tech support

Cybersecurity worker stops trying to help his aunt after she throws a laptop down her stairs, loses 6 years of photos, and accuses the tech-savvy nephew of hiding a magic fix

Etai Eshet

Company tech support insists on only helping via voice texts, until exasperated IT manager does the same to them with all their passwords: ‘Suddenly they switched to text’

Bar Mor Hazut

Gaming company tacitly refuses to hire employees over 35 years old, lays off workers after a certain age: 'The hiring manager openly told me that the candidate I wanted to hire was too old (she was 46)'

JR Atkinson

Manager demands copywriter continue answering calls in old tech support role, faces payback when he changes company handbook: 'The marketing team do not have any interactions with customers'

Ally Perry

Home seller forced to leave smart home devices behind, despite insisting to buyers they won't work anymore, leading seller to mess with the system: ‘I thought to have fun with it’

Bar Mor Hazut

IT demands employee submit a separate ticket to get access to each folder they need, leading employee to submit hundreds of tickets within an hour until they give in: ‘Stop winding up IT’

Bar Mor Hazut

‘Oh rats!’: Employee treats tech support with 0 respect, so IT leads her district manager to the break room where she's been living with her cat

Elna McHilderson

‘I am both impressed and disgusted by the audacity of this team’: Employee sent across the world to help with project ends up as their scapegoat, leaves team high and dry

Elna McHilderson

31-year-old IT professional refuses to be family’s unpaid tech support any longer, starts invoicing relatives with a “Family Tech Menu” of fees for his help, sparking backlash from entire family: 'You're turning into a landlord for computers'

Emma Saven

NFT grifter claims to sell NFT they bought for $425,000 in 2023 for $37,000, posts an AI-generated image of a "Rolex" they claim to own that isn't even a Rolex: 'I wasn't buying a jpeg—I was buying culture'

Brad Dickson

Boss demands IT employee follow process to the letter, stalling out a project with a major client and causing frantic messages from their boss: 'No ticket = no work. Bureaucracy over brains'

Brad Dickson

Karen manager demands IT technician take business server offline during business hours, despite technician's protests, gets the order in writing before complying: ‘Within 15 minutes, the office was in chaos. The CFO stormed into my office’

Brad Dickson

Guest hacks into hotel's network and optimizes their entire system after seeing how slow the WiFi is, refuses to get compensated: 'Manager was torn between being grateful and concerned’

Bar Mor Hazut

Neighbor unknowingly becomes tech support for his entire apartment building after fixing an elderly neighbor's laptop, gets paid in lasagnas and free rent: ‘Every week someone knocks on my door’

Bar Mor Hazut

Employee's access to software gets revoked by IT, so they send IT a list of all the tasks they need to take over: ‘Within 30 minutes, the decision was reversed and I had my access back’

Bar Mor Hazut

Mid-sized marketing firm outsources IT firing the single employee who had been there for 4 years, he gets a job paying $20k more: 'The first week after I left, their main server crashed. The outsourced company took 6 hours to respond, another 8 to fix it'

Brad Dickson