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| Have you noticed how nobody ever asks a doctor in the family to look at his/her bunion, because they know the doctor would just say no?
If the person knows something about computers though.. somehow, it's okay to ask them to work for nothing, and legitimate to complain, bitch and moan, and say "oh come on, but you work with computers, why don't you help?" when he/she doesn't want to... :P grr. |
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| no way, if I have a doctor in the same room, I ask him to check my bunion for free...it's like yo common at least a quick look, just to tell me if it's something worth worrying about
I mean come on, dont you watch Curb Your Enthusiasm? |
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| "oh come on, but you work with computers, why don't you help?"
I would so be tempted to answer " well, you're an asshole but you don't see me ask you about my diarrhea, do you ? "
People are so fucking clueless about computers it's not funny. Well, I guess they wouldn't be asking you this if they weren't. Still, you work with computers so automatically, you have the knowledge of an engineer. Or as if you personally coded Big Blue ( that famous chess computer for non-geeks out there ). Or you have hung out with Bill Gates several times in the past month, making you a Windows expert.
Yet, these people will fully understand that you can't ask a cardiologist about your back pain. " I mean, come on, you work with patients, why don't you help me ? "
No, of course not. I mean, if you're a mechanic, you're qualified to fix an F1 car, right ? No of course not.
But magically, computers to them is like a big box of mysteries.
I'm finding 40s and 50s people understood the concept of television a hell of a lot quicker than today with the concept of computers. Yet, there are COUNTLESS sources of info on computers on the TV, books, magazines, organizations and, hell, even on the internet.
Yet, after almost 30 years of computers into this world, they still think the CD tray is a fucking drink holder. Gawd. |
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| Sorry, working with computers doesn't make you a doctor.
Depending on your level of expertise, it's more like being a janitor at a hospital. |
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| Bravo Ian!
Well said. |
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| I help people and they pay me for it |
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| how much for your soul scotty? i'll give ya 2 dahraaaa! |
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| humanity just want a simple easy interface technologies. As long the machine is working, they don't care how it works. |
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| I'm not bothered so much when a close friend or family member asks me for help. What bothers me is when I get referrals.
"Oh, I gave my brother your phone number. He's going to call you because he's having problems with his computer."
"Great. Can you give me his address so I can send him a bill for my time?" |
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| the bit that pisses me off he most is when someone asks me to upgrade, fix or otherwise do anything to their computer, then a week after (of it running smoothly) something goes wrong, i get yelled at by said person, or blamed for the problem.. |
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| Yeah Lakester, that's even worse. My father works in a mechanics shop and he sees all kind of clients in a day. As soon as he hears the word " computer ", he refers me to that person immediately.
I'm a webdesigner and a computer GRAPHICS designer and he keeps submitting my personal info to people who need PROGRAMMERS, CODERS or just people who CLEAN computers for a living. I don't know how many time I'll have to explain to him I don't know shit about C++. |
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| i just tell people i don't keep up with hardware. |
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| just start charging money to fix computers.... I don't fix any computers for free unless it's one I'm using myself, or someone in my band who's computers are needed for us to get work done... |
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| if you work for free people will never want to pay you |
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| You try charging family members for that and see. Some families are up for that, no problem. But not all are. |
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| i only ask people who owe me favours. |
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