A coworker just came up to me with her Blackberry and asked me if I would take the aftermarket protective cover off of it. It's a hard but flimsy (that's what she said) two-piece plastic cover that's as simple as snapping together and apart. Presumably, it was put on by her and when she brought it to me, it was already apart at the bottom, so the job was already half finished. She walked from one end of the building to the other to specifically ask me to do this, and in doing so, passed ten other coworkers, six of which I'd imagine would've been perfectly capable of also performing this simple task. But because I've become unofficially known as the resident computer guy, and this was the protective cover on her Blackberry, she went to the effort of coming to me, despite the fact that I've never seen this cover or this phone before. I examined it for a few seconds, then snapped the cover off and handed it back to her.
It's not that I'm not happy to help, but in retrospect, I feel like doing this favor for her only helped to encourage this type of behavior moving forward. And it's the same with every time I burn a CD for somebody, save a file as a different file format, or determine the cause of a PC "not working" is the fact that it's not turned on, because apparently nobody knows how to do any of those things either. Not to seem like Nick Burns--Your Company's Computer Guy, but are these simple things or am I nuts?
2 comments:
can you help me load a black market version of Rosetta Stone on my computer? Bro tried, but he failed. He apparently doesn't have the computer prowess as you exemplify.
i did not fail. it works or will work when you ask me how. there's just one step left that i didn't have time for. dumb.
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