Whats up with assumptions?

[Graves]

+1

If only they could see the price to drill a well...

Very tiny in the grand scheme of things.

[hollohas]

Because my wife's an Architect we must have a super awesome house or that she must make tons of money. Ever notice how the main character in like 2 out of 3 movies is a rich architect? Reality...Architects don't make a lot, they work too much and a 29 year old one certainly hasn't built her own dream house. Nor have most of the 65 year old ones.

[Ronin13]

My favorites are this:
I was in the army, people always ask: "Did you kill anyone?" Really? You're asking this of all things?
Or...
I built 2 computers, and have fixed pretty much everyone in my family's computer at least in some way shape or form, they call me up when buying a new computer and ask "Is the [Brand]-[Model] any good?" They probably would give me a funny look face to face when I ask "What are the specs?"
Or...
I do filming, people always send me emails or call asking- "Can you film such and such for me?" or "Can you make a promo video for my band?" Do you have $$$? I have a Facebook (because I'm too cheap and do this on the side to afford a website right now) you can contact me there.

[Mazin]

Because I'm in IT I know everything there is to know about computers, and in general anything that is electronic.

Really, I don't know crap about cell phones and don't care too, seriously. I don't know if such and such brand of laptop will be good for your college kid, I don't care what processor it has, or if it's fast, buy as much memory and disk as you can afford, leave me alone, I really don't care. I'm actually telling you it's really good stuff just so you'll leave me alone.

Just because you see me at the computer store on a Saturday means that you can introduce me to your husband and help him choose a new printer for his home office. Ok, yes, I wouldn't buy that printer. Why? It's crap and you probably can't find a toner for it when the first one runs out. "But it's on sale!" then buy it, why are you arguing with me on a saturday in a computer store!

I have 500 of you stupid people and 1200 devices to keep running all day long every day of the f'n year, I really don't want to screw with anything outside 8am-5pm and not get paid for it.

Yes, I could fix your home computer that is trashed with viruses, but the reason you want me to work on it is because I'm $180 cheaper than geek squad. Not happening, call geek squad, I'm ahead on time and money this way and it's fun to hear you bitch about the cost of geek squad all next week while I laugh at you.

I could go on and on... good thread.

YEP....Family is the worse about this, calling my wife and I up and expecting us to ether drop what we are doing and go fix the 6 year old computer that "worked fine last night" or calling us to see if "this computer would suit their needs".

I DON'T CARE!!!!! I don't care what problem you have with your system it sucks to be you. Maybe you should buy a book or take a "computer intro for morons to lazy to understand class", yes that new computer will suit your needs for finding worthless crap on the internet and play your stupid jewel quest game, after all its newer than the P3 you have sitting on your desk at home running win 2k.

/Rant Sorry that hhit a nerve

[mevshooter]

YEP....Family is the worse about this, calling my wife and I up and expecting us to ether drop what we are doing and go fix the 6 year old computer that "worked fine last night" or calling us to see if "this computer would suit their needs".

I DON'T CARE!!!!! I don't care what problem you have with your system it sucks to be you. Maybe you should buy a book or take a "computer intro for morons to lazy to understand class", yes that new computer will suit your needs for finding worthless crap on the internet and play your stupid jewel quest game, after all its newer than the P3 you have sitting on your desk at home running win 2k.

/Rant Sorry that hhit a nerve

No apologies necessary. That's what the thread is for! I'm no IT guy by any means, but growing up I was essentially responsible for all of the computers in the house, to the point of my dad threatening to ground me if I didn't figure out what the heck he did to the dang computer to break it in the first place.

It's incredible to me that people don't understand that most problems can be fixed with "system restore." Just cycle the dang thing back a couple of days before you picked up a virus downloading unnecessary tool bars from shady sights because you were too busy clicking through the "install now" tabs to notice what you were actually agreeing too.

Back to the being a big guy thing, people always assume I'm hungry. Their response "well, every time we hang out, we go out to eat." Dude, every time we hang out it is at 6 or 7 on a friday or saturday, it's supper time! Or people try to bribe me into doing incredible amounts of work by offering me pizza. Seriously?

[Veritas]

You know what they say. When you make and assumption you make an a$$ out of you and umption...

[Graves]

I gotta love when folks assume that being a full time wrench means I'd loooooove nothing more that to spend what little free time I do have working their sh*t bucket for next to nothing. "Why does my car die when I drive it?" or "It doesn't start, what's wrong?" two of my favorites.

[Drilldov2.0]

Very tiny in the grand scheme of things.

Yes it is, after time. But it is also a valid point.

[Hoosier]

Because I'm in IT I know everything there is to know about computers, and in general anything that is electronic... I don't care what processor it has, or if it's fast, buy as much memory and disk as you can afford, leave me alone, I really don't care. I'm actually telling you it's really good stuff just so you'll leave me alone.

This... Scrolled through the thread to find this one, knew it had to be in here.

H.

[mevshooter]

I gotta love when folks assume that being a full time wrench means I'd loooooove nothing more that to spend what little free time I do have working their sh*t bucket for next to nothing. "Why does my car die when I drive it?" or "It doesn't start, what's wrong?" two of my favorites.

My mechanic best friend whom I mentioned earlier actually gets a little mad at me now when I won't even let him look at small things on my car. Sometimes I call and ask an opinion on something and he will say "well, let me look at it before you take it to the usual guy, it might be a quick fix" to which I respond "enough people in your life already take advantage of your servant nature and your natural ability and developed skills with fixing cars, I refuse to be one of those people. Your ability to fix cars will never be a part of our friendship."

Yeah, I'm pretty much the greatest friend ever.