r/Talesfromtechsupport "DELETE MY ACCOUNT NOW!" "lol ok"

r/Talesfromtechsupport In today's episode, OP is working tech support and gets a call from a particularly nasty Karen who immediately starts making crazy demands. When OP explains that she's making impossible requests, the Karen flips out and orders OP to delete her account... her whole account, including the back-ups of all her data. Sure thing, ma'am! I'll delete all of your extremely important business information right away! Be careful what you wish for Karen, because you just might get it! If you enjoyed this content and want more, subscribe to my channel for more daily Reddit videos!
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[@megg2826]

I feel so bad for the last girl. She didnt know that shortcut existed

[@2MeterLP]

Nothing like the bittersweet moment of learning that what took you days could have been done in an hour. But at least now she knowsg for next time.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@RiptoGakt]

Even I myself find myself learning new shortcuts to use in order to make things drastically easier.

[@boba4]

Can't count the number of times I've seen that. You learn a technique that works and don't even think there might be another, better way. I upgraded some software a year ago and just recently found an operation that definitely did not work on the old one had been added to this version.

[@mawa-chanmanaha7472]

It is not so commonly said. Usually it is cut, copy and paste that everyone talks. So not surprised she didn't know. I do feel so bad for her

[@MrVokiman]

I am at the point now where whenever I know I have to do something repetitive very often I first look up if there's a shortcut for it and if not if I can make one... it saves so much time

[@DevastatingWarrior]

"Delete the backup and pretend it never existed" Ngl, I quite like that manager xD

[@robertsissco2439]

I had a manger at a 3rd party IT provider for a major computer company that used a cow pattered box as the logo, and when we found out that said cow based computer co was outsourcing their IT contract to India in 60 days and we were all out of jobs in the same time frame loved to take escalated calls, and would constantly put people in their place. He was the last team lead there since most jumped ship already, and since the company was not back filling the lead positions, he was literally unable to be fired since then they had no one who, per policy, would manage the employees. When I asked why he loved taking these butthat customer calls he smiled and said "What are they going to do, fire me?"

[@unknown_youtuber6793]

Yea same

[@WolfSlaya2030]

r/Madlads

[@sonicrunn3r895]

That mail story is like dominos. One tiny fail resulted in the absolute meltdown of the servers. *(And the implication is that it happened AGAIN)*

[@alilhard]

Well I wouldn't really call it tiny but yeah, that's usually what happens in production.

[@MercuryA2000]

@@alilhard that @all was pretty tiny. Probably wouldn't even notice it. The fact that every response was another @all is domino 2

[@mrroboshadow]

@@MercuryA2000 well when ya reply to a company email you dont usually check who you're sending it to its just so routine to do "get email - type reply- hit send" so this is a case of thousands of office drones just so deep in routine that nobody noticed the @all bit till it was too late the the IT guys jumping the gun and sending out an email before confirming they deactivated all auto responders

[@Domihork]

I kind of feel like this exact story was on this channel already...

[@stardf29]

@@Domihork Not this exact story, but there was a story some time ago about some idiot bigwig who demanded that IT disable the "send automatic out-of-office e-mail only once per recipient" setting, despite being warned not to do so. He was part of some mailing group of other bigwigs, which had an auto-responder for "person X is out of the office" (that was also unlimited), so as soon as one person mailed the group, it opened the floodgates.

[@DigitalWraith]

That last story: Poor girl. Those shortcut commands are really helpful though.

[@MelissiaBlackheart]

I feel for that girl. That feeling suuuuuucks.

[@Nikagor]

I will be honest, I'm always amazed by how little some people know about the most basic programs, I once had to show someone working in the freaking sales department how to use excel, that should be part of your education. I don't even know how this guy managed anything if he couldn't use excel and he was just two years older than me, its not like he was some 55 year old, who never used a pc before.

[@gabbymaryottmaryott4113]

dude I don't even know what most of short commands are. I feel dumb now, but also I'm still in school lol.

