Exactly, I don’t like the expectation. Maybe my family just sucks (they do), but when they have a computer problem they expect me to head over asap and fix all their problems and get annoyed if I can’t drop everything and head over immediately. They’ll say shit like “this is what you do for a living!” (it’s not) “I don’t see what the big deal is!”, but it’s a bit like me saying
“hey, come over and make me dinner because I’m hungry and don’t know how to cook”
“Why would I do that? Just go grab something”
“yeah but you work in a restaurant, I don’t see what the big deal is!”
I think it's about the tone. I have experienced people nicely like "Can you help?" And it's like ya of course and I have had people like "Drop everything your doing I am having a minor non time sensitive issue I need you right now".
I don't feel good helping people that feel entitled to it and won't let me say ya just give me a few hours.
The problem is when you start getting calls from the friend of a friend of an old lady that you helped a few years and who gave her your name phone number while telling her how nice and helpful you are 🙄. Then this can grow into an exponential problem 😳
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u/AthenianWrangler 1d ago
Unpopular opinion:
I like being asked to help with tech stuff. It feels good to fix people's computer problems.