My power supply. Just for the gawks and stares.

my old job phone, i was working at a support center and that damn thing had 50 buttons without text. Avg was to get one transfer correct out of 20.

LET'S MAKE TOPICS ABOUT OLD POPULAR MOVIES AND PRETEND WE ARE EDGY! ^____^

The shredder, Oh yea, it's day is coming.

To be honest, I work on a multi story building, and some day there will be retribution. There will be.

Anything that uses Windows Mobile.

Hmm, I've always wanted to snap an ipod nano.

a CRT monitor...over my co-workers head.

Just smashed up a Laserjet4 yesterday. I had the 41.3 Error, fixed it and was still getting jams. Come to think of it, it still had a 10/100 Jetdirect card in it....oh well.

That plastic SHATTERED when it hit the ground. Old brittle ABS everywhere!

I think all fax machines everywhere should be blown to smitherines all at once so that everyone in the world can breathe a sigh of relief. How corporations are still using these ancient forms of communication is beyond me. There are printers that can scan a gazillion pages into a PDF for you so that you can email them... stop using fax machines!

Then again, I probably wouldn't be so bitter if all fax machines weren't engineered to look and operate like complete and utter shit. Grrr...

dell with vista and hp laserjet 1012...one is responsible for endless driver install errors, and frankly i don't care which, they both'll get the bat.

In thinking about this, what I would like to do is teach the office equipment some respect in the old style. I'd gather everything into the board room, chairs, equipment, etc...

First I'd take the eternally broken office chair, the one that no matter what happens you end up sitting on during a meeting, the one that slowly descends as you sit in it- yea, I'd torch that.

Then I'd knee cap the copier that the other offices use. I'm tired of fixing other people's copiers.

Then I'd take a break and install an new network switch. The old switch would be shoved in the elevator gap. I can hear it's scrapping screams now.

Lastly, I'd gather all the UPS's, plug them into one power strip, and wait for one to beep. One bullet- it would quiet the rest.

I feel better. (This was all in good humor, except for the office chair. It's going out the window tonight.)

MY avaya!!!!

@Kitsunexus: There are no small topics.

Only small commenters.

I'm gonna have to go with the fax machine. Why for the love of juicy fuck does any office still use this? So many of our clients and many judges take pdf's by email, but every now and then some old-school bitch wants us to send dozens of pages of crap over this slow ass line, only to have it stall once the memory is exceeded, or have a failed fax because the machine on the receiving end is OFF, or doesn't have paper, or there's a bad connection somewhere. This is 2008 you bastards!

I want to build a trebuchet, attach this fucker, and launch a barrel full of dynamite with a carefully set timer so that I can launch it on another trebuchet and have them both rendezvous in midair.

The coffee machine.

The browny sludge it regurgitates after you spend a minute pressing the goddamn button should be enough to have the CDC invade our building and quarantine and thoroughly decontaminate anyone who has ever been within 3 meters of the thing.

D.E. Coffee machine, you and i will come to blows. One of these days i will end your reign of dislodging the brown sludge dispenser tube, and spilling your vile liquid over my shirt. Your disharmonic gurgling sound indicating ANOTHER leaking boiler seal will come to a sudden and spectacular end when i rip the dispenser head from your still heating water reservoir.

THIS I VOW!

I don't suppose bosses count as gadgets do they?

@Kaiser-Machead: Yeah, fax machines, high tech from the 20's. Absolutely useless, pointless machines. Good only for wasting toner for restaurant menus.

On my business card it says, FAX: Faxes are obsolete.

For me, it's gotta be the laser printer. The next time it tries to pull more than one page of paper, it's gettin the axe!

@Kyoseki: They do count as "Office Tools" very often.

@Synthaxx: The best solution for that, bring your own coffee press.

All of them. I hate technology.

@cloudnine & Kaiser-Machead: faxes are used by companies who hate their employees.

Then everyone else has to keep using it in case they need to get in touch with the employee-hating companies.

I wanna smash every PS2 available not because i hate sony (infact i would like to get a PS3) but because of the fact that it refuses to die and the Wii must suffer from it due to all the ports :(

I threw a printer off the top of a 8 story building into a dumpster 10 years ago. Considering how shitty the printer was and how sweet the impact sounded, I still regret not recording it.

HP Printer/Scanner...damn thing never working fucking right. YOU CANT JUST PICK UP ONE PIECE OF PAPER CAN YOU?@@??!?!

This reminds me of a video that was being passed around by email compiling all of these short clips of people having "computer rage" at work. This is one of them (and there are a billion more on YouTube, of course)..

+ Watch video

IT

@Kolma: Lot of those around the office are there?

everything

There are times that i wish i could just throw my laptop out of the window.

