Reply to: Suity no-mates

[d000hg]

Why didn't you agree to trade before you helped him out?

[doodab]

I had a gas fitter in to service my gas fire, he spent 15mins doing what basically looked like cleaning it then got on to discussing how his computer had gone wrong. I spent 30mins going through how to go back to a system restore point after booting it into safe mode, writing it down for him, and got billed £80+VAT

And this is why rates are on the way down.

If it's good tulip don't give it away!

[BigRed]

I had a gas fitter in to service my gas fire, he spent 15mins doing what basically looked like cleaning it then got on to discussing how his computer had gone wrong. I spent 30mins going through how to go back to a system restore point after booting it into safe mode, writing it down for him, and got billed £80+VAT

[DirtyDog]

Correct. No mates. Mate free zone. If my experience of 'mates' is anything to go by I am better off without any of the parasitic scumbags.

We're all here for you, Suity mate

[vetran]

I remember many years ago (when I was desktop/server support). One of the admin staff who used wordperfect (remember that?) all day every day asking me how to do some sort of obscure formatting on it.

They were a bit miffed when I said I dont know every single feature and that they knew it better than me. As if 'IT person' means knowing every single feature of every app in the world!

you pick it up via osmosis. Or common sense you just think about it which they can't be bothered about it.

[psychocandy]

ct doesn't help that everyone is convinced that "working in IT" is defined as "desktop support". That, combined with the magical free time and our clear never ending love of fixing other peoples crap, makes things endlessly irritating. To be honest, for most people I just play the idiot and tell them I don't know how to fix it.

I remember many years ago (when I was desktop/server support). One of the admin staff who used wordperfect (remember that?) all day every day asking me how to do some sort of obscure formatting on it.

They were a bit miffed when I said I dont know every single feature and that they knew it better than me. As if 'IT person' means knowing every single feature of every app in the world!

[darmstadt]

I have a mate who often asks me to help him with his computer plus doing the local community website but I don't mind too much as he pays me back with bottles of Schnapps (although last time it was a liter bottle of Jack Daniels) and a few beers otherwise I just tell them I don't know much about little computers, now if they had a big, as in building size, ****-off system then I might be able to...

[shaunbhoy]

[shaunbhoy]

Correct. No mates. Mate free zone. If my experience of 'mates' is anything to go by I am better off without any of the parasitic scumbags.

Oh come on. Lighten up. You have loads of mates on CUK..........and that is what counts!!

[doodab]

Correct. No mates. Mate free zone. If my experience of 'mates' is anything to go by I am better off without any of the parasitic scumbags.

[eek]

Next time he gets a pron virus or whatever, he'll assume its free until he sees the contract you want him to sign and recieves your £80 invoice for the hour it took.

I support 1 person beyond immediate family and that is because I like them and they follow my advice. My wife knows that volunteering my services usually results in losing a friend so she doesn't do it any more...

[suityou01]

Correct. No mates. Mate free zone. If my experience of 'mates' is anything to go by I am better off without any of the parasitic scumbags.

[shaunbhoy]

No, I saw the light and jettisoned him. That's the point of the whole thread.

Well the point of the thread appears to be that you have, in fact, got no mates.
Leaving aside the obvious fact that you are glacially slow on the uptake, you may want to consider just why that is.
It may be something to do with the fact that you essentially came to the party with an intellect forged in the lower foothills of lowly Mount Molehill, and from that rather retarded starting point have continued a long ignominious slide downhill to the point where you currently reside.
You remain 10 IQ points below moron classification.

[doodab]

Whenever I am handed an iPad to "fix" I ask the hander over to show me how to google using an iPad, then I type whatever they are asking in. At that point they often manage to follow the instructions themselves.

[Scrag Meister]

The friend cull of 2014 continues. Had a blazing row with my mate last night. Culminated in me telling him to get knotted. Hate rows.

Two sides to every story and all that, but I don't like getting ripped off. Agree a price and stick to it. Every time we spoke the price had notched up £5 or £10. Until I had it out with him. It was originally this price, and in a mere 3 weeks it's crept up to this price. Why? What is the justification?

Boom. Up it went.

Total

Next time he gets a pron virus or whatever, he'll assume its free until he sees the contract you want him to sign and recieves your £80 invoice for the hour it took.