User owned an IT shop

user owned an IT shop

hey Sup Forumsro's,
I'm bored and thought I'd share some of my tales.


>Tale 69b: The porno bandit
>Be 2006
>Working in my (computer) shop which I owned and ran with a few friends, long story short I used to be neet as fuck and as such needed money but to lazy to get an actual job so I started fixing up computers off ebay and selling them, 12 months later I'm the fucking owner of a legit business and store.
>We basically do three things, resell surplus computers (old school / business kit), do instore repairs and call-outs.
>So one day we are pushing it real hard to make sure all the internet orders get out for delivery on time when this old fella shows up in the store asking about laptop repair
>howIcanIhelpyousir.png
>old timer goes on to explain all the various problems which we have all heard before handing me a laptop bag
>fucking thing is so heavy it almost pulls me over the counter
>get him to fill out a tag and enter his details onto the system and he is off on his way
>leave laptop until delivery guy has collected all the orders for the day
>eventually heave 'laptop' onto a bench
>its a fucking Toshiba satellite pro 4015cdt
>bag contains at least 4 spare batteries, 2 mice, 2 chargers and about 40 or so floppy discs and a few parallel – centronics cables
>seriously the kind with metal terminations and cable as thick as my cock

.cont

>grab out a charger and try to power it up
>dead
>try the other one and it finally clicks into life
>boot failure
>remove floppy from drive and try again, begins booting into fucking windows 98
>guy literally brought in moses tablet because he forgot to eject the floppy
>fucking thing finally boots to desktop, already decided at this point I'm not going to charge him for this and just recommend one of our newer used machines
>desktop is full of icons, mostly shortcuts to files
>piss around a little and open a few of them
>most are hand drawn bondage porn
>the guy must literally draw these by hand on paper and scan them onto the laptop
>yep, Cannon TWAIN shit linked about a thousand times across the desktop
>WFT.exe.bin.sh
>check out a few of the floppies, same shit

>mfw, handing it back the next day and explaining the issue
>I'm choking back at every sentence, trying my hardest not to laugh
>offer him a discounted used Dell 1300 and he is genuinely interested but complains about floppies
>explain the concept of USB external drives and then CD's
>guy is still unsure
>offer him a free you-ses-bee flatbed scanner
>his fucking face literally drops and goes red
>he ran from the store whilst I shit a lung laughing
He became known as the porno bandit, I have more. Cont?

yeah why not please cont if other are interested

Yes

Tale 42: The Jizz-top
>be working front counter as usual
>mostly browsing Sup Forums and buying shit off ebay
>hot milf walks in my door and marches straight up to the counter
>I barely look up from my monitor
>”I have a proposition for you”
>I cringe out a half laugh / half sentence
>see explains that her 16yo son is good with computers but cannot get a job because experience
>she wants me to give him a temp job so he can learn the ropes
>I explain that I'm not currently hiring as we get this shit from underage fags at least once a week
>she offers to pay to pay me £100 a week, I get £50 and I have to give him the other £50 as a 'wage'
>decline again, fearing it might me a sting operation against my shady business
>she is fucking relentless
>eventually agree to a two week trial, but she pays he wage.
>I'm literally getting nothing out of this deal
>He is to start mid-day tomorrow

go on

>the next day
>I roll up to the shop at about 10am rather than my usual 8am as I'm still hungover as fuck
>Mich pulls me to the corner to inform me the 'apprentice' is here, has been here since 7am
>kids name is Neal
>Mich found him huddled in the door way playing on his laptop
anyway back to story
>Kid knows literally nothing about computers except games, he is also the quiet nervous basement type
>I'll admit I see a little of my younger self in him
>start him off on the basics; matching laptops to chargers. One of our suppliers referred only to as the 'eco-warrior' always delivers the laptops individually bubble-wrapped but bungs all the chargers into a box. It's the fucking bane of my life
>shits easy, match the numbers and match the plug to the socket
>4 hours later and we break for lunch, I've been out most of the morning on calls
>he actually did a good job
>over lunch we catch some AVGN on youtube and shoot the shit
>mostly vidya and shit, kid is actually pretty cool and gets comfortable around us
>get him packaging for the rest of the day and one of the guys hooks up his laptop to our network so he can play his game
>he leaves for the day around 5pm, the rest of us work repairs until about 8pm
>notice he left his laptop, decide to be a bro and give it a memory upgrade

