Things that make you go *barf*

[dragonbofh.livejournal.com]

Generally speaking my users aren't so bad, however there are some things people do that just make me want to loose my lunch;

1: Baby pictures as wallpaper
This is not necessarily so bad in itself, however the babies in question invariably are photographed in a state of filth; either eating worms, smeared with food or with unspeakable substances oozing from their nose.

2: Sneeze-screens
We all have to sneeze from time to time, and we all have to eat and drink, however I would really appreciate it if users would refrain from doing all at once... all over their laptops. At least cover your mouth or use a napkin!

3: Keyboard-chow
Similar to the above; please do not be eating above your keyboard, when I can shake half a bread factory out from under the keys I just want to vom.

Does anyone have any they'd like to add?

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

Dog hair. But I'm the culprit here. The techies want me to keep the laptop in a room where the dog isn't allowed, but there is no such room in my world :)

I'm guilty, I admit it. I should buy stock in allergy medicine.

[tattooofhername.livejournal.com]

Pornographic wallpaper/screensavers. Especially when they come with extra spyware thrown in for free...

As if I needed another reason to dislike my teenage cousins.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Tobacco smoke in a chassis. The moist crud it becomes... GAH!





And I'm eternally grateful our remote control software blanks out backgrounds for the sake of speed...

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

This. I had to rebuild a system like this once and had to place it in a whole other cube otherwise I couldn't get my other work done due to not being able to breathe. The last thing I need is more secondhand smoke and from a computer no less.... *facepalm*

[tauren-wardrums.livejournal.com]

I had a guy one time who had a picture of his girlfriend's crotch as his background. My only consolation was that she was wearing her underwear, and it somehow looked like the shade of a floor lamp. But once I realized what it was, I refused to touch that machine again.

[jokergirl.livejournal.com]

Crusty mice.

If you have to ask... be glad.

;)

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

*vom*

[cirobi.livejournal.com]

This goes along with the bread factory in a keyboard... but dried who knows what on keyboard keys. I had to go with the hunt and peck method of typing once because I had to wrap my fingers in tissues because the keys were so encrusted with lord knows what kind of nasty substances. :(

[biggeek.livejournal.com]

I call it "finger cheese"

[anivair.livejournal.com]

Last time i cleaned out an old keyboard I got a lot of hair (the user was going bald while he used it) as well as old food and bits of fingernail. nice.

[falnfenix]

does no one else in this community lysol keyboards? i never fear laptop keyboards because i clean them with lysol as part of my repair/maintenance routines.

[knottie.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, but we keep a supply of gloves on hand for just this reason

[lunatic59.livejournal.com]

Got industrial strength hand sanitizer on my desk at all times. The only thing with more alcohol in it is my beverage.

[tecknow.livejournal.com]

If they don't recognize the smell, they won't take them back.

[docskurlock.livejournal.com]

How about going into someone's home and finding shit like that all over their keyboard? God, some people's computers that I worked on were absolutely disgusting. I had to carry around hand sanitizer and SCRUB my hands vigorously just to feel like they were clean again.

[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

Shoes under the desk. Blarg. Crusty old smelly shoes usually, and an unnecessary volume of them. I do not want to be crawling around amongst that.

And lazy cleaning crews that don't bother hoovering under there.

[tothwolf.livejournal.com]

Telephone handsets
I suspect most people here know exactly what I mean...

[tanamiya.livejournal.com]

Had a MacBook returned to $retail_store with some strange, crusty, dried liquid spattered on the keyboard.

What's worse is that we were instructed to clean it, format it, and resell it.

D=

[lunatic59.livejournal.com]

I always buy from the pathogen discount rack.

[seaofdestiny.livejournal.com]

and resell it.

!!!

Words fail me.

[darquethoughts.livejournal.com]

Logged remotely into a customer's computer once, her wallpaper was her two sons who had gone on a deer hunting trip. With the deer, gutted and bleeding onto the ground.

There was so much blood!!

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

Worse than the most disgusting computer I've ever worked on is trying to help coworkers who've just come back from a smoking break. Do smokers not realize just how bad they reek?

[methedras.livejournal.com]

Nope we destroy our nostrils so we are totally oblivous. =D

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Keyboard-chow

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have a new winning phrase.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

People who call up and proceed to chomp their food/gum and/or slurp their drinks in my ear. Fucking disgusting.

As for people who dislike scummy keyboards, latex (or poly) gloves are cheap and easy to get these days.

[kekewy.livejournal.com]

I haven't had to many keyboard gross-outs, but desktops... *shudder* I've seen them splattered with unidentified substances, covered in tar from smokers, and full of roaches and urine. The splattering is the worst, though, especially when the user flat out admits to looking at porn. -_-;;; Forget gloves, I cover those with a trashbag to move them.

[vxo.livejournal.com]

The worst I've had was drops of a dried, once clearly thick, slightly off-white, solidified substance on a broadcast console.

Wearing gloves and scrubbing it with various cleaners did not do anything at all. I was genuinely terrified at this point...


... Until I happened to find the source. A young female DJ was lighting candles and putting them on the console during her show.

Much relieved, I scraped the CANDLE WAX off with my fingernails, and politely asked her not to put her candles on top of the equipment.