techrecovery | Flashback to the past.....

In the early part of the 2000's, I spent three and a half years as System Support and SysAdmin for a neurological research lab. . (We were 90% Macintosh, 8% Windows, and 2% Sun)

Some of the smartest people I've ever encountered. And some of them could crash a mail or file server with an Etch-A-Sketch. Proving you can have people who are smart enough to say "horse" in 15 languages and still ride cows to work.

(I found out later that I was in the 2nd most stressful job in that institute. The guy who had this job before me is disabled now with PTSD, and the lab manager position (the most stressful), has had people undergo emotional breakdowns, mental breakdowns, and miscarriages from the stress)

Anyway, I was given a Gateway PC to repair, as the researcher said it suddenly "stopped working". My bullshit detector goes off. So I crack the case open.

Optical drive was disconnected.

I found three of the researchers business cards blocking the fan (He said it was "too noisy".)

There was a mummified grilled cheese sandwich in drive bay 2.

And the cream of the whole thing??

There was peanut butter ON the logic board!

I cleaned it up, got it back to working, made sure drive bay 2 had plates closing it off, and asked the researcher "I'm not looking to blame anyone, I'm not making accusations, but HOW did peanut butter get on the logic board???"

Of course, no answer......*rolls eyes*