>pop open the base panel as swap out the 256mb dimm for a 512
>no second socket, presume it must be under the keyboard and pull out the appropriate screws
>Keyboard flexes but will not come out
>recheck for hidden screws
>nope
>try again to remove the keyboard, with a little more force and it finally gives
>realise why it was stuck
>thats not glue....
>I put on gloves and finish the upgrade
>one of the lads sticks it into a bag, fills out a tag and shelfs it in the locker
>Neal comes in the following morning
>”I..I.. think I left my laptop here yesterday”
>tell him its in the secure locker, you know in case of a burglary
>Hear laughing from the back room
>Walk in and see the guys pissing themselves and neal almost at tears
>See the tag
Name: Neal
Model: Jizztop Pro
>Laugh and explain its all a joke and we upgraded it. He is quiet for the rest of the day

I should add that Neal eventually became one of my best callout guys, I told this story at his wedding. His mother was not happy.

moar!

Still own this IT store?

>user owned an IT shop
>owned

Yes, he still owns it

Andy?

Thats it for now, maybe I'll type out some more tomorrow, got fucking tons of stories from the store

No, times changed and people moved to tablets which killed the business. Closed shop about 6 years ago. Now just a salary monkey doing a 9-5

please tell more stories.
I'm working at customer service, too.
customers can be idiots...

Really can't be arsed to type right now, took an hour to pretype those two.

I remember the three main types of customer. The blameless retard, the amatuer professional and the shit who expects everything for nothing and will argue pointless shit

somehow related and could be useful

Haha, duuuuude! Funny story: I used the book you took that chart from to build an expert system AI that diagnoses and troubleshoots startup / crash errors. Small world, I guess.

More OP always wondered. Any subversive scary deep web shite found on a puter?

Neat, one more story;
>be me
>working front counter as always
>nigger walks in the door and starts browsing the shelfs
>guy is wearing a filthy looking black suit and flipflops
>eventually comes to the counter
>"I need you to fix this, you broke it"
>empties out what used to be a laptop
>it's half a Median (shit-tier shitbox)
>pulls out the screen and throws it on top
>repeats, "you broke it you fix it!!!"
>I have never seen this person in my life
>call into the back room and ask the guys if they know anything about it
>nope
>tell him he must be mistaken
>throws all the parts into the bag, turns and leaves without saying a word
>wtf was that
>he come back in 20min later
>accuses me of stealing his glasses
>threats to call police
>I kick him out of the store and lock the door
>he eventually leaves and enters the store next door

I can't even make this shit up

Found more than a few installs of nmap, and an unsatisfied customer we named 'the shadow' who tried and failed to hack us a few times with his 133t hacksaw skills. Worse I've had is a hdd full of pictures of corpses with the guys ex-wifes face shopped in poorly.

WTF you start a thread then bale after 2 storys......Wanker!!!!

Ever found some illegal shit?

Brings me back when I was 12 and shat myself when my mom had to bring the laptop to repair. Always wondered if they legit didnt look or if they let it slide.

surprisingly not, lots of illegalish bookmarks, movie streaming sites, scat and borderline incest shit.

All our customers had to sign a discloser form which covered us going through their shit and threatening to notify the police. Most of the time if we found hentai or some shit we would just leave it or rename the folders to 'We know'

Even though these were like 3 stories, I appreciate it user. Made today's morning more interesting.

Hence why im pissed, they were good storys

Thanks for the stories, fixitanon

dude these stories are a grade you can't just stop now

Um......
What exactly did they let slide????

nothing like that
it was mostly just cp and snuff movies

Owned means something in the past idiot, OWNS would be current wtf.

That wasn't me.

I will not confirm or deny though,

fuck it, one more. give me a sec

good stories

Love this shit.

The only thing interesting that has ever happened on a job I've been at (and I was a medic in the military...you'd think that would have been exciting) is a state Senator walking into my donut shop at 2AM with an armed escort because he felt like having a donut.

