techrecovery | Some people are just cursed with bad male behavior.

Since it's a day for sharing bad porn stories, I'll chime in.

I trained this one lady on my last helldesk and did her first tethering sessions. It would just be her luck that she got one of the funniest, but most pathetic calls I think I ever heard in the business. Our desk did three big things - we got rid of spyware, viruses, and porn since warranty support didn't cover it. This was a very young sounding male, probably just barely of legal age. If this wasn't over a year and a half ago I'd give a play by play of this, but he is stuttering throughout this call. Apparently, he had "seen the light" and it was time for him to repent. His sinful ways had led him into temptation, and oh boy, it meant a lot of temptation. He had a lot of porn. This was my poor newbie rep's very first phone call. I am doing my very very best to hold back my laughing tears at what she's being put through in hearing this while she's almost in tears.

He wanted it all gone. He couldn't take it any longer. The love of Jesus was in his heart now. This went on and on to the point where trying to actually help him would have been a challenge for anyone. To make this worse he's sobbing into the phone too. This goes on for so long that while call times aren't tracked for new reps they were checking on this anyway and words defied the spectacle going on. The managers were monitoring this remotely because they couldn't believe their eyes. Ultimately we reformatted this machine because it guaranteed the result he wanted.

Several months later this same rep (a mother in her mid 30s) stumbled across a coworker who just couldn't wait to take care of his business. For that matter, he couldn't even take it to the bathroom. She caught him jerking off at his cube (this is a typical call center cube farm) with porn up on his screen. She was still working there when I left. I have no idea why she didn't move on.