>be local IT dustman, alternate
>a particular laptop has been giving the actual IT dustwoman trouble for ages
>say i'm bored and will take a look at it; we're returning other stuff and i've alrady gutted all of it anyway so there's finally spare hard drives and memory to go around if a part on it failed
>laptop's screws are stripped to fuck, say i'll bring my dremel to gently drill the screws out and replace them with some spares I have from home if she's comfortable
>she says "fuck it" and just tears the panel off, breaking it

well, at least it works now. turned out someone stole the hard drive. also someone broke the ethernet port on it badly enough it's missing traces, and the memory was in the wrong slot. explains why the screws were all fucked up in the first place

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that's vauxhall and they are NOT shitty!!!