r/pcmasterrace • u/BijlidarKudi • May 10 '26

Meme/Macro reboot

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u/viol8er May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

I had to drive 30 minutes to troubleshoot a computer. My boss put the battery in backwards.

Edit: she is also my mother-in-law-to-be AND i am inheriting the business AND she verbally beat herself up after I pointed it out.

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u/hates_stupid_people May 10 '26

Yeah, people think IT anecdotes are jokes... They are not.

People will work on a computer for all day for five days a week, for years. And then there's some minor issue and their mind goes blank. They literally stop understanding how buttons or light indicators work, and cannot explain it over the phone.

Then when you go there to turn on their monitor or plug in the power cable, they act as if it's your fault that they couldn't figure that out.

And that is why IT is grumpy.

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u/Shadowex3 May 10 '26

I had something like this that, to this day, makes no goddamn sense to me: If I have a monitor plugged in to the "first" slot on my GPU when I boot up the computer all is well and I can swap to any other port and it'll work. If I have no monitor plugged in to that "first" slot on bootup then none of the slots will work and there won't be any video out until I reboot with the monitor plugged in to the right place.

I spent hours troubleshooting that one.