[@MercuryA2000]

That broke her. Days of work she didn't have to do. So much time and energy... Meanwhile, I learn pretty much any keyboard shortcut I might need. And any that might bug the person next to me ;)

[@NLGM234HI5]

Lol when you realize you've wasted your life

[@headraline]

Can we get a standing ovation for the boss who went "go ahead and delete it" to the guy, just to stick it to that Karen? What a mad lad.

[@Reykh24]

I love it when karens get consequences to their actions

[@Mikemk_]

Honestly, he was probably legally required to. Probably wasn't allowed to be storing non-customer data

[@JordanDragonAs]

@@Mikemk_ no it was so she had no right to claim they have a backup for her site since she would sue them anyway

[@hmoham]

True but if they wanted to really mess with her, they could tell her they could recover the data she lost for a nice tidy sum.

[@Mogijup]

hmoham y e s

[@mykookie8354]

I dont often understand the technical part of these stories, yet I still find them very amusing

[@shining_zvezdy]

Same

[@bucket6079]

wdym technical

[@RogothanGamer]

Yeah this is more of a r/maliciouscompliance

[@stillchill4216]

More like r/memes

[@Henry205]

Yes I dont often understand the technical part of these stories, yet I still find them very amoozoing

[@humanoid251]

“Our next post is from RockyMoose” wait wasn’t that the guy from ProRevenge that got screwed over by his landlord so when he got a new job he convinced his boss to not get a condo from said landlord? And then he had the boss repeat back the exact words the landlord told RM? Something about “you don’t have to like it, you just have to deal with it”? Rewatching all of rSlash’s videos repeatedly I’ve noticed some of the OP’s show up multiple times. It’s wild

[@slystaler]

Imagine that IT guys have homes, too. ;)

[@jamesn0va]

Its because 90% are made up for karma, I speculate.

[@SarpErsoy]

@@jamesn0va Most of them

[@sabersz]

@@jamesn0va perhaps, but they're hella entertaining.

[@sourishgupta7089]

I came through the comment looking for this one. You don’t have to like, you just have to pay it

[@pixelhavoc4950]

As a guy who knows about computers, the moment they mentioned the auto-responders, I thought "Wait. Won't they end up responding to each other if they respond to everything sent to them?" I love it.

[@timothybarney7257]

Two things that come in handy: Outlook's "ignore" function, and email policy that only allows one response per sender (anything replying to/with an included DL only responds back to the email originator) for the duration of automatic out of office replies.

[@jayebloemeke9132]

They should make it so autoresponders can only reply to specific accounts a certain # if times

[@pixelhavoc4950]

@@jayebloemeke9132 they do do that

[@nikkiofthevalley]

This has happened with a multiplayer system I set up. I accidentally made it so _all_ data was sent to the last IP address that sent that Instance data. Meaning, when the other Instance received that data, it sent it back, then was a infinite feedback loop of ever increasing data size, until it crashed the server.

[@notyou2353]

@@nikkiofthevalley Congratulations, you malwared yourself. Lol! ;) I've done similar things, too. It's a bit of smack-my-head moment, for sure.

[@skyegoodman2574]

Hey shout out to rSlashs one entitled parents video where the Karen "called out from across the room" so rSlash went across the room and yelled "EXCUUUSE MEEE" and it just made my year

[@MushtaqAhmad-lx5gx]

I absolutely agree mate, funniest thing ever

[@KennyGold-tc3yy]

which video was it

[@TraustiGeir]

Source, pretty please?

[@nityodaytekchandani701]

Yeaaah I remember. It was so funny 😂

[@blaze-co3df]

I remember this, had me rolling on the floor 🤣🤣

[@PokemonProfessorTony]

OK, this video actually taught me a new command. I didn't know CTRL + H was "Find and Replace." Very useful!

[@ilexdiapason]

same, i knew the feature existed in office and such but not the shortcut

[@Alientcp]

If you press ctrl + f, at least in office, you get the usual window with "find", but the second tab is the find and replace. I wasnt aware of the ctrl + h, but its the same stuff, just that command defaults you to the second tab.

