Tell me. Are all IT people RUDE and condescending?

[KitchenWitch]

:P

:popcorn:

[Heidi]

1. Call Me Wesley isn't.

But perhaps he's had psychotherapy to help him get past behaviors inherent in all IT people. :evilgrin:

:popcorn:

[KitchenWitch]

3. Plus, he is European!

:woohoo:

[Heidi]

10. Only by birth.

Please don't hate him because he's European. :cry:

[KitchenWitch]

14. I love him because he is European!

:woohoo:

[BikeWriter]

4. C'mon, don't you know all psychotherapists are stupid?

:sarcasm:

[Heidi]

7. I think Crazy's yankin' our collective chain.

:hi:

[BikeWriter]

8. Crazy would do that?

:rofl:

[Whoa_Nelly]

43. Call Me Wesley is Aces in my book!

He's the Cat's Meow! He spent a goodly amount of time helping me get my new avatar up and running...all from the goodness of his heart! :loveya:

And Crazy G. is always willing to help out, too, and shares updates on important compter info...when he's not eating popcorn :evilgrin:

[gordontron]

2. nope

check out this though

hehe http://www.mistupid.com/people/page032.htm

"Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press Enter Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the Any Key is."

[Frozen Hamster]

5. It's a job requirement

Interviewer: Do you have a borderline anti-social behavior.

Job Applicant: I don't think so...

Interviewer: NEXT!!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. Well not all. But most of them don't bathe.

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[NMMNG]

9. Not all of them.

I had one who spent over two hours on the phone helping me with what I originally thought was a problem with my ISP, only to finally find out it was a Winsock issue. He was the most patient, helpful IT person I'd ever dealt with.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

12. Thanks for sharing!

:grouphug:

[Omphaloskepsis]

11. I think you can apply that to anything.

Some things seem so simple it is really hard to understand how someone can't "get it." I have received the same treatment from calculus professors. It is so easy for them that they get pissed when you don't get it. They assume it is like walking.

[Robeson]

13. It's always easier to catch flies with honey, than vinegar....

...kiss their ass a little, and make them feel important, and they'll be nice to....:*

[philosophie_en_rose]

15. No. But Rude & Condescending IT people are more noticed.

I've found that helpful IT people are taken for granted, while the rude and condescending ones get all of the gossip.

For instance, one IT person in my department is just wonderful. She's smart and kind to the computer illiterate. She tries to take the time to teach people small things, if they want to learn. No one talks about her; they take her for granted.

On the other hand, another IT person is so condescending I can't stand it. He likes speaking really quickly with technical language and then acting like you're an idiot for not knowing about some processor thingie or software language. :grr:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

42. Jackpot!! The nice ones are taken for granted!!

[billyskank]

16. I certainly try to be!

:bounce:

[Heidi]

17. Hiya, billy!

:hug: I'm off now for grocery shopping, and leaving Ginger in the care of his loving father. :thumbsup:

[billyskank]

18. Hey!

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

:hi: :hi: :hi:

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

I hope your grocery mission is not too onerous!

[tjwmason]

20. We expect nothing less from you.

:P

[billyskank]

24. Got to keep my end up

I wouldn't want to disappoint! :P

:hi:

[tjwmason]

27. Oh - the double entendre

But I'm sure you wouldn't disappoint. :evilgrin:

[billyskank]

28. Double entendre?

:o


Fnarr fnarr! :evilgrin:

[purr]

19. I'm not :)

I know a lot that are

[Sin]

21. My personal favorite :)

Evil IT person some great stories in there:)

http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html

[Crazy Guggenheim]

47. Thanls I'll take a look at it.

[SKKY]

22. I'm not, and I'm an IT. But I do feel your pain...

...But, I look at IT a bit differently than most I guess. We're very much in the customer support
business, and most forget that. The people who make the product our company sells, the people who
market that product, etc, etc. Those are our customers. Sometimes, I'll set up a "bogus" problem
just to QC how our help-desk treats customers.

