I usually see the reverse. People who work with computers making every effort NOT to need to help.
My favorite is a friend who does techsupport for a datacenter. He always asks “wait, this computer you’re having trouble with, can you lift it? Would you say it’s smaller than your fridge? Oh, sorry, then I can’t help you”
You forgot the know-it-all dude, that infact, doesn’t know anything.
Or the “pc handyman”.
Me: “Why does your motherboard have a …uh… sheen and smell like WD40?”
PC Handyman: “Well it was running slow so I greased it.”
I wish that were not a true story.
“I used to work in IT you know” often gets followed by “what’s a browser tab?”
I once had a caller claim he was one of the dudes that invented the internet. I was like … well you certainly haven’t kept up with things since then…
I usually see the reverse. People who work with computers making every effort NOT to need to help.
My favorite is a friend who does techsupport for a datacenter. He always asks “wait, this computer you’re having trouble with, can you lift it? Would you say it’s smaller than your fridge? Oh, sorry, then I can’t help you”