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10 Things Your IT Guy Wants You to Know
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May 31, 2009, 12:48 pm by jlgaddis

1. If you come to me to ask technical questions, please don't argue
when you don't like my answer. If you think you know more about what
you're asking than I do, then why even ask? On that same note, if I am
arguing with you, it's because I'm certain that I am correct; otherwise
I'd just tell you "I don't know" or perhaps point you somewhere that you
could look it up. We don't argue just for the sake of arguing.

2. When you start a conversation by insulting yourself (e.g. "I'm
such an idiot"), you will not make me laugh or feel sorry for you; all
you will succeed in doing is reminding me that yes, you are, indeed, an
idiot, and that I'm going to hate having to talk to you. Trust me, you
don't want to start out this way.

3. We're okay with you making mistakes; fixing them is part of our
job. We are NOT, however, okay with you lying to us about a mistake that
you made. It just makes it that much harder to resolve and thus makes
our job more difficult. Be honest and we'll get the problem fixed and
both of us can continue on with our business. Lying to us and,
therefore, costing us twice as much of our time will not win you any
brownie points with IT.

4. There is no magic "Fix it" button. Everything takes some amount
of work to fix, and not everything is worth fixing or - gasp! - even
possible to fix. If I tell you that you're going to have to re-do a
document that you accidentally deleted two months ago, please don't get
mad at ME. I'm not ignoring your problem and it's not that I don't like
you, we just can't always fix everything.

5. Not everything you ask us to do is "urgent". In fact, by marking
things as "urgent" every time, you'll almost certainly ensure that we
treat none of it as a priority.

6. You are not the only one who needs help, and you usually don't
have the most urgent issue. Give us some time to get to your problem; it
will get fixed.

7. E-mailing us several times about the same issue is not only
unnecessary, it's highly annoying as well. We record issues in a
database so that we don't lose track of them (remember how we ask that
you create a ticket? That's why.) We will typically respond as soon as
we have a useful update to make. If your problem is urgent, please do
let us know (but see number five).

8. Yes, we prefer e-mail over phone calls. It has nothing to do
with being friendly or anti-social, it's about efficiency. It is much
faster and easier for us to list out a set of questions that we need
answers to than it is for us to call and ask you them one by one. You
can find the answers at your leisure and, while we're waiting, we can
work on other problems.

9. We may, at times, seem blunt and rude. It's not that we mean to,
we just don't have the time to sugar coat things for you. We assume that
we are both adults and can handle the reality of a problem. If you did
something wrong, don't be surprised when we tell you. We don't care that
it was a mistake because, honestly, it makes no difference to us. Please
don't take it personal, we just don't want it to happen again.

10. Finally, yes, I can read your e-mail, yes, I can see what web
pages you look at while you're at work, yes, I can access every file on
your work computer, and yes, I can tell if you are chatting with people
on instant messenger (and can read what you're typing, as well). But no,
we don't do it. It's highly unethical and, perhaps more importantly, in
all reality you really aren't that interesting. Unless I am instructed
to specifically monitor or investigate your actions, I don't do it.
There really are much more interesting things on the Internet than you.

I hope this didn't come off the wrong way because, even as much as us IT
guys refer to "users" as "lusers", we do like (most of) you. Just like
you, we're here to do a job and we try to do it the best that we can.
It's easiest to do that if we all work together, stop pointing fingers,
and give other people the space that we would like to get as well. If we
can do that more often than not, things will go well and work out for
all of us.

P.S. IT guys are easily bribed with food and/or beer (personally, I
prefer the latter). That's a sure way to get your problems moved to the
top of the list. *wink*

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