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this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2026
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Your clients knew how to use the mouse?!?
I had a guy who literally couldn't use a mouse. Master's Degree in electrical engineering, used to manage a department of 10 engineers.
Then he developed a glue huffing habit and ended up working for us...
Nightmare fuel
I asked a client to close all open windows and he literally stood up and shut all windows in his apartment. I've had heard that as a bad joke before, but i experienced it live during a support call.
Edit: another highlight was the client who answered the question what 56k modem she used with the words: "My modem is lit up and colorful." This experience probably was the start of making everything glow in RGB as soon as we had blue leds figured out.
This reminds me of a turkish standup bit. Paraphrased :
We had a ticket that escalated to a P1 because a key worker kept having trouble with MFA.
I took the escalation and went through the login process. They had configured phone call mfs which the robot would say "press # to confirm your access".
They were pressing # on their computer keyboard.
The spread in knowledge between clients, and what we could actually accomplish with them was enormous. We had one client whose NT4.0 died completely during installation of a modem driver (wtf btw. But nowadays your antivirus company remotely kills your os).
We actually went along and helped him reinstall NT incl. everything network over the phone, and it went well. (Took a few hours tho, installation from 3.5" disks was never the fastest thing)
And then you had clients where making them focus enough on the action on the screen was nearly impossible, making the easiest things a 30 minute call.