/r/talesfromtechsupport top posts by year
This was an experiment for me using the Pushshift API / psaw. It grabs the top 20 posts (ranked by score / excluding removed submissions) of each year since the subreddit was created.
The first number of each entry is the post score, the second is the number of comments - click to go to the comments. Click a username to view a user page. Click the title of the post to go to the submitted URL.
The API doesn't include proper scores for posts made after September 2018 yet so it stops there for now.
- 1051 / 181 (Weloq): NO! YOU GET OVER THERE AND FIX IT NOW!
- 614 / 195 (occas69): A fun conversation I had today with scammers
- 526 / 159 (terahurts): Cat6, the know-it-all and my dad.
- 455 / 115 (dont_care_for_karma): Okay TFTS non-tech readers here's the deal:
- 438 / 141 (jalertic): You did what to your server?
- 414 / 94 (20c8e4399c): So, this just happened.
- 359 / 83 (tdobson): Telling a woman you work in IT Support can be such a turn off.
- 360 / 41: Tech Support Reaches New Depths
- 330 / 95: We have viruses on our computer that keep putting porn in out sons internet history.
- 323 / 103 (Sporkfortuna): I just had a good one. "I can't get on the internet."
- 305 / 28 (memymineown): Evil Apple
- 305 / 44 (Erikster): I Love My Aunt
- 303 / 52 (dont_care_for_karma): Faith in humanity restored!
- 303 / 142 (argnoth): so apparently PC doesn't equal Personal Computer anymore.
- 279 / 79: 7 Years in IT - Best mistake ever
- 289 / 215 (tonybaloney867): I feel old and I'm only 26...
- 276 / 28: "Hello? Hello?? Is this a real person?" says the customer calling tech support for her website when I answer.
- 273 / 56 (ella101): Poor Radio Shack guy...
- 267 / 51 (loki00): All of my emails are gone!!
- 246 / 17 (Grumpy_Kong): How a carpenter fixes a hard drive error.
- 3999 / 634 (Psychotc): Providing tech support to telemarketers for fun and justice.
- 3896 / 471 (phlogiston): It doesn't matter what it costs, please get my data back!
- 3640 / 404 (ronearc): I just had to put a robe on...
- 3316 / 352 (staticfactory): My claim to tech-support fame.
- 2182 / 311 (PhatDaddy420): The day I saved a little girl, across the country...
- 2085 / 138 (Ashleyrah): Print? :-)
- 2067 / 412 (Craysh): My boss finally got to use this phrase!
- 1991 / 167 (MrWally): Today, I almost cried at the Helpdesk.
- 1932 / 256 (germandoerksen): So, I don't have to buy a new computer?
- 1922 / 274 (Craysh): Wait 20 Minutes and Try Again or How I Almost Got Fired... (Wall of Text)
- 1824 / 248 (laserpewpewAK): "Welcome to tech support, kid."
- 1815 / 225: "I've been to Iraq, you don't scare me"
- 1798 / 397 (Zaphod_B): When a student hacked our school's computers
- 1778 / 416 (jackospacko): 6 Year old "Hacker"
- 1737 / 428: On how I got an entire office full of people to quit. All because I had a phone interview.
- 1706 / 379 (cheesey_ball): New reboot record
- 1584 / 702 (CrazyWebDev): Let me hire you for about $3.12 an hour.
- 1508 / 368: Administrator rights to everything PT 3 - Conclusion!
- 1496 / 179 (phlogiston): So with the bloody screwdriver in one hand and a flashlight in the other I continued my search for that modem.
- 1474 / 40 (mama2dogs): Serving the elderly - I love my job. Slightly inappropriate content
- 3370 / 543 (tlddotnet): I am NOT fixing this.
- 2920 / 284 (vonadler): The big bad badass bastard boss.
- 2571 / 379 (jon6): The B**** Manager from Hell Pt11: Bring the soldier home
- 2528 / 321 (ibrewbeer): How to deal with the one-word email
- 2373 / 276 (jon6): The B**** Manager from Hell Pt8: Best laid plans
- 2351 / 274 (bd504840): It's like having a gun put to your head....
- 2311 / 1001 (HeZlah): Just because its up, doesn't mean it will stay that way. Pay me.
- 2299 / 503 (TollhouseFrank): IT is a "Fake Industry"
- 2263 / 354 (georock): That Error Doesn't Exist
- 2269 / 492 (keenedge422): "Just do your damn job, already!" Well, if you insist.
- 2255 / 259 (quantum_anomaly): It finally happened, that big time IT feeling.
- 2220 / 351 (jaxmagicman): I come to you guys glorious! Bring me all your bandwidth and the best flash drives in the land!
- 2220 / 290 (QA_Avenger): The Only Acceptable Use of 'I don't feel like it.'
- 2182 / 242 (jon6): The B**** Manager from Hell Pt17: Who's the King?
