You just can't make this shit up

[klytus.livejournal.com]

(X-posted to my private LJ)

I work in tech support, so over the years, I've seen a lot of stupid people do stupid things.

Yesterday, someone set a new standard.

How bad was it? I had to get photographic evidence of it, because there was just no way people would believe me otherwise. I wish to God I were making this up, but it is all too true.

Today, someone tried really hard to top yesterday's stupidity: a brand-new laptop in the (l)user's hands for less than 2 weeks, with complaints that it is running slow. Ya think maybe the 50-odd viruses and trojans might have something to do with it?!?

Alas, even this falls short of the mark.

Yesterday, someone sent me a laptop. It was in an actual FedEx laptop shipping box - which is far better than what other folks have used. But this guy still felt the need to add his own packing materials. The items he used were (and to quote Dave Barry, "I swear to God I am not making this up...")

... a plant-food brick (which got green dust all over one side of the laptop)...

... and, the pièce de résistance ...

... brace yourselves...

...a rolled-up set of toddlers pink.footie.pajamas.

Here's the evidence.

Yes - I submitted this to Failblog.

It's worthy.

Comments

[fluffydragon.livejournal.com]

oh come on, it's not THAT bad.. at least they tried, and it wasn't say, a pile of matted dog fur.

[polarbee.livejournal.com]

Meh. I was expecting something epic.

[meijhen.livejournal.com]

Not tech support, but definitely fail-worthy : When I was working for UPS as a package-handler (in-hub sorting), we had a cardboard box come down the ramp that was completely falling apart. And it STANK.

Some idiot had shipped, in a regular cardboard box, a chocolate cake and two whole TROUT. With two bags of ice to cool it.

Also, they shipped it ground. In AUGUST. They shipped it on a Thursday, with delivery guaranteed no more than 5 days out. We encountered it on Sunday night, after it sat in a truck all weekend.

I'm still not sure if it was a prank or somebody was really that stupid.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

return to sender, in a styrofoam cooler, just so you know it makes it back home and they get to open it.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

I dunno, the plant brick seems like a worse idea than the pajamas. At least the pajamas are soft and cushy...

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

Plant bricks are a sort of styrofoam iirc. It crumbles to dust really easily.

;)

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

Exactly... The jammies won't dissolve and probably gunk up the computer quite so easily. ^_^

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

I agree there. That dust stuff is evil.

;)

[ashonaut.livejournal.com]

I'm aware that the economy sucks, but is bubblewrap really such a priceless item now?..

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

I've scrounged packing material from whatever we had lying around the office before, but at least it was bubblewrap and styrofoam beans.
(I was pissed at the guys that a)bought substandard hardware from "cheap" suppliers instead of through the "official" channels, b)pawned the handling off on me when 3 out of the 7 boxes predictably broke and c)hadn't kept the original boxes.)

;)

[trayce.livejournal.com]

Does no one use crumpled up newspapers anymore? I'm not THAT old surely.

[moonsend.livejournal.com]

Where would one get this "newspaper" you speak of? I haven't laid hands on one in years...

[taleya.livejournal.com]

I find it on train seats mostly.

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

I knew the newspaper industry was in trouble, but I didn't know it was so bad that people don't have newspapers lying around anymore that they can crumble up to use as packing material.

[pixilated-serra.livejournal.com]

best idea ever: lets ship this brand new huge ass IBM server across the country and FILL THE INSIDE OF IT WITH FUCKING FOAM PEANUTS.

yeah. like the INSIDE inside. FAIL.

[teiru.livejournal.com]

D=

That is all.