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Um, Karen, the thing about instructions from the world's perfectly well meaning tech support professionals is that you need to actually follow the advice for your problem to be resolved. Pretending to follow the advice being given to you just isn't going to cut it. There's something to be said about the stubborn fortitude of the strikingly clueless individuals that also assume they know everything. They're so committed to being right when they're clearly wrong that it's near impossible to make any progress. For another ridiculous tech support tale check out the time that a customer assumed that the internet runs on literal magic.

There are two kinds of device owners, people who revere their laptops like a hollow Easter bunny made of flammable glass, and the other ones. The ones who store pieces of bologna in disk trays and drill speed holes in their keyboards, or people like this lady who claimed her computer was losing files, but was actually just deleting them. So naturally, tech support has to face some waking nightmares.

We've all lost some work to the fates of computer junk, but usually we have the benefit of blaming the system we're using. We get to say "damn this program, I thought I had that crap saved but it's done screwed me over again!" But not this time. IT gets some characters, like this guy who thought he knew better than IT but learned otherwise.

You don't need to know much about computers to understand that being asked to print a video file is a stupid endeavor, but this manager wasn't having it. Apparently this was the last thing on top of a pile of other complaints that led to her professional demise. Sometimes managers really don't know whats up, leading to stories like this employee who robbed a museum to prove a point. Here's one about an Aunt Karen who offered exposure for art payment and her scam fell apart.

Oh mom, her heart was in the right place. Little did she somehow not know that the act of washing a computer would result in the technology being completely ruined. Just imagine being the poor tech support employee caught up on the other end of this absurd debacle. For some more tech support drama check out this customer who tried to get a tech support employee fired, and then ended up being showed up in the process. 

In this technologically-infused era it's easy to forget just how wildly far our various technological devices have progressed. And then from there, how truly strange different pieces of technology can end up being if they get busted. Honestly, these insights are pretty hilarious. You just never know if that old laptop might be on its last legs. 

There are few companies where management actually knows what's going on. This person had a nearly unusable computer that doubled as a server, and since no one wanted to actually do anything about it, the company felt the pain for the next long while. Weird how some stuff just slips through the cracks. In an opposite but similar vein, here's a guy who improved company efficiency but had that disbanded by management. For an IT triumph, here's a time when management illegally banned overtime pay but IT got it all back.

A WiFi name can be a protest, a joke, or almost any other form of personal expression. Some people turn theirs into terrific puns while other people just want to see the world burn. Here are some clever and funny names people gave their WiFi. For more name stuff, here are some horrible names of actual people.

Anyone who has ever worked a job in tech support is likely well accustomed to a wealth of computer users not understanding the simplest of things. It's like we have all this wonderful technology available at our disposal, but sometimes folks fall through the cracks, and really need all the help they can get over things that should be common sense. In this wonderful scenario we have a computer user who somehow doesn't understand how tabs work. Just digest that one for a second. Check out more times that tech support ended up facing waking nightmares over here. 

If something in life seems too good to be true, that's probably because it is. Take this customer's experience with being able to buy an $89 computer. Turns out that $89 computer was actually supposed to be over $800. Whoops. With that being said, the customer didn't do anything wrong. That doesn't mean that they're not going to be potentially legally implicated if they refuse to meet that store in the middle. Seems like quite the tricky and awkward situation. 

There are universal moments that people experience, some weird hard rules about our universe, and just some straight up weird coincidences that would give anyone reason to believe that we're living in a poorly run simulation. People see what they consider to be glitches in the matrix all the time, and it's extremely tempting to believe that it's all a simulation, man.

Computer trouble is a mystery to a lot of people, so it makes sense that it'd be easy to miss something. It's strange to look back and realize something you didn't know was going wrong, like these things people later discovered were illegal. For some funny scammer revenge, here's a scammer who got trolled with made up neighbor drama.

Man, oh man, this ancient artifact of a computer actually looks like it'd be a whole lot of fun to play around with. A true throwback. 

Just when you thought you'd seen it all, Twitter goes in on a strange conversation about kids boiling eggs for their computer mouses. Naturally, the ensuing reactions are hilarious. People just want to know if it's real or not. Nobody knows who to believe. 

It's a fascinating experience watching anyone tackle playing a video game for their first time. Confusion, disorientation, and all kinds of hilarious silliness ensue. This guy decided he'd introduce his girlfriend to PC gaming, and he chose to start with "Portal". It sounds like his explanation of how to play the game, and the way that information was received, created quite the conundrum.