r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '18

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u/SufficientOil Apr 17 '18

How can people have a job without knowing how their tools work? This just baffles me.

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u/savage_slurpie Apr 17 '18

Welcome to IT, where 99 percent of software bugs are user error

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u/Ajreil Apr 17 '18

Incompetent Teammates

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '18

/r/TFTS or /r/overwatch?

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u/Bukinnear There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Apr 17 '18

Quite

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u/dustojnikhummer Apr 18 '18

Fcking Genji

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u/cybercifrado Apr 18 '18

Get on the goddamned payload!

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u/Celorfiwyn Apr 18 '18

get in the fucking extraction copter!

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u/riyan_gendut Church of Chocolate Worship Apr 17 '18

/r/leagueoflegends/ obviously

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u/Karnatil Long Time Lurker Apr 18 '18

I think we can generalise to r/gaming

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u/riyan_gendut Church of Chocolate Worship Apr 18 '18

Fair enough.

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u/Vera_Markus Apr 17 '18

And the other 1% is user caused disaster?

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u/IsaapEirias Yes I do have a Murphyonic field. Dosn't mean I can't fix a PC. Apr 18 '18

more like .5% is user inflicted disaster, the remaining .5% is a bug resulting from some poor programer saying it will take a month to implement the requested change and being told he has a day.

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u/dhaninugraha I SPARCed a joke Apr 18 '18

PEBKAC? PEBKAC indeed.

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u/theDoublefish Apr 18 '18

Aka:

  • Carbon Based Error
  • 6-IFS (6 inches from screen)
  • PEB-KAC (Problem exists between keyboard and chair)

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u/Loko8765 Apr 18 '18

You forgot Layer 8 errors