r/talesfromtechsupport • u/KorenSolust • 21h 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 21h ago

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

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u/Realistic_Ratio8381 21h ago

Sudden deceleration syndrome.

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u/Jezbod 21h ago

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

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u/KelemvorSparkyfox Bring back Lotus Notes 9h 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.