Okay fine; in keeping with today's theme, and then some...

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Recently (as in last week) we were sent one of the company's laptops for repair. The Suit using it claims he "dropped a curio cabinet on it."

A fucking CURIO CABINET. Never mind that dropping this on a Dell laptop only spider-cracked the LCD.

During a lunchtime discussion with my fellow techs, one of them says in a jovial manner, "I don't care; if you are male and own a goddamn curio cabinet you are gay." I'm not much for furthering such stereotypes personally, but it quickly became a more relevant comment...

Standard procedure is to check the drives of anything sent in for malware, "unapproved" applications and anything else that generally doesn't belong. What was found was a boatload of PENIS. There was a hefty amount of naked men posing, getting it on, inserting foreign objects, you name it.

On a not-so-extreme level, I guess it's probably something a tech would expect to find at some point. What brought the lolz upon us was the index.dat on the machine: the guy made daily visits to eBay's adult section and won several auctions therein, including one for a "see-thru banana hammock" and several for amateur gay porn.

The worst part of all this is that he was almost allowed to only receive a written warning. Strangely enough, the HR rep's husband convinced her to proceed otherwise. O.o Oh, and the Suit's wife was less than pleased.

Also of note is the machine a few months ago that contained no small amount of scat porn, but there's no real backstory there.

Mentally challenged material from this morning, not pertaining to the dangly-bit theme, if you feel like continuing:

We are forwarded a bounceback notice, with no further explanation. The notice was forwarded to the correct Support@$company.com address, and appears as such:

From: Mxxxx Mxxxx
Sent: Fri 4/27/2007 11:44 AM
To: suport@....com
Subject: passwords

Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.

Subject: passwords
Sent: 4/27/2007 11:44 AM

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

suport@....com on 4/27/2007 11:44 AM
There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator.
[mail1.....net #5.5.0 smtp;550 <suport@....com>: Recipient address rejected: No such user (suport@....com)]

Does anyone but me see the irony in forwarding an email to the correct Support address that was undeliverable due to misspelling the Support address in the first place?

Comments

[kestrelct.livejournal.com]

I was attempting to get LDAP to spell a friend's last name for me the other day by typing firstinitialbeginningoflastname and it just kept not working, so I caved and typed in the whole thing. I go to send the massage and it tells me it's undeliverable and the address does not exist. I remember that our email is formatted lasnamefirstinit, and feel stupid.

Usually when I get bounces the first damn thing I check is spelling, I run into a lot more of my own user errors than I do anything else having gone wrong. But clearly some people think they're less falliable than the computerbox...

I don't even know what to say about the curio cabinet. Other than "how do you drop furniture on a laptop!?"

[kestrelct.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this comment is a great example of why I assume bounces are because of my mistypings...*hangs head in shame*

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

My guess is he knew he had too much adult content on that computer and thought if he destroyed it in some sort of "accident" it would get taken off his hands and the stuff would never be found. Pretty dumb if the Suit has any material of importance to the business on it (and that's likely if he has a laptop at all). Then again, this is techsupport, where lusers by definition have an effective IQ < 100, or we wouldn't be talking about them.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

:D we had one of those last night. Manager ranting and screaming about how no one was actioning a (quite frankly pathetic and worthless) issue he'd brought up, and then when he actually looked at his mail, found a bounce from mailerdaemon. Immediately loads it into the cannon and starts using it as futher fodder of how shit the support team is, even the fucking mail is down, blah blah blah

He'd sent it to suppport@xxx

[codecattx.livejournal.com]

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why?

Why do people put pr0n on company boxes?

Come on people, is it that hard to keep in your pants? (pun intended)

[taleya.livejournal.com]

What was found was a boatload of PENIS

HOMOSEXUAL PARTY BOAT!

[toxico.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Now I have to clean root beer off of my (porn-free) laptop's screen...

[vertelemming.livejournal.com]

What I find amusing about this whole post is that the porn was outside the LJ-cut and the worksafe material was inside...