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r/talesfromtechsupport • … • u/hyper_sloth

Patience.

Working overtime due to office move + other projects. Ticket resolution has slowed down a tiny bit. Usually I get back to 99% the same day with a fix; these days within 48 hrs.

12:04 pm - yesterday

Ticket: Computer Display Crash Interrupting! (yes, litterally)

Body:

*Two images of error message. Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered. *

Please come fix this.

1:15 pm - yesterday

Response:

Hey [name],

Thank you for submitting your ticket to service. I will look into potential solutions and get in touch with you asap.

Thanks, Sloth

9:04 am - today

Response from [name] :

*Attached image of same error*

No fix yet!

9:05 am - today

Sloth, once headed to help [name] suddenly needed a coffee followed by an "emergency ticket" and two 1 hour meetings. Then lunch.

1:00 pm - today

*In person*

Sloth: Hey [name]. Care if I jump on your PC to fix the issue you've been having?

[name]: I'll go get a coffee. Be back in 10 minutes.

Sloth: OK. Have you saved everyth.... She's out the door...

Work my magic. Restart computer after saving open files to desktop. Leave note:

Hey [name],

Computer should be fixed. Let me know if the error resurfaces.

Btw, I saved all your open programs to desktop since I didn't get confirmation you had saved.

Thanks, Sloth

Take pic of note cause Sloth don't trust this one... She's bitten before.

4:45 pm - today

Boss: Hey Sloth, did you work on [name]'s pc today.

Sloth: Yep. Display error was bugging her.

Boss: She is claiming she lost all the morning's work after you took action.

Bitch please!

Sloth goes to her user folder/desktop. Sees her files gone.

Well played, but not good enough. Our backups hit every hour and shadow copies keeps all backups for that day, erased next day at 1 am. Other backups happen at midnight to a more pernament storage.

Sloth pulls shadow copies. There they are, at 2:00 pm and again at 3:00 pm today.

Shows boss and show picture of note.

Boss: Send me screenshots of that and the note please.

Sloth proceeded to celebrate with a Boston Cream.

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