I built my family’s, and my extended families, computers until the early 2010s, I’ll never do it again. Building the computer was fun and easy, being on the hook for tech support is time draining and soul crushing.
“Sorry Grandma, that cheapest possible 5400 rpm spinning drive is ten years old, you never backed it up, I’m really not the one to ask if you can get the pictures back. Okay we will try getting it to work as an external drive. Okay here we go, show me the folder you keep your pictures in. No this isn’t your desktop, (sign) we don’t need your hard drive to access your cable company provided email, yes the lemonade is wonderful (it’s bitter). Yes Aunt Martha’s cat is adorable.”
Children think about your future weekends. It’s great being a hero, but with great heroics comes endless responsibilities. There’s ways less entertaining than sex to lose all your free time to helpless family incoherent babbling.
yes the lemonade is wonderful (it’s bitter). Yes Aunt Martha’s cat is adorable.
90% of dealing with family while doing tech support is dealing with family.
Somehow, in the middle of doing whatever I’ve been asked over to do, I’m juggling a book of old family photos and three plates of snacks and every animal in the house and my mom is still upset with me because I’m not giving her enough attention.
Everything is easy until it isn’t.
I built my family’s, and my extended families, computers until the early 2010s, I’ll never do it again. Building the computer was fun and easy, being on the hook for tech support is time draining and soul crushing.
“Sorry Grandma, that cheapest possible 5400 rpm spinning drive is ten years old, you never backed it up, I’m really not the one to ask if you can get the pictures back. Okay we will try getting it to work as an external drive. Okay here we go, show me the folder you keep your pictures in. No this isn’t your desktop, (sign) we don’t need your hard drive to access your cable company provided email, yes the lemonade is wonderful (it’s bitter). Yes Aunt Martha’s cat is adorable.”
Children think about your future weekends. It’s great being a hero, but with great heroics comes endless responsibilities. There’s ways less entertaining than sex to lose all your free time to helpless family incoherent babbling.
90% of dealing with family while doing tech support is dealing with family.
Somehow, in the middle of doing whatever I’ve been asked over to do, I’m juggling a book of old family photos and three plates of snacks and every animal in the house and my mom is still upset with me because I’m not giving her enough attention.
That is why you ask for compensation if you have to leave your house.
Either they haul the thing all the way to your place, even leave it as necessary. Or they pay a sum of at least 20€.
That way they at least try to fix it themselves in order to not have all the hassle.