[@nikkiofthevalley]

Does this exist in Atom? I have to rewrite my code half the time, takes ages. Would be extremely helpful.

[@Here_is_Waldo]

@@nikkiofthevalley Why not use variables you can change from one source? Or if all else fails, copy the entire code to Office and replace it all there, then copy it back to Atom.

[@olinewright6877]

me too. Though it is likely I won't need to use it. My IT goto is my husband. I generally appreciate what he does and I apologize if something is not working or I need to get him to do something. I do my best to not overwork him.

[@calebgoodman2076]

That last story is more sad than funny. If she was working that hard nonstop for eight days it must have been hard.

[@OmniscientWarrior]

She doesn't even know about F3, find next and it autohighlights.

[@aviaviavian]

Gotta admire her dedication though

[@ricebeansrockroll882]

Lets just hope this didnt turn out to be a clbuttic-misstake

[@HaydenDuty]

I work IT, I once had a user who would move his emails to a new pst file he created and stored on his desktop. This is generally a bad idea because it means the data is no longer on our email system, amongst many other reasons. He one day called me in saying outlook was giving him an error saying these files cant be opened. i go to the folder on his desktop he made for them and they were missing. i asked him if he knew what happened to them, he said "i was cleaning my desktop up and i deleted them" ...He deleted the files HE created and was wondered why they were missing. I was able to recover the data, but sometimes i just dont have a clue what users are thinking.

[@Average_Josh]

I feel that pain. When I worked IT for a Naval hospital these doctors would have 20GB PST files, then complain how slow they are, and trying to recover one that large, stored on the local laptop, instead of the provided personal network share for it....so much pain.

[@TraustiGeir]

Ah, a classic case of PEBKAS.

[@Forest_Fifer]

@@TraustiGeir I prefer PEBCAK

[@boooster101]

Years ago I also archived my mails onto my desktop. Because back then the Kendox server used was so broken that Outlook would crash if you archived more than one mail at a time. If you have about 300 mails per day to archive and every mail takes 30 seconds, that's just not an option. The current solution (which I love)l and actually suggested myself) is a public folder, so we can quickly archive everything without exceeding our own 500MB limit in 2 hours

[@MiddayLady]

I don't get that. Like, I personally am a total idiot when it comes to technology, but when someone says "I deleted it! :) sooo why isn't it here?" my reaction is.. .Sir, are you okay?

[@skullcandy3935]

Good luck running my license! 😂😂 I also lost it at the auto responses

[@beninuhanovic7781]

rSlash: *reads subreddits* Also rSlash: "What's this, a crossover episode?"

[@marcelrobinson]

Moral of the second story, don't send apartment inquiries using your work email.

[@computernerd1101]

More importantly, don't program auto-respond to respond to auto-respond.

[@129140163]

Customer: “A phone jack IS a network jack! They look the same to me, so they MUST be the same! YOU’RE the tech person, how could you not know THAT?!?”

[@neeneko]

Well, they CAN generally be converted. You have to snip some cables down at the main junction and swap out the jack itself, but it is a pretty quick process.

[@straightjacket219]

Sometimes alot of business moved to cat5 Jack's for thier phone service is part of thier internet and server services. But some mom and pop's still use phone older Jack's and DSL

[@OmniscientWarrior]

@@neeneko Not if they don't go to the same place.

[@Madmark50484]

Telephone cable is cat 3 so putting a network jack on it won’t work very well (10mbps vs 1000mbps).

[@jrcbroolz]

@@Madmark50484 depending on your internet speed, it doesn't really matter. We run ours through telephone cable at home because the internet speed is around 2 Mbps and we have spare jacks.

[@umbra71]

The CRT monitor story seems like a crossover between r/IDontWorkHereLady and r/ChoosingBeggars

[@lulolie]

I just don’t understand why she was too dumb to realize it’d be easier to just move the damn post its

[@crimsoncutz8430]

I wonder how someone can expect that the person they're talking to will be obligated to obey their every command, but also expect that said person will not obey their command to delete their account despite clearly insisting on it repeatedly. That's a very specific level of almost but not quite total obedience she seems to want.

