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Category Archives: Horror Stories
This…is awkward.
Keep in mind this is not my ticket, simply one I was forwarded and I am sharing it. Notes from a recently closed ticket at my company: Dear Jxxxx Sxxxxxx, We are pleased to inform you that your reported Incident as the contact person has been resolved. Reference No.: INC000000XXXXXX Summary: Cannot send faxes to [...]
But, did he get the glasses with it?
I just started a new job doing IT at a university. A faculty member needed a new monitor and my boss quoted him a nice ASUS 27″ monitor which cost around $280 or so. He re-opened the ticket after he got the monitor asking for someone to set up the monitor for him. Since I’m [...]
Spiceworks: Return of the cable closet contest!
(CONTEST LINK AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST) If you’re some sort of weirdo and enjoy pics of nasty network closets or maybe your thing is staring at super organized patch panels *sicko!* then I suggest you head on over to the Spiceworks Community and check out their latest contest… Here are the details as [...]
Problem with short CAT5? SOLVED
Scotch tape, even…WOW. via: [Source Unknown]
Trial by threat of fire
From the Daily WTF: For a Ramen-fueled college student, a job offer that actually involves doing the work you’re in school to learn and has a paycheck that can’t be beat vs. flipping burgers is a wonderful score. For Ted, that score came from a company run by alumni from his school that gave out [...]
Oldie: Best Buy sells fake iPad. “Whoops.”
This is a bit old, but still relevant – this is on the heels of our (near) customer fraud story from the other day…(thanks to an anonymous submitter for the idea – we will try to follow more of these)! I was going to assign equal parts of fail to both the customer as well [...]
DB_Admin != ‘efficient’
From the Daily WTF: After weeks, months, or even years of setting up and preparing to sell, it’s always exciting to get those few customers. Depending on the venture, it may not be worth popping open a bottle of Champagne, but no matter how small the sale, one can’t help but take a few moments [...]
Buy this guy a beer -or- How to anger a local “computer fixit” shop
(edited) – Rob I was at a restaurant, and while waiting for a table, I decided to check out the computer store located next to it. While in the store, I was messing around on an Acer Iconia 6120 (neat, but not very practical) demo unit, when a customer comes into the store and tells [...]
SELECT* from expletives WHERE soul_destroying = ‘true’
From the Daily WTF: Jeroen’s colleague had the misfortune of being assigned to debug an intermittent, unspecified error in the one of the oldest of the legacy applications. “The good news is that I’ve isolated it to a database query,” he told Jeroen, “the bad news is that I’ve isolated it to a database query.” [...]