• Turious@leaf.danceEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Ages ago, I had the owner of a business I supported tell me I could remote into his computer any time that day, it would be available to me. I remoted in about 5 minutes after that call and he was amidst some fullscreen hardcore pornography. I respect that sort of move.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    1. Lady at the company I did IT for had her work computer desktop filled with cringey memes she had made about being a “Trump Girl”, “Guns, God, Glory” “America First” etc. Her social media account was logged into on there as well and was all a bunch of boomer pro Trump memes and Religious stuff.

    2. Had to awkwardly tell somebody that I needed to use a different keyboard to work on their computer because theirs was so disgusting. It was filled with dandruff flakes, several of the keys stuck slightly because of the thin coating of grease from all the food they ate at their desk. Hair bits stuck up from the keys, it was absolutely nasty.

  • Juggs@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Tonnes of CP.

    Told my colleague immediately as he was at the other end of the work bench, then told my manager. They called the cops who told us to leave it alone, then immediately made their way over to confiscate the PC and take a copy of the job booking slip.

    Never heard another thing about it after that. We thought we might be called as witnesses or to give statements, but nothing. The cops took a few mins with the PC when they got there, asked us to log into it and then leave the room. We figured they had enough on it and the guy probably admitted it. Never saw the customer again either, and he was a fair bit of a regular.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    How about in a computer?

    I had to fix one on a construction site. I opened it up and it was full of dust from all the brickwork they had been doing. As in, nearly completely full of it. I bet their lungs looked the same too :(

  • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    Worked in a PC repair shop. Got an all in one Mac in. Fixed it. Cleaned it up. It’s a good show piece for customers to see. Guy comes in with his kid. 5 minutes into transaction I suddenly notice, over his shoulder, the Mac owner’s porn collection playing on the screen. Ask customer to read fine print and do a quick move to wake up the Mac.

    Those were the days…

  • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Asked by a mother to recover family photos from her deceased son’s laptop. Fortunately I noticed and removed the porn folders before passing over the USB stick.

    The one thing I absolutely hate doing is getting inside my mom’s computer. She’s a heavy chain smoker and everything is covered in yellow tar.

  • Alperto@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    All the internals of one laptop I opened were really covered in oil, the fans were totally stuck and unable to spin (maybe the main reason why they sent it to us) and the whole thing really stank. I called the customer to ask how was that possible and to inform that those defects weren’t covered by our warranty and they told me it was used in a restaurant’s kitchen, and they didn’t understand why they couldn’t use it there.

  • TotallyNotADolphin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    I don’t know if it is the kind of “worst” you were thinking about, but in a previous helpdesk job I found a text file on a users desktop with a bunch of links. Asked the user what that was for, and they used it tonremember web sites. They were star struck when I showed them that bookmarks were a thing, and added their links as bookmarks for them to get started.

        • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
          0·
          2 years ago

          tho specifically mentioning its gay around something with a negative connotation could pretty easily be roped in to seeming like the gay also has the negative connotation (even if not explicitly said), so some people might not fuck with it

          (idrk personally, just thought I’d let you know my vibe)

          • AES@lemmy.ronsmans.eu
            1·
            2 years ago

            Well yeah ok, I get it. It just was you know gay porn, just telling how it was. It was the porn bit that was wrong with the whole situation ofc. But it was specific gay porn on his hard-drive. He was happy that I fixed his broken disk tho :-)

  • Platform27@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Inside: Vomit + insects (cockroaches, I think). Software: The weebiest weeb setup (images, boot sounds, etc) to ever exist.