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Bakery Reports Urgent "Hacking" Issue, but Tech Support Finds a Surprisingly Simple Cause
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (687+ words) Not every emergency IT situation turns out to be a high IQ hacker trying to get into someone's computer. Some cases are actually pretty comical, like this one. It came in as a high-priority alert from a warehouse client. The…...
IT Guy Spends Forever Troubleshooting a Customer's Problem " The Cause Was Embarrassingly Simple
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (406+ words) Customer Service and Tech Support workers have to spend the entirety of their days answering hyper-specific questions from customers who very often don't know a computer from a calculator. Their job requires a mix of patience, understanding, and ingenuity that…...
Manager's Absurd Toner Rule Backfires Into a Massive Building-Wide Cleaning Disaster
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (1397+ words) Imagine working in a building where you have to dispose of something that can be really messy, but different people in positions of authority give you different directions about how to dispose of it. Following one person's orders results in…...
An Electronics Student Was Assigned a Advisor for His Graduation Project'Until the Mentor Sabotaged His Degree
1+ week, 1+ day ago (799+ words) In this story, one electronics student is in this exact situation. The supervisor really is awful, but the student is wondering if they messed up by not giving the supervisor a thank you gift. Let's read the whole story to…...
A Boy Printed A 3-D Cowboy Hat For His Cat
4+ week, 7+ hour ago (193+ words) Are 3-D printers cool, or what? You better believe that's the truth! And this video proves it. A mom posted it and showed folks the creative project her son embarked on with his 3-D printer. She walked into her son's…...
Electronics Store Workers Noticed a Customer Who Always Asked for Demos but Never Made a Purchase
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (480+ words) Fact: if your job requires you to deal with the general public, chance are pretty good that you're gonna deal with some interesting characters. In this story, a worker at an electronics store talked about a customer who liked to…...
Woman Loves Listening to Music in the Shower, but Her Neighbor Says It's Becoming a Problem
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (523+ words) Yes, a lot of folks like to sing in the shower'but that doesn't mean that everyone enjoys it. In today's story, a woman talked about why her neighbor decidedly isn't a fan of her vocal performances. Check out what she…...
Military Employee Prepares Plan to Replace Outdated Cameras, but Leadership Pushes Back Despite Limited Understanding
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (736+ words) The best of the internet, sifted, and sorted....
The IT Revenge: He Didn't Get Paid, So He Told the Customer's Wife the Truth
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (526+ words) It's saying as old as time itself" If you play stupid games, you're gonna win stupid prizes! And this guy's client found that out the hard way. Check out what he had to say about why he exacted some petty…...
Your Chatbot Is Sucking Up To You On Purpose, And While It Might Feel Great To Be Flattered, But It's Not A Good Sign At All
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (441+ words) Whatever your overall opinion of AI, there's no doubt about the fact that it has issues. Inherently problematic for many reasons, AI has drawn criticism for its effects on the job market, the huge and polluting datacenters required to power…...