Work: Today, my friends took my work laptop and changed the sounds....

By Anonymous - 20/07/2013 15:45 - United States - Newark

Today, my friends took my work laptop and changed the sounds. Now, whenever I remove a USB device, a woman's voice screams "Put it back!" and when I insert a USB device, it says "Oh, you need to push it in harder!" I don't know how to change it back. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/04/2012 04:41 - United States

Today, I had my headphones on while on the bus. I didn't realize how loud the music was till the woman sitting next to me punched me for changing her favorite song and then "ignoring her" when she asked me to put it back. FML

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By HassledAirfarer - 07/12/2009 02:08 - United States

Today, I was on a red-eye flight, and the woman beside me was chattering loudly to her friend. I opened my laptop and got to work. Suddenly, one of the women turned to me and told me that the clicking of my keyboard was too loud. She then called me an "inconsiderate, selfish bitch." FML

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By Anonymous - 24/11/2010 13:18 - Sweden

Today, my cute co-worker asked if he could use my computer. I told him my password and went to the bathroom. When I came back he said he'd finished. I tried to log in, but my password wouldn't work. I then noticed a post-it note on the desk saying, "Stop stalking me and I'll change the password back." FML

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Today, at work, my mouse cursor kept randomly moving all over the screen, and messed up an entire day's attempted work. As I was leaving, I overheard one of my co-workers saying he'd plugged a wireless mouse adapter into my computer, and had been trolling me all day. FML

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By GidleyWife - 30/07/2015 17:22 - United States - Los Angeles

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By ilikemusicokay - 08/08/2009 05:04 - United States

Today, I was going to the bathroom at work. Since I knew it would take a while, I brought my iPod in for entertainment. To bad it disabled me from hearing the continuous knocks on the door as well as the manager eventually picking the lock and busting in. FML

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MsConfusedd 27

Saturday 20 July 2013 19:36

Try turning off the volume

mzrobinson 13

Saturday 20 July 2013 19:36

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tj4234 35

Sunday 21 July 2013 0:20

Go into your control panel. Click on Hardware and Sound. Then click sound. Then click change system sounds. In the pop up screen that opens, select 'device connect' and a selection box will appear on the bottom left hand side of the pop up. Select 'windows hardware insert' as your sound. Then do the same for 'device disconnect' and change the sound to 'windows hardware remove'. That should revert the USB sounds to their original settings.

alycion 38

Sunday 21 July 2013 4:44

I'm Mac now so I don't know if the restore default sound system option is still available. Useful in case they planted any other surprises.

buckdharma 36

Sunday 21 July 2013 0:27

I would suggest installing a bigger jack on your headphones.

notjanedoe 27

Sunday 21 July 2013 0:28

I have a hard time feeling sympathy because a simple google search would tell you exactly how to change it back and if you had to wait until after work to fix it, you could simply turn off the sound.