What was your biggest oopsy on a call??

[Akitu]

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Anniversary necro thread! Yay!

[Mita-Konica-Tech]

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I was shaking a bottle of savin770 toner one time and the customer walked up and started to talk to me. I stopped the shaking and put the bird feeder on and sense the customer was still running her mouth for some reason I started shaking the bottle again. The customers eyes went wide and she started pointing at the wall, you guessed it, I was painting a wall and the ceiling that weekend.

Boy do I remember those days....never owned a white shirt that did not have a toner stain on it.....and we were required to were white shirts, my old service manager was an IBM electric typewriter man and it was his pet peeve.....White Shirts and Black Slacks.....

[Venom]

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DO NOT under any circumstances attempt to vacuum up a fart!

Back in the day we used to carry little air compressors and pour trichloroethane over the nozzle to wash out typewriters in the customer's offices. One day i had the compressor running and felt the thunder in my belly, I figured it was a perfect time to sneak one out being the noise would be muffled and the smell would be hidden by the smell of trichloroethane. So a few minutes had passed and I shut the compressor off, the lady at the next desk says "those cleaning supplies really smell like shit", I agreed and decided I better do a purge and drop a deuce so I proceeded to the washroom and did a triple flusher, my eyes were burning it was so bad, just as I'm opening the door, a guy is pushing his was in to was his coffee mug...the look on his face was priceless.

[vincent64]

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Back in the day we used to carry little air compressors and pour trichloroethane over the nozzle to wash out typewriters in the customer's offices. One day i had the compressor running and felt the thunder in my belly, I figured it was a perfect time to sneak one out being the noise would be muffled and the smell would be hidden by the smell of trichloroethane. So a few minutes had passed and I shut the compressor off, the lady at the next desk says "those cleaning supplies really smell like shit", I agreed and decided I better do a purge and drop a deuce so I proceeded to the washroom and did a triple flusher, my eyes were burning it was so bad, just as I'm opening the door, a guy is pushing his was in to was his coffee mug...the look on his face was priceless.

Tripple flush and burned your own eyes, OMG, surprised the guy did not drop the mug and slap both hands over nose and mouth...but the compressor picked it up and spewed it all over the office with the trichlor.....wow..whole new form of stink bomb

[s817]

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split pants - check
spilled toner on cust floor\wall\ceiling etc. - check
blown boards - check
shorted optics lamp terminals and blacked out building - check
left tool inside m/c - check
dropped m/c off trolley ( written off ) - check
received electric shock from fuser unit - check
lost skin and blood from frame sharp edges\gears\chains etc. - check
damaged drums\dev units etc. - check

these and many more , I think I've been in the industry too long

one more thing , once when working on a m/c I was on laying on the floor to get a proper look at something
when I got up just at the exact time the office lady walked up to the m/c and my head went up under her skirt
with my face looking straight at her , well you know what ,( yes she did have knickers on ) , I was very embarrassed
to say the least ( surprisingly she was very understanding about it)

[atwageman]

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I learned many years ago. Never trust a fart. Had to incomplete a call to go get underwear

[Robinh]

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I've been at this for 35 years and have seen some crazy stuff. Once I was working on an old Toshiba at a bank in the middle of a bunch of cubicles. The copier had thrown a fuser error and I was attempting to ohm out the thermofuse. I'd opened the front door, but forgot to turn off the power. When I stuck my meter probe on the fuse it touched the frame and shorted out 115 Volts AC to ground. This caused the wiring to the fuser from the power supply to catch fire and an impressive mushroom cloud of black electrical smoke rose over the cubicle farm. One bank employee came running with a fire extinguisher. I waved my test pattern around to disperse the smoke, run up to Radio Shack and bought a spool of wire, rewired the fuser and had them back up in an hour. DOH!

