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Post by stork on Aug 10, 2013 21:19:51 GMT -8
I'm not nearly as computer savvy as a lot of people here. But I can do most of what he says...got me thinking. Kids cant use computers
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Post by suboptimal on Aug 11, 2013 1:43:45 GMT -8
Suboptimal can't use computers. (Though i try from time to time, silly me.) Nicely written blog, like his style of humor. But what he really needs is this shirt: No, i will not fix your computer.
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Post by maxinstuff on Aug 13, 2013 0:41:17 GMT -8
As technologies become more complex, there are diminishing returns to knowing all that stuff. Unless you work in that particular field (and therefore derive income from that knowledge) then you may as well pay someone else to fix it while you go and do what you are good at (and get paid).
Computers are probably the best example of this. There are specialties within specialties in that field.
Perversely, it is the very ignorance he is complaining about that keeps him employed :/
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Post by greatwyrm on Aug 13, 2013 18:21:34 GMT -8
I'm not a computer professional, but I always end up with the unofficial title of "Office Computer Guy". I've seen almost all of that stuff at one time or another and I still do. The one that probably gets me the most is when I'm asked for help and they click off error messages at the speed of light. I can't tell you how many times I've had this conversation.
Heck, it's gotten so bad that about half the error messages in our proprietary software actually say to leave that window open and call home office tech support so you can read them the exact wording.
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Post by maxinstuff on Aug 14, 2013 0:20:33 GMT -8
I'm not a computer professional, but I always end up with the unofficial title of "Office Computer Guy". I've seen almost all of that stuff at one time or another and I still do. The one that probably gets me the most is when I'm asked for help and they click off error messages at the speed of light. I can't tell you how many times I've had this conversation. Heck, it's gotten so bad that about half the error messages in our proprietary software actually say to leave that window open and call home office tech support so you can read them the exact wording. Everyone in my office now knows to take a screenshot and email it. It takes some time to drill it into them but you just insist on being emailed a screenshot or you will be unable to help.
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Post by heavymetaljess on Aug 14, 2013 19:07:55 GMT -8
I'm not a computer professional, but I always end up with the unofficial title of "Office Computer Guy". I've seen almost all of that stuff at one time or another and I still do. The one that probably gets me the most is when I'm asked for help and they click off error messages at the speed of light. I can't tell you how many times I've had this conversation. Heck, it's gotten so bad that about half the error messages in our proprietary software actually say to leave that window open and call home office tech support so you can read them the exact wording. The only people worse than pop-up closers are the people I call "big britches." These are the people who think they know how computers work and pass out incorrect data. Somehow, these people always get put on IT projects with me. They then tell people not to worry about doing things the way I explain it -because it isn't that important.- One of my favorites is the mystery person who keeps fucking up our large format plotter settings. One day I'm going to catch her and I'm going to have a ruler ready to beat the shit out of her.
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Post by inflatus on Aug 14, 2013 20:44:43 GMT -8
"Tech support, Have you turned it off and back on again?"
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Post by maxinstuff on Aug 14, 2013 20:58:32 GMT -8
I'm not a computer professional, but I always end up with the unofficial title of "Office Computer Guy". I've seen almost all of that stuff at one time or another and I still do. The one that probably gets me the most is when I'm asked for help and they click off error messages at the speed of light. I can't tell you how many times I've had this conversation. Heck, it's gotten so bad that about half the error messages in our proprietary software actually say to leave that window open and call home office tech support so you can read them the exact wording. The only people worse than pop-up closers are the people I call "big britches." These are the people who think they know how computers work and pass out incorrect data. Somehow, these people always get put on IT projects with me. They then tell people not to worry about doing things the way I explain it -because it isn't that important.- One of my favorites is the mystery person who keeps fucking up our large format plotter settings. One day I'm going to catch her and I'm going to have a ruler ready to beat the shit out of her. They get put on those projects because they make themselves look like they should be. In my experience this type of behaviour is a ploy to fill their days with meetings so as not to have to actually produce anything.
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Post by dnddad on Aug 19, 2013 7:23:26 GMT -8
I'm a network support technician for an ISP and I've had people call in saying, "the computer has to be on for the internet to work?"
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Post by riff on Aug 28, 2013 3:20:13 GMT -8
Ugh, I'm easily the Tech Guy in my group of flesh-bag friends (net guys have me beat) and I get so tired of "fixing" things that took a 3 min google search and a 5th grade reading level. I almost when into system admin, but egads what a headache.
One of my best and worst stories came from the same event: I had turned my desktop into a private World of Warcraft server that could only be accessed through my WLAN. The group of friends would come over and the 4-7 of us would pull out our laptops and enjoy WoW without all the griefers and have a blast. Then a few decided they wanted to play in the "real" WoW and got real confused why the couldn't just use the character from our private little playground and why they needed "two copies of WoW" on their computer. (I had made an easy shortcut to run my wow and left a default shortcut for Blizzard's on the desktop as well) It only got worse and eventually I pulled that plug. It just took more effort than it was worth.
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