There are solid reasons why a subreddit like Tech Support Gore exists. You see, as little documented as it may be, people living in the golden age of technology are no strangers to occasional, or rather pretty frequent mishaps.
And when we talk about mishaps, we're talking about real stuff, like fry-ups, grease and nests. It sounds like something from Gordon Ramsay’s show Hell’s Kitchen, but it’s not. Burning plastic, cable nests and hand grease are all the tip of the iceberg of things technicians see and have to find ways to fix on a daily basis.
So today, we are about to dive into the collection of the worst cases these blessed workers have seen while on duty. From straight-up embarrassing to plain weird, thumbs up are simply not enough to give to tech support. Psst! More of the crazy tech fails people brought in can be found in our previous posts here and here.
#1 Internet Is Temporarily Unavailable
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#2 Merry Christmas
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#3 My Client Says He Doesn't Know Why His PC Isn't Turning On Anymore...
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#4 The Bad Part About Giving Tech Support To Your Local Food Place Is Seeing This And Knowing You Shouldn't Eat There Any More
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#5 Marriott Hotel Network Closet - Where Past Problems Meet The Present
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#6 Thinkpad Overheating For Some Reason
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#7 So Yesterday My Hamster Escaped From His Cage And Somehow Ended Up Inside My Computer. My PC No Longer Works...
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#8 My Friend Told Me She Broke Her Phone And Sent Me This
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#9 Boom
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#10 When I Was Younger, I Tried To Dry My Laptop Keyboard By Putting It In The Oven On Low
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#11 This Mac Book Cable Being Used By A Staff Member At Work
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#12 Anyone Wanna Guess What Happened To The Server?
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#13 Ouch
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#14 Lol "Gold Plated" My Ass. (Gold Doesn't Rust) ?
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#15 Customer States "Our Intercom At The Gate Doesn't Work" Meanwhile In The Connections Box
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#16 This Beauty Of A Touchpad I Found At The Thrift…
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#17 How Do You Even Wear Dimples Into A Keyboard Less Than A Year Old? Is This The Keyboard Of A 50000 Wpm Typer?
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#18 It Just Bothers Me
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#19 My Mum Is Using Her Laptop In The Rain On The Beach
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#20 Bought A Vic 20. Came With A Rad Wasp Nest. I Reckon This Is Fine
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#21 I Don't Think The Problem Is With The Modem This Time...
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#22 What Mandatory Sanitizing At Work Did To My Brand New $2,000 Laptop Last Winter
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#23 Crunchy And Fibre Rich
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#24 Just Discovered This Sub - (About A Year Ago) A Customer Asked Me If I Could Recover Anything. He Bent It Across His Knee In A Drunken Rage One Night. Hdd Was Miraculously Undamaged And I Was Able To Do A Full Recovery!
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#25 The Server / WiFi Setup Where I Work. (The Tupperware Is To Catch The Water From The Leaky Aircon)
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#26 This How-To Video
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#27 Even When Booting, iPhone 11 Displays Other Images
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#28 “The Ports Stopped Working!” “Which Ones?” “All Of Them!”
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#29 Client Told That Old Owner Would Leave All Network Infrastructure. Thank You
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#30 Spaghetti On A Drill
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#31 People Are Often Shocked When They Found Out I'm Such A Bad Electrician (Not My Pic)
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#32 New Girl At My Job Tried To Find Out The WiFi Password To Connect Her iPhone And Watch Tiktok During Breaks, Bent The Router Hook While Trying To Take It Off The Wall Brutally, That Metal Hook Got Stuck And Short Circuited The Router From Inside. People Are Dumber Than Donkeys
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#33 My Eyes It Burns!
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#34 Pro Tip: Dont Store PC Stuff Near Paint When Moving Into A New House
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#35 I'm Gonna Start A Collection
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#36 Can You Make A Network Map For Us?
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#37 Oh No!
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#38 What Do You Think It Looks Like Inside?
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#39 The New Bookmac Amateur
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#40 New Form Factor
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#41 When You're Given 4 Business Hours Notice To Have 7 Workstations Available For A Training Class:
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#42 Got A Ticket About A Computer That Wouldn't Boot. Found This Plugged In
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#43 "Screw In With Confidence"
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#44 Laptop Of A Guy I Sat Next To At Uni. It Still Works For Some Reason
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#45 My Local Government Office’s Server
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#46 Do I Belong Here?
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#47 Black Friday Came A Bit Early
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#48 The Aftermath Of A High Speed Rear End Collision With The Laptop In The Trunk
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#49 My Brother-In-Law Bought A Cheap 2tb Ssd, But He Said It Was Slow And Not Working Properly, So He Wanted Me To Check It Out And… Nice
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#50 Sorry Guys, My Bad, Next Time I'll Be More Careful Transporting The Instagram And Whatsapp Servers
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#51 Friend Did This
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#52 Ahhh
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#53 Just Turn It Off And On Again. Should Work
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#54 My Fan Was Vibrating And Making Loud Noises. Decided To Cut Around The Fan. It Now Passes The Diagnostic Test
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#55 Omg
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#56 "No, I Haven't Spilled Any Liquids Near The Computer. Why Do You Ask?"
