"Computer Guys" of Reddit: What is the dumbest thing regular people do to their computers?

Speaking of IE...my wife works at a company that locks their machines down so that alternate browsers can't be installed (because they have tracking software to make sure people aren't going to non-company related sites). Bad policy, in my opinion, but whatever. It wouldn't be that big of a deal, but they have also kept all of the computers locked into IE8 because a couple of their vendors require IE8 for their portal software. Queue yesterday with my wife calling me saying that she can't access a tech support chat app because her "browser is out of date, upgrade to IE11 or choose an alternate browser". She asked my opinion on what to tell her IT people. I told her to tell them that she needed to install Chrome or Firefox (since they can't upgrade IE) so that she could do her job. They basically told her to go f-ck herself because company policy says no alternate browsers.

Funny thing was that the company CEO was coming to her branch that afternoon. I told her to tell her branch manager and then "discuss" it with the CEO. I didn't find out what happened because it slipped my mind last night, but I have a feeling she got her alternate browser installed either yesterday afternoon or today (she's known the CEO personally for over 14 years).

Bear in mind that the IT manager helping set these policies is the same guy that had all of the branches convert from 60Mb cable internet access to T1 access because "it's more secure using a T1"...then got the brilliant idea of converting their phone system to VoIP with more than 15 computers and phones trying to push/pull data over a 1.5Mb connection. Brilliant he is...not. The sad part is that management is so technologically dense that they keep rubber-stamping his suggestions. They don't even have a backup server (that every single branch accesses...with well over 100 users total) in case their server goes down. If the server goes down, no one can do anything...anywhere...not even make phone calls because the server handles all of the VoIP stuff as well. They've gone down twice in the last year...once for two days...and yet, still, no backup server.

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