Everything is broken is apparently a universal IT experience.
Posted by GoldTap9957@reddit | talesfromtechsupport | View on Reddit | 8 comments
I had one of those moments last week that made me question my entire job. Im on it support and it was a pretty normal morning, nothing crazy yet. First ticket comes in saying everything is broken and urgent. No context, no device info, just panic. So I start doing the usual stuff, I remote in, check logs, ask questions, try to figure out what is actually going on. User keeps saying they didnt change anything and that it just stopped working. After like 20 minutes of going back and forth I finally ask them to just show me their screen. Their laptop brightness was at 0 percent. They had been working like that for hours thinking everything was down. And honestly this is not even rare, I have had people with monitors unplugged thinking the system is crashed, people connected to the wrong wifi thinking the internet is down, people muted in teams thinking the whole company is offline. Now every time I see a ticket that says everything is broken I just sit there for a second before opening it because I already know its either something really bad or something incredibly simple.
Dr__-__Beeper@reddit
Slop
Links_Morgen@reddit
This is why I have IT order pf operations. Check the dumb simple stuff first. If those aren't the issue, then it's time to be more hands on.
JoshfromNazareth2@reddit
I had someone call me across an entire conference center because their laptop volume was at 0 so I’m kind of believing this is real.
CheezyMcWang@reddit
I can't help but feel that a bot would have better grammar.
skandaris@reddit
Probably, but I had this happen to me once.
Warfieldarcher@reddit
There are two things that are infinite. The universe and user stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe
meitemark@reddit
Pretty sure neither is infinite but expands exponetially. However, since there is a lot of yet uninhabitable universe, stupitity must stay and bunch up in the parts that are habitable, places like Earth.
Acrobatic-Mobile-605@reddit
I hate to say it but I’ve had my phone reset the brightness in my bag and it took a while to work out what happened.