Your personal tech fuck ups - This can't possiblly go wrong.

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Gravemind said:
Mid-to-late 2014 as I recall. She had her job at that local campus well before then and didn't even have a single cert to her name. She also had absolutely no method or system for work orders other than "someone on campus calls her for tech help and she makes up an excuse for why she can't get to the issue" and did fuckall unless she absolutely had to (read: The dean was breathing down her neck to actually get something done).

She also hated having any sort of interns or help. Mostly because we actually did her job better than she did and made her deathly afraid that she would lose her job, but she once explained to a friend of hers in front of me that it was really because "we had to get told what to do all the time" and she "didn't like having to teach new people" about job-related regulations and protocol, nor where to find any of the resources needed to maintain software used on campus, like, say, the login credentials for the IT Administration account.
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I've encountered large organizations(always government related) where they seemed to have diversity-promoted women into actually running everything IT. Promoting them to made up management where they do nothing would have been fine, having them run actual shit is not fine. "Install it yourself, we don't have time" they say. No, we users don't have admin rights, it's 50 computers, just use group policy to push it out at night. "What's group policy?" jeez

Finally they got some help and did it, just took a couple of months. They bungled the updates of course. What's even the point of paying €100,000+ a year for updates if they can't be installed? It's 2021 and everyone is sitting on the 2016 version without any critical security patches. This is how you get hit by ransomware!
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
I've encountered large organizations(always government related) where they seemed to have diversity-promoted women into actually running everything IT. Promoting them to made up management where they do nothing would have been fine, having them run actual shit is not fine. "Install it yourself, we don't have time" they say. No, we users don't have admin rights, it's 50 computers, just use group policy to push it out at night. "What's group policy?" jeez

Finally they got some help and did it, just took a couple of months. They bungled the updates of course. What's even the point of paying €100,000+ a year for updates if they can't be installed? It's 2021 and everyone is sitting on the 2016 version without any critical security patches. This is how you get hit by ransomware!
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I usually don't give a fuck about diversity but it's becoming a concerning issue in IT. Since the entire field, both here and in the US, is a sausage fest. Way to many females are getting pulled into the deep end to no fault of their own. Thankfully all the ones I've worked with actually want to learn and aren't a bitch. Guess I'm lucky.

Also someone should make a thread where IT fags get to complain about IT bullshit.
 
I destroyed like 6 months of yearbook fluff at my high school because I ejected the SD card from a digital camera. I blamed it on the camera corrupting the card, but I'm quite sure I ejected it a second too soon while it was turning off and it corrupted everything (it was one of those old digital cams where you had to hold it at the thing for a solid 3 seconds or it wouldn't take a proper photo)

I managed to permanently destroy like 3 years of family photos because I didn't know what the Zip Drive click of death was.

Just a few days ago I nearly deleted all my photos from iCloud by accident.

I think photography hates me.
 
Larry Nyquil said:
I destroyed like 6 months of yearbook fluff at my high school because I ejected the SD card from a digital camera. I blamed it on the camera corrupting the card, but I'm quite sure I ejected it a second too soon while it was turning off and it corrupted everything (it was one of those old digital cams where you had to hold it at the thing for a solid 3 seconds or it wouldn't take a proper photo)

I managed to permanently destroy like 3 years of family photos because I didn't know what the Zip Drive click of death was.

Just a few days ago I nearly deleted all my photos from iCloud by accident.

I think photography hates me.
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Once I accidentally formatted the wrong drive and started freaking out until I remembered I had my backup drive still
 
The second-ever computer I built was for my dad; I broke my bank and got him an 80186 board/CPU combo (yes, 80186, ran at 5mhz...) and a new case, 30mb hard drive...when I got all the parts out I realized the (AT) power switch wasn't wired up. So I wired it up, built the PC, plugged it into the w-POW. Blew it to hell and gone. I don't know what I'd wired up incorrectly but it just fucking burnt everything. The fire alarm kicked on, etc.

Took the mess back to the case vendor and told him what happened, he laughed, but said the switch should've been connected. Gave me an AT motherboard, more-or-less same deal. I hadn't connected the HD yet, thank God. That'd have set me back like $200 at the time.
 
I caught the flu and scratched the silicon during a delidding operation while using a proper decrimper, and then bent the pins on the mobo by putting the CPU in horizontally.

I thought my process was fool proof. I should've waited until I was over the flu.
 
