• Fazoo
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    Worked in a PC repair shop. Got an all in one Mac in. Fixed it. Cleaned it up. It’s a good show piece for customers to see. Guy comes in with his kid. 5 minutes into transaction I suddenly notice, over his shoulder, the Mac owner’s porn collection playing on the screen. Ask customer to read fine print and do a quick move to wake up the Mac.

    Those were the days…

  • Dee
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    402 years ago

    Somewhere I have a picture of it saved, but as a Sys Admin for an office one person had so much dead skin piled on their mouse I gagged. It formed the shape of their fingers on the buttons and the dead skin was, not exaggerating, like 4-5 millimeters thick of caked-on yellow disgustingness. Mind you, we provide new mice for people to use in the office for any reason, they just need to let us know and ask. There was no reason for this other than the person just being a Nurgle initiate or some shit. People are gross.

    • Provoked Gamer
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      22 years ago

      Sorry to inform you, but they were probably a spider with shedding their skin and all.

    • magnetosphere
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      32 years ago

      Like, nude selfies, or nudes of someone else that the customer had shot?

      Having nude selfies on your desktop would be weird. If that’s what it was, do you think they were fishing for compliments?

      • @[email protected]
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        72 years ago

        It was the client. I had reason to believe that she was an escort using them for online marketing. We had a number of women come through with similar situations. One guy had a bunch of nudes of women and I clocked him as likely a pimp.

    • kratoz29
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      12 years ago

      That’s what I call a true customer relationship.

  • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩ
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    How about in a computer?

    I had to fix one on a construction site. I opened it up and it was full of dust from all the brickwork they had been doing. As in, nearly completely full of it. I bet their lungs looked the same too :(

        • @[email protected]
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          tho specifically mentioning its gay around something with a negative connotation could pretty easily be roped in to seeming like the gay also has the negative connotation (even if not explicitly said), so some people might not fuck with it

          (idrk personally, just thought I’d let you know my vibe)

          • @[email protected]
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            Well yeah ok, I get it. It just was you know gay porn, just telling how it was. It was the porn bit that was wrong with the whole situation ofc. But it was specific gay porn on his hard-drive. He was happy that I fixed his broken disk tho :-)

            • @[email protected]
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              Yeah English is a disgusting agglomeration of languages lmao, but if it means anything you seem far from homophobic! Just wanted you to know why the downvotes lol. But fuck who watches porn on company hardware, people are too horny

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
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    1. Lady at the company I did IT for had her work computer desktop filled with cringey memes she had made about being a “Trump Girl”, “Guns, God, Glory” “America First” etc. Her social media account was logged into on there as well and was all a bunch of boomer pro Trump memes and Religious stuff.

    2. Had to awkwardly tell somebody that I needed to use a different keyboard to work on their computer because theirs was so disgusting. It was filled with dandruff flakes, several of the keys stuck slightly because of the thin coating of grease from all the food they ate at their desk. Hair bits stuck up from the keys, it was absolutely nasty.

  • @[email protected]
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    562 years ago

    Tonnes of CP.

    Told my colleague immediately as he was at the other end of the work bench, then told my manager. They called the cops who told us to leave it alone, then immediately made their way over to confiscate the PC and take a copy of the job booking slip.

    Never heard another thing about it after that. We thought we might be called as witnesses or to give statements, but nothing. The cops took a few mins with the PC when they got there, asked us to log into it and then leave the room. We figured they had enough on it and the guy probably admitted it. Never saw the customer again either, and he was a fair bit of a regular.

    • Dee
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      302 years ago

      and he was a fair bit of a regular.

      That’s the wildest part to me. You’d think if you’re into that kind of stuff you’d learn to repair your own equipment that hosts some of the most illegal content one could possess.

  • @[email protected]
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    Not really bad, but it’s one that stuck with me: The computer owner had a bit of an obsession with David Boreanaz. Wallpaper was him with his shirt off. The desktop was cluttered with tons of image files, all him.

  • superkret
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    As a tech, I was at a law firm to fix something on one employee’s computer. His desktop background was a nude of the female co-worker who was sitting across from him. It was a shared office with several others working in the same room.

    • @[email protected]
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      Not that this is the only thing that matters here, but did she agree to let him use that as his background?

      • superkret
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        Pretty sure she did.
        I later heard stories about how that law firm goes on vacation together once a year and they go pretty wild with booze and casual sex.

  • HousePanther
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    102 years ago

    The most I’ve ever seen was some porn in really poor taste but nothing illegal or reeking of pedophilia.

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      I used to work for a company that has offices in a strictly Islamic country. I had to install something on one of those HP mini servers and found a very interesting search history. No cp fortunately, as far as I could tell. I cleared it and told my boss, but since we were going to get rid of these office servers and moving everything to the cloud I don’t think anything ever came of it.

      Imagine watching porn on the company server.

      Anyway that night I had dinner at the house of the manager in whose office the server was installed. It was a very traditional dinner where the women served the men and stayed in the kitchen otherwise. Strange experience altogether.

  • @[email protected]
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    372 years ago

    I don’t know if it is the kind of “worst” you were thinking about, but in a previous helpdesk job I found a text file on a users desktop with a bunch of links. Asked the user what that was for, and they used it tonremember web sites. They were star struck when I showed them that bookmarks were a thing, and added their links as bookmarks for them to get started.

  • @[email protected]
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    272 years ago

    Inside: Vomit + insects (cockroaches, I think). Software: The weebiest weeb setup (images, boot sounds, etc) to ever exist.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yeah we had to institute a throw it straight into the trash policy because of pukey Chromebooks.

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            Can confirm. Once puked on carpet out of nowhere. Only years later, as an adult, did I realize just how awful it must have been for Mom to clean up. Sorry, Mom.

  • southsamurai
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    572 years ago

    Pussy pics.

    It was my mom’s computer.

    That nobody else used.