Why are IT Techs so up their own bottoms?

The funny thing is, if i take this and replace a few words:

dmpoole said:
I don't say this lightly and its come after years of experience but virtually every user I've come across have been up their own ass.
Every one has come over as arrogant and as though they're a few steps up the ladder from 'normal' folk.
From the years I spent at a factory, fixing PC's in a local school, working at a juvenile prison, visiting many shops including the blue shirts and now working at the NHS - every user has been arrogant and I've met quite a few.

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Perhaps I've just had bad experiences but I've yet to meet a nice one.
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It still makes sense ;) (and perhaps even more sense to some people :p)
 
I'm an IT tech (among other business interests) and those of you who have met me IRL will hopefully confirm that im fairly down to earth. I certainly hope that none of my employers (im a contractor) or customers think i am up my own arse, i really do try and integrate as much as possible.
 
dmpoole said:
We have a major problem getting people to work for the NHS and by 2012, 1/5 of the population of Stoke will need to be employed by the NHS and related jobs.
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What? Is the population set to decline down 90% and then lots of HIV positive, obese, cancerous sexually transmitted diseased people going to take their place?
 
Muffin` said:
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What? Is the population set to decline down 90% and then lots of HIV positive, obese, cancerous sexually transmitted diseased people going to take their place?
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I've heard this same speech at least 7 times over the last 6 weeks and it does sound BS.
The first 2 times I heard it I turned to the person next to me to verify what I heard and then he even told me to my face at a Graduation.
That means about 100,000 in Stoke will be needed to work for the NHS by 2012 and that sounds far fetched.
However, I'm no expert and he doesn't look like a liar.
 
dmpoole said:
That means about 100,000 in Stoke will be needed to work for the NHS by 2012 and that sounds far fetched.
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I don't know if I'm reading this correctly or not so please elaborate. I'm seing this as either:

Stoke has an unemployment problem and the NHS will need to employ more to resolve this

OR

The already bloated beast that is the NHS is going to employ even more people - and I doubt that its 100,000 nurses, matrons and doctors - costing me even more tax to pay for various pointless managers, policy controllers and nu-labour jobs created out of thin air to make it look like they are a good government keeping unemployment down.

I seriously hope you didn't mean the latter.

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I'm an IT technician, I'm not nice, though I should be. After dealing with users complaining as a daily part of the job for so long I think it's getting to me. The attitudes shown by some in this thread towards technicians is one of the main reasons why a lot of us end up not liking users since all we deal with is them moaning.

All we ask for is a bit of respect.
 
:O Not every IT Tech is like that, i for 1 am not :)
I work for The TechGuys, a service with a smile LMAO (Waiting for the negative comments lol)
 
dmpoole said:
Can't ever say I've come across a user up their own arse.
They usually call you because they're stuck.
Doesn't make sense at all.
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Wow working in I.T I thought that would be the first thing you notice.
All my friends work in I.T and they have the same problem.

Over half the users are full of themselves.
I worked in a company which would take on people off the street to paying support contracts, i'd get people wanting FREE/IMMEDIATE!! work and complaining.

People who'd be angry at me for them buying a laptop in dubai and it breaking and..it's all my fault and because we do repairs (REPAIRS only) for "x laptop brand" it must be our fault.

Rude twots!
 
Mat said:
Unfortunately that comes with the territory when you work in an industry or department that provides a service.
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Exactly. It still gets to you though. :o

As for some users being up themselves, try working at a university where every other user has a degree and either a doctor or professor. Then you'll see real arrogance (mostly from the older academics).
 
dmpoole said:
I don't say this lightly and its come after years of experience but virtually every IT Tech I've come across have been up their own ass.
Every one has come over as arrogant and as though they're a few steps up the ladder from 'normal' folk.
From the years I spent at a factory, fixing PC's in a local school, working at a juvenile prison, visiting many shops including the blue shirts and now working at the NHS - every Tech guy has been arrogant and I've met quite a few.
This even extends to work experience - every department at the NHS will allow work experience but IT flatly refuse.

Perhaps I've just had bad experiences but I've yet to meet a nice one.

Ooops - could have sworn I was in GD (first time I've done that).
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Well you must just have had bad experiences.. the NHS IT guys/women i know seem fine. :)

though there is one woman on desktop support who is a bit of a female dog.... nah its not just to me if thats what you're thinking...shes like that to everyone.
 
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afraser2k said:
Exactly. It still gets to you though. :o

As for some users being up themselves, try working at a university where every other user has a degree and either a doctor or professor. Then you'll see real arrogance (mostly from the older academics).
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I hear that... I'm in IT support at Trinity College, Cambridge, but they're not all bad :)
 
IT Tech is just another form of occupation dealing with the general public.

It would be like saying Call Center staff are arrogant, lifeless, retarded, un-educated losers.

Oh hang on a minute, they are! :rolleyes:
 
jamiemoles said:
The already bloated beast that is the NHS is going to employ even more people - and I doubt that its 100,000 nurses, matrons and doctors - costing me even more tax to pay for various pointless managers, policy controllers and nu-labour jobs created out of thin air to make it look like they are a good government keeping unemployment down.
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Doctors, nurses and matrons aren't the only useful people in a hospital.
 
dmpoole said:
However, I'm no expert and he doesn't look like a liar.
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I'd call him a moron, either for believing what someone else has told him or thinking that a government would support that many people.


Psyk said:
Doctors, nurses and matrons aren't the only useful people in a hospital.
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He is right though, the NHS has far too many people because 'thats the way its awlays been done' or pointless jobs created to look good for the voters.
 
Going off on a tangent slightly I will have to say that most IT Support people (telephone based) don't like IT Techs. The last two companies I worked for they always thought they were better than anyone else and didn't want to try and help sort an issue. I used to have to go to site quite a bit in my last job and I found them very unwelcoming when having to work with them to fix an issue (if they were from the company I was visiting).
I have just returned from travelling and have gone back into IT (even though I said I wouldn't lol) but luckily this time I will have very few dealings with IT Techs - thank god! :)
 
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