Omg keyboard!!!

[Mestra]

Ok I am posting this for all you people who work at large companies and eat over your keyboard. I work in IT and have to clean keyboard when they get dirty.

The story is.

I got a call from a lady that works with me saying her keys on her keyboard are sticking. I went over there with my trusty can of air and OMG WTF ALL THAT IS HOLY! i look at this keyboard and realize a can of air isn't going to work. I need to call the Hazmat team... i pop a few keys out to allow the whole chicken thats trapped in her keyboard to escape turn it over and start trying to knock as much stuff out as possible. a few maggots came out while doing this which gagged me. Now i'm ex military and an ex police officer so i have seen some nasty stuff but you have got to be kidding me maggots in a keyboard? after 20 minutes of blowing it out and banging it on her desk i finally called for backup and gloves. we work on it for another few minutes and think we have it as clean as we are going to get it. Next day she called back (i didn't wipe all the chicken parts/other various foods off her desk) saying that it still was not fixed (want to note she didn't even bother to clean the gunk that came out of her keyboard off her desk). I do what any other IT guy would do Ticket Dell. They send us a new one 3 days later and we ship the unholy keyboard which is now growing by the day and is winking at us. Im not joking 3 days after this we receive the keyboard back from dell asking us to dispose of it.


I actually have a few pictures but dont know how to post them on the site... wont let me link from photobucket if you would like the pics PM me your email.....

All of the above is true but slightly exagerated

 

[Slighter]

Put them in an album on PB and link the album.

 

[Houdini]

I've had to deal with soiled keyboards myself. Not that bad but pretty bad. I did have one that I decided to throw away because it was a lost cause but most of the time what I did was soak it in a pan of soap and water. Really. Water won't hurt a keyboard if it's totally dry before putting it back in service. I've done this at least 50x and they always come out looking and working like new.
On the photobucket thing just copy the image code from under the picture and paste it right into the reply window. That's how I do it.

 

[ZambucaLu]

OMG.....this was hilarious!!! Thanks for the laugh!

Lu

 

[Tuesday]

A microbiologist would have a field day with this one.

 

[tribalmasters]

HHhahahahaha!

I can't believe you said there were maggots there!!! 8-o 8-o

I guess e-liquid on the keys isn't so bad after all! Maybe you could get her one of those roll up keyboards they are sealed but they feel a little like chicken and maggots to type on so maybe not

Or charge her loadsa money for wrecking the keyboard and get one of those medical wipe-off keyboard that cost alot!

 

[tribalmasters]

I've had to deal with soiled keyboards myself. Not that bad but pretty bad. I did have one that I decided to throw away because it was a lost cause but most of the time what I did was soak it in a pan of soap and water. Really. Water won't hurt a keyboard if it's totally dry before putting it back in service. I've done this at least 50x and they always come out looking and working like new.
On the photobucket thing just copy the image code from under the picture and paste it right into the reply window. That's how I do it.

I had a bath with an Atari ST keyboard once! It was clean when it came out!! Sadly it was still discoloured, I was still a kid then hoping the discolouration would wash off and turn the keys from yellow back to their original colour!!

 

[Fire N Ice]

All I can say is: Only in Louisiana..

 

[Mestra]

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[Mestra]

Fire N Ice its every where but since everything here is fried 150x before serving its here more then anywhere

 

[maureengill]

Ugh...please stop...I do desktop support and think of such things every time i sit at someone's desk....I'm not a clean freak or anything, but I do my best not to look down..thankfully enough my typing skills do not require me looking at the keys. Thankfully enough we have a boatload of keyboards...although I feel bad sending some of them to be recycled...you know...the ones with a whole chicken in them and stuff

Maureen

Ok I am posting this for all you people who work at large companies and eat over your keyboard. I work in IT and have to clean keyboard when they get dirty.

The story is.

