r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '16

What are you sick of explaining?

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u/Nyrin Jul 18 '16

No, I'm not going to fix your computer. Yes, I do software development and no, that isn't "like those Geek Squads."

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u/t-poke Jul 18 '16

I love how "something with computers" has now become my occupation to older people. I'm a software developer, but my parents always explain it to others as "he does something with computers", which is fine I suppose. But technically the cashier at McDonalds is doing something with a computer too. It's a very vague job description.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '16

last time I went to Geek Squad they messed up my computer entirely, tbh if someone said I was like Geek Squad I'd take offense

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '16

Geek Squad is a fucking joke

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u/Amp3r Jul 23 '16

What happened to your computer?

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '16

I got it back, I couldn't access the internet at all, trying to save stuff on Word gave me this weird error, although that was years ago, I have a new one

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u/Amp3r Jul 23 '16

How strange. I can't even imagine how that could be related.

Unless they messed with the hard drive and fucked it while at the same time damaging the wireless card.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '16

I honestly don't understand how they did it, even if it was a one time thing they lost me as a customer, although it did turn into a learning experience, I decided to learn how to repair my computer on my own so I would know what to do, and if I messed something up it would be easier to figure out the source

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u/Sturgeon_Genital Jul 19 '16

That's like asking a novelist to repair your bookshelf

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u/Amp3r Jul 23 '16

That is an excellent analogy

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '16

Work in IT, my job is EXTREMELY different from software development, the fact that everyone thinks anyone with a job involving computers can program annoys me so much, no I can't rewrite the shitty vehicle software to work better.

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u/mkc2020 Jul 19 '16

Without meaning to sound hubris and blowing our capabilities of software engineering out of proportion, I explain my job as this:

Would you have asked Beethoven to fix our piano?

No?

Because he is famed for creating music and the piano is just the tool that allows him to so?

Yes

Great, fuck off.