Tech / helpdesk comedy thread

Somewhat related but we had to go to a mental hospital to fix a TV.

Anyway, the staff were worried about patients stealing our tools and using them as weapons so the first visit was purely a visual inspection.

So we walk in and see a chair leg that had been thrown through the centre of the CRT.

It made me laugh :o
 
On delivering a new Pc to a customer, he wasn't happy... Quite angry actually. He complained when he was on ebay, the screen wouldn't change when hitting refresh..

Transpires that his outgoing PC was so slow that the screen would scroll though and the new PC was significantly quicker thus refrshed quicker than the eye could see.

I dread the day when I'm old and stupid..... Hang on.. :p
 
Ever seen what happens when you try to jam DDR memory into a DDR2 slot (might have been the other way around actually, can't remember exactly) and succeed? Amazingly, despite the orange glow and the acrid smoke the motherboard still worked afterwards.

Edit: I should add that the person who did it is technically adept and must have just been suffering a short-circuit in their brain similar to the one they caused in the memory slot.
 
People seem to get us confused with reprographics an awful lot and come up here for stationery and whatever else they want.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Yesterday we had 2 seperate occasions where people came in and asked if we had bin bags...
It could be that our department is just in the wrong, but I wasn't sure that bin bags were an IT related item?
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Because IT Support are basically just Facilities?
 
I did start making a word document of all the idiots, but I just got so many idiotic questions that I gave up. This one is good, and from a real email:

[FONT=&quot]Dear sirs,[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot] I have already registred today as ******* and I was given a pass word but I still face a problem to log in. I may forget the month of my birth which was written in the application. So please send me the information needed.[/FONT]
 
My only pet peve is when the helpdesk blindly assigns the following ticket to us

Because we have Oracle in our queue name. We get all Oracle related tickets when the Help desk does not know where to correctly assign the ticket. I guess they hope we can help.

When I tell them its nothing to do with us they tend to try to convince me that I am wrong... Sorry been supporting the same Databases for the last 8 years, I know whats within my Remit and whats not.
Part of the Help Desk's responsibility is to know which support teams support which projects.

I'd probably be less annoyed by it if it wasn't for the fact the same ticket will come to us multiple times, also the way I was trained, its bad manners to put a ticket in another teams queue without notifying them first.
 
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