[@irrelevant_noob]

Well she did ONCE slip into an ambiguous "if you don't value me as a customer"... but that didn't matter anymore when her final instruction was made irrevocable by slamming the phone. :-)

[@KnakuanaRka]

Obviously she expects that they'll bend over backwards to keep her as a customer and do whatever she demands otherwise (regardless of whether or not it's even possible for them to do).

[@derrenjack8001]

The second story. Now that’s an Avengers level threat.

[@raidmaster6879]

Never mess with tech professionals.

[@simplysim1346]

Yeah, you better hope they dont hack you or something else

[@sheeptasticSeb]

@@simplysim1346 more like, they're the ones that keep the world running

[@lonewolf031]

That poor girl on the last story made me want to give her a hug and tell her its okay. I've had something similar when I was in the army, I was a maintenance supply specialist and every once in a while we had to go through and check that our inventory was correct. It mostly was but everyonce in a while some of the mechanics had the bright idea to steal parts and we had to go through our prescribed load list and correct it.

[@preferno4263]

The second story, “h-h-HOW”

[@That_weird_guy_Dragooon]

Im still laughing by that one with the auto reply avalanche...

[@NorseGraphic]

"Delete the back-up and pretend it's never existed" 😂

[@isegrim1978]

I remember such an global autoresponder event... all us admins got on the phone and shutdown all mail servers. Then cleaned by hand. Oh it was fun. Just because one manager decided to send his vacation images to EVERYONE.

[@alexiosblake9804]

I think I heard already about that event.

[@horngatekeeper]

was he Michael Scott?

[@dragonexpert8323]

I hope a higher up gave that manager a good talking to.

[@partiallyoblivious4521]

Working in tech support is fun. At one time we had a client request access to their site, and we complied. Fifteen minutes later the client contacted us back in hysterics as they had accidentally deleted their sites home page. We just copied it up from their dev site, but it was hilarious.

[@Drakenborn]

"I can't imagine how'd I'd feel if my youtube channel got deleted" - Well if you demanded it repeatedly, I hope you'd feel like you received A+ Customer Service. Don't forget to fill out the survey!

[@Vinemaple]

Except rSlash would have to not understand that without a KZbin account, he can't post videos. I mean, it's just a website, anyone can use it! The toxic customer in the story was basically insisting that OP saw off the tree branch she was sitting on...

[@billmelater6470]

"Delete it and pretend it never existed." That is one absolute legend of a manager!

[@jokpaugaming]

The email thing was absolutely hilarious, and the company understood the flaws in the worst possible way

[@speeder6929]

I love how the guy actually deleted the Karen's account. I really hope he got a raise for it lol

[@center4nerds]

And this is why IT can replace a lot of people with a small batch script... That poor girl, bless her heart.

[@991yugioh]

Where the hell is R/Puppybloopers

[@addison-2557]

he hasn't been doing those since like november...

[@stefanbroers8146]

@@addison-2557 that is truly a crime against humanity!

[@RolandKontson]

Give and take, I personally don't like those - casually listening to the stories and then a dog loudly (possibly clipping) starts barking into my ear.

[@InvisibleBlackFire]

r/foundthemobileuser

[@LM-wz9yw]

We have to quickly turn it off before puppy bloopers come on because it messes with our dog

[@markwtal9453]

