Tech

IT worker told to stop wasting time helping their coworkers, IT tickets get out of control when all the small problems are no longer getting fixed: 'Everyone was quietly enjoying the fact that Boss's ridiculous policy had backfired spectacularly'

Brad Dickson

Employee discovers 100 company laptops were stolen after boss refuses to invest in asset management software, uses it to strengthen their case: ‘I just want to do my job’

Bar Mor Hazut

‘I locked him out’: Cyber security contractor locks a client out of their computer system after they refuse to pay an invoice, teaching them a lesson about weaseling out of their end of the deal

Jesse Kessenheimer

Company forced to pay $6000 to fix tech issue after boss demands sole IT employee deletes his account on his last day at the job: ‘You asked me to do this’

Bar Mor Hazut

22 SXSW Memes for Folks with Festival FOMO Who Stay A-Lone Star at Home

Etai Eshet

Skype Is Shutting Down After 21 Years of Being Everyone’s Third Choice

John Summers

20+ Designs that were made to infuriate users: 'Unremovable ads on my $2,500 TV'

Remy Millisky

Boss demands IT engineer write "more words" on ticket resolutions, they begin writing a novel hidden in the reports: 'You're averaging well over a 1000 characters per ticket, keep it up!'

Brad Dickson

'iPhone...wants me to wait 53 years before attempting to unlock [it]': 20+ Mildly infuriating broken TVs and smashed iPhone screens

Remy Millisky

'Apparently, I'm the idiot': Tech support employee dumbfounded after receiving a scathing review from a customer who failed to identify the difference between an iPad and a laptop

Jesse Kessenheimer

20+ IT workers discuss how they would respond to unrealistic demands from the CEO: ‘That choice is a couple of pay grades too high for me to make’

Bar Mor Hazut

‘The kids yearn for 2014 Tumblr’: Algorithms ruined the original intention of social media and left us uninspired

JR Atkinson

America’s Fight Against Chinese Tech Just Took a Wild Turn

John Summers

Company faces major system shutdown after entire IT department gets fired and instructed to have their data destroyed without leaving backup: ‘They're not sure how to fix it’

Bar Mor Hazut

Woman tells roommate she's going to charge him for any future IT help due to his "learned incompetence": '[He] just sits there and wait[s] for someone else to fix it'

Brad Dickson

27 Secret Messages Engineers Hid for Inquisitive Technology Enthusiasts That’ll Get You Deconstructing Gadgets in No Time

Etai Eshet