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Here is a good one for you.... Somebody came into the store yesterday with his laptop saying the operating system does not load. It was checked in and I ran a battery of tests on it. Everything looked fine, except the hard drive was not detected. I observed the notes and it mentioned that some water was spilled on it. From that I hypothesized either the circuit or the hard drive itself was blown out. Since I have been trained to milk all the money I can off of anything we check in, I decided to pop out the hard drive to see if I can spin it up for a data rescue. Good thing I unplugged it before I took it out, because the hard drive was dripping when I took it out. The only thing that is puzzling about the whole scenariois, how did they managed to just soak the hard drive when it is off to the side on the bottom? Weird.

I worked yesterday, that's a whole different story. All I have to say is, if you want me to do something for you, you better give me a good reason. So I'm not pissed at the person who eventually asked me to do it, I'm more upset at the person I covered for.