40 Of The Funniest Computer Fails Tech Support Have Dealt With
Some people have a knack for understanding computers and new technologies, while others struggle more than most. The inner workings of a computer may seem complicated, especially considering how prevalent they are in modern society. When everything works fine, there are no issues, but the steps people take to troubleshoot an IT-related problem can leave tech support facepalming themselves in frustration. The sheer level of computer illiteracy these workers have to face on the job is embarrassing, to say the least, but it’s also quite entertaining. So go ahead and scroll below to check out a gallery of the funniest posts found on the “Tech Support Gore” subreddit .
#1 Ticket: “The Switch Is Noisy And Reboots All The Time, Cannot Diagnose.”
#2 Its Still Running!!
#3 Nothing Like A Little Game Of Chicken When You Need To Plug In Your Ethernet Cable
#4 Queens, NY Is Not Somewhere I’d Like To Be A Phone Tech
#5 High School Chromebook
HF : they must have googled “askew”
#6 The Network Is Down
#7 Grandma-Proofed Remotes
#8 I Think It Needs A Little Bit More Solder
Sparky4 : “The bigger the blob, the better the job.”
#9 I Found This Spicy Pillow At A Vet Clinic. Surface Pro 4, About 7 Years Old
#10 Found On Facebook
#11 The Coax Cable Is Broken? No Problem My Dear, Just Raise The Router With Lunchboxes And Use A Needle (It Actually Works!)
#12 I Was On Vacation And The Restaurant Was Complaining Why Their Wi-Fi Wasn’t Working. I Wonder Why
#13 Ticket Says “I Think The Projector Just Had A Heart Attack”
#14 My Friend Wanted To See The Inside Of His Phone
#15 Disk Drive
#16 Dell Engineer “Fixed” My Desktop
#17 “Why Won’t My WiFi Work?”
#18 Friend Asked If I Can Recover Her Photos
#19 I Was Wondering Why My Internet Was So Slow. Now I’m Wondering Why It Worked At All
#20 I Had To Install A Gpu From 2012 In A 2018 Cyberpower PC And I Lost Screws So I Had To Improvise
#21 Yes, That Is Fiber. Yes, They’re “Finished”
#22 The Most Disgusting Still-In-Use Charger I’ve Ever Seen
#23 Celebrate 25 Years With An Imac Graveyard
#24 Cheap Solar Powered Portable Charger Took In A Little To Much Sun Light
#25 When You Aren’t Confident Enough To Do A Bga Soldering
#26 “I Need The Data Recovered From This! Cost Is No Issue!”
#27 This Was Brought To Us With The Words “This One Broke, We Need A New One.”
#28 Mac Bench
#29 Colleague Came Down To It Complaining Their Company Phone Wasn’t Charging Fast Enough
#30 I Got A Gpu On Ebay From St. Petersburg, Russia Before The War Started And It Obviously Was Harvested From A Highly Secure (Ts?) Workstation
#31 Can’t Tell If The Kids Wanted To Watch Dora Or Play Dark Souls
#32 Rate My Nas
#33 Costumer Came In Today Almost In Tears Asking Us If We Can Recover Her 5+years Of Work Data
#34 User States “PC Runs Like Crap”
#35 User Left Their MacBook In The Fridge Overnight Because It Was Overheating
#36 No Better Way To Do This
#37 Me: “Has Your Phone Had Any Contact With Water?” Customer: “Not That I Know Of…”
#38 Is This An Acceptable Bend Radius?
#39 Spicy Pillow Becomes A Hot Pocket. Causes Evacuation
#40 I Thought I Had Seen It All
Shanilou Perera
Shanilou has always loved reading and learning about the world we live in. While she enjoys fictional books and stories just as much, since childhood she was especially fascinated by encyclopaedias and strangely enough, self-help books. As a kid, she spent most of her time consuming as much knowledge as she could get her hands on and could always be found at the library. Now, she still enjoys finding out about all the amazing things that surround us in our day-to-day lives and is blessed to be able to write about them to share with the whole world as a profession.