I fell for the tuneup program scam in my less tech literate days. Well, almost. Downloaded the free version of one and realized my mistake soon after. Scanned that laptop once for malware because why not. It was riddled with digital MRSA. To make matters worse, the hard drive sounds exactly like a frog.

Actually thought there was a frog in the room. Nope. Just an ailing laptop. It also likes to give the user a little shock. What a jokester.
 
My grandad's old Athlon XP PC croaked, so he gave it to me for me to tinker with it, while he got a new one...also AMD powered, but that was in the AMD FX days of AMD so it ended up not aging as well as it could. But that's besides the point. So, what I thought for some reason was that the HDD had failed. The PC wouldn't POST. Yeah, that's very retarded now, but I didn't know any better...or I did. I decided to take the HDD out and "dissect" it because it had failed anyways...later I found the MSI K7N2 (the mobo the PC used) manual where it had a very useful troubleshooting page. There was this bracket with LED lights that showed what was wrong, useful because of no PC speaker. It was the RAM that was the culprit. Well, fan fucking tastic. There were some games there as well from the early 2000s. Could have been a nice retro gaming PC. Oh well. And what happened to the graphics card...I dunno. Wait...maybe that's what I thought had croaked before...I dunno, it's been a long time ago, don't remember it that well...and it was a Radeon 9600, so GTA San Andreas ran decently even at 720p High settings.
 
tehpope said:
I dropped a cpu (fx-6300) while cleaning it.
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I spilled a big glob of thermal paste on the pins of a fx-6300 and had to fill a dish with rubbing alcohol just enough to submerge the pins but not the chip..

I let it sit for about 5 minutes, hit it with a tooth blush, then popped it in the mobo. Booted without issue. I think that machine is still running as a server at my brother's house.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I caught the flu and scratched the silicon during a delidding operation while using a proper decrimper, and then bent the pins on the mobo by putting the CPU in horizontally.

I thought my process was fool proof. I should've waited until I was over the flu.
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I can relate. I learned the hard way myself, to only do important stuff like that when concentrated, awake, in good health and in a good mood.

I still hate myself for breaking off some of those delicate ass pins from an expensive Intel Socket 1150 board a bunch of years ago.
 
Alright don't laugh to hard ya? I accidentally deleted the boot file for my laptop when i was running linux, had to take that shit into the shop, thing is my parents didn't like what i had on that laptop.
 
I don't know why I did this, but... when I was young (and I mean VERY young), I threw my sister's red Gameboy Advance SP out of the window.

That incident still haunts me to this very day.
 
K. V. Bones said:
thing is my parents didn't like what i had on that laptop.
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I was going to make a joke and say that they were displeased with your choice of distro but then I realized that we're not far away from parents having enough confused technical know-how that they can get into fights with their kids about their choice of operating systems and apps. "Not under my roof! That is nothing but glowing chink spyware!"
 
TheRetardKing said:
I don't know why I did this, but... when I was young (and I mean VERY young), I threw my sister's red Gameboy Advance SP out of the window.

That incident still haunts me to this very day.
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Considering that kind of tech fuck up, it actually reminded me of a couple I had as a kid. First one was scratching some PS1 disc I had. I was too young to realize that was bad for CD's and it fucked up the games I had like Brave Fencer Musashi. The other was going to the beach with a Gameboy Color I had and losing it somehow.

Another tech fuck up I had as a young teenager was getting a PSP from my dad after he bought it from a dishonorably discharged sailor that got caught doing cocaine. A few times I accidentally dropped the PSP and it gotten a small crack on the lower left hand part of the screen and UMD won't close unless I tape it. Even as a teenager I fucked up something good.
 
I was 17 when I built my first PC and thought, "fuck no I'm not paying for a Windows key". I had an older laptop that I dug the HDD out of and got it working with the new computer but the fuck up happened a year later when, I can't remember why, I was messing around with the drives and wiped the EFI and OEM partitions. That was deliberate, I just didn't realise the consequences.
 
Recently I found some broken phone on the side of the road. It had a 2 GB SD card in it. Later in the day I took the MicroSD card home and put it in an SD card adapter. It didn't read on my PC. So I tried on some USB various memory card reader. Well, the USB connector being scuffed I went to take it apart but since it required so much force, the case took apart very abruptly and the MicroSD card also broke in half.
 
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