r/Talesfromtechsupport FIX MY COMPUTER, NERD! OR I'LL KILL YOU! 

Ive been subbed since 10k keep up the great work

rSlash love your videos!

Hey bro

I already am

Keep going man

As much as i love karens and stupid people, this storybwas the sweetest thing in the world

It's making me tear up!

This channel has so many weird people and that story was such a turn of pace and caught me off guard

@@cassiebrooke5908 same here 😢

Pete story: *EVERYBODY LIKED THAT*

nah he's just over 80 or something.

I had this same feeling. I bet this guy is getting paid more than the IT guy and he's a complete moron.

@@Kiwicrushes Don't ya just -love- hate how the world works sometimes? "Hey, can you fill out this date for me?" Uhh what's a date? How do I do that? "Wow, you sound like management material, come with me let's get you a promotion!"

@@vgamesx1 Unfortunately that promotion happens because the boss realizes the person is a complete moron, incompetent, and could seriously harm the company business if left unchecked. They probably originally got the job because a friend in the company. Sadly, the US law protects someone from being fired for being stupid. So, you either let them royally screw something up and cost the company a lot of money to be able to fire them for gross incompetence.. wait for them to quit on their own.. or you promote them to a job where they can't do any damage. Turns out, more often than not.. the company views the small hit to profit by promoting the idiot to be less cost than waiting for the mistake to be able to fire them. And the profit margin doesn't account for the strain on mental faculties the idiot imposes on other employees. Source: I got to be the unfortunate bastard stuck with egg on his face having to promote a complete retard to middle management because he was originally hired because he is the son of an investor.. and we had no grounds for firing him.

There are humans that dumb. There are humans that dumb. Ohh my hell there are humans that dumb.

yeah i remember telling my dad. who is very old. what a smart phone is. he was so happy he could face time his grandson over the internet. he does some weird shit but i work IT so as i worked on his pc all the time back then was some nice ''training''

If you want to know etcetera can be said short :D

I’m not crying. It’s just tears in my eyes.

Don't forget Discord, even though it's more aimed at gamers it's actually faster and more reliable than Skype.

@@PunakiviAddikti I didn't know about discord back then 😅

This is also something you should do once a month to reset your modem.

this is also what i hope to hear. come over fix it. easy money. because seriously its like a minute of trouble for almost a days work of pay sometimes.

Well... there are some people who search really for the wierdest hills to die on...

@@miciso666 I had it once the other way around... Me: "Yeah... I have no internet connection." Tech: "Did you try A, B and C?" Me: "Sir, I literally switched and changed every single piece of equipment from the cables, over the modem over the splitter down to the wall-socket." Tech: "But could it still be on 'your' side?" Me: "Pretty sure it's not." Tech: "Do you have the correct password?" Me: "You are aware I have a modem. And yes, after changing it, I checked and double checked. It takes everything and the network monitor tells me, it calls up, sends the data and get canceled without any notification." They sent a tech over to my house, who mentioned that the telephone line looses a lot of packages. So he replaced the cable from my wall socket to the telephone box outside the house. Have now a fancy new ultra thin cable. But didn't change anything. It went back and forth resulted in a renewed contract with the ISP, new hardware new password and anything. Which finally solved the problem. They even had the audacity to blame it on my computer running on Linux. (What do they think THEIR godammn network hardware runs on? Glass marbles? Little ants running through tiny tubes delivering the data packages?) Well a LOT later - turns out after some storm (I was away) there was some hickup down the line. My modem tried to connect to ISP but the signal came on all garbled, with locked my connection after THEIR system detected a hacking attempt. So It would have been literally ONE click on Techs side, to check if the connection was active. Then he would have seen the blinking red warning message, that the connection was blocked due to an 'hacking attempt' -.- In hindisght. It was quite funny.

And then, because of guys like that, they don't believe you when you do call them.

User: *was actually back last thursday*

@@builder396 but he's back now!

I would've been slamming my head on my desk...

