Tech support consists of many things; it’s a range of services companies provide to their customers for products such as software, mobile phones, printers, and other electronic, mechanical, or electromechanical products. But I think that its biggest component is frustration; the soul-crushing feeling every IT person feels when they witness or, God forbid, have to clean up after our stupidity. I’m talking about desecrated HDMI ports, spaghetti cabling, laptops covered in concrete… or as the subreddit r/TechSupportGore calls it—content. This online community collects pics that will make us “cringe to the brink of passing out” and if it gets a point across it’s this: technical support services usually provide users with help in solving some common problems rather than providing training on how to use the product. We haven’t really learned after Bored Panda’s earlier articles on the subreddit here and here. The fails look just as bad!
#1 Look How They Murdered My Boy
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#2 The Computer Keeps Overheating
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#3 Yea, The Printer Will Not Print If You Leave The Plastic Packaging On The Paper!
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#4 First It Made Burning Smells, Then It Beeped, Then It Died. Colourful Ants!
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#5 Is This The Worst Spaghetti Cabling Ever?
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#6 Ps5 In For Hdmi Replacement. Kid Said “I Pushed The Cable In A Little Too Hard”
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#7 Unironically Canadian It Gore
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#8 Yes, That’s Concrete
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#9 I Found This While Scrolling Through My Camera Roll From 2018, Enjoy
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#10 That Is An Ant Inside The Screen!!!
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#11 Grossest Controller Of The Year Goes To
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#12 Just Had A Laptop Returned That Has A Used Bandaid As A Webcam Cover
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#13 Slpt: Laptop Charger Panini Press
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#14 Hot Glue Gun Ad On Facebook. Just Why
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#15 Forbidden Caprisun
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#16 Laptop Left Turned On In A School Bag Mixed With A Moldy Sandwich In The Same Compartment
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#17 The Forbidden Capri Sun
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#18 One Of Our Clients Couldn’t Figure Out Why His Wireless Keyboard And Mouse Weren’t Working
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#19 It Was A Technological Murder/Suicide Today. Crt TV Landed Directly Onto A Brand New Asus Chromebook
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#20 Hard Drive Data Recovery
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#21 “Why My Keyboard Doesn’t Work”
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#22 User Complains About Weird Smell While Using His Laptop
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#23 While Many Of Us Are In The Business Of Tech Support, Self Help Is Often Necessary
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#24 Ps4 Botched Repair Attempt. The Shop That Did This To The Client’s Unit, Charged Them $100! Should I Put Them On Blast?
Image source: SBL_Games_Inc
#25 Behold The Beauty Of Our Office Server
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#26 Free Laptop! Too Bad The Screen And Keyboard Are Ruined With The Spray Paint
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#27 Electrician Friend Just Sent Me This, Found During A Portable Appliance Test
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#28 Customer Came In With A 512gb Ssd In Their MacBook Pro That Only Had 77gb Of Their Own Data On It, Yet It Was Reading As Full Of “Other” Files. After Some Digging It Turns Out That Apple Mail & Gmail Were Writing A New Encyclopedia Britannica Behind The Scenes. That’s A Whole Lot Of Text
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#29 Really Great Laptop Performance With A Core I7
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#30 Lent It To A Friend…
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#31 Her: My MacBook Pro Is Running Hot. Inside The Fan: Ant Colony
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#32 Someone Tried To Print From USB
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#33 Got An Xbox 360 Controller In For Repair. Inside, I Found Multiple Dead Bugs And Everything Was Covered In A Fine, White Powder-Like Dust
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#34 Friends Computer Has Been Crashing For Like 3 Years
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#35 My New USB C Car Lighter
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#36 Why Do We Need To Hire It? Just Plug It All In
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#37 Stupidity Strikes Again. Now I’ve Got A ‘Curved’ Keyboard
Image source: Jan_Spontan
#38 How Do Things Like This Happen
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#39 Criminal Poe Adapter
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#40 Just Imagine The Smell
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#41 Saw The Other Post About Ethernet Rewiring And Reminded Me Of This. It Worked Fine For Almost A Week Until I Replaced It With A Proper Cable
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#42 Power Supply Didn’t Fit, I Guess This Works?
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#43 Previous Install Company Ran Cat5 Over The Main Junction Box, Decided To Shield The Cable With Aluminum Foil
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#44 How To Make Sure Ideas Hold Water
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#45 My Little Cousins First Build. I Told Him You Have The Wrong Ram. He Said “How You Know?”
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