why is the IT guy(99.9 times out of 10!) always the crankiest person in the office?
1) You’d be cranky too if you were summoned to someone’s desk at least 5 times a month to help them find a web address in “The Google”
, only to find that they are trying to type the URL into Google’s search bar.
2) People who are paid twice as much as you call you at home to ask you how to use their Blackberry. ("Yeah, it's making this weird chirping sound and the screen keeps lighting up...")
3) Temps that try to download stuff off the web and crash their hard drive.
4) Every office has that one person who’s Significant Other/ BFF sends them every chain e-mail, “cute kitty” video, Flash-based animated card and 20mb photo of someone’s baby possible and clogs up the main drive.
5) There is no such thing as “IT Guy Day” at work so you never get cards or flowers telling you what a “meaningful” contribution you make to the work environment, in fact no one seems to notice what you do unless something doesn’t work.
6) People who bring their 12 year old into the office and let them “play” on the computer. The only thing a 12 year old is interested in is downloading games; big storage-greedy, graphic-heavy games. Whatever happened to checkers?
7) People who try to answer every spam e-mail with a polite “No Thank You” reply message. They don’t understand that e-mail spammers’ feelings won’t be hurt by being ignored because they HAVE no feelings. They eat their young.
8) You have a Master’s Certification for 3 different computer languages and you spend 8 hours a day with people who can’t copy a file onto a disk without Lots Of Help.
9) At least 3 times a week your boss summons you to their office to ask you how to do something and no matter how simple it is, they look at you like you are speaking in tongues over terms like “Control-C”.
10) In fact, most people look at you like you practice some obscure form of witchcraft when you talk about your job. Sometimes you wonder if they secretly want to try dunking you to see if you'll float.
