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From The Field

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

Power over Ethernet, literally

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In a desperate rush to leave the office and get to the canteen for our regular "Fish'n'Chip Friday", our Assistant Network Manager may have...

Le facepalm or “lost in translation”

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This might be better than my "Where's the enter key?" story.   I got this email from one of our engineers.  Attached was a .rar file. "I...

You’re a dip sh*t

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I was on Support Chat tonight with HP to get a replacement AC Adapter and at the end of the chat I noticed the...

Tesla Printing

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So I was the network admin for a mining company, and we had just opened another office about 45 minutes drive from the office...

This mouse ran out of gas…

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I just had a user come to me with their WIRELESS mouse in their hand and say the following: "My mouse isn't working." Me: Have you...

From the drawers of the Faildesk: March 22 Edition

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F- certified Many years ago I use to go to the local pc shop weekly buying lots of hardware upgrades for gaming anyway I knew...

Shut Them All Down! [pic]

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In the process of troubleshooting an issue Windows Explorer stopped responding. Tried to run the shutdown command from the taskbar and it ended in...

Fixed It [story]

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SUPERVISOR: One of my employees told me she was having a problem with some of her equipment.  She talked to you about this? ME: Yes,...

“There’s A Hacker In The Parking Lot, Go Find Him” [story]

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I'm a know-nothing-fresh out of college kid in his first week at an actual IT job. Immediately we have a security issue. My boss...

Do You Have Any Mouse Balls? [story]

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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...