Tech support consists of many things; it's a range of services companies provide to their customers for products such as software, mobile phones, printers, and other electronic, mechanical, or electromechanical products. But I think that its biggest component is frustration; the soul-crushing feeling every IT person feels when they witness or, God forbid, have to clean up after our stupidity. I'm talking about desecrated HDMI ports, spaghetti cabling, laptops covered in concrete... or as the subreddit r/TechSupportGore calls it—content. This online community collects pics that will make us "cringe to the brink of passing out" and if it gets a point across it's this: technical support services usually provide users with help in solving some common problems rather than providing training on how to use the product. We haven't really learned after Bored Panda's earlier articles on the subreddit here and here. The fails look just as bad!
#1 Yes, That's Concrete
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#2 "Why My Keyboard Doesn't Work"
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#3 While Many Of Us Are In The Business Of Tech Support, Self Help Is Often Necessary
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#4 I Found This While Scrolling Through My Camera Roll From 2018, Enjoy
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#5 Grossest Controller Of The Year Goes To
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#6 Ps5 In For Hdmi Replacement. Kid Said “I Pushed The Cable In A Little Too Hard”
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#7 Saw The Other Post About Ethernet Rewiring And Reminded Me Of This. It Worked Fine For Almost A Week Until I Replaced It With A Proper Cable
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#8 How To Make Sure Ideas Hold Water
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#9 Stupidity Strikes Again. Now I've Got A 'Curved' Keyboard
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#10 Power Supply Didn’t Fit, I Guess This Works?
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#11 That Is An Ant Inside The Screen!!!
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#12 Hot Glue Gun Ad On Facebook. Just Why
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#13 Criminal Poe Adapter
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#14 Friends Computer Has Been Crashing For Like 3 Years.
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#15 Yea, The Printer Will Not Print If You Leave The Plastic Packaging On The Paper!
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#16 First It Made Burning Smells, Then It Beeped, Then It Died. Colourful Ants!
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#17 The Forbidden Capri Sun
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#18 Lent It To A Friend...
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#19 Is This The Worst Spaghetti Cabling Ever?
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#20 Slpt: Laptop Charger Panini Press.
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#21 Laptop Left Turned On In A School Bag Mixed With A Moldy Sandwich In The Same Compartment
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#22 User Complains About Weird Smell While Using His Laptop
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#23 Just Imagine The Smell
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#24 My Little Cousins First Build. I Told Him You Have The Wrong Ram. He Said "How You Know?"
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#25 One Of Our Clients Couldn't Figure Out Why His Wireless Keyboard And Mouse Weren't Working
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#26 “Hey, Grab Those Couple Of Pcs In Storage Down On Lower Level, I Need One.” Here You Go Boss, I Fetched A PC For You.
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#27 Shoutout To The Cell Phone Repair Shop That “Worked” On This Xbox Series X Before It Came To Me.
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#28 Free Laptop! Too Bad The Screen And Keyboard Are Ruined With The Spray Paint.
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#29 The Computer Keeps Overheating.
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#30 Behold The Beauty Of Our Office Server
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#31 It Was A Technological Murder/Suicide Today. Crt TV Landed Directly Onto A Brand New Asus Chromebook.
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#32 Ps4 Botched Repair Attempt. The Shop That Did This To The Client's Unit, Charged Them $100! Should I Put Them On Blast?
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#33 Just Had A Laptop Returned That Has A Used Bandaid As A Webcam Cover
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#34 This Fella Got A Black Eye.
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#35 Electrician Friend Just Sent Me This, Found During A Portable Appliance Test
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#36 Look How They Murdered My Boy
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#37 How Do Things Like This Happen
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#38 Really Great Laptop Performance With A Core I7...
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#39 Previous Install Company Ran Cat5 Over The Main Junction Box, Decided To Shield The Cable With Aluminum Foil.
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#40 Got An Xbox 360 Controller In For Repair. Inside, I Found Multiple Dead Bugs And Everything Was Covered In A Fine, White Powder-Like Dust.
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#41 Unrequested Lithium Surplus
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#42 I Was Wondering Why It's Only 100mbps...
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#43 Why Do We Need To Hire It? Just Plug It All In.
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#44 Stopped By A Local Sports Bar To Pick Up Dinner, This Is How They Do Online Orders Through Several Providers
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#45 Someone Tried To Print From USB...
