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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Aeallison my trust BOFH side kick, I WANT to get you started because these are all great stories ;) Whebever you have some time go ahead and list some more ;) And thanks you guys, I think this thread is doing well too.
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Hey guyz,
Here is a funny story! I worked at wendys a while back... And the company had just bought these brand new touch screen cash machines to take orders on! Naturally all the cashier's (including me) got to watch a training video on how to work these new "high tech wonders"..... Anyways, to make a long story short... Those machines have alot of buttons... and whenever you push one, it makes a beeping noise to confirm that you've pressed it... So, one day I thought that it would be great to make alot of beeping noises to the rhythem of mission impossible to impress one of the new girls... This turned out to be a bad idea! After pushing on the screen so much in random spots. (I wasn't pushing an buttons) It cause a "critical error" YEP! Thats right, the cash register gave me the blue screen of death!!! LOL!! So naturally, I closed the program that was "not responding" and then I was booted straight back into windows 2k.... :p Needless to say, my manager was not impressed, and neither was the girl :cool: However, my general manager did tell me that I discovered a "problem" in the program that made the cash machines unstable after so many clicks. That made me feel a little better... at least some good came out of my misadventures :D
I did something similar while working at Mcdonalds that I carried with me over to Wendy's. I discovered that they dont pay dick for the **** work I do so when someone pays me for a big order I give them the change and after I close the window I hit the discount button and keep the extra. Easy way to get about 100 dollars extra a day.Quote:
Originally posted here by Turmoil
Hey guyz,
Here is a funny story! I worked at wendys a while back... And the company had just bought these brand new touch screen cash machines to take orders on! Naturally all the cashier's (including me) got to watch a training video on how to work these new "high tech wonders"..... Anyways, to make a long story short... Those machines have alot of buttons... and whenever you push one, it makes a beeping noise to confirm that you've pressed it... So, one day I thought that it would be great to make alot of beeping noises to the rhythem of mission impossible to impress one of the new girls... This turned out to be a bad idea! After pushing on the screen so much in random spots. (I wasn't pushing an buttons) It cause a "critical error" YEP! Thats right, the cash register gave me the blue screen of death!!! LOL!! So naturally, I closed the program that was "not responding" and then I was booted straight back into windows 2k.... :p Needless to say, my manager was not impressed, and neither was the girl :cool: However, my general manager did tell me that I discovered a "problem" in the program that made the cash machines unstable after so many clicks. That made me feel a little better... at least some good came out of my misadventures :D
I took an internal helldesk job years ago at a local company while I was still in college for some extra money.
Like any poor bastard in tech support, I got my fair share of really crappy calls, but one in particular is still fresh
in my mind...
I was helping a woman in sales install some software on her PC. 10 or so minutes into the call, I realized that
she was doing something very weird, none of the things I asked her to do were giving the result I thought they
would. She even rebooted, twice. 40 minutes into the call, a fellow employee volunteered to go to her office
and see what was going on. It turns out that when I said "put your mouse on such_and_such" that she
was actually putting the mouse itself _on_ the screen and trying to click. We laughed about that for months.
-- spurious
This one happened to a friend of mine. And I tend to use it as an example of what students will face in the real world.
My friend worked as support for a large financial/insurance company. He would answer ticket calls via the phone and then forward them to appropriate persons (hardware experts, etc.) if it couldn't be solved via the phone. Anyways, one day he gets a call from one of the managers. Now, something to keep in mind: many companies do not allow employees to install hardware, for obvious reasons. Keep this in mind.
The manager was saying that he had just installed an ATI All-in-Wonder Card and the card didn't seem to be working. My friend had figured out that it had run out of IRQs and it couldn't be supported properly (I don't know which Windows it was running on). My friend was a little nervous about telling this guy he couldn't use the card and that he shouldn't have installed it in the first place so he passed it on to his boss. He explained the situation to the boss and waited to see what happened.
Boss gets on the phone.
"Run out of IRQs eh? Well, you do know you can buy them in packs of 15 and 25 down at Radio Shack. Yup. I actually just called them. The one down the street has them. Should cost you about $30 and you really only need the 15 pack. Ok.. .have a good day"
He swears this happened. I love it. :D
*Thread moved from Misc Sec to Tech Humor. It's gone beyond Security*
Left Sysinternals Regmon logging once and wiped out 35gb in a matter of hours with one text file.
Doh!
Heh....the stories of LJS and such just reminded me of something....
Back when I was still in high school, our school was hosting these UIL competitions (if you don't know what they are, don't worry about it). Anyways, me and a couple friends, being the only people in the school knowing anything about computers, were allowed to assist in monitoring the computer programming competition.
They gave us they neat little walkie-talkies with an adjustable frequency control. Within ten minutes of having these we figured out the local police frequencies as well as a few frequencies used by truckers in the area. We decided it'd be alot safer to mess with the truckers. So we got on the walkie's and acted like we were another trucker who had broken down.
Lo and behold, someone actually responded. We told him we were parked in the HS parking lot, and mentioned we hadn't had lunch yet. When asked if he could pick some pizza up on the way, he said sure. Twenty minutes later, an eighteen wheeler mysteriously showed up in the parking lot.
Anyways, it provided us with a good laugh for the rest of the day.
Another story came to mind. A friend and I were having problems with his brothers using his computer and screwing all sorts of stuff up, so we wrote a QBasic proggie that emulated a dos prompt (this was back in the day), and put it in the autoexec. We had it do all sorts of crazy things whenever they tried typing something in. They had no idea how to exit a proggie like that, so we never had problems again.