Category Archives: From The Field

Submissions from our fearless field technicians distributed throughout the world. We are here for you.

Obvious user is obvious

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I was working in Optical store chain **redacted** head office … in Cumbernauld, Scotland. I forget the woman’s name but she was an area manager I believe, quite high up.  I have no shame in revealing all these details This woman was a bit up herself, and wanted a new laptop…nothing wrong with the one [...]

8.5″ x Knife

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I am a student working for the IT department of the college I attend. My main job is dealing with dorm students (fixing their internet problems in the dorms i.e. plugging the ethernet cord in the correct jack) but I also deal with the faculty and staff on campus. There is one women on the [...]

Mouse Balls

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I’m a secretary who does a lot of IT work for the old folks in the church I work for. This is mostly just basic questions from the occassional person, like how to create labels or change something in a document, but I have two people who are constantly asking for help. One is a [...]

Good for Mahjong…

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A while back, my Grandad(RIP) called me with the following conversation: GRANDAD: “Would you like a laptop?” ME: “…Yes?” GD: “It’s a little old, but you can play Mahjong on it…” ME: (Thinking I could run it as a server) “Okay…” GD: “Great! I’ll bring it round for you” What he brought round was this: [...]