I wish they asked about me before demanding help
It doesn’t really feel any better once you know that it’s an empty pleasantry they don’t really care to have an answer to.
Well they really do hope you’re well enough to help them at least.
The other way this could go is “hey hun, have you heard about these life-changing (insert MLM of choice) products?”.
You’re missing getting asked to help a family member get into your industry/company.
I actually do try and help on that one though… nobody starts from nothing, we all deserve a hand up.
My boss at my first job did this, I agreed though to come to her house at 9:00 PM to help her with the problem with her PC.
She had two glasses of wine ready and was in a bathrobe, nothing was wrong with her PC.
I had brought my wife just to be safe. It was an awkward evening.
So did she watch or join in
It was a nice, polite evening with pleasant socializing, and of course, a weird underlying tension that everyone knew was there but nobody said anything until my partner and I were driving home and had a good laugh.
I stayed friends with my boss for a number of years, she was often a bit “clingy” but I discouraged it gently when I could. It didn’t help that she had a boyfriend.
It really didn’t help that she often described her boyfriend as “murderous and psychopathic.”
At least it isn’t a pyramid scheme. Right?
for the last time its not a pyramid its a triangle completely different
Reverse triangle, like a funnel. Right?
Back in my high school days, I worked at a small company that had like 3 or 4 tech guys, each one assigned to a specific building. The one assigned to ours, wasn’t very knowledgeable on anything, was more of a tech enthusiast. So when anything would go wrong my manager would come get me first. Which then expanded to various co-workers asking if I’d come to their house to fix things. I helped fix so many slow running computers back in the day. Never charged anyone, I saw it as an opportunity to learn and practice. When I got to college, I FLEW through all the course material.
Thats how I got married. Asked some guy I knew on msn messenger to help me with my computer problem. He got really upset and ranted about people only reaching out to him cause they needed their computer fixed and never to ask how he was doing. So I asked him how he was doing. Married for nearly 20 years now.
And that’s how you earn life-time free tech support.
When I was in college there were a couple times where women used the tech support thing as a pretext to hook up. I miss those days.
This is why I wander down to IT every once in a while on a slow afternoon. I just figured that it must suck to have every conversation start with a problem, so I’ll be the one person who occasionally shows up just to talk
The only people that show up to to chat are the janitors while cleaning and the maintenance guy that checks the fire supression system, I like it that way.
I don’t let anyone know that I am good with anything. I don’t get any calls.
If I didn’t see the bottom left image, I would’ve thought this was a once-a-long-time-ago-acquaintance fallen victim to MLM.
damn
i saw that meme and realized that i haven’t contacted lots of good people in a while because of how ofraid i am to resemble the girl
damn, right in the feelings dude, ouch
Joke is that I’m actually the techy woman.
as we all occasionally ig
doubt there’s much tech illiterate people on lemmy
we’re a bunch of ne-e-erds :D
Correct.
Roger. Copy.
