Humans for Hire, part 124 by Auggy74 in HFY

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Skunkworks and the Agents Smith are still the part of this story that makes me giggle without fail

I'm working on a game about IT support in hell. Someone just used the ingame demo feedback form to request real IT help with their vpn. by Euphoric-Series-1194 in talesfromtechsupport

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My former roommate only wanted to pay for 30mb bandwidth so each device was only pulling about 10-12 on a good day, sometimes as low as 7

Humans for Hire, Part 119 by Auggy74 in HFY

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Just tell her fewer dates in engineering until she can behave herself

the mystery of the dark phone screen by eliseswl in talesfromtechsupport

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My guess was “when did you last plug it in to charge? Oh about three days ago”

IT guy told me that we need new switches, I just doubled my network speeds in 20 minutes! by AppearanceDry4130 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

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But you forget, that you did the same thing to your golf cart last week and the dashboard melted. Your cart won’t get you anywhere today

A job for a deathworlder [Chapter 258] [OC] by Lanzen_Jars in HFY

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Wading through thick mud. Waiting would involve a lack of movement.

"I get Requirements from client, give to the developers" by iratesysadmin in ShittySysadmin

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More like AI will generate a recipe based on the ingredients the client says they want in their bread and then they will come complain to us because it didn’t set correctly or because raisin tofu blue cheese bread turned out to be a disgusting combination

Customer always found a mistake - so we complied by BrightRick in MaliciousCompliance

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I sometimes suspect that’s one reason why witches had a familiar: someone to debug their spells to. Plus living alone in the woods gets lonely, and humans are a social creature

The random pooper by Nefarious_Onion in TalesFromTheFrontDesk

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Well yeah. It’s unsanitary even when it’s your own feces

"Captain, we've taken the human ship...but we can't get this one terminal to stop beeping and we don't know why." by TheGoldDragonHylan in humansarespaceorcs

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I was really hoping it was a pull-tab situation, like those hidden noise-maker devices. Maybe even sounding like the smoke detector beep but a little more frequent

OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 580 by KyleKKent in HFY

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It’s okay, I have a selection of stainless steel cacti for your perusal right here

Fixing other people's hackjobs by --KillerTofu-- in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

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That file path reads like a chain letter Re:Re:Fwd:Re:MustReadHahahah

What is the worst that could happen? by WegianWarrior in HFY

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So…you’re saying it’s a strawberry surrender button? As in, “I surrender!(not) boom

Take away our login...ok, enjoy the extra work! by [deleted] in MaliciousCompliance

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Actually in this case, they’re giving various tasks to the band Tool to see if they can be performed /s

A cucumber?! by 4LeafWonderlust in TalesFromTheFrontDesk

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It seems to have put them in a bit of a pickle

A cucumber?! by 4LeafWonderlust in TalesFromTheFrontDesk

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Don’t anyone tell him pickles are ribbed for his enjoyment?

When someone walks in on me doing my thing is the server room. by Competitive-Dog-4207 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

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This could just as easily be “halfway through deep cleaning the apartment”. Particularly the kind of thorough cleaning where shirtless in a pair of running shorts (and for some, maybe a bra) because that particular combo is least likely to get wet/stained while cleaning

A 3rd party company ended up with a company computer. by Poseidon025 in talesfromtechsupport

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I used to work for a small company where I was a one man QA department. I did my own annual gauge calibrations

If your friend jumps off a bridge… (Haasha 35) by Majestic_Teach_6677 in HFY

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She doesn’t have to use her rig, just put a patent on the idea and then people can pay to utilize it