Power over Ethernet, literally
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”
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
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
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…
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
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]
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]
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]
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]
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...
