Tag: Tales From Tech Support

January 2, 2026 at 7:46 pm

Employee Called The Help Desk To Locate A File, But When The Tech Told Her How To Find It, She Got Upset And Hung Up

Guy working on a computer

IT guys are expected to just work magic. 

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January 2, 2026 at 2:35 pm

Employee Was Given Unlimited Overtime To Create A Presentation For An Important Client, And He Absolutely Nailed The Assignment

smiling man looking at a computer monitor

With enough overtime and determination, you can accomplish anything!

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January 1, 2026 at 3:55 am

Technical Help Desk Employee Knows That Customer Often Lie About What Happened, But The Customer This Guy Encountered Just Didn’t Care

Annoyed computer guy

Why are so many users like this?

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December 31, 2025 at 2:35 pm

Company Tells IT Workers They Have To Work Overtime Without Pay, But The Employees Know It’s Illegal And Work With A Lawyer To Get A Big Payday

tech support workers looking at computer monitors in a server room

The law was definitely on their side!

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December 30, 2025 at 11:55 pm

His Dad Assured Him Twice That All Printer Cables Are Connected Properly And It Still Won’t Work, But This Man Later Found Out That One USB Cable Wasn’t Plugged In

Unplugged USB cable

Why users lie to tech support is beyond comprehension.

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December 30, 2025 at 10:35 pm

User Called To Troubleshoot His “Broken” Wireless Monitor, So Tech Support Had To Repeatedly Explain That It Just Needed To Be Plugged Into A Power Source

Man with headset looking at his computer screen

Tech innovations move so fast, it takes a while for users to keep up.

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December 30, 2025 at 3:55 am

IT Associate’s Network Stayed Perfectly Stable For Months, So He Ended Up Questioning Whether He Deserved His Own Paycheck

bored man looking at his computer screen

Funny how the jobs we complain about in our twenties become the ones we daydream about decades later.

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December 28, 2025 at 10:35 pm

Tech Support Employee Helped An End User Whose App “Wouldn’t Open,” But He Soon Learned That The User Skipped The One Step That Was Literally Marked In Bright Red

Man with a schocked reaction as he looks on his laptop

Some people couldn’t follow a simple step-by-step instruction.

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December 28, 2025 at 8:55 pm

Tech Guy Got A Call About A 20-Year-Old Coding Flyer He Forgot, So He Ended Up Stuck With A Couple’s Unfixable Web Game Disaster

An elderly couple looking at a laptop smiling

While they were trying to make a game, little did they know that they were being played.

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December 28, 2025 at 5:49 pm

Employee Was Always Ready To Help IT Requests, But He Realized That His Coworkers Will Call, Text, And Complain Instead Of Submitting A Simple Support Ticket

Person working on his laptop

How hard is it to submit a ticket, really?

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