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A Store Manager Told An Employee To Accept All Returns From Customers, So They Accepted A Christmas Tree For A Refund In June
10+ hour, 26+ min ago (1291+ words) If you're not the boss at your job, all you can do is follow orders, right? Hey, that's just the way it goes. Today's story comes from a grocery store worker who could only follow orders'even though they knew it…...
IT Employee Investigated A Supervisor’s Slow Network Complaint, And Discovered They Were Disconnecting The Ethernet Everyday And Using Public WiFi Instead, Thus Handicapping Their Own Connection
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (347+ words) It's always surprising when someone you assume knows exactly what they're doing turns out to be the source of the problem. So, what would you do if a supervisor who trains other employees kept complaining about slow internet, only for…...
Costco Shopper Waits In Line And A Woman Cuts In Front Of Him With An Apology, So He Put Her In Her Place Right Away
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (286+ words) Some people think they can do whatever they want as long as they apologize in advance. Most people would just roll their eyes and sigh. Not this customer. Check out what he said. I was at Costco and had just…...
Woman Mistakes Another Customer For A Store Employee, So She Insists On Speaking To His Manager And He Calls His Wife
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (1233+ words) Imagine going shopping at a store when another customer mistakes you for a store employee and refuses to believe you when you tell them you don't work there. How would you get the customer to leave you alone? In this…...
IT Helpdesk Attendant Is Used To Employees’ Weird Tech Complaints, But One Guy’s Assumptions Were Worse Than Most
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (838+ words) When you're an expert in something, one thing becomes quite clear. Lots of other people think they're experts too " and they're definitely not. The IT helpdesk employee in this story was used to users wrongly diagnosing their computer problems. But…...
Woman Left Her Bag With Her Friend, But Her Friend Got Curious And Plugged In A USB Stick That Completely Destroyed Her Gaming PC
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (426+ words) Too much curiosity can damage personal stuff. The following story involves a woman who asked her friend to watch her backpack for a moment. It contained a USB hack disguised as a regular drive. Out of curiosity, her friend plugged…...
New I.T. Worker Gets Involved With A Customer Who Tinkered With A Server So Badly It Needed Serious Work, And He Is Aghast At The Extent Of It
2+ week, 2+ day ago (478+ words) There are some things you can figure out on your own without much knowledge. Like Ikea furniture. Building servers is not one of those things. Check out why this tech worker was stunned early on in his role. I currently…...
His Technician Misread A Ticket And Deleted All Of The Users Out Of The Email System, And When Confronted, He Refused To Admit He Did Anything Wrong
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1443+ words) When you work in IT, you need to be very careful not to cause more damage than you are fixing when working on an issue. What would you do if an employee got a ticket to take an action, but…...
Tech Support Worker Tried To Help A New User, But Then The Customer Confused The Computer Mouse For A Foot Pedal
3+ week, 3+ day ago (502+ words) Some tech support calls are less about broken computers and more about just how wide the technology gap can be. So what would you do if a customer calmly explained that he had "the television, the typewriter, and the box…...
Resident Helped Everyone With Computer Problems In A Group Home, But He Finally Met Someone Whose Computer He Couldn’t Fix
3+ week, 4+ day ago (343+ words) Being good at computers can make you the go-to tech person anywhere. In this story, a man living in a group home often helped others with computer and phone issues. One day, another man came up to him and brought…...