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Ugh! I will never understand why people think that's appropriate and why in the world the IT guy would not be allowed to give one warning and then just walk out and straight to HR if he kept at it. Reason #151 why I hate the corporate world.
Tech Support Hell: Racism And Magic Monitor Resizing
From megamanxtc, TalesFromTechSupport Dispatched out to a customer's desk for a monitor swap. Our company gives a budget every year to employees to order new computer hardware. This particular individual decided to use his spending on an extra wide, 4k monitor. The monitor was already deliver...
Wow...how dumb can you be?
Retail Hell Memories: How I ruined a marriage with one phone call
From u/maladygris Tales From Retail: So a few years ago I worked in a furniture store. In the store you could apply for a credit card to finance your purchase. I had an older lady come in (probably mid 50's) with a man in his 20's whom I assumed was some sort of family member. So we put thro...
ICON
[ahy-kon]
noun
-a picture, image, or other representation.
-Eastern Church. a representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred.
-a sign or representation that stands for its object by virtue of a resemblance or analogy to it: an icon of womanhood.
I swear, some people just use their religion as an excuse not to think.
Tech Support Hell: Wrong Kind Of Icons
From Anonymous, Rinkworks Tech Support: "All right... now double-click on the File Manager icon." Customer: "That's why I hate this Windows -- because of the icons -- I'm a Protestant, and I don't believe in icons." Tech Support: "Well, that's just an industry term sir. I don't believe it was...
Yeah the whole diamond industry is a sham, but still, thank goodness for honest customers.
Awesome Customers: Solid Gold Human Being
From u/Berylldama Tales From Retail: I work at an antique mall and as such, the POS system is also an antique. We had a gentleman come in and purchase a few vintage Avon bottles and while I wrapped them we chatted. He was lonely and wanted to talk about the bottles reminding him of his child...
It makes me wonder is it the picture that's just switched or is it the label? Like, if you click cash, will it ask for card details or no?
You Had One Job: To Be Fair, The Two Icons Look Pretty Similar
--u/TwigInTheDeepwoods
Ugh...I hate printers. I'm able to troubleshoot just about anything any of the myriad electronics at work throws at me, but if the printer is being a baby, forget it. We aren't printing anything that day!
Tech Support Hell: Printers Are Evil
From sambeaux45, TalesFromTechSupport Hopefully, you guys don't mind me jumping around in time. I'm afraid I don't remember stories in chronological order. For the first few stories, we are at the bank. Eventually, I will post stories from my other jobs. The following three mini stories all h...
*gently open window*
"Ok so that's one scoop strawberry...one scoop vanilla...and one scoop chocolate...and HERESYOURFECKINGICECREAM!!!!!"
*gently close window*
This looks like REAL retail therapy. And I need it. XD
Selling Ice Cream in Virtual Reality
Selling Ice Cream in Virtual Reality from r/funny
Er...neither of those are working websites anymore, however I was able to double click the link to highlight it and get it to work. But here is it broken up:
https://ekstrabladet.dk/migration_catalog/article4579610.ece/
IMAGE_ALTERNATES/p910/coop_julepynt_995802a.jpg
You Had One Job: Clearly Nobody Thought This One Through
Jeebus I need to just skip over these until I come across the one titled "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead!" because this whole escapade is just...AAAAARRRRRGH!!!
The Bitch Manager From Hell Pt 20: Cardboard City
From jon6, TalesFromTechSupport The IT Cupboard had transformed into a veritable hive of activity. Boxes of laptops littered every available crevice in the IT Cupboard. Some boxes contained freshly built machines, signified by their address labels, destined for their new homes. Others lay bra...
Snowballs! I've done that a time or two. I'll have to remember that.
I love Steak n' Shake! Their garlic burger is fantastic, but unfortunately, where I live, we only have a small one in the mall which has a limited menu of both burgers and shakes. I gotta go to San Antonio to get the garlic burger.
Slurpee Cup Reinvented: We Have Been Doing it Wrong for Years
From u/xRoyalBlood
Negative! I am a meat popsicle!
Awkward Asian Wearable Wednesday: A New World Full Of Fuzzy Robots
Dammit TT, why'd you have to bring logic into this? Crushing my dreams and all...
Slurpee Cup Reinvented: We Have Been Doing it Wrong for Years
From u/xRoyalBlood
It's possible HR doesn't know because he uses a different last name than her, or maybe HR does know and she's got a 'friend' there that's covering for her.
Either way, I am really wanting this witch to get her comeuppance because I'm getting a second-hand ulcer from this crap. I would have blown up at her a thousand times already and walked out.