I have one, too. A hilarious one. 10 years ago, I took a new job. Wholesale. Small office, 8 people in total. For the first 3 weeks, I didn't do anything productive. I familiarised myself with the systems, programs, procedures and the articles we sell, buy and so on. Nobody, even my boss asked me what I was doing the whole time. But I'm sure some people were a bit angry at me. Then I started working. Within the first days of working, I got a big offer one of my colleagues made on my desk. I had to process it further. We got that order from the customer company, but our guy had vacation. So I did, 30 seconds. Then I did something else. An hour later, my boss asked me if I could finish the order to our supplier from that offer earlier. "It's a very big thing, but if we manage to order today, it will arrive then and then." He said. The look on my face must have been hilarious. Turns out the others in our office did the following. Write an offer. Get the order from the costumer, WRITE the assignment, then WRITE the order to the supplier and send it. After printing and mailing the assignment to the customer, the documents changed automatically to a order confirmation and then to the shipping papers and then to the invoice. I showed my boss how there is a menu, to take an offer over to an assignment, and a menu to take that over to an order for the supplier. Seconds! Then there was this look on his face, I had earlier. These guys wrote the same thing 3 to 4 times for 1 deal! That can be Hours for one deal, if it's a big deal with lots of positions. There were other things I discovered, I searched for. Also for other departments, like bookkeeping and storage. My colleagues minds where blown a couple of times.

[@IndigoWolfTail]

What that poor girl did in the last story is something I would DEFINITELY do, cry over the hours and hours of hard work wasted when something smarter and faster was under my nose...

[@silverhusky7993]

R/:"I don't know how I would feel if someone deleted my KZbin channel." Susan: Say no more

[@mikkelnpetersen]

For the last story, things like that needs to be taught and displayed more. My mom does office work, some times she needs what was on a tab she had already closed, so she would need to go the whole way to reopen it, untill I told her of CTRL+SHIFT+T (opens the last tab you've closed, and then the one before than one, etc.) it saves her SO much time. "Whoops, I accidently closed the wrong tab"CTRL+SHIFT+T". It's basically her "CTRL+Z. And also the CTRL+F when she needs to find a certain text in a document, saves her SOOOO much time.

[@blazinbethpheonixgirl294]

Am I the only one who had "you don't have to like it Rocky Moose, you just have to pay it" Playing in their head during the 50lb monitor story?

[@ryanranga8484]

That first guy knew what he was doing, and got exactly what he wanted

[@Nusszucker]

I laughed so hard over the E-Mail thing. I kinda suspected the endless spiral of self replicating messages, but the presentation was even better then I imagined. And they had to fix it a second time! Pure comedy gold right there.

[@withmuckguy3362]

Fun fact: you haven’t watched the full video Fun fact: now that 15 minutes has passed, you may have watched the full video

[@InsertUser9978]

Yes

[@jopiedingvink]

Oh boy

[@emeraldsky2823]

Lies

[@Roman-fk5rl]

Agreed.

[@atomikdoggie8403]

I mean, he's not wrong.

[@imjustverable3860]

Oh no, I feel so bad for laughing at the girl in the last story but like...christ XP

[@uthmanbaksh3530]

That last girl just made a discovery that she wished she knew about 8 days ago!

[@Springdude11]

7:43 I remember RockyMoose, you once read a Pro Revenge story posted by him.

[@AirknightTails]

I was going to say that myself

[@PATRICKFOSTER01]

Me too

[@blackwolfe9965]

That's who I thought that was. Glad to get another story from him.

[@devops3243]

I love how the manager at the hosting company went "just ignore and delete the back up, you told her and she should've known better".

[@quintary1]

the last one is the just i can just imagine the girl sitting there staring into her hands realizing that she just wasted the last 8 days of her life

[@Tooterbooter]

I absolutely love the first story. That must have felt like cloud nine getting a police escort instead of a fine.

[@maieen2665]

TIL the "ctrl + h" function. Now I know not to make the same mistake as the poor woman in the last story.

[@ThePC007]

If you're using a powerful text or code editor, you can actually press alt+F3 to select all occurrences of the currently selected text (with cursors next to all of them) and just type your replacement directly into the editor. In fact, you can achieve quite a lot like this, like adding a space after every line that has a certain word and stuff or copying all lines that contain that selected word.

[@DrRussian]

@@ThePC007 TIL there are shortcuts for everything

[@maieen2665]

ThePC007 I learned another new thing today. Thank you! :)

[@OmniscientWarrior]

You really should actually read the menu options from time to time, you will be surprised at what functions are actually there, some don't even have shortcuts.