- All Epson Inkjet printers, almost 1/2 of the ink it uses were for "nozzle cleaning". (canon seems a little better)
- Amen to a poster above: all Pocket PC / Windows Mobile powered devices
- Not a gadget: my nissan maxima which keep giving me the check-engine light, now I am having a hard time selling it.

My boss is a tool, does he count?

...if not, then that last gen Apple keyboard. When I press a key, I can feel it rubbing the sides if it's guide offering up some very annoying resistance. Though maybe we can spin that to "makes fingers stronger and improves typing accuracy".

Office phone, because I was often the only person in the room, and people calling were never looking for me.

...we also have a paper shredder that couldn't cut through a stiff breeze.

Fax-Machine. Obsolete paper, power, and phone line wasting gadget.

I voted "other" for two different "others." First, other peoples' cell phones with loud, obnoxious, intrusive, ringtones played at high volume through speakers so unspeakably rotten they would make Bach sound like Bacharach. Second, for similar reasons, PC speaker systems and the morons who waste their time experimenting with all the different things you can do with Windows system sounds. Arrgh! YES THEY WILL BLEND!

@Kaiser-Machead:

I $hit you not, I just kicked my fax machine, just before I read your post. You are hillarious...

ow yeah, i almost forgot if the I.T dept people can be considered as "office tools" i'll whack all their heads off! the blocking of websites is just SO UNREASONABLE!! im glaring at you WEBSENSE!

My document scanner must die.

The tape backup system. LONG overdue for replacement. How that technology from the 70s hands on I don't know but with 16 TB of data we still don't have a good alternative.

@MConnor: Aye!

My phone. Don't get me wrong, the phone is fine, but it rings and rings and rings and rings, ad infinitum. My customers don't like voice mail, but the joke's on them when I don't answer the page... because I'm with another customer.

Idiots.

Man you guys sure hate the Faxes. I always wanted to fax companies a couple sheets of black construction paper and then a page following with nothing but "Need Toner?" and a phone number. Good start up business.

Getting rid of the fax is a good first start to a paperless office. Getting rid of it by smashing is ideal.

Damn it feels good to be a Gangster

F-ing Blackberry. It is my Kahn, my Wernstrom, my Roscoe P. Coltrane!

Oh the hatred...

List is so long I don't even know where to start.

My printer at home for starters. It's an HP 830C.
Several times the paper tray fails to stack the printed pages correctly, then it starts to mess things up, and the final result is tons of misprinted and ruined papers.

So, when I have to print tens of pages, I have to keep watching the printer... which is ridiculous.

I also would like to smash my laptop for failing me... the 3D card just gone berserk. Currently waiting for support to give me a solution.

I also had to deal with dot matrix printers... paper jams were very very frequent.

I'm also saving a piece of crap Greatspeed ADSL router I had to smash it someday, along with the useless Belkin wireless router I'm still using right now.

Oh, and about 4 external HDD (USB) cases.

There's probably more I can't remember right now.

whoa i'm super surprised that you stole this question from geeksugar's post from wednesday [www.geeksugar.com]

@m.laan: Yowch.

Same pic and everything.

The shitty hand-built PCs they give us at work. It takes five seconds to change a font size for crying out loud! Of course, it's better than the 667Mhz Pentium III system that would take ten minutes to boot up.

@Kitsunexus:

If it's so horrible, why not go to Engadget since it's so "edgy"?!

^____^

at home my Monster cable power supply at work the fax machine , Im am THE IT GUY .. and the fax machine pisses me off

@m.laan:
dude-and it seems as though geeksugar actually has...chicks
say it aint so sean. Say it aint so!

I will do some reconnaissance at [the aforementioned site] studying the commenters' way and report back. If you don't hear from me in a day's [or so] time, I have most likely landed in paradise or have been killed by native occupants

seriously...a tech-esque spinoff to "Lost" can be seen here. I would love to nominate myself along with some devout others (har har, not those types of "steal your babies *others*)

The infocaster system at work. I am the only one who knows how to use it, it crashes all the time, but I have to call IT to reboot the machines. The machines are locked in a closet and an office the closet is a block away from where I am and I can get remote access privileges to do it myself. Everyone knows that I am in charge of it, so every time it crashes I have to hear about from like 10 people before IT can reboot it. It's not their fault, they are busy. Man I would love to go office space on those machines though.

The Infocaster support system sucks too.

@Cormier6083:

Because Engadget just SUCKS.

Love to smash that damn security badge reader.

@lionelbob:
lemme guess...you're sliding that card, eh? Touch is [right] around the corner. RFID will [unfortunately] follow soon enough

When I was still at one of the local TV stations, we detonated an S-VHS camera in the parking lot with an aerial shell left over from the fireworks safety liveshot we did earlier. We all wanted to go Office Space on our 4 dot matrix printers that all our script