The Bitch Manager From Hell Pt16: The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled...
From jon6, TalesFromTechSupport A month had passed since MAFG's passing. Morale was at a low point and apart from Angie's bipolar temper, things seemed to slog along as they were, each day proving to be more and more difficult to get through. The IT Cupboard slowly relinquished its isolation ...
Oh god that was the funniest thing I've ever come across! The engineer notes: Problem almost recreated. Thing red.
Dumbass Customers: Teenager drops into repair shop because laptop won't start
From u/micksack Tales From Retail: A quick story that just happened. Me is me. DT is dopey teenager. Me. Hi welcome to my shop. Dt hi can I ask you a question Me. Yes Dt. I have a laptop and was using it last night and now it won't turn on. Me. Ok can I see the laptop. Dt. No I didn't bring ...
Ok I am just waiting for this Angie to get her arse handed to her. This whole string is bad for my blood pressure.
The Bitch Manager From Hell Pt 8: Best Laid Plans
From jon6, TalesFromTechSupport Monday morning finally arrived. I slightly congratulated myself that I managed to get through the entire weekend without wasting a single further thought on Angie. With no let-up in the weather, the early shift seemed to be of little comfort with the snow beati...
I need this sign at my shop.
On a tech worksheet, I once literally had to write "Customer did something and now the car doesn't run". I generally try to be more specific than that, but this was an older customer that liked to ramble. Alot. It was just easier to have my guys start looking at it than to try and list the twelve dozen things the customer thought it might be.
Car Shop Signage Explains Rates
From u/jomp17
There is just something unnerving about stock images. So many of them have the dead eyes. Like this one. "Why the hell am I so happy about a bundle of bread?! Ha ha! Ha ha! Oh god I want to die..."
I imagine stock image people are actually not really human, they're some sort of sentient entities that have been enslaved to give us these images. Because someone somewhere needs an image of a deranged baker.
#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob: A Little Too Much Love Invested In Her Job
They’re not loaves of bread; they’re my little bread babies. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob #bakerylife pic.twitter.com/OJTxsDwEDS— Holls (@mamaschriefer) July 14, 2018
Yeah but that face just says "Dear god make it stop. I am dead inside, why do I have to smile?"
#BADSTOCKPHOTOSOFMYJOB: Precarious Bartending
TechTyger: King of Spit Takes
Also, if you wait till the baby is around six months but before like 3 or 4 years, you don't even have to worry about basting them on the roast. They're just naturally coated in a sticky glaze 24/7. Don't ask what it is, just accept it.
Fun-To-Mental: An Appliance Fat Bastard Would Love
From u/jammitycalamity: I too like slow cooking babies!
Well with heart disease being the #1 cause of death in the US that's actually debatable.
But I will argue donuts are a far more enjoyable way to go than meth.
Convenience Store Signage Offers Donut Fact
From u/lyin_ryan
Oh good thing my mother in law in Catholic! I'll borrow some of her holy water. Thanks TT!
#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob: Our I.T. RHUers Have Failed To Mention This Vital Tool
A stethoscope is a vital tool in my tech support toolkit. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob pic.twitter.com/FI5rBNibv6— Stuart (@exhumetw) July 15, 2018
That's for the tip TT. I was wondering why my monitor was being sassy.
Got any tips for ornery printers? XD
#BadStockPhotosOfMyJob: Our I.T. RHUers Have Failed To Mention This Vital Tool
A stethoscope is a vital tool in my tech support toolkit. #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob pic.twitter.com/FI5rBNibv6— Stuart (@exhumetw) July 15, 2018
BURN THE HERETIC!!!
But now I'm gonna have to try some Tillamook. If I can find it here in the State of Blue Bell.
Grocery Store Hell: Chocolate Ice Cream Nightmare
From u/wildwoodmushroom Tales From Retail: I work part time in a small town grocery store. One of our suppliers recently got sold to a new owner/group/investors, the second time in a year, and...they don't have their act together. We have been out of everyone's favorite Tillimook products f...
If it really is East Texas, I can believe it.
Spelling is Hard in Texas
From u/Bigthinker1985
Damn...
Oh the taste of sweet sweet karma.
Malicious Compliance: Dispatch Said Go, So I Went!
From u/Hippo_Singularity, MaliciousCompliance Picture Jack. Jack wasn't just your average dispatcher. All dispatchers are the natural enemies of drivers, but Jack was something special. He was a wretched, little homunculus who fed on human misery and frustration, and couldn't find his own ass...
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