[@catprog]

Just be careful you don't make the clbuttic mistake.

[@ADTillion]

Someone : The MCU did the most ambitious crossover. Karens : Hold my Manager!

[@ampa-3612]

Man on that second story OP pressing Delete must have been the best feeling ever

[@canadacaden3266]

Hey, isn't RockyMoose the guy from the Hank Wazowski pro-revenge story? The "you don't have to like it, you just have to pay it" guy?

[@isoscelestriangle6542]

Someone stood up to a Karen? Such extraordinary event!

[@shadowxxe]

the first story was the equivalent of Palpatine saying "I am the Senate"

[@ilovefunnyamv2nd]

that last girl....bet she'll never forget about find and replace, life partner, first born child, gone, but find and replace, cemented in her memory forever

[@emiliaholmberg3320]

Oh Rockymoose is back on this channel once again. Been a while tho

[@songohan3321]

I have forgotten about Ctrl+H. A nice wholesome end to a wholesome story.

[@Vi0letR0gue]

Me: comes onto youtube, sees rSlash uploaded My phone: sends me notification that rSlash has uploaded video while half way through said video 😑

[@ramadaxl]

LMAO...that last story ! I had a boss who shall we say was even LESS computer literate than that girl...there was ONE WORD in a 8 page document he'd misspelled...he'd only done about one page of finding and 'copy + paste' to correct it...then I walked in and saw what he was doing...and showed him how to replace ALL the misspelled words in one go...took about 2 minutes...if that. The best thing though is that I was running the photolab...had NOTHING to do with IT....but still got a raise out of it :-)

[@Stevonniewolf3113]

"I'm away until November" over and over would kill any server.

[@lukeyetsterjones]

I spent many years in a webhosting company as tech support, we had a simple response to karens like the one from the "delete my account" story, If its a business dont buy home hosting buy business hosting with the support/SLA/etc you need and spend more than the price of a cup of coffee a month on it!

[@zhaoxinyang4333]

Umm I forgot the title of a vid where OP deleted a person’s bank account. I think it’s in malicious compliance, can someone pls help me find it

[@samuelding7854]

I remember a video like that, but I also don’t remember the title

[@maryavatar]

That last one - oh my god indeed. I’m a web developer in a very small organisation, and I have a bunch of qualifications in various sort-of-IT areas like workstation ergonomics and such, so I get called on to help people out when the IT guys are busy or have reached their maximum ‘talking to real people’ limit. One of the people very high up in the organisation had been complaining that she needed a larger monitor because she was getting older and the text on everything seemed too small. The IT guys, in their usual way, had said she didn’t need a new monitor, and had explained why using words like ‘screen resolution’ and ‘text optimisation’ and she was on the verge of turning it into an age/disability discrimination case. I went in and said “Hold down that key there.” Which she did. “Now roll the scroll wheel back and forth.” She was weeping angry tears of relief and humiliation when I left.

[@tychotheyokaiguy77]

Rockymoose? He's back? This should be good!

[@IntegriTee]

Every time I hear rocky moose I flash back to "You don't have to like it RockyMoose, you just have to pay it"

[@marcus_w0]

As an ex-it-technician responsible for exchange servers, I laughed tears at the e-mail story. This is why you hire the well trained and therefore expensive guys when it comes to IT. They most likely would see something like this could happen an prevent it from the getgo

[@kerdnerl8588]

I feel so sorry for the girl in the last story. My mom does this kinda stuff all the time, the other day she got some spamware add-ons for Google chrome cause she didn't know never click the first link, and when I figured it out I started laughing and was really rude about the whole thing

[@youngarctic9715]

I love his videos because his voice is soothing

[@SchazmenRassir]

Oh my god... Oh my god, oh no, oh my god, why, oh my god, oh no... That poor girl in the last one...

[@NiennaFan1]

I am always disappointed that no one took the opportunity that my high school classmates took to send actually funny mass emails, instead of just “everyone shut up”

[@okie-kan9240]

I just love the story about Karen's website deletion, she got what she asked for. Her bluff was called.

