I’m in IT and get the same thing when people bring their screwed up laptops to me. Usually after they’ve tried to fix a problem and given up. “What do you mean I shouldn’t have installed Carl’s Magic Registry Cleaner?” “I don’t know how I got those 20 toolbars installed on Internet Explorer” “But I need to have my vacation photos for the last 5 years and iTunes music collection stored on my departmental network drive”
It’s also fun when someone brings me a machine, doesn’t give the password, has 18 spreadsheets open that haven’t been saved, and only the vaguest description of the problem or when it occurs. Plus the thing looks like they’ve been eating chicken wings while using it and they’ve only had the machine for a month. Disgusting. Kind of the equivalent of taking your car to the mechanic with 1/64th of a tank of gas in it after driving through a mud bog and not handing over the ignition key.
“My remote access doesn’t work/Blackberry is screwed up/getting this error and I leave for China in 4 hours. It’s been doing this for three weeks. Can you help me?”
There, I’m done ranting too. I try not to be the BOFH, but really people…