I've just been a monumental b**lend. Please hold my hand.

[Melsuleenia]

Need kind words. I'm such a wanker at times.

Moved into new flat in March. Just got broadband. All good. It goes offline.

Spend 30 mins on the phone to the provider. Hilarity endues as he goes through the diagnostics.

Very kind man gets me to check the socket. I'd had an EPIC row with my parents the night before. I thought I had unplugged the phone. Oh no, I'd unplugged the router and forgotten.

I'm a post grad physicist. And I can't even work out how to remove the landlines and keep the router plugged in.

I'm actually cringing writing this.

Can you share your epic fail moments so I don't feel quite as much of a tosser?

Thank you and please.

My work phone refused to be diverted to anyone else. I had to divert for on/-calls.
sometimes it worked. Most of the time people were trying to ring and it wouldn’t divert.
this was a bit of a problem as on-call and need 24 hour contact.
weeks of increasingly irate calls to IT.
many reports raised because of the useless equipment.
team members thinking I’m skiving.
IT people calm and delightful and so helpful with work arounds. try this, try that Have a new handset. Try again.

turns out I’d been giving people the wrong number.

I sent chocolates to the helpful IT people.

just yesterday
my headphones werent working
there is a whole rigmarole to go through
programme off and on and check three different areas of settings,
eventually realised, headphones not actually plugged in!

I did this half a dozen times before I realized!!!! As did my son on his job interview!! 😳😳😂

We have sockets with trip switches on. They trip every time you unplug an appliance so need resetting every time you plug something in. Trolley full of dead iPads that have been plugged in overnight. Not only had I not reset the trip switch, but I emailed the entire staff instead of just the ICT Support 🤦‍♀️

Took my car, at that time A Mazda Mx3, for MOT - mechanic have it the pre MOT glance over & said 'you'll fail on the crack in the windscreen' crack? CRACK? ... but, he's the mechanic so off I go and call Autoglass.

Mx3s weren't common so we'll order it in, be with you in 3 days (as opposed to usual the within 24 hours)

The day arrives, as does my specially ordered windscreen. I go out with a cuppa for the fitter and ... oh I can feel my face burning just writing this.

He says 'look at this' ... gets a wet cloth & RUBS AWAY the 'crack'!

Turns out ... it was gluey residue from a car park ticket I'd stuck on there previously

In fairness, it did look a bit hairline cracky and it didn't wipe off with fingers.

But ... yeah!

Tech problems are quite common these days. Regards your parents problem's...... difficult. Maybe your mum doesn't want to be alone and will put up with a bad relationship instead??? I don't know the whole story, so can't really comment. But I think if it was that bad she would divorce him. Just be a comforting shoulder when she needs to talk. Hugs x

In the long ago days when you used to rent a landline telephone from BT I called them (on a borrowed phone) to complain that mine was utterly and thoroughly broken. Couldn't get any dial tone on it at all.

Turned out the guinea pig had chewed through the wire.

Okay long winded story so please bear with me. My mum is quite ill, heart failure and dementia. Currently in hospital with suspected pneumonia. Hospital said she is physically fit to leave. Cannot stand, do anything for herself, and is very very sleepy and confused. My dad (her carer) is refusing to have her home. She needs 24 hours professional care. Just pissed at the hospital for trying to send her home when she is clearly not well.

We moved to a town near the sea.
One night dh was away and I could hear a loud intermittent noise.
I went outside, it wasn't our alarm.
I rang dsis who lived round the corner and told her i could hear a noise could it be someone's alarm.
She laughingly told me it was the foghorn as it was a very foggy night.
I'd never heard one before.

Wrong thread, @shellyleppard?

We've all done stupid things. Just had a new kitchen fitted, with induction hob. Still getting to grips with it, but tonight I couldn't get the hob rings to work. I tried everything, asked husband to check it. The plug had become slightly loose and wasn't connecting. What an idiot!

This is my favourite

A PP's story just reminded me of another one
Staying in Maryland, the furnace (boiler) controller packed up and displayed "87", which we took to be an error code. There were no instructions, so much googling followed to no avail, while we worried about carbon monoxide fumes, etc.

I won't admit to how long it was before we turned the controller round the other way and saw that 87 had become LB ... low battery

OMG!!!

Work as a data scientist. Have a phd and everything.

Couldn't get my webcam working on my new work laptop. Was just a black screen. Tried troubleshooting for ages and eventually rang IT.

He took control of my laptop remotely so we could both see what I was seeing on the screening. Went through everything.

Then he casually asked if I had the privacy shutter closed. I opened it, and we both saw my big stupid face appear on screen, peering into the camera

God bless him, he said it happens all the time.

I'm a BSc CompSci and budding MSc AI, and I can't figure out how to rectify the screen on my laptop that has revolved 90° after my cat went to sleep on it whilst it was open and switched on. Quite annoying as I've a report due Monday.

So easy to do

just had a engineer out to fix our electric recline chair today as it stopped working (according to my husband who has electric engineering background). Engineer turns up looks at the back and it’s not plug it! It was removed when the painter was here and he never thought to check before calling for help 😂

How to use or assign hotkeys or shortcuts to rotate your screen
Another way to rotate your screen is to use a keyboard shortcut or hotkeys.

For Windows 10 devices, you should be able to use the following rotate screen shortcut to change or flip your display

Hold down the CTRL and ALT keys simultaneously and then press the Up Arrow key while you continue to press the CTRL and ALT keys [3]

my cat sat on my laptop and turned my wifi off about two hours ago. Cue numerous calls to IT support and phone messages to colleagues about how my wifi had died....

I've just locked myself out of my brand new phone! Can't remember the password..... having trouble factory resetting 🙄

My mother kept complaint about a noise in her ears,she had hearing problems.The GP came to the house and took it very seriously.After she left I realised it was the battery on the smoke detector running out of battery.Never admitted to that.

My mum, many years ago, drove her new car to a nearby city, parking it in a multi-storey car park. Goes off shopping, returning to the car and it’s gone! Utterly distraught she goes from top to bottom, definitely not there so phones dad (who’s at work 25miles away), he tells her to go to the police station and he’ll meet her there.
Nice kind policeman goes with them to the scene of the crime…..and the new car is sitting there. Mum had completely forgotten she’d changed her car. My dad never let her live it down!
Me, I bought a new cooker but the oven knob wouldn’t turn at all. Shop sends out engineer who points out the knob is absolutely fine, it turns anti-clockwise not clockwise (I still find that really weird to be honest!)

Were your parents gaslighting you to believe they've done nothing wrong and the problem is you having any small reaction to a litany of injuries? If so, not surprised you could think straight.

Went into the office for the first time in 2 years a couple of weeks ago. I'm a woman of a certain age (this is relevant). They have given me a new desktop computer (nice of course, but I have been using a laptop exclusively while WFH). I need to transfer some files from a thumb drive. I can't find the port. I see a small square black box thingy on the floor under my desk. Oh that must be the processor, I say to myself as I crawl under my desk fiddling with said box trying to find the port. Colleague comes by very alarmed: "Seneca, are you all right?" Yes, I say and explain what I'm doing. "Uh, it's up there behind your screen, a small protrusion from the back."

My parents did similar one Christmas. Parked on the multi-storey. Did half their shopping and returned to the car to drop it off then went back for more.
Came back and the car was gone. Hysterics all round as it was a lot of money in presents gone. On the verge of ringing the police when my mum pointed out that the number floor they were on didn't look right! It wasn't. The car was a floor below all safe and sound!