People Who Fix Computers, What's The Worst Thing You Found? (r/AskReddit)

people who fix computer / laptops what's the worst thing you found on someone's computer 15 plus tool buzz that took up half the screen oh boy the last company I worked for I got a laptop back from one of the sales guys who was complaining that his computer was slow and kept crashing he was the sort of guy who rather than raise a ticket sends an email with the entire exec team copied in about how he couldn't do his job because it were incompetence et Cie etc well I got his laptop from him and noticed the hard drive was completely full most of the sales stuff is web-based so there was no reason for the local drive to have anything on it so I had a look expertly hidden on his hard drive in a folder called work stuff was over 300 gb of naked pictures and videos of himself literally thousands of pictures of him naked videos of him dancing naked videos of him shoving things in his ass one extremely awkward meeting with the guys manager later he was quietly let go the inside of a heavy smokers computer is beyond disgusting it creates a fine orange ash film that coats every single internal component smells wretched and will become a noxious cloud if you try and blow it off just go outside to smoke seriously father-in-law got a new computer and wanted stuff transferred over his old computer had viruses and ran like [ __ ] due to this I tried to figure out what actually needed transferring rather than just transferring everything after cleaning it up stumbled upon pictures of him and dragged and him getting a dildo shoved up his ass why do people insist on large thumbnails why couple of things I found a dead rat inside of PC one time customer couldn't fathom why it shorted out thing was like a mummy to old 90 year old dude comes in with a computer pop it on the tester / hook it up to a monitor and his background is the most hardcore gay porno ever there are like 10 customers waiting in the shop so I quickly just turned them on a tour off swap the desktop background out in the back and did the work was that an old couples house backing up all their pictures and those two old folks had some nasty self filmed amateur porn on there so many great pew bees had a customer come in and be like I don't know why my computer isn't working load up the desktop and there's tons of malware I asked what kind of sites he goes to so I can coach him on how not to get infected again and like clockwork a bunch of malware pop-ups start flashing and playing the ad sensitive song took everything in me to just hold it together all the other things are par for the course shooting a hidden porno folders labeled innocuously like I'm not gonna see some random folder labeled beach stuff that weirdly has like three TB in it while I'm backing up your files web histories to Nazi sites married dudes in 90% of their history as Craigslist hooker links I mean you work in it for like ten years nothing surprises you anymore at the FBI come in one time and take a computer that we were fixing one lady just left her kid two-year-olds at the shop after dropping the computer off for like three hours till CPS came and there was a giant brawl in the waiting area somebody took a dump on the floor in our line one time all in all it was a crazy crazy job buddy on my floor freshman year worked at the college help desk a guy who I actually knew through another friend brought his computer in to get fixed he was adamant about saving what was on the hard drive my buddy saw some interesting file names and decided to look further it was kiddie porn dude went to jail my buddy had to testify at trial my cow walker asked me to fix his computer and I agreed since he was a nice guy it turns out it was actually his 13 year old son's computer as soon as I got it I knew it was a bad idea it was disgusting covered in food particles and a white crusty residue I'm hoping wasn't protein juice it would not even boot up when I turned it on but I managed to get inside with Windows startup repair as soon as our ogden i saw dozens of torrent advised and hundreds of GBS of porn oh boy I ran a virus scan and it removed so many files that it corrupted the hard drive and prevented the laptop from booting I spent over 20 hours trying to recover the hard drive but it was royally [ __ ] I gave the laptop back to him after I was able to get it booted and agreed to stop fixing pcs on the side not on but in a guy I know that fixed computers for a living years ago had a customer bringing a computer stating that the floppy drive had stopped working when he opened it up he found cockroaches mashed against the read slash whiteheads in the drive he said he just closed it up and left it on the front step for the guy to come and retrieve Windows Vista my friend's dad used to fix up old computers and laptops and one day he told us about this time this elderly man came into his shop to get his old desktop fixed so he drops it off and immediately my friend's dad notices it smells off and I mean very off so he goes to fix it and when he pops open the side I should you not 20 cockroaches climb out of this thing and scatter away on the inside is this rotten piece of meatloaf leftover which has turned moldy black and gross my friend's dad said he almost threw up in the moment and they had to call an exterminator to kill the roaches he called the elderly man back to tell him about his computer troubles apparently the old man had dementia or something and thought the computer was a fridge and he had stored his leftover meatloaf in there needless to say they did not fix his computer I worked for my university the department in the laptop Depot so we basically would do any repairs on students faculty / stars laptops we had this really solid warranty with Dell where they were 100% covered for four years even including intentional misuse we saw all sorts of laptops full of dust smoke beer / wine / liquor they would always say they spilled juice on there laptop I got to the point where I could replace a motherboard on a latitude D 630 in under five minutes the only time I ever saw a laptop that we refused to repair was one kid who barked all over his my boss just put on rubber gloves put it in a plastic bag and Mail HIDTA Dell to be replaced at mild job some kid prob 17 or 18 at the time brought in his a sus gaming laptop for us to clean up the thing was riddled with malware some of the files we had to manually delete and when we went