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Ignorant people
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Posted about 1 year ago I don't actually work in a corporate setting. I just help people that i meet. But don't you hate it when people will demand that you fix whats wrong with their computer their way. Even though they know nothing about the problem. Its even worse when these same people then complain that your now the sole reason their computer is messed up. I mean I don't mind all too much being blamed for a problem even if i didn't do it. But when you don't even get the chance to explain whats actually wrong Its just not right. I only mention this because i've worked on this one persons computer three or so times in the last month or so because they think that running around on the internet without proper browser security setings and without turning on the antivirus is a good idea. Their reasoning is that it keeps them from doing things they want to do. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Heck, you don't need a corporate setting to find those kind of people. I've got someone like that in my own home; my teenage son. I got tired of running spyware tools and do the antivirus scan every time he complains his computer is slow. I finally told him I wasn't fixing his computer anymore unless he agreed to remove a couple of things, like limewire, that are dumping a bunch of garbage onto it. I did give him the option of learning how to use a couple of spyware tools to periodically scan his computer but he doesn't want to do that. Oh well, he can live with the mess. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Baphie said: Just wait until you get to the people that lie through their teeth, those are the people that frustrate me, especially when you ask when something started happening and they reply it's always been like this, when it just started happening the other day during a change in the network. I had one user that shares a phone with another complain that their phone has never worked in their office (which is understandable because they are in operations and not many of them have a desk phone, they all use their Nextel Phones) so I start looking at it and couldn't think of a reason why it wouldn't work. I knew that the phone had to of been wired at one point, so I'm working alone and then the other user that shared the phone came in just before I went to get a new phone and see if it was the hardware. I asked when did this phone stop working? he replied about two weeks ago. Just so happens that we had work done in the closet around that time, sure enough one of the cables came loose, I plugged it in and presto! |
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| Posted about 1 year ago i like those "presto" moments. :) |
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| Posted 8 months ago There are ignorant people everywhere, unfortunately not only in IT. Take everyday life, for example.
You have people who are ignorant about other people, their country, culture, mannerisms and general way of life. Just because someone's attitude or way of expressing themselves (whether written or verbal), is different from your's or what you understand, does not make them bad or less of a human being, neither does it give anyone the right to stand in judgment.
Instead of showing a willingness to learn and understand, they jeer and deride.
Then you have the people who will brand others simply because they happen to come from a certain country. Not everyone from Nigeria is a scam artist, not everyone from Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Afghanistan or Pakistan, is a terrorist, neither are people from the former Soviet Union, all communist.
Then we come to the people who will label others, based on the color of their skin. Just because someone happens to be black, does not mean they should automatically be sweeping the streets, neither does being yellow skinned mean they should work in a takeaway; nor work in the post office because they happen to come from the Indian sub-continent, or be a plumber because they are White, from Eastern Europe.
There are even those who will quickly label others for the excessive use of, shall we say, "personal grooming products", never mind not knowing, absolutely ANYTHING about that person. LOL
Then you have those people, who always look for the bad in others, never quite believing there's any good or WANT to see the good; always making assumptions and suspicious about what others are, do, and are up to. Always quick to judge and recruit other people to do their dirty work of jeering, while they sit back and smell of roses.
These kinds are also not very discerning, they will never make up their own minds about people, but will rather listen to ill advise from "friends", who most of the time, dish it, out of envy, not the goodness of their hearts.
Finally, you have the people who will jump on ANY bandwagon, provided it has something to do with shoutings of "off with his/her head" or stomping someone into the ground, nevermind that they know absolutely nothing about, well, anything.
These kinds never have a mind of their own, always followers, never leaders.
With children and some very young people, such ignorance, can be forgiven and considered as bliss - for a limited time period, ONLY. But for the so called "matured adults", who should know better, such ignorance is considered a terrible disease, and in most cases quite terminal.
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| Posted 8 months ago Nice post 3much!! |
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| Posted 8 months ago Good post 3much. Nothing more to be said on that. Makes a person look at themselves deeper, that's for sure. The forgetful fishy........I think??!!?? |
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| Posted 7 months ago Ignorant people is probably the best place for my 2 cents here. Not to deride anybody - my own knowhow is basically a great ragged bunch of details gathered from years of messing with IT, with big ragged gaps between. That is, there's lots of things I'm still ignorant of.
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| Posted 4 months ago Yeah ignorant people can be quite the pain. I have no problem helping out people who don't know the basics of computing, what i can't stand is telling someone the same thing over and over. When I talk to someone about computers it's reasonable to expect them to to at least know there way around the desktop. I don't have the time or tolerance to break down what clicking an icon on the Desktop does. Some things are simple enough to figure out on your own. That said, every now and then you still get those people who look at you like you are talking another language when you tell them to copy and paste. Very annoying. Long story short yeah, people who don't want your help shouldn't ask for it. |
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| Posted 4 months ago Today, I put myself in the category of ignorant. I've not used linux before except as an end user, & I'm feeling a bit lost in linux class. Obviously I'm missing some step or missing some program I'm supposed to open to get gcc to compile a vim file, even though I'm following what's in my lab instructions. I've never really felt my hair color until now. Pardon me while I go find a corner & cry like a little girl. fooey.
"And in the naked light I saw
"Feed your Head"- White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane |
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| Posted 4 months ago I'm the resident weeper in here, checkel! I'll join you for a healthy cry. "And so, the lion fell in love with the lamb..." |
