There are solid reasons why a subreddit like Tech Support Gore exists. You see, as little documented as it may be, people living in the golden age of technology are no strangers to occasional, or rather pretty frequent mishaps.

And when we talk about mishaps, we’re talking about real stuff, like fry-ups, grease and nests. It sounds like something from Gordon Ramsay’s show Hell’s Kitchen, but it’s not. Burning plastic, cable nests and hand grease are all the tip of the iceberg of things technicians see and have to find ways to fix on a daily basis.

So today, we are about to dive into the collection of the worst cases these blessed workers have seen while on duty. From straight-up embarrassing to plain weird, thumbs up are simply not enough to give to tech support. Psst! More of the crazy tech fails people brought in can be found in our previous posts here and here.

#1 My Client Says He Doesn’t Know Why His PC Isn’t Turning On Anymore…

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#2 Internet Is Temporarily Unavailable

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#3 Boom

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#4 Merry Christmas

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#5 My Friend Told Me She Broke Her Phone And Sent Me This

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#6 Lol “Gold Plated” My Ass. (Gold Doesn’t Rust) ?

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#7 Anyone Wanna Guess What Happened To The Server?

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#8 Marriott Hotel Network Closet – Where Past Problems Meet The Present

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#9 Ouch

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#10 When I Was Younger, I Tried To Dry My Laptop Keyboard By Putting It In The Oven On Low

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#11 This Mac Book Cable Being Used By A Staff Member At Work

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#12 This Beauty Of A Touchpad I Found At The Thrift…

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#13 How Do You Even Wear Dimples Into A Keyboard Less Than A Year Old? Is This The Keyboard Of A 50000 Wpm Typer?

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#14 My Mum Is Using Her Laptop In The Rain On The Beach

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#15 The Bad Part About Giving Tech Support To Your Local Food Place Is Seeing This And Knowing You Shouldn’t Eat There Any More

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#16 Even When Booting, iPhone 11 Displays Other Images

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#17 It Just Bothers Me

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#18 Thinkpad Overheating For Some Reason

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#19 Bought A Vic 20. Came With A Rad Wasp Nest. I Reckon This Is Fine

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#20 I Don’t Think The Problem Is With The Modem This Time…

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#21 So Yesterday My Hamster Escaped From His Cage And Somehow Ended Up Inside My Computer. My PC No Longer Works…

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#22 The Server / WiFi Setup Where I Work. (The Tupperware Is To Catch The Water From The Leaky Aircon)

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#23 Customer States “Our Intercom At The Gate Doesn’t Work” Meanwhile In The Connections Box

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#24 What Mandatory Sanitizing At Work Did To My Brand New $2,000 Laptop Last Winter

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#25 Pro Tip: Dont Store PC Stuff Near Paint When Moving Into A New House

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#26 Crunchy And Fibre Rich

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#27 Oh No!

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#28 My Local Government Office’s Server

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#29 I’m Gonna Start A Collection

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#30 What Do You Think It Looks Like Inside?

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#31 This How-To Video

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#32 New Girl At My Job Tried To Find Out The WiFi Password To Connect Her iPhone And Watch Tiktok During Breaks, Bent The Router Hook While Trying To Take It Off The Wall Brutally, That Metal Hook Got Stuck And Short Circuited The Router From Inside. People Are Dumber Than Donkeys

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#33 Second Hand Router I Bought Ran Too Hot. A 7-Up Can, Tape, And Toothpaste Solved The Issue

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#34 Can You Make A Network Map For Us?

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#35 Just Discovered This Sub – (About A Year Ago) A Customer Asked Me If I Could Recover Anything. He Bent It Across His Knee In A Drunken Rage One Night. Hdd Was Miraculously Undamaged And I Was Able To Do A Full Recovery!

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#36 Spaghetti On A Drill

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#37 People Are Often Shocked When They Found Out I’m Such A Bad Electrician (Not My Pic)

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#38 Sorry Guys, My Bad, Next Time I’ll Be More Careful Transporting The Instagram And Whatsapp Servers

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#39 Just Turn It Off And On Again. Should Work

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#40 “The Ports Stopped Working!” “Which Ones?” “All Of Them!”

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#41 Laptop Of A Guy I Sat Next To At Uni. It Still Works For Some Reason

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#42 We’ve Gone Too Far!

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#43 Client Told That Old Owner Would Leave All Network Infrastructure. Thank You

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#44 New Form Factor

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#45 Apparently This Is A Customer Server Power Supply

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#46 Do I Belong Here?

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#47 My Eyes It Burns!

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#48 The Aftermath Of A High Speed Rear End Collision With The Laptop In The Trunk

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#49 “I Didn’t Touch A Thing. I Just Walked In And It Was Like This” – Any Manager, Any Given Day…

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#50 What Do You Mean You’ve Converted You’re Data Line To A Clothes Line?

