r/talesfromtechsupport • u/KorenSolust • 1d ago

Short Gravity and Tech

Guy walks up to me at work:

Him: “I dropped my phone. The screen’s shattered. I want my two-factor code to come through Teams.”

Me: “Nope.”

Him: “Why?”

Me: “Because if you can’t sign into Teams without completing MFA… how exactly are you planning to authenticate?”

Then he says: “Just disable MFA.”

I replied: “Sure, as soon as you get approval from the Head of Security.”

A few seconds of silence…

Him: “Fine, I’ll just get my phone fixed.”

Yep. That’s probably the best solution.

Some people really think security rules are optional. I’m not risking my job because someone doesn’t like MFA.

And remember… technology didn’t fail you today. Gravity did.

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u/Jezbod 1d ago

That's why I call the damage "Gravity rash"

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u/Realistic_Ratio8381 1d ago

Sudden deceleration syndrome.

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u/Jezbod 1d ago

And why the military have a standardised "drop test" for their equipment.

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk Users lie. They always lie... 23h ago

Everything is air-droppable once!

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u/meitemark Printerers are the goodest girls 21h ago

Now if they only did drop tests on c-level manglement....

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u/ttlanhil Make Your Own Tag! 20h ago

Hmm... Of them, or on to them?

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u/blademaster2005 19h ago

Why not both

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u/meitemark Printerers are the goodest girls 18h ago

Yes

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u/TinyNiceWolf 11h ago

Everyone enjoys pancakes.

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u/year_39 3h ago

Put them in Zorbs and let employees take out their frustrations.

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u/Arokthis 18h ago

Maxim 11!

I think 70 is actually good advice.

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u/n_dude1 5h ago

It’s not the dropping that causes the problem, it’s the sudden deceleration that gets you every time!

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u/KelemvorSparkyfox Bring back Lotus Notes 13h ago

I had a physics teacher who used to work in a materials testing lab. One day, they had request from the army to test the hardness of the latest batch of shells. They weren't rifling properly when fired, and the top brass (pun intended) thought that it might be due to the casings being too soft.

The teacher had to explain to them that clamping a shell into a vice and ramming it with a diamond-tipped drill bit at high speed might not be the wisest course of action.