After that I only ever set one other copier on fire. :-/

[Lagonda]

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one more thing , once when working on a m/c I was on laying on the floor to get a proper look at something
when I got up just at the exact time the office lady walked up to the m/c and my head went up under her skirt
with my face looking straight at her , well you know what ,( yes she did have knickers on ) , I was very embarrassed
to say the least ( surprisingly she was very understanding about it)

Something similar, I was crouching down in front of copier with screwdriver sticking out of back pocket, stood up and handle of screwdriver hooked under hem of office girls skirt who was standing behind me. Judging by her scream and the roar of laughter from the rest of the office, if she had undies on they must have been very small!

[Iowatech]

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split pants - check
spilled toner on cust floor\wall\ceiling etc. - check
blown boards - check
shorted optics lamp terminals and blacked out building - check
left tool inside m/c - check
dropped m/c off trolley ( written off ) - check
received electric shock from fuser unit - check
lost skin and blood from frame sharp edges\gears\chains etc. - check
damaged drums\dev units etc. - check

these and many more , I think I've been in the industry too long

one more thing , once when working on a m/c I was on laying on the floor to get a proper look at something
when I got up just at the exact time the office lady walked up to the m/c and my head went up under her skirt
with my face looking straight at her , well you know what ,( yes she did have knickers on ) , I was very embarrassed
to say the least ( surprisingly she was very understanding about it)

Heh, split pants or wiped out knee areas, I still carry an emergency sewing kit for those eventualities.

[Lagonda]

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Heh, split pants or wiped out knee areas, I still carry an emergency sewing kit for those eventualities.

I've got one of those, it's a stapler.

[NeoMatrix]

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thing , once when working on a m/c I was on laying on the floor to get a proper look at something
when I got up just at the exact time the office lady walked up to the m/c and my head went up under her skirt
with my face looking straight at her , well you know what ,( yes she did have knickers on ) , I was very embarrassed
to say the least ( surprisingly she was very understanding about it)

I had some thing simliar happen to me but I was under the desk chasing power cords when a younger lady sat down on a chair. Needles to say I felt embarrassed. I fumbled to find my words when she said" I've been a bit lonely this month my partner works out of town ; can I have your phone number...." I mumbled something incoherent as I fell over myself on the way out the door.

[DAG COPIERS & COMPUTERS]

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I had some thing simliar happen to me but I was under the desk chasing power cords when a younger lady sat down on a chair. Needles to say I felt embarrassed. I fumbled to find my words when she said" I've been a bit lonely this month my partner works out of town ; can I have your phone number...." I mumbled something incoherent as I fell over myself on the way out the door.

Ee..eh, That was a real test of your mettle to resist temptation! The test was set by non other than Lucifer himself.....'the commander in chief of all evil forces'. Go ahead NeoM, tell us what happened next?

[NeoMatrix]

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Ee..eh, That was a real test of your mettle to resist temptation! The test was set by non other than Lucifer himself.....'the commander in chief of all evil forces'. Go ahead NeoM, tell us what happened next?

My family use to tell me "be good to others, work hard and you'll tough out the hard times life throws at you".
Parts of my personal life can get hard, and theres more ways to get corns on your hands than twisting a screw driver....

Look out, I'm sitting back having a beer any thing could happen....

[Lee2475]

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7232 Dev change, the usual on them contamination of everything as I was removing the psu I forgot to unplug it from the wall.
I knocked the machine during the shock spilling the coffee I had left on top of the adf not a good day.
Another one was walking into a working machine and cocking it up during a routine service, then having to explain that you can't use it now as I've shorted out the hvps and it's printing blank pages.
The most recent was a 232 Dev change I used the tool that you put on the shaft to spin up the tank when filling with Dev, only to forget to remove it and spend 2hours here to work out why I'm getting all these error codes.
Made a few in my time.

[JR2ALTA]

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As a rookie I was put on a delivery as the driver was sick. Sure enough stairs. Never saw a stair climber in my life. My pride wouldn't let me puss out and my gut told me the climber should stand up as straight as possible. After the 2nd stair gravity took the machine, the climber and finally me back right where we started face first.

Now I only defer to logic after all laws of physics have been cleared.