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.


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

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2. “Ancient Temple Of Asus”

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3. “4 Hrs Later”

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

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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”

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

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

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8. “The Computer Keeps Overheating”

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9. “I Can’t Even”

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10. “Mouse”

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11. “The Printer Isn’t Working”

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

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

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14. Customer Describes A “Slight” Burning Smell

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15. “Hospital Server Room”

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16. “Look How They Murdered My Boy”

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

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

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

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

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21. “Forbidden Caprisun”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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29. “Just Set It On Fire”

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30. “My Space Heater Stopped Working”

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

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32. “Printer From Hell”

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

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

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35. “Improvised Way To Supply Power”

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36. “Slpt: Laptop Charger Panini Press”

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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”

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

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39. “Pretty”

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

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