the most annoying people to do IT work for are definitely lawyers, who are programmed from birth to be retarded at tech and not make even the slightest effort to understand it. Fuckers can't even be bothered to properly learn basic work tools such as MS Word.