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Clients from Hell with Dirty PCs

February 9, 2010

Clients from Hell with Dirty PCs

If you’re a well-rounded geek you’ve probably taken apart your share of computers and put up a few web sites for people. If you’ve done either you’ll appreciate the following two sites you just have to check out:

Clients from Hell is a website “collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.” If you haven’t done graphic or web design, you’re jaw will hit the floor but anyone who has done it will tell you these kinds of things do happen all the time. It’s a hysterical read of what clients say and do when asking you to do work for them.

Dirty, dirty PCs: The X-rated picture guide - this is a graphical horror story of what anyone who repairs computers can find when they open up an ailing computer. You’ll scream, you’ll run, you’ll shower but no amount of scrubbing will get the horror off. I’ve personally seen tons of computers through the years that looked like the ones in this freak show.

So if you’ve done any design work, repaired computers or want to know what it’s like here are two sites that will give you quite a few ideas on the matter. And a lot of laughs or screams of terror (I have a hard time telling the difference). Enjoy!

Posted by Vincent Navarino (who has an iPod) at 11:17PM • 3 comments »

3 comments

Comment from: Shannon Freeman
I had a pc that was a little dirty, but that was with all of the panels on and the power supply running and the cooling fans. Nothing like the dirty pcs you linked to Vinnie.
February 10, 2010 @ 08:50AM
Comment from: Jackie
I would drag those computers into Ford's wind tunnel for a few hours before I'd touch those PCs! 88|
February 10, 2010 @ 10:09AM
There was a Dell computer once that belonged to a company that made gravel at the side of a mountain in Vegas. Know how you make gravel? You pound big rocks into smaller ones. The computer worked fine but I heard a slow grinding noise coming from it so I popped it open and found the Dell PC was also making gravel. Dust, grit and gravel spilled out into the floor and it was so packed you could barely see the heatsink fan making more gravel from what was inside.

It was my first week on the job at the company and let's just say I made sure all PCs were de-graveled once every 2 weeks. And stocked them up with spare keyboards in sealed bags as well. A sticky keyboard on their scale PC took it down while I was there one day. Too much dust to keep it all clean.
February 10, 2010 @ 05:09PM

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