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#46 Unironically Canadian It Gore
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#47 "Ticket: Student Destroyed Laptop"
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#48 I Said To Delete The Data Not Destroy 4 Sas Disks
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#49 Hard Drive Data Recovery
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#50 Hey Isp You Always Drop Out At Lunch Time, But Only On WiFi!
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#51 Next Level
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#52 Customer Came In With A 512gb Ssd In Their MacBook Pro That Only Had 77gb Of Their Own Data On It, Yet It Was Reading As Full Of "Other" Files. After Some Digging It Turns Out That Apple Mail & Gmail Were Writing A New Encyclopedia Britannica Behind The Scenes. That's A Whole Lot Of Text.
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#53 I’m Not Sure They Put Enough Thermal Paste On Here.
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#54 iPad Meet Couch
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#55 Returned Airpod Pros To An Apple Disposal Centre In Shenzhen.
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#56 Cable Labeling At My Friend's House Is Far From Helpful...
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#57 Sandwich Telecom At Its Finest (Pic Token In France)
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#58 Remember To Unlock Your Pcie Lock Before Removing The Gpu
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#59 This Is A Nice Repair Job I Could Say..
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#60 My Work (Industrial) Had Me Burn Up Some Hard Drives At 1750 Degrees In A Carbon Filled Retort. This Is The Result.
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#61 This Is What Happens When The Tech Before You Puts A PC Right Next To A Cnc In A Cabinet Shop.... Still Working
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#62 Power Button Broke And Didn't Have A Replacement Lying Around… There Was, However, A Broken Coat Hanger.
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#63 My New USB C Car Lighter
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#64 Her: My MacBook Pro Is Running Hot. Inside The Fan: Ant Colony
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#65 Removing Ram Heatsink, What Could Go Wrong....
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#66 "User Dropped The Laptop. Please Give Us A Quote"
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#67 "I Cleaned The Power Switch But It Still Won't Turn On".
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#68 Client Was Wondering Why His PC Didn’t Work After Installing A New Gpu
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#69 Forbidden Caprisun
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#70 Happy Monday, Plumbers Were Flushing The Lines Upstairs And A Couple Gallons Came Through The Ceiling. (The Leak Was Like 10ft From The Server Room)
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#71 Gtx 1080 Gave Out At The Worst Time Possible. Rest In Peace Buddy
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#72 Need Onsite Support
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#73 This 'Repair' Job... Yikes.
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#74 Ohhhh Yes The Server
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#75 Shore Power Cable After ~8 Years Exposure To Salty Air And Moisture
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#76 Guess I Need A New Battery?
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#77 My Gtx 970 Decided To Get Lit
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#78 Nightmare Server Dungeon At My Job
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#79 " It Would Not Enter Into The Hdmi, So I Thought It Needed A Bit Of A Push..." A Pair Of Pliers And 2 Minter Later...
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#80 I Work As An It Analyst From Home. My Assistant (Two-Year-Old) Pre-Installed This Printers Crackers For Me. He's Great!
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#81 Spicey Pillow
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#82 Had An Arguement With My Dimm. I Won.
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#83 Customer States Their MacBook No Longer Turns On After Updating To Big Sur..
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#84 This Physically Hurt My Brain
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#85 The Guy Who Built This Told The Customer The Water Cooling Was Zero Maintenance.... He Didn't Do A Good Job In The First Place
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#86 Removing Ram Heatsink, Be Sure To Get All That Ram
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#87 Something Has Awoken
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#88 Maintenance: "The New Desk Arrived And I Organized The Computers For You" Geez... Thanks.
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#89 Checked In A MacBook Hair At Work Today
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#90 Easy Fix
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#91 When You Didn’t Bring Wire With You....
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#92 Curved Lines Render Great!!
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#93 Decapitated Airpod 1st And 2nd Generations.
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#94 Apparently, This Particular Philippine Brand Of Power Strip With A Laminated Metal Casing Uses Stripped Wires In Between Outlets.
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#95 Previous Install Company Ran Cat5 Over The Main Junction Box, Decided To Shield The Cable With Aluminum Foil.
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#96 Don’t Smoke Around Your PC Kids!
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#97 "I Cleaned The Power Switch But It Still Won't Turn On"
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#98 Gpu Woes Pt.2 - The Fan Of My Gtx 650ti Melted After A Gta V Session. R.i.p
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#99 It Turns Out The Ssd In A Microsoft Surface Is Removable After All!
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