- 2182 / 530 (jon6): The B**** Manager from Hell Pt14: Rules of engagement
- 2164 / 231: Crazy woman tried to fire her boss, then issues threats.
- 2165 / 437 (-jackschitt-): Ah, the placebo effect.....
- 2141 / 307 (jon6): The B**** Manager from Hell Pt13: Dawn of a new nightmare
- 2142 / 333 (jon6): The B**** Manager from Hell Pt7: One Friday to rue them all
- 2124 / 300 (jon6): The B**** Manager from Hell Pt10: ...and one step back for ITS
- 14095 / 1291 (guitarsdontdance): "Don't bother sending a tech, I'll be dead by then"
- 13410 / 1707 (Clickity_clickity): Jack, the Worst End User, Part 4
- 7485 / 398 (Clickity_clickity): Jack, the Worst End User, Part 2.
- 7400 / 524 (Clickity_clickity): Jack, the Worst End User, part 3
- 7198 / 282 (Clickity_clickity): Jack, the Worst End User, Part 1.
- 7495 / 506 (pointblankjustice): I'll be damned, that IS a GPS tracker...
- 7743 / 449 (Bytewave): I fixed it, I want the free food promised to me, mom.
- 7526 / 634 (SorryforbeingDutch): The CEO of 3500 employees just called...
- 7090 / 611 (chhopsky): "THE ENTIRE STATE IS OFFLINE GET IN THERE NOW FIX IT DO WHATEVER IT TAKES"
- 4843 / 787 (DallasITGuy): So this just happened...
- 5763 / 303 (TaedW): The time I was caught hacking the refrigerator...
- 5244 / 269: So the kid in the mail room with down syndrome thinks he's smarter than me.
- 4973 / 334 (vuzgoo): Sometimes it's the simple tickets that humble you....
- 3918 / 418 (Cookie_Eater108): aPPARENTLY iM vERY 'uNPROFETIONAL'
- 4654 / 333 (MastadonBob): Those unreliable off-brand "dɥ" laptops
- 4903 / 740 (Bytewave): So your boss slept with your girlfriend? Well... let's check his provisioning logs.
- 4258 / 274 (VulturE): "All of your equipment is now scrap."
- 4134 / 185 (fpsrussia117): Whoo Boy.
- 4051 / 705 (SuckMyHDD): User Gets Fired For Forgetting His Password
- 4057 / 463 (SuckMyHDD): I'm 1000 times more important than you and need this issue resolved right now or people will die.
- 8698 / 1053 (DallasITGuy): 5:45AM call from "friend of a friend" for tech support. WTF?
- 6467 / 319 (hegbork): "I can't log in when I stand up."
- 6312 / 488 (n122333): I called google, they fixed it.
- 6548 / 825 (hrdwrsftwrmlwr): An Update: SlimeCo brought in the lawyers, and the excrement hit the fan
- 6035 / 765 (hrdwrsftwrmlwr): "I'm 200 miles away and have no internet access." "WELL FIND SOME expletive deleted INTERNET AND FIX IT NOW"
- 5375 / 688 (Zarokima): My first day on the job, and I accidentally got the secretary fired.
- 5666 / 1501 (Cyrillus00): "But I want an i7!!!"
- 5925 / 545 (Armkowy): "Sir, I don't have Internet on my laptop"
- 4598 / 211 (KnyteTech): No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition
- 4737 / 777 (hovercraft_of_eels): Destroyed in two days, or: why kids should never get the admin password
- 4595 / 571 (unigee): The Placebo effect in IT
- 4690 / 570: One of my coworkers snapped today, and it wasn't pretty.
- 4519 / 261 (NoobCanoeWork): The Tech Support Wizard
- 4297 / 206 (ManateeSheriff): We also allow users to set ticket priority
- 4262 / 369 (Staliaa): Sometimes I love my awful retail job!
- 4428 / 535 (Canazza): No, it's not your WiFi
- 4436 / 657 (crushcastles23): My son's room. Its, on fire.
- 4298 / 530 (NathanAlexMcCarty): Today I witnessed a helicopter get shot down
- 4009 / 219 (anon33249038): Son, let me get to it...
- 3755 / 479 (Cyrillus00): "Are you kidding me!? I'm so fired..."
- 15870 / 922: "I need you to fix Google Bing immediately!"
- 8935 / 418 (samololo): I never use those, i won't pay for it!
- 7171 / 551 (vzhooo): Yes, please tell me about your security violation
- 13953 / 806 (SECGaz): Hi, I am still off sick but I am not.
- 6938 / 458 (garycarroll): Bad mouse took down a network, and almost got us banned.
- 6663 / 391: I didn't receive a warning - therefore I don't owe you any money!
- 6616 / 364 (Zentharian): "Ma'am. I can't fix a bullet hole."
- 11295 / 742 (sfsdfd): Company-wide email + 30,000 employees + auto-responders = ...
