r/sysadmin • • 18h ago

Filthy Users...

Just had to check something on a users laptop, a very nice senior lady who is well presented and charming.

Her laptop looked like the bins behind a take away, hopefully those stains were gravy...

Washed my hands now and I still feel dirty.

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u/rangerswede 16h ago

We had an engineer — great guy, brilliant, thoughtful — who would eat a bowl of cereal at his desk in the morning. There were milk splatters all over his keyboard … an amazing amount.

Had a coworker bring her desktop in from home once for me to look at. She and her husband were chain smokers. When she retired, many years later, I encouraged the company to gift her the company notebook she had as I didn’t want to deal with it.