"Guess who's back. Back again"

My question is, if he was back last Thursday but couldn’t use his computer, what has he been doing this whole time?

I literally facepalmed

This story made me want to murder stuff.

I bet that guy password is hunter2.

Hey his password was his birthday and the word password

To be hones, in most companies the IT guy is the person who sets passwords and he knows them. Also changing password every x days was already proven to be one of the biggest security holes, because it almost always ends up with half of the stuff writing their passwords on a sticker and keeping it on their desk.

dhi_awesome I’m wondering how in the hell did he get the job

We finally found the person for whom the word PEBCAK was invented

But I’m back now! 🤪

I don't think he should have a job that requires more than half a brain cell since anything more than that would require too much thinking effort.

I was asking myself how he manages to do his work?

china 99 I don’t think he’s back... just intuition.

His brain certainly isn't

No, he was back last week

No because he came back last week

Something tells me he was never quite there.

and people like that will ALWAYS be payed more than you because "experience"

I heard my braincells screaming when I listened to that story

@@spaceemperorkarl121 More like "experience at wasting efforts by not bothering to learn to do things tech-related to his job". I feel like I've lost brain cells trying to process how anyone in upper management can even think keeping him around is such a good idea.

He’s not useless, He’s back now

Ok sir do you see the window? Yes I'm back now. Ok sir open the window and jump out it. As he plummets but I'm back now.

all i had in my mind was I WAS FROZEN- TODAY!

I would tell him to talk to his boss about how to log his return date.

I loved the "I'm pretty sure you've left your brain cell at home" part -- it was SINGULAR!!! 😁😁😂🤣🤣😂

remind me of that super hero guy and patrick from that one episode of spongebob squarepant

Lol

Your cool

How soon can you start work?

now that's quarantine for you

That's kind of a shitty talent to have

That guy is the nightmare of all IT support people!

I yelled out in aggravation on hearing this. My wife & son in another room thought something was wrong.

how can you be that stupid

@@christopherrobinkivisild5309 {facepalming because someone being that stupid is very likely... and would be at a 95% risk of strangling said stupid in enraged anger at putting up with said stupid in person} Yes. Or just astoundingly lazy.

That guy call Everyone: owo🔫>

I honestly don't understand why they do that. Imagine doing that to a doctor, "hey, nurse piece of crap! Heal my wound or I will go to where you live and threat you!". And then be shock that they won't give him/her service

@@strikeforce1500 that's suicide

@@strikeforce1500 Machismo. Pure and simple. People still think that because you have brains you probably don't have brawn so they can abuse you as they see fit

Huh... Realistic.

The thing is, with the way that this was written, as I assume you are talking of the ISP call, there could have been another way to deal with this. Most people think that you can do that through the phone, and they don't get why you tell them no. I got around that many times by explaining that the technician coming around to fix the issue was not free and that his visit would be X$, and that I only wished to save him that trouble. Usually, most of them comply when you turn it that way, but there is always the one idiot who will push. To those, I tried maybe 2 other times and then I gave them what they wanted, malicious compliance style.

Acidrain82, and say, “You know, the one you suggested” because it sounds like he probably just used what words the tech guy said as an example.

Yea it's at that sweet point where it's silly enough to be funny but there is enough logic with people who don't know anything about computers to assume that so i wouldn't call him dumb. Great story.

I actually had to explain this to my mom before, thankfully there wasn't any trash involved, and she thought to have me show her how they worked when she first had to deal with one.

I probably wouldn't have been able to keep myself from sighing into the phone while it was unmuted. That woman must have been sniffing a few highlighters over the years.

@@TheGingerbreadVulpix I was close man... thankfully we frequently use the mute button because we get a lot of dumb calls here lol

There's a wholesome story you're missing.

“But I’m back now!”

Twenty Øne Piløts? But you came back Thursday!

@Elyad K 9:50 that's the story you want to hear :)

Are you back now?

BUT HES BACK NOW!!

Esej Snake I’m pretty sure the singular brain cell is being used to breath, blink, walk and make everything work besides thinking.