- 10330 / 253 (brenkelieshere): How to fix a laptop that won't boot in under a minute
- 10529 / 797 (Bombadils): OK, now the password is 'D35p41r'
- 6260 / 151 (Krieg): Everything I print comes out of the fax machine!
- 9293 / 1274 (Theallmightyadmin): Get the scripts before you fire your IT
- 8556 / 453: What do you mean you can't email me my password? I want to talk to your boss.
- 7730 / 452 (dongholio): In which a doctor understands how IT works
- 8777 / 630 (Sparkism): Please don't click on it that. Please don't. Please don't oh god pleas-- fuck.
- 5675 / 485 (ecklesweb): Why do we have to pay for printing?
- 5703 / 197 (Scott_IT): Our newest employee just told us he appreciates what we do.
- 5521 / 328 (Epidilius): "We've outsourced you, we'd like it if you got a job at the company we've outsourced to."
- 7848 / 567 (Saesama): Buddy, you picked the wrong people to try and strong-arm.
- 9350 / 374 (CopperD): nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
- 35051 / 1859: The hug heard around the company.
- 31539 / 780 (marinojesse): This one's a simple one, but I can't get it out of my head.
- 28800 / 2457 (Devilotx): When the drive for a new iPhone is too great, you get fired.
- 19751 / 748 (TacticalBastard): Ma'am for the 50th time we cannot give you your sons password.
- 16094 / 837 (gigabyte898): No sir, I can't show you how to commit a federal crime
- 15447 / 835 (goldie-gold): Engineer is doing drugs!! No. No they aren't.
- 15082 / 339 (Raitaro): I'm pretty sure I knocked a user out from nearly 300 miles away
- 13403 / 580 (Macaveli54): "My data hasn't been working for 20 minutes and I want compensation."
- 12697 / 852: "THE SERVER IS DOWN YOU NEED TO FIX THIS NOW"
- 12081 / 809 (ultrasuperman1001): Hey if you don't want your $1000 gaming computer I'll take it
- 13344 / 426 (Psychofant): A good answer for when you're pulled over.
- 12404 / 579 (thegur90): You can do THAT yet you can't even delete your own emails!!?
- 11417 / 495 (Blempglorf): How I quit after I got fired and unfired
- 11459 / 705 (thedarkavengerx): You deleted all my files!
- 9859 / 532 (WMTaylor3): Modern Warfare needs 1TB of RAM...
- 10374 / 665 (Regs2): HR managers HATE this one trick
- 10019 / 513 (airzonesama): I know IT better than IT
- 9429 / 462 (pcx226): Your instructions are stupid. I'll keep doing things the way I've always done them. What do you mean I can't open tickets anymore?! And why am I getting charged for it?!
- 9872 / 454 (DaWayItWorks): Why would you sell me an obsolete system? ???
- 9460 / 317 (MickCollins): Literally seconds ago - home tech support (my shortest tech tale ever)
- 13272 / 545 (WeaponizedOrigami): Literally, my one-year-old can figure this stuff out
- 7780 / 175 (devdevo1919): His Final Message Goodbye
- 6940 / 225 (tan_iel): The moment that elevated mum from $user to $admin
- 6487 / 579 (TheLightningCount1): Hey lets willingly violate security policies because we think we are special and earned it. The final nail in the lax security coffin. Part 1
- 6058 / 270 (just_some_random_dud): So our server was hacked by the mailman.
- 6016 / 409 (grapefrugten): RIP dad - ctrl+alt+del
- 5665 / 562 (jft135): Idiot doctor gave his work laptop with PHI on it to his son to use for college.
- 7925 / 397 (Rathwood): FWD: I need you to stop my employee from working. Immediately.
- 5419 / 398 (TheLightningCount1): Lets willingly violate security policy for convenience, whats the worst that could happen. The FTC. That is what can happen.
- 5094 / 153 (MysteryHisyory): Yes, anyone can send an email, including the kid you gave up for adoption 40 years ago
- 5049 / 128 (DarthUnkk): Why we changed our name from The Help Desk to Tech Support Center
- 4967 / 436 (alc6379): They're under embargo!
- 4926 / 496 (treedon270): The box we all have
- 4774 / 180 (LorixsTyring): Best pun of my career
- 4706 / 345 (cc452): INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS have tried to fix this, kid. You can't.
- 4589 / 323 (Universal_Binary): Only $25k for a server? Let's get the $100k version - it's bound to be more reliable! If only we knew how to use it...
- 6700 / 703 (cerebralonslaught): That time I helped automate 20 people out of a job
- 4468 / 434 (TheLightningCount1): The files of the VP are missing. Who do we contact? IT? No. The Supervisor of IT? No. The VP of IT? No. The the vp over the server admin? No. Lets call the CIO. Who also does not contact IT.
- 4490 / 274 (thefultonhow): I'd like to buy a used computer. Lightly used. Top of the line. You have those to sell for $100, right?
- 4367 / 248 (crapengineer): Press ctrl-D, like I asked.