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#51 Pain

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#52 Got A Ticket About A Computer That Wouldn’t Boot. Found This Plugged In

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#53 “Screw In With Confidence”

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#54 Ahhh

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#55 When You’re Given 4 Business Hours Notice To Have 7 Workstations Available For A Training Class:

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#56 My Fan Was Vibrating And Making Loud Noises. Decided To Cut Around The Fan. It Now Passes The Diagnostic Test

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#57 Black Friday Came A Bit Early

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#58 Customer Stated “Minor Damage” On Intake Form, The Techs Think Otherwise

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#59 Omg

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#60 “I Am Not Satisfied With The Product.”

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#61 Oh God Whyyyy

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#62 “No, I Haven’t Spilled Any Liquids Near The Computer. Why Do You Ask?”

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#63 The New Bookmac Amateur

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#64 My Brother-In-Law Bought A Cheap 2tb Ssd, But He Said It Was Slow And Not Working Properly, So He Wanted Me To Check It Out And… Nice

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#65 My Boss Thinks He’s Funny

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#66 I’m Sure They’ll Be Calling Tech Support Soon

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#67 Friend Did This

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#68 10900k Keychain

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#69 My Chromecast Isn’t Having A Good Time

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#70 My Friend Said That He Don’t Know Why His Card Is Running Hot

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#71 How?

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#72 A Burning Laptop

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#73 Touchpad Ready For Lift Off In …

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#74 Bomb Defused – Counter-Terrorist Wins

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#75 We Shipped This Machine Brand New To Our Client Two Months Ago. This Weekend He Sent It Back To Rma, Wouldn’t Turn On. Client Said That He Had Another Tech Shop Take A Look At It B4 Sending To Us

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#76 What Do You Mean You’ve Converted You’re Data Line To A Clothes Line?

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#77 Customer Wasn’t Sure Why New Build Was Idling At 80c

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#78 A Friend Hired An Electrician To Run Ethernet Drops In His House

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#79 Found Outside My Office

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#80 Stripped Screw. Last Ditch Effort With Jb Weld. Will Try It Again Tomorrow, Wish Me Luck! Will Update If It Ends A Disaster

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#81 Client Reports Spotty Internet In Engineering Office

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#82 Client’s Face Turned Beet Red When I Asked If It Was Him Or His Son That Put On The Thermal Paste

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#83 I Tried To Unplug My Monitor And The Entire Socket Thingy Came Out

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#84 What A Day To Have Eyes

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#85 I Feel Like This Should’ve Worked

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#86 $1.90 In Change Removed From An Imac Optical Drive. Oh Yeah, Also A Chuck-E-Cheese Token.

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#87 We Found The Heat Problem For The Client

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#88 Got Called In This Morning

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#89 An Expensive And Insulting Soccer Ball

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#90 Platform From 2011 And Cpu Still Works After 0 Contact For All These Years

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#91 Blackberry Graveyard!

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#92 You Can Disconnect Neighbour’s TV

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#93 Built In Io Sheild

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#94 Gtx 470

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#95 This Is How The Office Christmas Tree Was Plugged In…

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#96 This Unmonitored Computer At Sox-35th Which Seems To Have Full Access To Every Switch Along The Red Line On The L. A Single Lock-Pick Could Bring Chicago To It’s Knees

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#97 A Backhoe And Bunch Of Optical Cables, Wcgw?

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#98 Only “Slight” Water Damange

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#99 Sold My Friend My Old Parts. Clearly This Was A Mistake. He Says It’s Currently Running A Minecraft Server As Well As A Whole Bunch Of Docker Containers. I Just Realized I Sold My Old Favorite Horse To The Glue Factory.

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#100 ”stuck During Sorting, You Guys Can File A Freight Claim Online”

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#101 Just Got This Computer In At Work. Looks Like Someone Spilt Hot Chocolate And Just Continued To Use The Computer For Months

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#102 Recently Moved. Wondered Why The Network Sockets Did Not Work And Borrowed The Tester From Work…

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#103 This Is How Dell Is Cooling A 1000+$ Cpu

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#104 It’s Hard To See But There Is A Cut That Goes Through The Bezel At The Top. In Addition To Destroying The Screen, This Student Cut Through The Chromebook! They Ran Their Face Mask’s Elastic String Back And Forth Creating Friction To Cut It.

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#105 Customer States She Could Not Copy Files On This 60$ 2tb Ssd From Amazon

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#106 “My Hard Drive Died And I Tried To Fix It But Got Stuck. Can You Recover The Data For Me?”

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#107 Saw This Full Page Marketing Ad For Finding Jobs

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#108 Why In My Opinion, It Guys Deserve Hazard Money…

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#109 D-Did You See The Ghost? It Ran Through Here And Slimed Me!

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#110 The New Eu Standard Powerplug Has Arrived!

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#111 Someone Installed This Fuse On +12v In Parallel

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#112 Gigabit Internet Connection In An Apartment Complex

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#113 Wcgw Putting Your Phone In The Microwave To Dry Off

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#114 Always Use A Firewall Kids

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#115 Found An Old Server Where My Father Works. I Wanted To Keep The Cpus Before They Threw Them Away And I Saw That They Left The Plastic Film On The Heatsinks. These Worked For A Decade Like This.

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#116 Just Received This From Ebay… From Another Country

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