Weird and Cringe things you've seen while working in IT - Since everyone is too lazy to make such a thread where IT bros can vent

[Samuel Fuller]

Can't change my mind that something like MX Blue's belong no where near an office environment. It's rage inducing being near someone with one when trying to do focus work. The rest of the mech key options remain on the table though

I work with an autist who has a mechanical keyboard with Blue switches, and he beats that thing like he's trying to kill it, and he constantly launches into screaming rants about anything that doesn't work EXACTLY the way he wishes it would. He's also a Linux zealot working in Windows support, so those rants are fucking constant.

If it weren't for the fact I can work from home, I'd probably have killed him by now!

 

[FiveStarAce]

Not "working" IT, however... when i studied informatics and the pandemic hit, we switched to Zoom meeting and when i saw that over half of the room were Loli-Avatars i noped the fuck out and learned carpentry. Godspeed, cable monkeys!

 

[3D2A]

and when i saw that over half of the room were Loli-Avatars

Speaking of cringe, also want to call out how cringe it is when I see people have their Workday/Slack PFP as anything but a selfie or headshot of themselves. I work with a bunch of retards who have shit like Pikachu, some anime garbage, and more degenerative stuff as their professional work PFP.

 

[The_Red_Man]

Worked phone support for a major ISP and supported all lines of business. Old people and schizos were always entertaining.

>"My TV is broken and I'm not good with this, I need a technician"

Ok if you turn your TV on, what do you see?

>"IT JUST SAYS HOMIE ONE. SEND ME A TECHNICIAN IVE BEEN DEALING WITH THIS FOR DAYS"

Homie one? Can you spell that?

>" H, O, M, I, AND THE NUMBER ONE."

Please press the power button on the cable box.

>"THAT WORKED, THANK YOU YOU ARE A GENIUS."

 

[Mamimi]

We found a dead rat entombed in a CPU tower.

 

[Based Yuu Narukami]

Not me but one of my best friends works in IT, recently his company decided to outsource their night work to who else but the Jeets in India(according to him they think it’s “cheaper”). Well, lo and behold a few weeks later they were doing so shit at their job and were physically incapable of learning the simple tasks they had to do that the higher ups almost immediately cut half of them because they were costing more than they were worth and damaging the company’s reputation. Never hire street shitters, never outsource to a group whose collective IQ is mid 70s at best. I wonder if these retarded CEOs and board members will ever learn that.

 

[The Cringe Connoisseur]

I'm just cutting to the chase and asking how many people posted furry related answers because I don't feel like looking lol.

 

[Big Nasty]

Speaking of cringe, also want to call out how cringe it is when I see people have their Workday/Slack PFP as anything but a selfie or headshot of themselves. I work with a bunch of retards who have shit like Pikachu, some anime garbage, and more degenerative stuff as their professional work PFP.

At my former job I used a Spurdo PFP for Slack and the IT guy praised me for it.

 

[Susanna]

Can't change my mind that something like MX Blue's belong no where near an office environment. It's rage inducing being near someone with one when trying to do focus work. The rest of the mech key options remain on the table though

Oh, the Model M is significantly noisier (and better feeling) than the MX Blue.
If I were sitting in an open office I'd agree that a clicky keyboard would be pretty annoying, but I'm in my own office and I almost always keep the door closed (it's a glass door, if someone wants to come in they know to just come in). When I first brought the keyboard in I had a colleague stand outside while I typed a bit just to see if he'd hear it, and he couldn't hear any of it over the ambient noise of people walking around and chatting.

 

[3D2A]

Oh, the Model M is significantly noisier (and better feeling) than the MX Blue.

Long live the master race Model M


Here's another story from my time in IT that makes me cringe to this day...

I worked a job at a tech refurbishing/second hand company. This company would buy off-lease equipment from major corporations, refurbish, and sell them. These corp's wouldn't (or didn't used to, not sure now) buy brand new machines for their employee's, instead they would simply lease them from the OEM for 3ish years then return them and get new leased equipment. We'd take them, clean them up, install a HDD and OS, and ship them out to smaller companies.

So my company bought about 500 Dell Optiplex 780 machines from Citadel (the Ken Griffin company). But because these machines were used in finance, the IT guys in Citadel had to be super secure about their hardware. So they quite literally put hot glue into every USB port and only allowed PS/2 keyboard+mice. Guess who's job it was to go through 500 machines with a pair of pliers to pull out hot glue?

