40 Times Tech Support Showed Up And Couldn’t Believe Their Eyes

If you think your tech issues are bad, wait until you see these. We’ve scoured r/TechSupportGore to bring you the most mind-boggling, jaw-dropping tech support fails ever.

From hilariously absurd animal encounters to downright baffling blunders, these are the moments that made tech support teams do a double-take. Get ready to laugh, cringe, and appreciate your own tech troubles a little more with these epic fails.

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1. “Ticket Said ‘Camera Flickers To Fuzzy Brown Image Often'”

2. “Ancient Temple Of Asus”

3. “4 Hrs Later”

4. “Told A User To Shutdown Their Virus Infected Computer And Ship It Back And To Label It As Infected. They Did Good”

5. “End User Had A Heater Next To The PC Which Was Randomly Shutting Off And She Thought She Had Smelled Burning A Couple Of Times. It Is Literally Screaming”

6. “Quality Repost Here. (I Assume This Has Been Posted Before)”

7. “First Day On Job; Set Up Those 4 Wireless Speakers For You”

8. “The Computer Keeps Overheating”

9. “I Can’t Even”

10. “Mouse”

11. “The Printer Isn’t Working”

12. “So Mac Doesn’t Support Windows But At Least It Supports Doors”

13. “My PC Shut Off Suddenly And Won’t Turn Back On”

14. Customer Describes A “Slight” Burning Smell

15. “Hospital Server Room”

16. “Look How They Murdered My Boy”

17. “My Fan Was Making Too Much Noise!”

18. “Is This The Worst Spaghetti Cabling Ever?”

19. “I Should Tell Them It’s Not A Touch Screen”

20. “One Of My Co-Workers Was Eager To Unpack Her New Mouse”

21. “Forbidden Caprisun”

22. “Apparently Someone Got Tired Of It Ringing, So The Put It In The Oven”

23. “This Key After 10 Years Of Entering Orders At My Grandmothers Shop”

24. “I Need Somewhere To Set This Candle… Oh Here’s A Good Spot!”

25. “When They Get Creative With The Only Working Audio Output They Have”

26. I Said “Put It In Rice.” Not “Put Rice In It”

27. “German T-Mobile Found 3 Snakes Inside Their Network Unit”

28. “I Found This While Scrolling Through My Camera Roll From 2018, Enjoy”

29. “Just Set It On Fire”

30. “My Space Heater Stopped Working”

31. “Customer States ‘Our Intercom At The Gate Doesn’t Work’ Meanwhile In The Connections Box”

32. “Printer From Hell”

33. “There’s Something Wrong With The Printer In The Lab…”

34. “User Spilt Coffee On His Laptop – So He Put It In The Oven To Dry It Out”

35. “Improvised Way To Supply Power”

36. “Slpt: Laptop Charger Panini Press”

37. “Don’t Use Lemonade To Clean Your Mouse. I Thought The Acidity Would Clean Off The Buildup Of Crumbs And Cheeto Grease But It Just Attracted These Ants. I Left Home For 2 Days, Just To See This On My Desk”

38. “This Must Be The Work Of A Madman”

39. “Pretty”

40. “Ps5 In For HDMI Replacement. Kid Said ‘I Pushed The Cable In A Little Too Hard'”