Hell YEAH!
I totally agree.

I suffer from being an I.T. Support to people inside and outside of work, and immediate family.

There is nothing worse when they won't learn anything. I have learnt things the hard way, trial and tribulation, and it's a long and sometimes painful process (e.g. having a catastrophic hard drive crash). I just hate the way they expect you to be at their beck and call as if it's a god given right.

And I have a dumb ass work colleague that calls me "hacker" all because I know what I am doing with a PC. A mate of mine wants people to have "PC licences" and to pass a test to own one as he is that sick of people not knowing what they are doing.

It's the "appliance user" that's the problem. They think they just plug a fucking PC and Modem into the mains and off you go, as if it was a toaster or something. NOT SO! It needs anti virus, firewall, anti spyware programs, defragmenting hard drive (if you run Windows), and so on and so forth.

I know one poor sod that went as far as selling his PC, quitting his computer course, and having nothing to do with computers ever again due to constant persecution from family members for "I.T. Support".

Death to these time bandit arseholes!
(Panteneman Isn't entirely sure why he bothered on, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:43, Reply)