IT Technician's Funniets Stories

[Sammajoor]

 

Samma... I've made allot of money off this one oke who regularly calls me in to come "clean" his computer from all the pr0n. He swears high and low that he has no idea how this "filth" gets onto his computer every time. But' date=' it must be removed before his female business partner sees it you understand. Ninja pr0n, appears out of nowhere. I just nod and smile and pocket the dosh.

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Still get a giggle when I think of all the excuses.  Mostly the children get blamed, but they are not allowed near the PC .. go figure.

 

And then when you get the call to drop everything, because all hell has broken loose.  Only to find out his "Art photos" of his wife is something he does not want to lose

 

[slowpoke]

(i also work at a bank...)

 

my father takes the cake though... many years ago, when win95 was still the thing, he adjusted his folder view to show hidden files "so that it would also show files he'd lost or deleted" and proceeded to "clean up" his machine... yes folk, he deleted all the system files as well because he "doesn't use them - he didn't create tehm, he doesn't know what they are so why does he need them?" needless to say his OS was upgraded and he was locked down after that until he moved to cape town. now he's the shop's problem. i am NOT flying to cape town to bail him out when his pc crashes "for no reason" after he "did nothing".

[cat-i]

i had a database faxed to me the other day.

 

 

[The Crazy German]

I used to be an IT support dood. i specialised in Exchange and SANs. Im still in IT but no longer push machine buttons. But I degress! If anyone asks what i do for a living i say - I work at the bank and thats the end of the discussion! In the past when you proudly declare you work in it they would start
1) I bought my kid the internet for christmas
2) I have a pentiun 2 with 32Meg memory blah blah blah..... to which I felt compelled to respond - And your point is?
3)I have the internet at home to which i felt the need to reply - damn thats one big house you got.
the list goes on.

Wise words' date=' from this day forth I work at the bank
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I used to do, don't they will all rant about bank costs huge profits you make with their money(actually most normal clients profits are low or neg)

 

And now they blame you for the crisis too. Its almost as bad as admitting to being a cop and getting a rant about stupid fines and catching real criminals

[mtbN00b]

 

i had a database faxed to me the other day.

 

 

LOL could you import the fax?

 

[Myra]

I'm not in IT but the guy in the office next to mine is in charge of the IT at our firm.  One day he got a new wireless mouse and the range was so strong it was interfering with the wireless mouse of the guy in the office next to mine on the other side.

The cursor on the second guy's screen would suddenly start moving on his screen, without him touching his mouse.  He couldn't understand it so he called the IT guy to help him.  Of course as soon as the IT guy stopped working on his computer with his mouse, the cursor on the second guy's screen stopped moving around by itself so it looked like the second guy was imagining things.

Took them a while to figure out what was going on.  We had quite a laugh.

Nothingness2009-08-16 06:47:42

[mtbN00b]

we had this guy that studied with us IT .... In our first year he proudly announced to all of us that he had hacked Microsoft... This story is now a legend at the campus - even students studied after us know the full story 

[calabash]

HAd a guy cut his mouse cable while opening the package. I drove out, knotted the cable and told him that if was fixed. He stated that he felt like such and idiot for not fixing it himself...

[calabash]

Here is a funny one:

http://www.deadtroll.com/index2.html

 

[Napalm]

I had a client, running a guesthouse. She was in her early 80's and not too clued up on the whole "internet" thing. After painfully drawing up diagrams to explain the whole process, she phoned and kakked me out from a dizying height because the internet isn't working.

 

"Well, after I got on the internet, I phoned Telkom to cancel the ADSL"

 

After going through the whole signup procedure again and waiting 6 weeks for a install, she promptly  did it 3 more times.

 

I referred her to someone else.

 

[markStockton]

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