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Originally Posted by Dragonman

Been browsing a lot of non usual forums for me today and I've discovered there are some fairly saltily amusing folks here. Of course, that ain't unusual for anything internet related.

What I find odd, now that hrpiii has brought up the IT world into this strangely amusing discussion, is the argument that folks don't know how to search. For crap sake, they took the time to ask the question here, on the phone, or in person, and if they aren't the aforementioned googlephobes, may have even punched in their question there. The problem isn't with the actual search function, the problem is interpreting the results and deciphering which clicky thing to use to get your answer. It may take reading several articles to find the information needed to answer your query. That just takes to much time for some folks. I've also found, in the last 10 years of operating the IT help desk I'm currently employed at, that when some folks ask for "help", that isn't really what they want. They want someone else to do whatever it is they can't/won't/don't want to do, for them. The real art with helping others is deciding when to teach them how to fish and when to just slap them with a fish.

One of my pet peeves is folks that ask for help, wait ten seconds, then cast aspersions on the community for not providing an answer immediately.

Another is any prius, minivan/crossover/SUV/subaru in my way and I don't care which lane they are pokin' along in. It's a good thing I'm not Bruce.

This isn't really fair though, as a lot of folks don't use computers in their line of work....

I'm not IT savvy, yet here I am... I can search for a lot of things, but I always have others I often work with asking how to do this or that.... Sometimes I have to ask others how to do something... or I try to google it, or as a last resort I try to find a youtube video on it....

I help others when I'm able.... I don't ask others to build a BOP stack, when as a subsea engineer, this is second nature to me.... Others are required to use it, but certainly not to maintain it, thats my job....

If there is an issue with the stack, they call me, and while I could explain how to fix the issue, it's most often (always) easier for me to fix it, explain in rudimentary terms what was wrong and move on, allowing them to continue using it....

We all have our strengths and weaknesses....