But the best part of this entire story is when I got done with that and began the actual refurbishing I opened the machines to find leaky capacitors in about 75% of the machines. This was back in the late 2000's during the end of the capacitor plague and a super common problem especially for these 780's. When I confronted my company owner about this his face turned literally red and screamed at me to just "Wipe off the capacitors and get these done". So I worked 2 days for 12hrs each with paper towels and isopropyl alcohol cleaning off every blown capacitor 1 by 1.

 

[Curry Teafag]

When I first brought the keyboard in I had a colleague stand outside while I typed a bit just to see if he'd hear it, and he couldn't hear any of it over the ambient noise of people walking around and chatting.

Makes one wonder how office people did go by in the typewriter era when their loud typing noises could be heard through walls easily.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Makes one wonder how office people did go by in the typewriter era when their loud typing noises could be heard through walls easily.

By going deaf at an early age.

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

Makes one wonder how office people did go by in the typewriter era when their loud typing noises could be heard through walls easily.

The typing just fades into the background noise after a while, like a ceiling bird for the employed.

 

[catpetter]

I don't work in IT but I'm a computer nerd so I think I can post here:
Kinda bothers me when I'm trying to help someone but they cannot read and they need to be spoonfed on how the use whatever site they're on. Like, it's not that hard!!! JUST READ!!!!!!!

 

[Jotch]

There must be something wrong with me, but I've tried all sorts of keyboards and I've never liked any as much as my $6 mass issue dell keyboard.

 

[JoshPlz]

I don't work in IT but I'm a computer nerd so I think I can post here:
Kinda bothers me when I'm trying to help someone but they cannot read and they need to be spoonfed on how the use whatever site they're on. Like, it's not that hard!!! JUST READ!!!!!!!

That's one instance where AI is actually useful. I've stopped helping people who refuse to do any thinking for themselves in private. ChatGPT has infinite patience and time to repeatedly spoonfeed information to even the most moronic and lazy people, in ways that a child could understand. They don't even have to type. They can just talk to it.

 

[Estate]

I don't work in IT but I'm a computer nerd so I think I can post here:
Kinda bothers me when I'm trying to help someone but they cannot read and they need to be spoonfed on how the use whatever site they're on. Like, it's not that hard!!! JUST READ!!!!!!!

I get it, but the fact that we use computers every day makes us take certain knowledge for granted. For example, I told someone over the phone to press the wifi icon and they didn't know what that was, so I had to explain what the icon looks like.
And if you're not convinced, imagine you go to a manufacturing factory, put in front of a machine and someone tells you "come on, bro, do it, just read the text!".
Would you be able to?

 

[JoshPlz]

I get it, but the fact that we use computers every day makes us take certain knowledge for granted. For example, I told someone over the phone to press the wifi icon and they didn't know what that was, so I had to explain what the icon looks like.
And if you're not convinced, imagine you go to a manufacturing factory, put in front of a machine and someone tells you "come on, bro, do it, just read the text!".
Would you be able to?

I think it's more about people who don't know because they're lazy and want other people to spend their time doing it for them (which is fine if they are honest about it and pay someone for their time), rather than people who don't know but are actually showing initiative and making an effort to learn.

 

[Susanna]

There must be something wrong with me, but I've tried all sorts of keyboards and I've never liked any as much as my $6 mass issue dell keyboard.

And I've had people who absolutely hate my very expensive Model F replica even though I think it's the best keyboard I've ever used. If the cheapo Dell is what you like, the cheapo Dell is what you like, it's all fine.

 

[seri0us]

There must be something wrong with me, but I've tried all sorts of keyboards and I've never liked any as much as my $6 mass issue dell keyboard.

eh, depends what the situation and priorities are
if computer gear is something you use a lot, especially peripherals then i couldnt fault anyone for buying more expensive hardware but at a certain point it is just wasting money

other fun practical things to waste money on are guns, ammo, and silver (you win)
and even if you dont win you can still feel cool stacking some precious metals and owning some cool firearms
kind of like a pacifier for a baby
thats pretty much me

i just realised my unicomp model M is now over half the age of the youngest IBM model Ms