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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

1 year into an IT job when a friend asks for help with their PC: "Id be happy to help!

12 years into an IT job: "I have never used a computer in my life"

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The more I know about something the less I'm willing to tollerate your shit if you want to argue about it.

I work in an industry that undoubtably touches all of your lives and sometimes people ask "Why?" Questions about it, and I'd offer an explanation based on 15 years of industry experience and then people would argue thats not how it works, or rant at me like I'm the CEO of an entire global industry and generally annoy me to the point where I'm not even going to tell you what industry because I dont want to argue with another single chucklefuck who has a problem with how they do it for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Yep. People ask me to do stuff for them and I quote them $100 to just show up, and then $100/hr after that. They hate it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then it's dildo mass production.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Imagine your first day at the dildo factory... LOL.

Imagine your 15 years service anniversary at the dildo factory... 😞

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Energy production?

But I feel you. I work in a utilities company and, yeah, people are annoying.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to work in (not health) insurance and yeah. I understand why insurance does what it does, but it’s just dispassionate cruelty, so explaining it doesn’t make it better. I don’t think it could work significantly differently, so just letting people rant incorrectly about it is also frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yes. I do not agree with the system, I also have no control over the system and only work within the system because I have to.

You want to know how the system works, or why certain things happen I can tell you. If you want to shout at me about how broken the system is, please fuck off because I live how broken it is every morning when I turn up to work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

teaching is not arguing though. it implies one party is willing to learn. otherwise you're just bothering people.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not like me to give notes on a webcomic but ...wouldn't it be funnier if he did start explaining

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you really questioning the comedy of a comic called ButtPoems?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

…wouldn’t it be funnier if he did start explaining

Funnier yet would be if logarithmic curve right before the intersection of the linear curve was a projection. Then the following dialog in the frames following:

Researcher on the left: "Sure! See we're dealing with multiple forces and...."

awkward pause (frame with no dialog)

Interested person on the right: "Then what? Why did you stop explaining?"

Researcher on the left: "I just realized we just now hit the intersection of the curves."

Everyone's a critic, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Paradoxical perhaps but I don't think people would get it as quickly.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The graph is meaningless.

The axes have no label.

Your years of research are wasted.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They know, but can't be bothered to teach us

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Subscribe to premium for axis labels.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

For me my info dumping just gets longer, especially if someone is actually interested. At least until I info dump them.