Have you ever attacked a computer out of anger?

[aimeeandbeatles]

With my old computer, when the drivers acted up I sometimes got so mad I slapped the case. It didn't work.

Here's something I came up with a google:
http://lap.umd.edu/Computer_Rage/Tech_Report/written_comments/beh.html

 

[ParadigmShifter]

No, it is silly. I smoke though so that calms me down, and its' a great way to commit suicide really slowly

 

[Perfection]

No, but I have attacked a computer nerd out of anger.

 

[Cutlass]

Last year I was having an outstandingly bad year. I was very short tempered. And whenever the pc was acting up I pounded on the keyboard until I eventually crushed it.

 

[Aramazd]

Nope, although I've broken numerous pencils and a pen while at the computer.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I tend to just smack my tabletop. The pain calms me down quite a bit. I prefer to avoid hurting my computer equipment as its my own money ive invested into it. If I really wanted to smack my money around, Id punch my wallet.

 

[LucyDuke]

Does going Office Space on a fax machine count?

 

[Perfection]

Only if it was out of anger, not to be silly imitating a movie.

 

[Maniacal]

I broke the shift key on my old Dell comptuer's keyboard by hitting >.> It works, it just needs to be hit again to stop being stuck down. I still have the habit of rarely using the right shift key because of that.

I don't like breaking things, especially anything of mine. As tempting as it can be to take out your anger on the keyboard and mouse (being literaly the first things in your hands). Mostly I just swear loudly instead, luckily while I can get irritated and frustrated easiyl during random mood swings it doesn't happen very often, and I've long since learned to mostly control my tmeper.

 

[Macha]

*Remembers buckled front panel on my old desktop*

Nope, never have... I swear!

In my defense though, I never broke anything important (a power surge fried it)

 

[Mise]

Does going Office Space on a fax machine count?

The bit at the beginning or the bit in the field?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

No, it is silly. I smoke though so that calms me down, and its' a great way to commit suicide really slowly

Same here
It's basically a win-win-win situation really.

 

[Zelig]

I assault my computer all the time, but my computer use has atrophied my muscles to the point where I can't cause any damage.

 

[LucyDuke]

It wasn't in a field, it was off a second-story balcony then in a paved yard. It was just me and a sledgehammer, no witnesses and no cameras. It's hard to describe the rage that builds up with a piece of crap mfp that takes two minutes to "warm up" no matter what you're doing, but will accept a fax number before it tells you it's warming up, then won't tell you when it's warmed up, so you've got to stand there entering the fax number and hitting "send fax" relentlessly until the stupid thing finally decides okay, it's warm enough, it'll send your fax. And if you don't catch the goddamn thing quickly enough, it'll go back and say no, no, it's got to warm up again, even when the stupid piece of crap just sent a freakin' fax. It can't even remember "make one copy" from the NO I HAVE TO WARM UP message to when it's finally warmed up two minutes later, so unless you stand there jamming the damn copy button, it'll warm up and do nothing. Garbage. It's garbage. So I destroyed it.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I once hit my laptop lightly because it was being slow...

 

[lndm]

Well, there was this one time...I took my first broken computer in to be fixed. I asked the tech whether it could have broken through rough handling and he said you could throw these things against a brick wall without hurting them (no internal drives). Well, I had a friend with the same model and told him about this. I dared him to throw his computer against the side of his house. Then he dared me to throw it, but I couldn't so I double dared him and he did. A small piece broke off the case and there were a few deep scratches so we felt we'd thrown it hard enough but the damage couldn't be seen from the front. It was a win/win situation. We went off and played computer games after that. There was alcohol involved. Does that count?

 

[J-man]

Yes I have, I pounded the keyboard so heavily that some keys came flying off.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

Indirectly. I have been pissed off and slammed my fists on my desk which somehow restarted my computer. That can't be good.

 

[JonathanStrange]

I too am one of those who'll slap the table but not their computer. And yeah, the pain brings me back to my senses - for awhile! Then, slap!

 

[eastsidebagel]

But computers are my friends!