[billyskank]

25. KitchenWitch isn't feeling any pain

don't be fooled! She's just a crafty old witch trying to bait geeks. Don't fall for her guile! :D

[supernova]

23. Am I rude and condescending?

What makes you say that? :sarcasm:


















:D

[pokerfan]

26. Move!!!

YOU'RE WELCOME!

[fudge stripe cookays]

29. Damn you!

Beat me to it!

:P

[Jokerman]

30. Are all IT users obtuse and helpless?

No, just the ones who think IT people are rude and condescending.

[Deja Q]

32. Ask my coworkers or those whose jobs were sent to India.

:P

[Deja Q]

31. Am I?

[texas1928]

33. Well we have to deal with stupid people all day.

It makes it hard to be chipper.


:P

[ProfessorGAC]

34. They Aren't To Me!

Of course, my reputation is that i'm rude, condescending, arrogant and pedantic. I don't think they want to get me started.
The Professor

[DS1]

35. Only the good ones who shouldn't have to put up with users

[Brewman_Jax]

36. Yes

We will now except your worship.



:silly: :rofl:

[Jim__]

37. What are you stupid?

IT people are almost never rude or condescending. ;)

[seemunkee]

38. Hell Yeah!

Now, do you want this thing fixed or not?

[EstimatedProphet]

39. A lot of the ones I've known are

[Taverner]

40. yes we are

now leave me be or i will convert you into a small shell script

[khashka]

41. Yep. It's our stock in trade.

Come on, this isn't rocket science or brain surgery! It's fucking simple!

So yeah, we get a little tetchy at times. When you deal with someone who is obviously intelligent, but still can't get it... well it's frustrating. And so we are rude and condescending. Nothing personal :)


Khash.

[amitten]

45. There are many different kinds of "intelligent". Not all of them

include being adept at manipulating little electronic boxes! ;-)

In my profession (which shall remain confidential)the average IT-type person would probably require at least 10-12 hours of serious study to even complete the simplest of tasks. I'm not kidding.

[billyskank]

50. Ah, you're only not telling us

so that we haven't got a chance to swot up on it. :P

[amitten]

51. Nah, I just like to be anonymous as much as possible. n/t

[LSK]

44. just dont ask where the "any" key is and you will be treated ok

[meegbear]

46. No, but the people who need help from us are fucking idiots ...

total fucking idiots. :P

[SlavesandBulldozers]

48. not all, but most.

most times, people will call you and they want you to fix their problems AND be nice. Then, when that's done, they say "oh, by the way, I've noticed another problem blah blah blah can you help me out with that?" No, get off my fucking phone. ;)

Oftentimes, in IT, being nice can get you in a lot of trouble because people get the idea that you have nothing better to do but make sure every little goddamn thing on their computer is perfect.

I had to get out of the business because it started to get to me. Well, that and it didn't pay dick and because people who got paid WAAAAAAAY more than me called ME for help on EVERYTHING. At some point, the irony became too much.

[hunter]

49. It's a good thing your chair rolls...

...so I can push you out of the way before you do something stupid.

The funniest IT person I ever worked with was a woman who had to be one of the most disheveled and rude people I've ever met. She'd actually move people in their chairs just like that, and she wasn't joking around. All the women in the office hated her, but the men and the bosses didn't mind her so much because they thought she was sort of sexy.

Ouside of work she'd never talk. At lunch she'd sit outside in her car and read. If she had a personal life it was a mystery to everyone.

[amitten]

52. I woulda' bitch slapped that one.

Seriously! If I worked in an office and some mean hag took it upon herself to physically roll me around in my chair, she would leave that day missing a rather large tuft of unkempt hair. Put that in your hard drive and smoke it! }(

[hunter]

53. She never turned off her pager.

And she probably saved the place from Y2K too.

People were afraid of her.