‘I drove two hours just to turn their printer back on’: IT workers share the most ridiculous tech requests they had to deal with at work

Being an IT (information technology) worker has many challenges. First, many of us will admit we do not know much about the technological devices we use on a daily basis, and if we were to encounter any error with one, we would be lost with what to do. IT workers have to be able to identify every single technological issue that they might encounter and even to possess a way of fixing it. Second, Not only do IT people have to deal with these tech issues, they also have to deal with people, who usually stand between them and the technological problem they are trying to solve.

This AskReddit thread is a perfect example of the challenges, both funny and dramatic, that IT people deal with while they are on the job, and they can all agree that the main issue they have to deal with is not the technology, but the people.

Keep scrolling to read these stories. After that, click here for another funny thread of HR managers and wild stories about firing employees.

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