Ever get bashed by people for being 'techy'?

Hades said:
It's infinitely more acceptable nowadays to be techy. Try being into computers back in the early 80s.
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Most of the 90s wasn't any different in school. Saying that, neither was college. Even the early 00s was still iffy.
 
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Commala said:
OP, I reckon if you think hard enough there is a pastime that exists which even you find strange and ridicule worthy. This is the way of the world, so best just to learn how to deal with haters while you're still at a forgiving age.

When you eventually move out to your own place, your family will suddenly notice the lack of live-in tech support. Charge them a few quid and put it towards your next graphics card purchase. Tell them they can charge you when you're in need of advice about reality TV and local football issues, as it's only fair.
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I think I am at the point where I don't really get hurt by it, but still annoyed to an extent that it effects me.

I might have a look at the site Tefal recommended though.
 
estebanrey said:
I've found that as the internet and tech has slowly taken over everyone's lives the mickey taking at being a "geek" has reduced significantly. Not because everyone's more geeky but because they know (or rather think) a geek could do a lot of damage to them.
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Funny to think how this has changed with girls and women. Compare todays selfie obsessed generation to 15 - 20 years ago.

russell664 said:
I think I am at the point where I don't really get hurt by it, but still annoyed to an extent that it effects me.
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Personally, how can one get hurt by it? I've never understood this.
 
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If it makes you feel any better I had this problem when I was in my late teens and early 20's, 10 years later it doesn't seem such a bad call. :D Take it on the chin and crack on there are much worse things to be spending your money on.
 
Smart fridges and kettles. With voice activation. As well as iPad's controlling your 11 million house in California. Remotely.
 
F`em I say. I love tech and although I don't try to have the latest, I love new tech.

Some people are just dumb Richards with no outlook on life, beyond google box and Britain has not got talent ! :p
 
I actually get the opposite, I keep the things I know to myself and when someone needs a hand or help on a computer or fixing a smashed phone screen etc I speak up and often solve the problem THEN get slated like it something I should not know...
 
Getting ribbed about being a sad spotty geek is normal.
Posting about being a sad spotty geek is abnormal.
Grow a set.
 
estebanrey said:
I've found that as the internet and tech has slowly taken over everyone's lives the mickey taking at being a "geek" has reduced significantly. Not because everyone's more geeky but because they know (or rather think) a geek could do a lot of damage to them.

I work with a lot of manual workers with very little tech knowledge and after playing a few pranks like spoofing their e-mail address so I can send messages to office middle-aged bint expressing their secret love, and changing their wallpapers (which are locked by IT so they can't change it back) for a pic of a gay model, I've built a reputation in their minds of someone that can 'control technology' as if I'm some kind of X-Men character.

If they start to take the mick about me being into tech and call me a nerd I just say something like "Yeah I am a geek, which means I can hack your Facebook account" and the apology and "I was only joking" reply comes back pretty quickly. Of course in reality I wouldn't be able to hack them but in their mind I could :D
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So basically you've put yourself at the mercy of one complaint to hr for your job security.

Barvo
 
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