How you look after your work tools can tell everyone a lot about you as a person, your character, and your values. In the Digital Age, that usually means your personal computer, laptop, or smartphone. The reality is that most people simply don’t take good enough care of their devices. And who’s left to pick up the pieces? Tech support workers!
Our team here at Bored Panda has collected the best posts of all time, as shared on the massively popular ‘Tech Support Gore’ subreddit. The online group is a niche for tech support workers to share the worst things they’ve ever seen on the job, and some of their experiences are truly mind-boggling. Scroll down to see what horrors they’ve had to face!
#1 Ticket Said “Camera Flickers To Fuzzy Brown Image Often”
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#2 4 Hrs Later
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#3 Ancient Temple Of Asus
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#4 Told A User To Shutdown Their Virus Infected Computer And Ship It Back And To Label It As Infected. They Did Good
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#5 End User Had A Heater Next To The PC Which Was Randomly Shutting Off And She Thought She Had Smelled Burning A Couple Of Times. It Is Literally Screaming
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#6 Quality Repost Here. (I Assume This Has Been Posted Before)
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#7 The Computer Keeps Overheating
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#8 First Day On Job; Set Up Those 4 Wireless Speakers For You
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#9 I Can’t Even
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#10 “The Printer Isn’t Working”
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#11 Look How They Murdered My Boy
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#12 Mouse
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#13 “My PC Shut Off Suddenly And Won’t Turn Back On”
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#14 So Mac Doesnt Support Windows But Atleast It Supports Doors
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#15 Hospital Server Room
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#16 Customer Describes A “Slight” Burning Smell
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#17 “My Fan Was Making Too Much Noise!”
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#18 I Should Tell Them It’s Not A Touch Screen
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#19 Is This The Worst Spaghetti Cabling Ever?
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#20 Forbidden Caprisun
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#21 One Of My Co-Workers Was Eager To Unpack Her New Mouse
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#22 This Key After 10 Years Of Entering Orders At My Grandmothers Shop
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#23 Apparently Someone Got Tired Of It Ringing, So The Put It In The Oven
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#24 I Need Somewhere To Set This Candle… Oh Here’s A Good Spot!
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#25 German T-Mobile Found 3 Snakes Inside Their Network Unit
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#26 When They Get Creative With The Only Working Audio Output They Have
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#27 I Found This While Scrolling Through My Camera Roll From 2018, Enjoy
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#28 I Said “Put It In Rice.” Not “Put Rice In It”
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#29 “My Space Heater Stopped Working”
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#30 Just Set It On Fire
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#31 Printer From Hell
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#32 Customer States “Our Intercom At The Gate Doesn’t Work” Meanwhile In The Connections Box
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#33 User Spilt Coffee On His Laptop – So He Put It In The Oven To Dry It Out
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#34 “There’s Something Wrong With The Printer In The Lab…”
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#35 Slpt: Laptop Charger Panini Press
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#36 Improvised Way To Supply Power
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#37 Pretty
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#38 This Must Be The Work Of A Madman
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#39 Dont Use Lemonade To Clean Your Mouse. I Thought The Acidity Would Clean Off The Buildup Of Crumbs And Cheeto Grease But It Just Attracted These Ants. I Left Home For 2 Days, Just To See This On My Desk
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#40 Ps5 In For Hdmi Replacement. Kid Said “I Pushed The Cable In A Little Too Hard”
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#41 Wondering The Story Behind This
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#42 I Think My Psu Has Some Kind Of Error
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#43 Broken Clip? No Problem!
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#44 “You Can Fix Your Sisters Phone Right? It Gets Hot Sometimes And Turns Itself Off A Lot”. “What’s That Smell?” Battery Acid. Literally Battery Acid
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#45 User Calls About Disc Being Stuck In Another Computer, Mentions Off Hand About This Laptop. They Had Been Using And Charging It Like This For Weeks
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#46 Go Check The Switch Closet. We Think Something Might Have Gotten Unplugged Somewhere
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#47 Customer Brought In This Imac For Not Powering On… This Is How He Apparently Uses It
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#48 The Nastiest Mouse I Have Ever Seen In The Field. Make No Mistake, That Is Not Dust. That Is…uh…hand-Grease
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#49 No Charger? No Problem!
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#50 “Can You Recover The Data?”
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