“Fine but you owe me a tea”
Man, I don’t miss that. Now with wfh, I can more easily avoid this shit. Oh, you don’t know how to download and save a Teams meeting recording and want me to take 30 minutes to walk you through it over the phone? Take these instructions with screenshots for each step instead and leave me alone lol.
Sometimes that doesn’t work because the person I’m dealing with is just that clueless and can’t follow basic instructions. So I do end up having to speak with them. But I make sure to have a meeting coming up before I call them.
This is the “I want to be back at my own desk in two minutes / this shouldn’t take long” posture.
Things are serious if the tech has to sit, and if you’re the tech and you sit right away, you’d better explain if you’re not expecting it to be serious, because users often pick up on the connection even if they don’t consciously realise it.
Users constantly offer me to sit, sometimes repeatedly. And while I appreciate the gesture, that chair means I am capitulating to the machine that is taunting me with its flippant disregard for my desire to doom scroll, drink caffeine, and talk shit on the service desk in the secret group chat from the comfort of my own desk.
I have to touch their mangy keyboard and mouse. I don’t want to use that chair unless I have to!
I’m so glad I got out of that line of work. Offices are gross.
They fart on those things!
Even the chairs!
Same here.
One woman I use to help had so much make up caked onto the receiver of her phone it would stain my hands.
I did/do it for elderly too. One man had so much grime on his keyboard the buttons would get stuck. He was the reason I started caring alcohol wipes lol
The day I got rights to provision, I bought a dozen extra mice/keyboards and walked around swapping them out.
Our IT guys have a stash of them. I quickly learned that you dont need a ticket and they would GLADLY give you a spare.
How did you get so strong?
For every idiot with an IT problem that could be solved by possessing object permanence and the ability to read at above a 6th grade level, I do one push up.
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Jesus Christ…
This will endlessly fuck your back up. Use a chair or at least squat. My old boss has a permanent bend after doing that for 25 years.
As an IT guy I am able to sit from time to time when helping users, on the floor, under the table, pulling cables.
Wrong.
Next time I’m in this situation I’m telling the person I’m helping to get their ass off the chair. If I’m helping you the least you can do is let me sit down!
At least ask if you can sit in their lap.
I dont want to sit in someones manky chair, I always politely decline when they ask.
Yeah cuz like you really don’t wanna be there, but to wanna be kind and also flex your skills. It’s… Complicated.
I have a bad back so I can handle this for about 4 minutes tops before I have to pull up a chair.
Also your glasses have a safety chain, mine is paracord…
Shouldn’t one hand be holding out the vaseline?
Bro, if its required that I have you fix my computer especially if its because of your department you can stand
Or you can get your fat ass up. It is almost always PEBKAC. You aren’t working and I am trying to. Go take a shit or smoke or gab in someone else’s office.
I will track you down when it is fixed or I need to show you what you are doing wrong.
Especially annoying with laptop users.
Look, I am a tall guy, and your desk is so damn low I could use it as a urinal.
Just get out of the chair so I don’t have to strain my back and eyes to figure out why you can’t use your computer.
If you come at me with that energy, I will grab an intern and have them waste your entire afternoon while they google how to fix something I could have done in two minutes had you just gone into the break room and grabbed coffee or some shit.
I get paid the same whether working on my computer or not, shit take it for as long as you think can.
You’re still not sitting at my desk
And your shit ain’t getting fixed.
You have to justify your job. Good luck.
I could sit at your desk from my desk. Just stop being a pointless prick. You aren’t that important.
I get paid just the same
I’ll bet you have no idea why people dont like you huh?
I don’t care if people like me, and if your distaste for me prevents you from talking to me its all the better
And if everyone’s distaste for being around you leads to bad quarterlies from your manager, bad peer reviews from your colleagues, your IT tickets being mysteriously deleted so they don’t have to deal with you, your team filing reports with HR for harassment, and no one liking you enough to give you the benefit of the doubt, you can take that rudeness into the interview process at a new company and see how far it gets you with their HR.
I fought this battle with the computer mechanics for 25 years, I always win, I will always win.
If my tickets get deleted my boss will ensure they magically appear and are serviced, you can try HR for harassment but since there’s none its all good. I don’t need benefit of the doubt with anyone other than my boss, and my inherent rudeness and lack of empathy are why I generally get promoted.
If you are rude, there’s harassment. Anything that makes your coworkers feel uncomfortable qualifies. You are riding on their desire to avoid conflict. If anyone who has half your willingness to engage in conflict arrives in your office, you will be gone the moment HR hears the word attorney because they don’t have your boss to answer to, they work on behalf of the company as a whole to prevent lawsuits. The company may reward you for being callous, but they’ll do the same to those above you, who will drop you like a sack of dog droppings the moment you become inconvenient for the company, hire someone cheaper, and pocket a bonus for shrinking the budget.
I’m guessing you are enough of an asshole you won’t change your behaviour, even after they fire you. You’ll just be that guy, neck deep in his cups, complaining about these snowflakes who ‘can’t stand not being coddled,’ (read, aren’t willing to put up with your BS) and ‘got you fired.’ You’re a loser. It just hasn’t hit you yet.
Keep telling yourself that.
I’ve thought about it, please detest me it gives me life
I will