I got a call from a lady that works with me saying her keys on her keyboard are sticking. I went over there with my trusty can of air and OMG WTF ALL THAT IS HOLY! i look at this keyboard and realize a can of air isn't going to work. I need to call the Hazmat team... i pop a few keys out to allow the whole chicken thats trapped in her keyboard to escape turn it over and start trying to knock as much stuff out as possible. a few maggots came out while doing this which gagged me. Now i'm ex military and an ex police officer so i have seen some nasty stuff but you have got to be kidding me maggots in a keyboard? after 20 minutes of blowing it out and banging it on her desk i finally called for backup and gloves. we work on it for another few minutes and think we have it as clean as we are going to get it. Next day she called back (i didn't wipe all the chicken parts/other various foods off her desk) saying that it still was not fixed (want to note she didn't even bother to clean the gunk that came out of her keyboard off her desk). I do what any other IT guy would do Ticket Dell. They send us a new one 3 days later and we ship the unholy keyboard which is now growing by the day and is winking at us. Im not joking 3 days after this we receive the keyboard back from dell asking us to dispose of it.


I actually have a few pictures but dont know how to post them on the site... wont let me link from photobucket if you would like the pics PM me your email.....

All of the above is true but slightly exagerated

 

[tribalmasters]

Ugh...please stop...I do desktop support and think of such things every time i sit at someone's desk....I'm not a clean freak or anything, but I do my best not to look down..thankfully enough my typing skills do not require me looking at the keys. Thankfully enough we have a boatload of keyboards...although I feel bad sending some of them to be recycled...you know...the ones with a whole chicken in them and stuff

Maureen

If its one of the early IBM or Dell keyboards it ain't good at all!! Those things are pure enjoyment to type on, they shall not be ruined by the chicken!!!!

 

[malyden]

Oh my I also work in PC Support and although I have seen many a disgusting thing that one takes the cake. Luckily for me I also order all supplies so if there's a keyboard etc that is even half that bad it goes away and I put a new one in. Then I reiterate the no eating at your desk policy!

 

[MoeJoe39]

At 8 bucks for a keyboard, why would you waste your time trying to clean it...........unless it's one of them fancy wireless models.

MoeJoe

 

[tribalmasters]

Oh my I also work in PC Support and although I have seen many a disgusting thing that one takes the cake. Luckily for me I also order all supplies so if there's a keyboard etc that is even half that bad it goes away and I put a new one in. Then I reiterate the no eating at your desk policy!

Did ya give them a good telling off/slapping when they ate at their desk?? I bet they do not eat at their own home computers and ruin them but are more than happy to come to work and ruin yours!!



8 bucks a keyboard? Everyone ruins one and there are many needing the replacement making it an expensive keyobard ruining hobby!!

 

[Kate51]

I asked a guy at Best Buy one time what they used to clean keyboards (I had just wiped all the lettering off mine with the solution I used!) and he said "who cleans them?" I said "eeehhhhheooouuu" and left. That was in the early Nineties, so I think since then we are a little more aware.
I work on furniture from hospitals and clinics, so know what kinds of things can lurk in tiny cracks. Beware! If you ever see gross, try to imagine it under magnification. I wouldn't look though, it's too frightening.

 

[MoeJoe39]

8 bucks a keyboard? Everyone ruins one and there are many needing the replacement making it an expensive keyobard ruining hobby!!

It's more expensive for my employer to pay me to clean them. And I also do PC Support.
I have cleaned a few, I can usually tell by one look if I'm going to attempt it!

 

[tribalmasters]

It's more expensive for my employer to pay me to clean them. And I also do PC Support.
I have cleaned a few, I can usually tell by one look if I'm going to attempt it!

I guess your right! Scrubbing that thing cost more in time than the replacement keyboard especially when the keycaps need to get a good dunking and then put back in the right place hehe! I'll go with the no eating at desks approach or get Dell to replace it

I bet laptop keyboard are even more fun not to mention expensive and sometimes hard to find!!!!!

 

[Darmeen]

At 8 bucks for a keyboard, why would you waste your time trying to clean it...........unless it's one of them fancy wireless models.

MoeJoe

$8??? I have one of these

$75

 

[5cardstud]

I have an Iogear wireless 33ft. range that kept getting dust etc. in it. I took a sheet of plastic wrap, like saran wrap and put over it and taped it on the back and if you use the soft kind it works pretty good. no more stuff in the keys.