ChaosMachine

Join Date 12/2004

Why is that?

I am wondering why is that? Why any job in the IT profession, and especially in Hardware support, is looked down? Why is been considered easy and meaningless? Why is when something goes wrong it's the IT's personnel fault and never the user's? Why?

Oh and try fixing a friends computer, spending hours on the task and then ask a favour afterwards in their line of work. Example? Plumbing.

I wonder! What do you think?

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Yeah you would'nt think repairing a lawnmower,chainsaw or a line-trimmer would take long because they're small but they can and like computers they can suck up a lot of time more so if it's intermittent so yeah i hear ya

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vStyler

Join Date 11/2004

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I'd think the plumber would say kiss my a$$.. and it wouldn't be too hard cos their a$$es always seem to be hanging out.. it's inherent to Plumbers.

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easy, now...

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PoSmedley

Join Date 04/2005

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I used to paint houses (looking around nervously) and did a lot of decorative/effects painting and stuff...I don't tell anyone. I hate doing it for friends and coworkers and such. Mostly because if I have to paint friggin' CLOUDS on some kids ceiling ONE MORE friggin' time, I'm taking HOSTAGES. I ain't sh****ng either! I WILL!

Clouds. Freakin' clouds. What the *&%$ do I look like? The Happy Little Tree's guy? Well, I ain't happy and I don't do TREE'S either! Then the people with teenagers who want BLACK bedrooms (ceilings too, of-freakin-course) and 'could you spray some gold or silver metallic fleks all over it?' Then I have to explain to the parents, 'No. That burn in the carpet is not form my cigarettes. It's from the bone that your little pothead was smoking while he was getting high on my turpentine while you were in the toddler's room wondering how CLOUDS would look on THAT ceiling!'

Then, oh yeah, and then, do you think they help? HA! And when I ask if they would like to come over and paint MY house, suddenly everyone has arthritis, migraines, and family dying. YEAH! I've killed more people just by asking someone "You wanna help me paint....' and their family starts dropping like flies!

Well... one day, I'm gonna come for all of them. Yup. And I'm gonna force them all back to my house. And I'm gonna make THEM paint clouds on MY ceiling! My cathedral ceiling! Without ladders! They'll have to piggy back. And those clouds better be the fluffiest f****ng clouds I ever saw!

AAAAAGHHHHHHH!

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vStyler

Join Date 11/2004

+919

easy, now...

uh oh..

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messiah1

Join Date 10/2005

+434

jesus po...I mean...jesus

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unclerob

Join Date 08/2006

+40

Po' didn't read the rest of your reply there but you mentioned at the beginning that painted clouds on kid's bedroom ceilings, I think that's a great idea. I'd love it if you could come over and paint some cloud's their ceilings, (2 bedrooms if you don't mind) and maybe a mural on the walls with some trees, yeah, some happy trees on the walls too, that would be great!

So when can you start?

p.s. if you come over early enough, you could join us for supper (beans & franks), we'd love to pay you back some way for the hard work!!!

Sorry I couldn't resist, please don't kill me.
Been there, done that, in fact I think I'm still there, they haven't let me leave yet.

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PoSmedley

Join Date 04/2005

+788

beans and weenies?

Would you prefer cumulus, stratus, or cirrus?

Wait.

You have brown mustard, right?

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Skinhit

Join Date 11/2004

+516

careful what you wish for there Rob......(you better at least hide your valuables)

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I bet all those cloud people thought they were being really creative and unique too.

I hate having to do work for friends and family. One of my mother's friends 'might' be opening up a bakery. So of course, rather than go to a designer who could charge from $500 to $1000 for not only a logo, but an entire identity, she came to me. And not only that, she had 'font suggestions.' Not only that, she had 'color suggestions.' Her font suggestion? Edwardian Script. (Sidenote: my type teacher drew that typeface for ITC, which is only useful for things like wedding invitations. And she wanted it for a bakery logo?) And her color suggestions? Bright purple and green. For a bakery? A French bakery? So what did I do? Ignore all her suggestions!

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

+1153

Tell ya what Po`, I sleep really well when it's raining and I can hear the pitter patter of raindrops on the bedroom windowpane.....so I'm wondering, if you'd come down here to Oz to install the appropriate sound scheme and paint some rain clouds on my bedroom ceiling.

Don't have a lot to offer in return, but we eat well and have a real comfy spare bed, not to mention the lovely warm weather we're quite happy to share with you.

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PoSmedley

Join Date 04/2005

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what? No beans and weenies?!?!?!?!?!

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Jafo

Join Date 03/2001

+1846

Master Apprentice)Po' SmedleyMarch 19, 2007 21:21:39

"Picked the wrong day to give up glue-sniffing....."...

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

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what? No beans and weenies?!?!?!?!?!

Yep, we got beans, weenies and plenty o' freshly brewed coffee....oodles & oodles of curried cabbage.

We'd have you eating like a king.....farting like a brewer's horse.

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unclerob

Join Date 08/2006

+40

farting like a brewer's horse?!
I hope he's using water based latex when he paints, I don't want any flammable spray paints being used if there will be explosive emissions of gas in the area! Clouds painted on the ceiling are one thing, clouds of smoke emanating from someone after floating an air biscuit was not part of the deal.

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starkers

Join Date 05/2004

+1153

I hope he's using water based latex when he paints,

No need, really! For paints, that is. With the right combination of beans and curried cabbage (based on the theory that hot air (gas) rises) clouds would form naturally on the ceiling....just add licorice food colouring for storm clouds, cochineal for clouds at sunset.

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