I'm not the "Only for you support desk"

This is really getting ridiculous when people in your Live Messenger contacts or skype start using you as their own helpdesk.

I used to have family and friends who is not in IT biz turning to me in every teeny tiny detail asking advice on computers hardware, software even gadgets as if you should knew it all okay that's family close friends.

few moments ago.. I came back from Cairo. was very tired but forced to have some work dome for tonight as I hate to spend the day with nothing crossed of my to-do list.

so I'm blogging now that I didn't do anything and was way better for me to go straight to bed, Why is that...

because people start to using me as their helpdesk.. and it's not only IM chats also voice calls on skype.. and complain if I didn't answered them right away.. or got distracted on my own work and by the way all the answers are googable.

but the unbelievable thing is that *beep guy who IM me saying that he wanted to know certain information and when I said okay Google: certain items, he replays I don't know how to do it you will. (If you didn't get it: Somebody is lazy)

And I'm really into help people and love to have great questions that I will benefit from knowing it's answers as much as he will, but I will not participate in any dumb or googable questions and if you can't use simple service like Google search and you will always ask those unbelievably painful questions I may lose it and turn you into my own personal hand puppet.

Published Thu, Feb 22 2007 12:00 AM by Adel Khalil
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# re: I'm not the "Only for you support desk"

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:51 PM by YasirBelal

Be cool Adel,When this guys ask you again , change your status to away or busy and don't answer them :D:D:P

But You know some times disorientation was happened because of magnitude information resulted from google search,you have to explain to them how to search in the right way to find the specific results.

# re: I'm not the "Only for you support desk"

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:54 PM by Mikael Sand

Man! I've been there! The most irritating kind are those who do not understand that, well I don't know everything!

They ask me about printers and I say I don't know. So they think that I do it just to be mean, like I know but do not want to share...

# re: I'm not the "Only for you support desk"

Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:38 PM by Dennis van der Stelt

Mikael, been there as well! Printers is one thing I don't know anything about. When these mothers break down or just simply start bleeping that they have a problem, I don't know what to do. Go buy a new one, I can only advice! :)

# re: I'm not the "Only for you support desk"

Friday, February 23, 2007 3:34 AM by Adel Khalil

lol, i wish it was this easy, go buy new one...

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