Why being your IT buddy is annoying

IT buddies, the new survival technique
IT buddies are like gay friends, everyone has one now. The field of technology is vast and its problems mutate faster than bacteria or any other organism for that matter. We the geeks are committed to offering our time is the quest to learn these problems and solve them before they become bigger problems. Our lives are an endless series of solving puzzles only to be faced with more puzzles at the end.
Frankly, if you’re not into it, IT work can be freaking frustrating. To survive this, the human mind did whatever it always does, it adapted and came up with a solution, ‘an IT buddy’. Your designated condom whenever it comes to matters tech. All you have to do is call and say, ‘I think it’s pretty serious’ and I will be on the next flight :lol:
Stop treating us like tech dildos
Over the few years of my life, I have been IT buddy zoned by almost all of my friends. I totally have no problem with fixing your computer, by the way, it’s the way these guys treat it that gets on my nerves. It just pisses me off when I meet someone and they are like, ‘Oh! You did Computer science? Well, my computer is blah blah blah blah, can you fix it?’
I feel like this kind of people don’t respect my profession enough. Am not just a voucher to ensure free computer services for the rest of your life. The worst thing is that these people will have you spend your money and resources and they will just treat it like you just gave them your extra pen. I have never been paid for any of my services by anyone who treated me like an IT buddy.
Sure friends help each other out. I have a friend who is a nurse and whenever I get super ill, I call to ask for advice. Whenever I go to his workplace, I treat his sacrifice for me with respect and I acknowledge the difference he is making. I pay for the meds and will let him know I owe him. I know he invested his time money and energy to get to where he is and as much as he is a friend, I respect him as a professional.
This is the kind of respect you all don’t give to your IT buddies. We might fix your stuff but that shit hurts. If I see particular people calling me, I automatically know that they are having tech problems. Well, news flash, I am not going to be anyone’s tech dildo. If you can’t treat me as a professional, I am not going to be your tech buddy and please stop asking me if I can fix your damn computer!
Originally published at Decode.

