Tech

Tech employee working 50-hour-weeks makes massive mistake impacting 500 servers: 'Team is melting down... client's gonna bail'

Remy Millisky

IT intern tries to show off by going over his superior's head and organizes the cables in the server room, crashes company's entire system for 2 hours: ‘[He had] a very proud expression on his face.'

Elna McHilderson

A Dusty Colllection of 25 Y2K Gadgets That Somehow Look More Futuristic Than Today’s Tech

Inés Soubrie

Australian tech guy with zero background in biology uses ChatGPT to cure his rescue dog's terminal cancer: 'It worked!'

Blake Seidel

Sleep-deprived sibling repeatedly sabotage's the family WiFi to curb his younger brother's late-night gaming rampages: 'If he got too loud then I could just boot him off the game and it would look like an outage'

Brad Dickson

Tech startup boss praises team of employees for working on the floor: 'You need people who look at a floor and see opportunity'

Remy Millisky

Customer gets 80% off $10,900 small business order by flattering its "customer service": 'I'm going to be losing thousands... I've written to the customer'

Remy Millisky

IT worker is blamed for coworker showing up late, says it's their fault for leaving on time: 'They’ve basically gotten used to arriving late, and the person ending the shift is stuck covering past their scheduled time'

JR Atkinson

Friction-Maxxing might be the thing that saves us from our own worst tendencies: 'Frictionmaxxing is really humanmaxxing'

JR Atkinson

Gaming company tacitly refuses to hire employees over 35 years old, lays off workers after a certain age: 'The hiring manager openly told me that the candidate I wanted to hire was too old (she was 46)'

JR Atkinson

Tech woman finally realizes her value after company denies her twice and asks her to apply a third time, respectfully declines: ‘My time is much more valuable than this.’

Elna McHilderson

Girlfriend calls out boyfriend for crying and shivering while recounting female coworker's work struggles, says it's 'absurd': 'Anyone with even a shred of self awareness knows that it's a notoriously sexist culture'

JR Atkinson

Overworked junior specialist realizes his ‘above and beyond’ work mentality won't get him anywhere so he stops, managers are now drowning in work: 'It's truly satisfying to see'

Elna McHilderson

'Everything's down, like everything, the whole system crashed': Computer tech paid $85,000 to save the company after a smug boss fires him, implodes the client database, and begs him to fix it

Jesse Kessenheimer

Dad horrified by his family's tech addiction changes wifi password and says it's ‘down,’ family has the most wholesome offline weekend: ‘Everyone needed the break, even if they didn’t realize it.'

Elna McHilderson

‘I thought he was joking…’: Mediocre tech who's worked for the company for 3 years preaches about flat earth to the new manager of 2 months, gets fired

Elna McHilderson