Ghost in the monitor?!? - Tales From tech Support

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Ghost in the monitor?!? - Tales From tech Support

Today's stories are from the subreddit r/talesfromtechsupport
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Ghost in the monitor?!? - Tales From tech Support

[shannonp]

Your experience with class sounds like something one of my profs told our class. He taught the same class to young undergrads during the day and at night to working adults who had been out of school for years. The night students performed better in general. Working full time, with families, with homes to maintain, we got work done faster and got better grades. Time management and life experience are invaluable.

[morganm]

Internet down story. I had a customer call me once saying, "The internet is down" after questioning the user a bit came to realize the power was out in the neighborhood.

[thewebexpert]

Actually, IIMHO, I think that the flicker was more due to the ceiling fans. Great work!

[bwsimonson]

Thank you Jon, I love it every time you do the I Am Uncle Jon now.

[merlinathrawes]

Chairs vs monitors story: Just WOW!

Quiz story: John, I have to agree with you about some "young adults" not being very adult. I went to college after my hitch in the Navy, so I was about 25 when I started my freshman year. The college is in western Michigan, so winter weather included good bits of lake-effect snow. My first class was at 8:00am. I was the only student in that class to never miss or be late for that class despite the weather. What makes that interesting is that I was the ONLY student in that class to live off campus. My morning drive was about 50 miles as I took my wife to work before heading to the college.

[boomermatic]

The chair thing is real, had equipment blank out at a few companies over the years whenever would get up from my chair and generate static electricity.

[ericneo]

The light flicker is the hertz of the lights/power. You can increase the hertz(50>60) or adjust the framerate the webcam captures in.
We experienced the chair thing too but for us we found out it was caused by an adjustable desk which crushed a power cable. We found this out when we had an electrician who was installing cables onsite to take a look at the situation after the staff had been complaining about it.

[patrickbuick]

So many businesses do not have redundancy. I sit out here in Atlantic Canada where one or both of the two ISPs providing the infrastructure for all the smaller outfits has a fibre cut annually. I get quite irritated when the Toronto people flip out when theirs goes down because of a massive wreck taking out the fibre lines... live in our shoes for a few years.

[michaelterrell]

The cylinder in a chair is made of steel. Many chairs have a plastic cover over that cylinder that can generate the static. I've spent years, wearing an anti static wrist strap, while working on bare circuit boards. The bench mat had to be tested every 90 days, to make sure that it was grounded through a 1 Meg resistor, and tested for the surface resistance to ensure it wasn't rising to an unsafe level. I have a '3M 701 Test Kit for Static Control Surfaces 0 to 10Mohm Conductance 500V' for this test.

[stevelloyd]

Static shocks can be so much fun. When I was 13 (1973) in my first year of secondary school (New Zealand, I dont know what that is in USA) we had a library carpet that shed a lot of fluff onto our plastic soled shoes. The more fluff we collected the more likely was a shock when we touched something or someone else. Well it didn't take long to figure out that if you moved around sliding your feet rather than walking, you got a really big charge built up, sneeking up on some unsuspecting student and nearly touching their ear resulted in an audible crack as the static discharged and sometimes you even saw the spark. Your extended finger with its fairly tough skin didn't really sense it much but the soft earlobe skin of the victim, that was a different matter.

[robertgraybeard]

story at 5:24 - it's the CHAIRS ? ? ? There was a time in my career when I worked in a room that was wall to wall "engineers". The engineer at the desk next to mine did failure analysis of printed circuit boards with integrated circuits. He showed me microphotographs of ICs that had been opened up after failure. They had segments exploded by static shock. amazing.

[Stephan]

Story about down internet .. some things are just out of your control... I used to work for an Alarm Co. and was dispatched to find he cause of a communication failure. turns put an excavation team did not look before digging, looked in the wrong place, and dug up the buried phone company cable tearing it in half!!

[Mrflash]

The lights aren’t flickering it’s your fan, throwing shadows it’s perfectly in time

[randysmith]

Static story
We some old carpet in a office that would generate static electricity. Nothing like what he was talking about but if you was moving around alot it would give you a little zap. Like wheeling over to a co workers desk and touching his ear.

[josefhyatt]

And all of this is why I'm no longer in the IT field!

[DrFruikenstein]

There's no sense in waiting to do the test. If it's a college class, he should know how to write by now.
Doing the assignment right away means I don't have to do it later when I'd rather be loafing about.

[rosswayav]

Jon the flicker is coming from your Christmas tree lights because they are likely LED(please confirm) and I'm willing to bet that the power conversion circuity is cost cut to a stupid degree that it doesn't have smoothing circuity and I'm willing to bet it's only using the peak of the power cycle as well which isn't helping the flicker.

Source A/V installer and cheap LEDs never play nice with cameras.

[jdsetter]

listening to the first guy rabbit on, his willingness to take away other peoples time at the drop of hat, his happiness that they would get their work life ruined to make his easier... yeah i suspect these guys were pretty much over his shit by then. Who knows, maybe THEIR boss kept them on a tight leash and wouldn't let them take lunch at any other time, but he wouldn't care, it was just making his day more difficult. In many places, just because you are salaried doesn't mean you just get to do what you want. Again, he wouldn't know it was not his department.

[MikeDCWeld]

No reason to worry about a barely perceptible flicker. If people are complaining about that, they shouldn't bother clicking on your videos in the first place.

[Currin]

In my company, salary or no, you work through lunch that’s it. You don’t get that hour later in the day. You just get behind on work.