[@brittasfotkram4925]

Funfact: you haven’t watched the whole video

[@omarc7931]

Unless you watch it in speed

[@KaneLivesInDeath]

That second story is by far my favorite story from that subreddit! Imagine someone setting off a chain reaction of emails that quickly overloaded the server and had to be fixed quickly, only to start all over again when the IT missed a couple auto respond scrips 🤣🤣🤣

[@ninjasiren]

That email issue from the institution. Me: *Laugh Until I almost died*

[@NukeNukedEarth]

lmao smh 2 person disliked without watching

[@BuckmeisterSupremeWithCheese]

I was the PA for a lady who was in charge of inventory and shipping. She was just computer literate enough to make something resembling a proper inventory sheet in microsoft excel but she did everything from finding specific bits of inventory to calculating weights and prices manually. So I showed her how to ctrl+f and set up a few basic calculation macros and showed her how they worked and she just went "Oh my God, it was that simple? Thank you! Oh my God I feel like an idiot." Went around doing this with all of the different sheets and manifests and such we worked with, managed to cut out a good two-three hours out of her daily workload by the time we'd gotten everything updated. Very nice lady to work for, and she caught on quick when someone actually bothered to show her these features, but god damn they should really offer a basic PC literacy course in these kinds of jobs.

[@omarc7931]

Hi reddit reading people There is this one R/video where a gay man in going on a vacation with his boyfriend but his homophobic boss is rude about his sexuality so the gay man got all of his gayest friends to dress the gayest and walk in the store and start to bother the manager. Now the manager doesn’t say a word. Dose anyone know the title of this video I’ve been looking for weeks help

[@silversnow3171]

Ohhhhh... that story was either 2-3 yrs ago but you could find that video under r/petty revenge since it was petty or under r/pro revenge playlist; might not be much help but does narrow down the category to 2.

[@idontusethisaccountanymore948]

I have corona🦠🦠 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@justmonez]

Sonic Evil side probably not because you’re laughing about it so nobody cares

[@omarc7931]

Silver snow thanks for helping I will link you the vid when I find it

[@daemynsaldivar7687]

But did she find an apartment

[@ARandomFurry]

An Email DDOS? I absolutely love it.

[@matthewt.3203]

Jeez, imagine being pissed at a client, then deleting their website, killing their job. Nice.

[@balazsfoldes4700]

There was a similar story circling in our university. The professor was speeding along the motorway, when the cops pull him over. Why was he speeding? He was from the department of radiology. Turns out that at the country's nuclear reactor, they detected a leak, and this was the guy who they called as a safety advisor. He got police escort and covered 100km / 63 miles in 25 minutes.

[@coltonhelzer3303]

I came as soon as possible

[@shadymedic]

In the last story, I was almost thinking that she didn't know Ctrl+F either.

[@Christina__V]

Last part was a big mood. When someone tells you the secret to an easier way 😂

[@Dino-Pack]

So fast even rSlash hasn’t commented!

[@96NSW]

When I was in undergraduate a postgraduate researcher managed to get hold of the entire student email directory. They used it to try and get research participants from a student body of 20,000. Within three hours the email servers were off line due to almost 100,000 emails being sent back and forth.

[@dxjxc91]

I have a short, sort-of tale from tech support/petty prank. My buddy's wife is not tech savvy. One day, she is writing a book report for college (2 or 3 pages in). I tell her to press ctrl+a. "Why?" "Just do it." She does and everything is highlighted. Now I say to click backspace. She is confused, but does it anyway. Everything is erased of course, now she is panicking. I did not expect events and reactions to go the way they did and I laugh while she is on the verge of tears. I didn't intend for the prank to be as mean as it turned out to be, and the next keyboard shortcut I taught her was ctrl+z. The only think she lost was trust and dignity.