@@terra_the_nightingale135 That braincell must be working overtime for sure!

@@terra_the_nightingale135 I found this hilarious.

Not that far If you want to lose your faith towards humanity You know where to go

trust me, there way worst out there. redit is full of stuff to feel depress about...

But maybe they're really good at something... Like... Something? Maybe? Ok, not likely.

There was Pete tho.

But surely the story about Pete restored some faith

Trust me, you will and you will lose your faith in humanity. I've done it for 17 years and never ever again.

Ah my boyfriend is a sysadmin and oh boy, the things I hear from work 😂 I do feel sorry for him

JEM depending on if you are customer-facing or internal support. Customer-facing you have a higher chance for the skype story. However, internal support is where you get to question the hiring practices of your company.

@@sotkajarvi wait im only in there for 10. not really all work but i did help relatives here and there. some helping was nice training on the side. worst case i ever had was really questionable porn and we had to call the cops. then after i found a small company and now i barely meet any weird shit. most days are just very boring. but now im working from home taking tech calls.

@@miciso666 better boring then maddeningly stupid/crazy

i imagine it would be with some idiots like that one in the second story

Nah, not scary, frustrating as all hell though.

It have its perks and cons. But yeah you have to get over the point that you cant help evrybody in 5 min and sometimes you are going to need help to fix stuff. The hardest thing is learning to speak in a simple but yet confident way.

I had to work a tech support call center for five months and I got a lot of similar calls...I've had to bite my tongue many times and was so happy I left when i did. However, I did get to have calls like that third one and calls like that got me through the hard days.

Just A Dio Who's A Hero For Fun dude you have an amazing username and picture

Wish I could work

I do, too 🤣😁

Ok nice

@Vortex Kit you dont have to be fast you just have to be faster than the other person

Lol

Saaaaame

For me it was 3 hours ago when I got the notification

9/10 cases it is. and its funny when u tell them. like doctors we cannot talk whats on it with colleagues. so they ease up and most of the time confess they ''might have a bit'' which shocking and i am allowed to say this A LOT before i worked my 2nd company and was in training i had a dude come in. him: a bit sweaty and nervous. ok sir my uhh.... computer it just blacked out. i was like sure i can fix it. him: but can u uhh... not check the F drive. i was like uhm why is that sir? he talked in a lower voice : because some files are a bit. secretive. me: o uhm yeah sure i can work on this alone if u want we have 1 person per computer mostly. him: yeah but u can save it all right? me: sure man and then the next day i checked it out drives where kinda like this c: main disk 200/500gb used ok not to weird D: movies lots of torrented shit. E: games steam blizzard? F: data. i saw it had some issues. o boy. seems he downloaded nearly 400gb of porn on there and the disk was really breaking i had to replace it. now imagine this. 18 year old rookie has to explain his boss he needs a clean HDD to transfer 400gb of porn. but my boss was like kid this happens so often. we dont judge just copy it replace the hdd and we are solid.

Same here I'm like why

so ur down to 3?

Sombra Haydn the one with “but I’m back now!” Destroyed me lol

Until you listen to Pete's story :)

Yeah! Just listen to that old deaf mans story i cried

ismael lauriano one lik 2 69

Did you try turning the device off and on again?

@@bruhmoment6706 Did you try unsubscribing and subscribing again?*

Blew up for 47 likes? Common, at least edited when you have a thousand. Know what? Never edit, It's lame

@@bioemiliano i'm used to the maximum 4 likes

i had a case where some idiot did cut and paste. then somehow deleted a lot of work. and i mean A LOT before coming to us half crying IM GONNA GET FIRED IM SO FUCKING DEAD we eventually got it fixed thank bill gates for server back ups. what a idiot that guy was. deleted like 3-4 months of work.

Cool Cat || Personally he uploads anywhere from 10:54pm to 11:23pm

@@mangjyz6336 Ah, I see you also come from a land down under.

•MangøJøyz• And 9:52 am to 1:31 pm

The question is now standing, how many has he thrown away since he first got one?