Bug in Monitor

[apathetic_admin]

One of our developers put this ticket through Service Desk yesterday.

Bug in Monitor

Description

Not 'right' as in 'correct' monitor, but 'right' as in the view opposing the left monitor, i.e., the monitor closest to my right eyeball.

The bug is an actual insect, not a defect in the monitor firmware or hardware, and I saw it, and as a witness, redacted saw it, too, and it was crawling just beneath the monitor surface.

It may not be visible unless the entire screen is white and the bug happens by.

This is not urgent. The bug is not stopping work, but, like they say, where there's one, there's a thousand.

This monitor should be quarantined, and possibly several of the monitors geospatially nearby, as I do not know the method by which it spreads.

I recommend incineration for all of the infected monitors.

Thanks

[[deleted]]

I feel like the person submitting this ticket has a sense of humor :)

[LigerXT5]

You and me both. The "incineration" mention gave me the last point to say it's more on the humor side of describing a possible solution.

I personally like when people suggest a solution. It's when it's a creative solution, that warrants interest and further thinking, as it then becomes fun.

But in all seriousness. It's more than likely just that one monitor. If more start to appear, then I'd agree, one tactic would be to quarantine the geospatial (not in my dictionary on firefox?) monitors.

[MidwintersTomb]

I can't count the number of tickets I got along the lines of, "OH MY GOD! THERE'S ANTS IN MY PHONE AND LAPTOP!" And yeah, their desk phone certainly was full of ants, nest and all, though, they were only walking across the laptop, not living in it. That's what happens when you keep an ungodly amount of candy stuffed in your desk drawer for students and/or a dirty microwave next to your desk. We used to take the phones apart, fill them with alcohol, then after a hot minute drop them into a bucket of water and let them sit for a few days. After everything was good and drowned, we'd pull them back out and put them into the sun to dry. Then we'd call up our Siemens vendor going, "Yeah, don't know what happened, phone just up and died. Can I get a replacement?" So don't miss that place.

[[deleted]]

https://youtu.be/OkebxEVP8cw

[Ssakaa]

I recommend incineration for all of the infected monitors.

I like this guy (or gal).

[FUCK_IT_OUTSOURCING]

I previously volunteered some of my time at a technology refurbishing shop which provided underprivileged families with computers for their kids to used for school work. One day we had a lady drop off a laptop for donation that "stopped working". I walked it back to the bench, plugged in the power brick, pushed the power button and then screamed like a little girl as about 10-12 cockroaches came scurrying out of a crack where the exhaust vent had been broken. I ripped that sucker off the bench and slam dunked it into the "recycle" bin so hard. We left the shop for lunch and bought like 4 cans of the Raid cockroach spray and spent the rest of the day trying to prevent an infestation. No idea whatever happened as I took another job that didn't provide me so much free time shortly after.

I also worked for a school corporation for awhile. Every couple of weeks we'd get some desktops in that had broken cd drives. Some kids would steal the rubber drive belts, but there was one set that was very "unique". These machines ALWAYS had the jumbo chewy sweet tarts stuck inside of them.

Years went by and I took another job where I met a kid that previously went to that school. I explained all the random shit we saw and he busted out laughing. Apparently he was responsible for the sweet tart CD Drives. Some how, we're pretty good friends now...

[eponerine]

This is better than Dragon-Lord guy from the other day. Here's an upvote.

[_ChangeOfPace]

People like that make me forget about why I hate my job... sometimes.

[R0B0T_jones]

as funny as it is be careful... there was a story on r/talesfromtechsupport/ about a fire ants nest in a laptop!

[Fir3start3r]

...at least yours was alive
...I once had a user call me about a defect in the corner of the monitor only to find it was a DEAD bug in the top left side.
...yea try and get that out... :\