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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, the speakers on my laptop weren't working. I worried I'd broken something, and started freaking out. I restarted my computer numerous times and played with the settings for an hour before calling my sister in to help. She looked at it for two seconds, then unplugged my headphones. FML
Today, my laptop plug got stuck in the wall outlet. I stood there for 10 minutes violently trying to yank it out. My boss came in and screamed at me for making noise. I was angry, so I glared at him and yanked on the plug as hard as I could. It dislodged itself noiselessly and I fell over. FML
Today, while trying to fix a corrupted USB hard drive with my wife’s computer I accidentally wiped her laptop drive instead of clearing the external drive. I’m not allowed on her computers anymore. FML
Today, while trying to get my phone to charge, I shoved in the cable harder and harder and tried to wobble it so my phone would charge. After snapping the USB input from the force, I saw the plug was switched off. FML
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
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
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
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
Today, my young stepdaughter decided that she should store her coins in my laptop's card reader slot and in the CD drive. I just bought the laptop last week. FML
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
Try turning off the volume
mzrobinson 13
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tj4234 36
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 39
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 38
I would suggest installing a bigger jack on your headphones.
notjanedoe 27
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.
redstone7693 29
Haha I saw that on household hacker
salazara 10
wow! I never knew one could do that - alas; the brilliance of technology?
cyperrahl 5
So. Why did you leave your work laptop unlocked and unsecured around a bunch of your friends? You totally deserve it
Matrix159 13
If that wasn't your work laptop I'd say keep it!
BobbieH 19
Google is your friend. Changing the sounds is super simple regardless of your OS. Just search it and you'll find full, step by step directions.
Azure_Sky 8
Right click speaker icon on task bar -> Sounds -> sound scheme drop box -> No sounds -> OK
nkboggan 8
I'm sorry but this is awesome! I am so going to do this.