The strangest appeals to the technical support service

The service company Robert Half Technologies conducted a survey among 1,400 technical support staff and system administrators at randomly selected US companies with more than 100 employees. Specialists were asked: “which question or request of users seemed the most strange to you?” And either in America, the work of system administrators is not as fun as they are here, or they have been asked too formally, but many of the answers do not seem so strange. See:

• Can you rearrange the keys on the keyboard alphabetically?
• Reboot the Internet, please!
• Make me a robot

Mice problems are often problems with real, live mice. And not only:

• Remove the mouse from the ceiling!
• I saw a lizard crawl into the server and die there. Now it does not work.
• Skunk ate my cable!

The administrator has to solve non-technical problems:

• How to make so that my manager could not read my mail?
• Can I connect the cable to my computer?
• I do not want to receive e-mails on Fridays

And the technical problems that are addressed to the help desk are sometimes not related to computers:

• Will you put me in the car radio?
• Where should I put my dry ice?
• How long does the potato bake in the microwave?
• My daughter has closed in the bathroom. Can you open the lock?
• Where can I get the program to follow the UFO?

Well, because the usual thing, right?