PC poison

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OK, I'm really hoping that everyone here has one of these people around. Its a bad thing to want, but I hope I am not the only one feeling this pain. The pain I talk about is PC poison. A person that with out any intention or ill will towards technology can destroy it with out trying. Its like Marvel should make a super villian based on this person. I had a friend in college who would turn any PC to dust just by touching it. She would walk past your dorm room and the computer would just black out No error, no warnig, no blue screen, just poof... and your shit is dead. Well, where I am working now I have found another of her kind. I'm guessing they have a gene that not only causes great stupidity and uselessness, but also gives them some kind of biological EMP. This user is one of my banes here. Thinking of her gives me a cold shiver, for real. She makes me want to cry for what she does to computers. They didn't ask for such abuse it just comes to them at random... Like an act of god contained in a single spark of static eletricity that wreaks havoc. During my time here she has done the following:

- shattered a cd in the drive because of a sticky label on the disk causing an inbalance and breakage
- killed explorer with shitty burned CDs
- has got too many for me to count floppies stuck in a drive
- put floppies in backwards and upside down
- put floppies in zip drives
- put labels over the slide of a floppy
- left several floppy slides in the drive
- somehow completely currupt software resulting in reinstalls
- has no idea why she can not login when it clearly says Administrator or another eser name in the box
- wiped out other peoples files causing restores to be done
- killed our very expensive shade scanning software.
- Do I need to mention viruses on a NON-network PC? (don't ask how)

The worst part is that I can not lecture her about doing bad things because I never see her do it and she has no idea what she did to break it. "I don't know, it just happened." Unreal. Then today, I actually witnessed it. It confirmed my supisions, she is PC poison. While setting up a laptop for her to go offsite tomorrow to do some scans she killed the laptop. She didn't fuck up the scan, or the software,or the scanning device. She killed the fucking laptop. I was amazed. I set everything up and it was fine. I then had her go through a dry run to work out any bugs because getting her to do anything on a pc correctly is like teaching a monkey to drive. She logged in, plugged in the device and cradle, and started the scan software. She did a scan and then placed the device into the cradle and POOF! the screen goes black. Huh?!? I spend a few minutes trying to get the laptop to boot again. No dice. nothing, just a quick blip on the LED for the power button. This crazy bitch has just fried the laptop. All she did was put the scanner in the cradle. It defies logic. I was successful in setting up a second laptop for her. I can't wait for the calls I will be getting from her tomorrow about this when she is an hour and a half away and it all fucks up there.

Should be a fun call to Dell tomorrow to get on site repair for this. A half hour of stripping HW and listening for beeps when I know the mobo is toast. Grrr!