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#57 What A Day To Have Eyes
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#58 $1.90 In Change Removed From An Imac Optical Drive. Oh Yeah, Also A Chuck-E-Cheese Token.
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#59 We've Gone Too Far!
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#60 Apparently This Is A Customer Server Power Supply
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#61 Second Hand Router I Bought Ran Too Hot. A 7-Up Can, Tape, And Toothpaste Solved The Issue
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#62 "I Am Not Satisfied With The Product."
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#63 Oh God Whyyyy
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#64 "I Didn't Touch A Thing. I Just Walked In And It Was Like This" - Any Manager, Any Given Day...
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#65 Pain
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#66 My Boss Thinks He's Funny
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#67 Found Outside My Office
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#68 How?
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#69 A Burning Laptop
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#70 Touchpad Ready For Lift Off In …
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#71 My Chromecast Isn't Having A Good Time
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#72 Customer Stated "Minor Damage" On Intake Form, The Techs Think Otherwise
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#73 Bomb Defused - Counter-Terrorist Wins
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#74 We Shipped This Machine Brand New To Our Client Two Months Ago. This Weekend He Sent It Back To Rma, Wouldn't Turn On. Client Said That He Had Another Tech Shop Take A Look At It B4 Sending To Us
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#75 Customer Wasn’t Sure Why New Build Was Idling At 80c
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#76 Customer States She Could Not Copy Files On This 60$ 2tb Ssd From Amazon
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#77 A Friend Hired An Electrician To Run Ethernet Drops In His House
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#78 Client's Face Turned Beet Red When I Asked If It Was Him Or His Son That Put On The Thermal Paste
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#79 I Tried To Unplug My Monitor And The Entire Socket Thingy Came Out
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#80 Got Called In This Morning
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#81 What Do You Mean You've Converted You're Data Line To A Clothes Line?
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#82 Just Got This Computer In At Work. Looks Like Someone Spilt Hot Chocolate And Just Continued To Use The Computer For Months
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#83 10900k Keychain
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#84 My Friend Said That He Don't Know Why His Card Is Running Hot
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#85 An Expensive And Insulting Soccer Ball
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#86 What Do You Mean You've Converted You're Data Line To A Clothes Line?
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#87 Sold My Friend My Old Parts. Clearly This Was A Mistake. He Says It’s Currently Running A Minecraft Server As Well As A Whole Bunch Of Docker Containers. I Just Realized I Sold My Old Favorite Horse To The Glue Factory.
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#88 This Is How Dell Is Cooling A 1000+$ Cpu
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#89 I'm Sure They'll Be Calling Tech Support Soon
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#90 Stripped Screw. Last Ditch Effort With Jb Weld. Will Try It Again Tomorrow, Wish Me Luck! Will Update If It Ends A Disaster
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#91 Client Reports Spotty Internet In Engineering Office
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#92 We Found The Heat Problem For The Client
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#93 Built In Io Sheild
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#94 I Feel Like This Should've Worked
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#95 Only "Slight" Water Damange
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#96 ”stuck During Sorting, You Guys Can File A Freight Claim Online”
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#97 Recently Moved. Wondered Why The Network Sockets Did Not Work And Borrowed The Tester From Work...
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#98 It's Hard To See But There Is A Cut That Goes Through The Bezel At The Top. In Addition To Destroying The Screen, This Student Cut Through The Chromebook! They Ran Their Face Mask's Elastic String Back And Forth Creating Friction To Cut It.
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#99 Just Received This From Ebay... From Another Country
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#100 D-Did You See The Ghost? It Ran Through Here And Slimed Me!
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#101 Platform From 2011 And Cpu Still Works After 0 Contact For All These Years
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#102 Blackberry Graveyard!
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#103 You Can Disconnect Neighbour's TV
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#104 Gtx 470
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#105 This Is How The Office Christmas Tree Was Plugged In…
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#106 This Unmonitored Computer At Sox-35th Which Seems To Have Full Access To Every Switch Along The Red Line On The L. A Single Lock-Pick Could Bring Chicago To It's Knees
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#107 A Backhoe And Bunch Of Optical Cables, Wcgw?
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#108 "My Hard Drive Died And I Tried To Fix It But Got Stuck. Can You Recover The Data For Me?"
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#109 Saw This Full Page Marketing Ad For Finding Jobs
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#110 Why In My Opinion, It Guys Deserve Hazard Money...
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#111 Someone Installed This Fuse On +12v In Parallel
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#112 Gigabit Internet Connection In An Apartment Complex
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#113 Wcgw Putting Your Phone In The Microwave To Dry Off
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#114 Found An Old Server Where My Father Works. I Wanted To Keep The Cpus Before They Threw Them Away And I Saw That They Left The Plastic Film On The Heatsinks. These Worked For A Decade Like This.
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#115 The New Eu Standard Powerplug Has Arrived!
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#116 Always Use A Firewall Kids
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