Reply to: Free Support on Christmas Day

[TheVoice]

My phone has remained on "ignore" the entire day to avoid such queries!!

No doubt in the new year I'll be flooded with them...

You'll be pleased to know I turned the phone back on this morning & 4 texts for help await me.

*siigh*

Still, I can't complain, one of them is from a fairly cute girl I happen to know asking me to go spend hours at her place sorting out her laptop...now, you don't often get that kind of offer!!

[Doggy Styles]

I never knew so many people had so much porn. I must be weird, I don't save it, and hence I definitely don't have it filed and cross reference on excel spreadsheets into over a hundred different folders with a portable drive for off-site backup.

You can never have too much porn. When I fix friends computers I use porn sites for testing.

[portseven]

Guilty, went round to outlaws and was asked to 'have a quick look'. Spent more time on that than it took me to design a VoIP architecture for ClientCo :-|

[NotAllThere]

I got a glass of whisky for burning a DVD of Mamma Mia for my neighbour.

Thief. Tell the tight gits to go and BUY A COPY. Or buy one for them if they're so poor.

Or...

What did they do to you to deserve that?

[dinker]

I got a glass of whisky for burning a DVD of Mamma Mia for my neighbour.

[BrilloPad]

I believe giving support (another enterprise) is a good IR35 pointer.....

[OwlHoot]

I never knew so many people had so much porn. ...

Finding porn on family members' PCs ? That must be really embarrassing

(especially if they're looking over your shoulder at the time )

[Purple Dalek]

Has anyone spent their time today giving free technical support to family and friends who can't work their new gadgets and laptops?

I never knew so many people had so much porn. I must be weird, I don't save it, and hence I definitely don't have it filed and cross reference on excel spreadsheets into over a hundred different folders with a portable drive for off-site backup.

[AtW]

fill up an invoice for 0.00

+ VAT

Real contractors surely are VAT registered...

[TheVoice]

My phone has remained on "ignore" the entire day to avoid such queries!!

No doubt in the new year I'll be flooded with them...

[Francko]

You make it sound as if being a real contractor is not compatible with being a decent human being...

Or might not charge any money... but then he/she would still fill up an invoice for 0.00 where he can claim costs incurred, like petrol and meals and so on...

[Ardesco]

You make it sound as if being a real contractor is not compatible with being a decent human being...

Your point being.......

[AtW]

A real contractor would not do that for free.

You make it sound as if being a real contractor is not compatible with being a decent human being...

[Francko]

Has anyone spent their time today giving free technical support to family and friends who can't work their new gadgets and laptops?

A real contractor would not do that for free. At least he/she should get an extra slice of cake or something similar.

[scooby]

yeah, but my 87 yr old uncle in law. wanting to know all about Digital TV and what he needs. he cant hear anything being said so i just humoured him!! beats talking about the motorways he's driven on!