Life IT work IT types have been sharing their wildest tales of people’s hilarious and infuriating tech fails – 13 tales definitely worth downloading Poke Reporter . Updated June 21st, 2024 Share Tweet What is it about proximity to computers – especially at work – that reduces the smartest of people to blithering idiots? Those best placed to answer that question are the IT team in any given office. So when Redditor vapor-ware asked the following questions .
.. People who work in IT, what’s the wildest thing you’ve discovered/had to do while at work? .
.. there were some proper gems in these responses.
These 10 technology tales are our very favourites. 1. “Back when I first started ages ago, a woman called in and said ‘my mouse isn’t working!’ I asked her if it was wired or wireless.
‘I don’t know! Why would I know that?’ ‘What do you mean? Is it wired or not? Is there a wire on it?’ ‘I said I don’t know! This isn’t my job to know it’s yours!’ “So I asked her if she picked it up and walked away, how far would she get. “I was the one that got in trouble.” -KhaosElement 2.
“Drive to an office for emergency oncall service charging the client $400+ dollars an hour to plug the power back into a switch which their cleaning staff had knocked loose.” -t0getheralone 3. “Got called to investigate unplug a laptop that had viruses detected on it.
When I arrived, this laptop was in the open with the login information taped to the desk. This .