[@jorgeamitchellc7235]

24 seconds ago damn

[@Ren_He-They]

Last Story I'm just feel so bad for her I was just kept on repeating "poor baby poor baby" she needs a hug

[@pyro2809]

ir says 23 seconds ago wow

[@Chocolatemilkpro]

ive had stress nausea for the past month and my mornings suck. thank you, for putting your videos up early, my mornings are less sucky with idiots and karens to laugh at, or something wholesome to help me de-stress.

[@aniyahspivey3213]

Never been this early since never

[@axiorsomethin8782]

Yup

[@chelseylyles2484]

That first guy is why people can’t stand tech support. That “I know something you don’t know” attitude is kind of annoying 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@phantomnerdmum6013]

Early!

[@intellectualiconoclasm3264]

Story #2. How did IT not know about this? These are COMMON stories in the field. That's why we have spanning/pruning tree protocol. Additionally, for stuff like this it needs to be properly configured in advance with an eye to this. And thinking a professor would be smarter than that is a DANGEROUS assumption.

[@shadowwolf2044]

That last story is something that I experienced with my boss just last week. He was trying to reformat text that he copied from another document and was doing it manually. I asked him if he knew about the copy format feature and then showed him when he said no. He was completely shocked and then just asked me to leave his office with his head hanging there exasperatedly.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

…the cop knew that he was a public safety necessity and got a laugh out of it when they arrived and it’s one of the thirdhand stories that’s true because it happened to multiple folks in my hometown who’re working for the city’s IT staff

[@m2mbestfan]

Hope you read this, I use to work for a cellphone company on the tech support area, this was around 2013-14, our company was part of the free medicare phones providers, at the begining we only provide normal phones (not smart/touch screen ones) but then they start to give basic smart phones in california. Now anytime an issue happen with a customer it have to go trough some steps with customer service before they transfer the call to tech support to avoid basic trobleshouting on tech suport. Must of the calls from this old people were how to turn it on or how to answer calls, but then beleive of not one kind of calls start to came into tech support, now in order to transfer to us the CS agent need to xplain the situation to us so we agree to take over since if the cs agent didnt did the proper trobleshouting we need to report that for proper training. So here is on one example of one of those new calls btw csa stands for customerservice agent tsa tech and cs for the customer :) Csa:hi this is karen i need to transfer since the phone have an issue with the screen Tsa: ok did you perform all the basic ts? Csa: yes, tur it off/on remove battery for 5 seconds but still nothing fix Tsa: so what is the issue? Csa: the cs said that the screen is frozen and all he can see is the icons for phone, camera, agenda and the brand of the cellphone. (Maybe if you remember how the phones came brand new at that time you will already know what is going on) Tsa: ok (lol inside my head) transfer him Tsa: thanks for calling Xy company i am the tsa agent, the csa agent told me that your screen is frozen with the icons right? Cs: (the voice of a lady maybe around 60's) yes they give is this new phones but it seems to be on allways, but also when i turn it on i see something behind the icons, like if they were two layers, but when i remove the bathery i can still see the icons on the screen. Tsa: i see, now do me a favor, do you see a little plastic flap on the upper right of the phone? Cs: yes i see it Tsa:ok, please pull it out Cs: omg dear, this was only a sticker and all the icons are gone Tsa: turn on your phone please Cs: ohhhh i can se everything normal, thanks my dear god bless you. Well i have to tell you that at least we take 10-15 calls like this from csa agents every day, i understand that for elder people is hard because it is new tecnology, but omg for csa that were around 18-25 years not able to see that it was a sticker, thats amazing

[@literal-tree]

i swear i'm not a sociopath but your laughs help me save energy by telling me when to laugh

[@kstricl]

I ran into the autoresponder issue myself years ago when I was working IT. The mail server was constantly running out of storage because of auto-responders doing what they do best. It got worse when the network connection was upgraded. I switched the organization to google apps, saving the company a couple hundred a month just in my billable hours alone.

[@BETRvids]

That last story. You feel bad for them, but you also know that you enlightened them and they are better off for it. I had the same feeling when I was helping a co-worker log into their computer, and they didn't realize what the numlock does.

[@ChainBukorosu]

As a developper, the first story made me cry of laughing