>Toshiba satellite pro 4015cdt
mfw

There are literally no images of that anywhere. You should take picture of it and sell them to google for millions

Op your a hero. Post more stories

im not op, just random owner of Toshiba

>cp
You had child porn on your computer and they let it slide?
Also, check'd

Not OP
>mobile computer repair during university days
>Fixing guys desktop, take it offsite as it needs backup and reinstall of OS
>Guy seems normal, wife young kid
>Fixing computer, finding a huge folder of gay porn, gay bondage porn, whole bunch of wierd gay shit
>Fix computer, take it back, guy starts asking fishy questions, trying to figure out if i found his stash
>Tell him yes, extort him for money
>Keks were had, go on holiday

return of the porno bandit
>be me
>working out back updating the website
>hear door chime go
>fuck it, Mich can handle it
>I don't usually let him deal with customers as he is an overweight greasy meatball wrapped in a tshirt covered with dandruff
>moments pass and the door goes again
>mich pops his head in and tells me we got a last minute job
>it was an old lady with a desktop
>fucking compaq d530
>wont boot
>i put it to one side and carry on with what i'm doing
later that day
>get round to the cancerous wart on the anus of life that is the compaq
>The PSU is completely dead
>not surpised
>loosely hook up a ATX psu as I have non that will fit the fucking thing
>boots ok, barely has enough ram to run XP but gets there eventually.
>It has two 3.5" 40Gb disks, one in its drive bay the other in the optical bay.
>The floppy molex header has been cut and spliced with chocblock to make up a enough power for the extra drive
>literally an arsonist's wet dream
>hook up the second drive to the psu
>OS is actually in pretty good shape
>primary drive seems ok
>check secondary drive
>just lots of dated folders
>open one at random
>hand drawn bondage porn
>The bandit has returned
>Ring the number the lady left and tell her it needs a new psu and that it really shouldn't have two drives.
>Turn's out her grandson set it up for the bandit
>He needs the extra space for his 'magazines'
>He refused to bring it into the shop, as he told her he fix it himself
>MFW

Who'd you threaten to tell?

saw someone at the college using one of these to write a paper

remember my old dell laptop from 02 that has a dead hard drive

wondering why theirs still works

the bandit returns

Need more stories op.

Should have mentioned the special on scanners to her.

my sister got it for free years ago, it still works, maybe someday i will sell it for some money

another day. But I'll leave this nugget.

We had no strict pricing plans, if we thought the customer was a bro we charged less and hell even did a few free upgrades and a cleaning. If the customer was rude or snobby we charged more, held it for few days or insisted on collection at strange times.

Also to all the computer repair hopeful's in this thread, get into computer tutoring. You will make a lot more cash teaching idiots how to facebook then from removing ie toolbars

Nice, the oldest repair job we got in the shop was a Tosh T2200 with a bad DC jack. we ended up soldering it back on almost every other month. The damn thing just kept living, I guess that's it with older computers.

I use a Latitude E6400 on debian, it's outlived almost every new laptop i've brought since my orginal D620. Yeah i'm a dell fag

>Nice, the oldest repair job we got in the shop was a Tosh T2200 with a bad DC jack. we ended up soldering it back on almost every other month. The damn thing just kept living, I guess that's it with older computers.
In one of my start-ups there was a very old attorney with an office next door. Met him a few times and was shocked to see and IBM branded near original IBM XT on his desk with an green text CRT screen. It was twenty years old and still working. He says he loves it and does all his brief work on it with WordStar. One thing he mentioned that really had me consider was it was so old, no on can hack into it.

damn, I wonder if you could even feasibly get that online anymore. Then again I've seen C64's and even a fucking motrolora MC9090 browse the web

>damn, I wonder if you could even feasibly get that online anymore. Then again I've seen C64's and even a fucking motrolora MC9090 browse the web
There is a cult for almost any brand of old PC. Later I found out there are a lot of XT/AT hardcores that still have them running. The first generation was built with the old IBM manufacturing mindset that they would last for decades like their mainframes. There is a text web browser and even a TCP/IP stack that runs as a TSR on MS-DOS 3.0 on boot. Scary someone spent time to write it.

Just looked it up. Would have to go from a DIX capable ISA card > AUI TRX > 10BaseT

forgot that this was 2006 and thought What in the actual fuck with the 256 and 512 mb memories

my first comp had two 16mb sticks

This was enjoyable OP, hope to hear more!

this was a rare good quality thread

>Toshiba satellite pro 4015cdt
Muh dick
Old school laptops are the shit
Personally I love gutting them and giving them modern internals but keeping the cases because that old school eggshell white and the faded blacks nostalgia me to death

>Today OP wasn't a faggot

thanks OP