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It isn't about being helpful or not, but about letting yourself be abused or not. Often times, the only difference between myself with a technology and the pers
by grigjd3 8y ago
It isn't about being helpful or not, but about letting yourself be abused or not. Often times, the only difference between myself with a technology and the person asking me for help is that I am willing to read the documentation while the other isn't. Often, the person seeking my help doesn't even realize they are abusing me but still, if I point out that they can read the documentation as well as I can, I get a look of disgust. There is countless sources of documentation, howtos, and useful tricks in both document and video form on Excel available for free on the internet. People just refuse to use that, even when I point them to it. More over, if I hold firm and say you can read this yourself, the person often will just ignore me and try to find someone else to do their work for them.
- grigjd3 8y agoOn the other hand, if somebody asked me what resources they could use to figure something out, then I'd be more than happy to help.
- chaos_emergent 8y agoMy high school history teacher used to say "there is such thing as a stupid question: it's one that you have the resources to easily answer" and went so far as to tell people that she was not going to answer a question that they had in class because it wasn't a good use of time. I feel the same way about technology questions. I'm really glad to help when someone asks something that they have looked into ahead of time, or if they're interested in learning a skill that they know I have rather than just getting me to do their work. It really annoys me when someone has just not put in enough effort and would rather have me expend the effort in solving their problem.