my rant why do we do it

slap ed

slap ed

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you have probably all heard it before (you know something about computers can you have a look at mine )and so i ended up with my freinds computer a lovely pentium 2 400 mhz with 256mb ram and a ten gig hard drive .anyway on first boot it literely took twenty minutes to boot up it was that full off viruses and spyware and nine hours later when i had finished after ewido found 306 problems and after that avg found nine trojans two it couldn't heal , it took 1min 23 secs to fully boot (not bad for an old brick ). my point being why do we willingly give up a whole day to help people out , i mean he's a freind so i wouldn't charge him . but lets say you charged him minimum wage nine hours say forty quid he would probably feel narked you would want money (for just looking at his computer) so why do we do it we must be mad . :confused:
 
slap ed said:
you have probably all heard it before (you know something about computers can you have a look at mine )and so i ended up with my freinds computer a lovely pentium 2 400 mhz with 256mb ram and a ten gig hard drive .anyway on first boot it literely took twenty minutes to boot up it was that full off viruses and spyware and nine hours later when i had finished after ewido found 306 problems and after that avg found nine trojans two it couldn't heal , it took 1min 23 secs to fully boot (not bad for an old brick ). my point being why do we willingly give up a whole day to help people out , i mean he's a freind so i wouldn't charge him . but lets say you charged him minimum wage nine hours say forty quid he would probably feel narked you would want money (for just looking at his computer) so why do we do it we must be mad . :confused:
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Simple for me, really - if I do it, you pay me.

All my friends and family know this - if they ask, I tell them it'll be a tenner an hour and they have to supply cups of tea.

So they either put up or shut up.

*n
 
I almost always refuse doing other peoples PCs now. Oh wait, I did a mates all this week - spent hours on it.

Right, from now on it's a BIG NO to anyone saying "could you have a quick look at my PC?"
 
I used to get roped into it by my dad but not anymore. I don't mind too much to be honest. If I can help someone out then I will but I make it clear that I'll do it as and when I can.

I don't ask for money (obviously the have to pay for any replacement bits) instead I go for the mafia style "you can owe me a favour" route :p
 
"Can you have a quick look at my PC"

Always always always always descends into hours of your time almost without fail.

Get £ for it you deserve it, even if it's £20 it's something for your time.
 
gjrc said:
because thats what makes you his friend, and thats what friends are for
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Adsactly, what goes around comes around. If you say no, think of all the bad karma, you will have to write a list and everything.
 
gjrc said:
because thats what makes you his friend, and thats what friends are for
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very true , but where do you draw the line a freind off a freind or a freind off a freinds familly you get the picture . i mean i will gladly help anyone to a point
 
Tell people you work in IT but say designing not systems support etc.

Telling people, I build PC's = bad
 
I don't mind tbh.

A real friend would help out but at the same time a real friend wouldn't take atvantage either :)

For friends of friends of friends etc - I usually say I'm too busy working, which unfortunatley is usually true anyway :(
 
I don't mind helping people out if I have time.

The one thing I don't do is let favours affect my own life though. If I have other plans then it will have to wait, or if they really need me, I expect a tangible thank you.

Otherwise I have no problems doing it when I have some free time, it gives me chance to catch up with that person anyway.
 
If they're a decent enough friend, they'll give you something for your trouble, be it a night out, a favour in return etc
 
I don't mind to much to be honest, its my trade so i assist those who i think are worth it, and at a time that suits me. One thing i dislike, is going out of my way too much though. Recently i caught the tube from one side of London to the other (spending nearly £6 and taking nearly 2 hours from mine to theirs) to help a friend with their PC issue. Didn't want to, but a couple of weeks before we got wasted in a club, and they let me sleep over and spent a fair bit of cash feeding me when i got the munchies at a stupid hour. Turnt out their power supply had died. They replaced it a short while later, and they then asked me to go back to setup windows as theres no software on the PC. lol, no chance. If the person wants to bring the PC to me, fine, i'll sort it when i can, but to expect me to go well out of my way is asking too much.
 
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Welshy said:
If they're a decent enough friend, they'll give you something for your trouble, be it a night out, a favour in return etc
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Woo steady lad, this is a family forum ;)

What I don't like are people who ring up out the blue after months of not bothering saying "Hey hows things"...10 mins of chit chat, then they drop in "What it is....".

:(
 
lol reminds me of the time i spent my whole christmas infront of my dad's pc trying to get norton to install only to find out that my brother had installed AVG to run as a background process.
 
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