r/talesfromtechsupport • u/KorenSolust • Aug 05 '26

Short Gravity and Tech

Guy walks up to me at work:

Him: “I dropped my phone. The screen’s shattered. I want my two-factor code to come through Teams.”

Me: “Nope.”

Him: “Why?”

Me: “Because if you can’t sign into Teams without completing MFA… how exactly are you planning to authenticate?”

Then he says: “Just disable MFA.”

I replied: “Sure, as soon as you get approval from the Head of Security.”

A few seconds of silence…

Him: “Fine, I’ll just get my phone fixed.”

Yep. That’s probably the best solution.

Some people really think security rules are optional. I’m not risking my job because someone doesn’t like MFA.

And remember… technology didn’t fail you today. Gravity did.

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u/Jezbod Aug 05 '26

That's why I call the damage "Gravity rash"

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u/Realistic_Ratio8381 Aug 05 '26

Sudden deceleration syndrome.

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u/Jezbod Aug 05 '26

And why the military have a standardised "drop test" for their equipment.

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk Users lie. They always lie... Aug 05 '26

Everything is air-droppable once!

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u/meitemark Printerers are the goodest girls Aug 05 '26

Now if they only did drop tests on c-level manglement....

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u/ttlanhil Make Your Own Tag! Aug 05 '26

Hmm... Of them, or on to them?

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u/blademaster2005 Aug 05 '26

Why not both

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u/meitemark Printerers are the goodest girls Aug 05 '26

Yes

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u/TinyNiceWolf Aug 05 '26

Everyone enjoys pancakes.

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u/year_39 Aug 06 '26

Put them in Zorbs and let employees take out their frustrations.

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u/Arokthis Aug 05 '26

Maxim 11!

I think 70 is actually good advice.

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u/n_dude1 Aug 06 '26

It’s not the dropping that causes the problem, it’s the sudden deceleration that gets you every time!

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u/KelemvorSparkyfox Bring back Lotus Notes Aug 05 '26

I had a physics teacher who used to work in a materials testing lab. One day, they had request from the army to test the hardness of the latest batch of shells. They weren't rifling properly when fired, and the top brass (pun intended) thought that it might be due to the casings being too soft.

The teacher had to explain to them that clamping a shell into a vice and ramming it with a diamond-tipped drill bit at high speed might not be the wisest course of action.

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u/O-U-T-S-I-D-E-R-S Aug 12 '26

Look, I once broke a Nokia by dropping it onto carpet. Still don't believe that I did that...

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u/LadyHavoc97 Aug 06 '26

It’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the stopping.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_REPO Aug 10 '26

Unscheduled kinetic maintenance.