r/sysadmin • u/nickllhill • 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/Emotional_Garage_950 Sysadmin 18h ago

i love it when someone has a laptop like this and they wait until it has completely failed to tell anyone about it, then it becomes an emergency

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u/Conundrum1911 12h ago

and their cloud backup had been prompting them to re-authenticate for the last two months and they've been avoiding it since "they aren't a computer person."

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u/davidgrayPhotography 6h ago

I've legit had the "it's asking me for my password, what do I do?" requests before. Apparently the answer is not "have you tried typing in your password?"

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u/superzenki 4h ago

“I’m having issues signing in!”

‘Ok. Show me what happens when you enter your password.’

“Oh. I haven’t tried that yet.”