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Coworker tells on himself by complaining to CEO when IT guy deletes banned and inappropriate "personal" files off his work computer: 'He went to the CEO and complained'

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IT worker told to stop wasting time helping their coworkers, IT tickets get out of control when all the small problems are no longer getting fixed: 'Everyone was quietly enjoying the fact that Boss's ridiculous policy had backfired spectacularly'

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Boss demands IT engineer write "more words" on ticket resolutions, they begin writing a novel hidden in the reports: 'You're averaging well over a 1000 characters per ticket, keep it up!'

Gas company cancels customer's technician appointment 30 minutes before it's due, customer convinces the entire building to switch gas companies as payback: ‘It's going well’

Gas company cancels customer's technician appointment 30 minutes before it's due, customer convinces the entire building to switch gas companies as payback: ‘It's going well’

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Woman tells roommate she's going to charge him for any future IT help due to his "learned incompetence": '[He] just sits there and wait[s] for someone else to fix it'

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Coworker complains about tech support worker getting credit for their unfinished jobs, forced to finish them himself: 'So now, he’s doing twice, sometimes 3 times the work, all because he wanted full credit for partial results'

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Boss demands software service rep stick to the script causing client catastrophe: 'My boss said, "Just follow the script"… so I did—all the way to a million-dollar client meltdown'

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Employee denied raise and told they're replaceable after becoming sole engineer on a project, costs the company big when they quit: '$500,000 and two years of productivity over a $40,000/yr raise'

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Developer embarrasses new boss and gets foolish "no overtime" policy overturned by adhering strictly to it: 'Well, it's 4:30. That's my 8 hours. I'll see you tomorrow'

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Software giant fires last developer capable of servicing $25M contract in short-sighted cost-cutting measure, he successfully negotiates $1M/yr consulting fees:'Never fire the last legacy knowledge guy...'

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'Tech Support Aura is a powerful thing': 24-hour IT support guy goes god-mode when clueless office staff repeatedly unplug a computer then claim that it's broken, resulting in an epic 'I told you so' moment

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HR refuses to give developer raise by downplaying their work, forced to eat their words when their software stops working

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Major client foolishly insists tech support delete all data, tech support refuses to comply saving the client's business: 'Their entire company basically shut down for an afternoon'

Tech support employee fakes a client's major data deletion to prove that he knows what he's talking about, save all their data but waits for them to come crawling back

Tech support employee prevents major deletion of client's data despite being asked to remove their subscription, maliciously complies by faking the deletion of data to prove a point

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‘Explain it to me like I’m five': Tech support employee attempts to assist CEO with internet problems remotely, resulting in a dispute about how IT breaks information down for employees

‘Explain it to me like I’m five': Tech support employee attempts to assist CEO with internet problems remotely, resulting in a dispute about how IT breaks information down for employees

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20+ IT workers share the strangest thing and most incompetent technological blunders they've witnessed at work: 'An outgoing software dev put an easter egg in our ERP before he left...'

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