looking we found something interesting he had hours of sex tapes with him and his girlfriend also keep in mind that this is when Windows 8 one was new and he photo tile on the Start menu cycled through saved content when the kid came to pick up the laptop the Photos app showed a preview pic with his GFS ass and his penis clearly insider we quickly flipped the laptop around claiming that we forgot to re-enable something and turned off the live tile feature so that the pics would show up none of us that worked on the laptops it a thing to the kid or his dad when they came to pick it up a crusty old man walked into the shop with a look in his eyes like a child who just stole from the cookie jar the year is 2017 but he asks me if I can burn a CD for him I'm confused but I indulged the customer's request I asked him what he once burned to the CD he simply points to a folder titled new folder by instinct I double-click and in that moment what little innocence I had left died inside that indescribable folder hundreds of pictures of what I'm assuming his wife in what can only be described as explicit positions I'm sure she is a fine lady but age has not been kind to her the lack of Hygiene and poor diet didn't help either frozen in place I slowly turned my head to the old man's gaze only to be met whether simply indescribable grin and a slow nod never before in my life has I be not afraid disgusted and stunned that I had a job to do I grabbed a dusty old 700mb CD and burned those images to its form it was done the transaction was made but I was robbed of my innocence and of my sanity I don't fix computers but my parents gave me a task of fixing the family computer few clicks here and there and I ended up on my sisters are the FAFSA book account she was selling herself over on FB she posted her prices and schedule she also had 100 plus messages from guys asking to meet her I felt so sick I told my dad expecting him to talk to her about it he ended up kicking her out that night our family hasn't been the same since then underscore underscore underscore my friend has at NY slash oh brother who wanted his computer fixed it wasn't anything major and all I had to do was clear and back of his files I then decided to clear his history because there can sometimes be a thing that slows your computer down so I opened it there was a ton of porn in his history mainly really messed up gente worst of all he caught me looking at this shirt he got mad at me and we never brought it up again my brother works on laptops and one time a guy came up to get Windows 8 put on his computer this man was her old family friend and while he was backing up files he found a video of the man's daughter I won't go into details of what it is for the sake of keeping my blood pressure down but my brother immediately alerted the authorities and the man is now serving a 12-year prison term has just lucky my brother was at his place of business or I believe he would have killed him instead of calling the law I worked for a repair center for a few years most of the time it was usually like a family man with a hidden gay folder nothing wrong with that but you could tell her wife and stuff didn't know found best eality maybe once or twice both times were great days at work because the jokes were cranked too high those days we found underage stuff only one time we had this dude that came in all the time and he was weird as [ __ ] he looked like a stereotypical pedo you'd see on TV he had long greasy hair always wore sweatpants with Jane shorts over top and a short sleeve polo with a we're underneath it was the strangest [ __ ] Jetta ever anyway he would come in every six months or so to have his PC worked on and when we asked for the password to get into it he would refuse so our only option would be for format the drive and reload the arse so we did that every six months for like two years one day he comes in and tells us not to wipe and reinstall this time and that he took the PW off the computer because he needs a data this time we go through and get rid of the and where he kept complaining about but I was curious now so I went to his dr the rectory and typed jpg PNG into the drive search which then locates all those extensions sure enough it's what we all thought so he called the cops and had them wait in the building the day he said he was going to pick the Machine up used to work at a small computer repair shop every now and then you'd find porn or something like that nothing too unusual the worst part was usually the physical state of the machines as a courtesy the shop I worked for would always blow the dust out of systems that came in smokers computers were the worst years of tar and dust buildup just would not come loose there was one system that as soon as we opened it we saw dozens of roaches inside we quickly closed up the case taped up all openings stuck it in a bag and fumigated it there was this other time that an customer brought their system in for weird performance issues turns out that their cat puke round the side vent all over the moth abort customer wanted to pay for us to clean it rather than replace it I used to work for a Native American tribe and the tribes lawyer was an ass who demanded to be waited on hand and foot one day I was surfing through the program we used to remote into other computers and it will take a screenshot of the last thing the computer was doing there it was he was looking at chicks with dicks I notified my supervisor which he notified his supervisor I was told to look the other way I gave up you want me to enforce policy on other users but not him so I found a new job banquet someone once brought in a cooler to the repair shop I was completely confused asked awkwardly if I could help the guy guy opens the cooler and hands me a freezing laptop that keyboard is literally bowed out because of the ice that formed in the motherboard apparently the guy spilled water all over his computer and his friend told him to put it in the freezer so it would turn into a solid dumbest thing I have ever experienced one time a woman shipped her laptop to me to have it fixed from a satellite office it just stopped working she said when I opened the box and took it out a bunch of red wine leaked out of the case onto the floor it's the worst thing that I found because I hate red wine

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Length: 13min 42sec (822 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 28 2019