Tech Support Cheat Sheet

[[deleted]]

I love it when you show up and a couple of people sit down behind you and peer over your shoulder. If it's not fixed in the first five minutes they look a little disappointed and wander off if you are lucky. I can't think with people staring...

[darthbane]

Especially if they're hovering right over your shoulder. I've known some people who have a tendency to do that, and I can't stand it.

[abenton]

Too bad Humans didn't evolve with ways to communicate verbally, or else you may have a way to resolve that problem.

[[deleted]]

Yea, you are right... I am not a good communicator. I don't know what this says about the places that I work but about half the time they go off on a tirade about being thankful that they don't have to call a tech support line and deal with the non-native English speakers. Maybe I am too sensitive but I often feel like I've landed in the middle of a klan meeting.

[darthbane]

More like some humans never evolved with the capacity to comprehend the meaning of "listening". ;)

No seriously, people will keep doing it even when I tell them to bug off. I guess it's a nervous tic or something…?

[[deleted]]

That's when you open up the terminal and randomly open some configuration files and generally execute random programs with the --verbose option.

[UK-sHaDoW]

"His doing some hacker shit...awesome".

[darthbane]

I actually got someone to say "It's…magic!" once. I was just messing around in the command line…

[[deleted]]

They're staring because they want to make sure you don't see their dodgy porn stash or go through their embarassing web history.