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Right. I can tell you that we need you computer geeks a whole lot worse than you need us!
Carolyn

that's really kind of you. thanks, Carolyn.

it's funny... finance just gets knotted up having to pay 50K to start an entry level
geek and 80K to keep the experiences ones...
so they make it up by making tiny cubicles in the basement and sending down
used furniture and limiting training to a couple workplace violence seminars per year.

personnel hates us because we're usually introverted technophiles who have no
true concern with the current "teamwork is everything" drive and
just want to do the job we were hired to do.

management hates us because we cost too much, can never deliver their fantasy land
requests in the dreamland timeframe they pull out of their rears...

and everybody else hates us because we know how the computer works,
and they perceive that we don't want to share that information,
while we know fully well they wouldn't follow simple procedures if
we hired professional writers to put it down in a guidebook
...yup, which we do... and they don't read.

that said, i manage a software engineering group and love it... and i'm just
as much a computer "user" as all the other employees... and we have an award winning
help desk, God bless 'em.

now, you wanted that system delivered when?

blessed be the user, for the user does provide our paychecks.

blessed be the user, for the user does provide our paychecks.

Well, at least you get it. I was about to blast you and others over the "everyone's an idiot" nonsense, because I just had a nice little experience with the virus today.

My boss, who happens to be my best friend, and I were going over some loans today when his new laptop kept on getting the old "new mail" chime. He says to me that the IT guy just called him and told him not to open any of these for the obvious reasons. I was starting to show him how to delete them all at once (I know a bit more than he does about computers) when he accidentally double clicked the message, but did not open the attachment.

He was about to yell the "F" word out, when I told not to worry, etc, etc.

Anyway, the point of the story is that he's 34 (so am I) and has been very busy over the last few years creating a company that employs about a dozen people, is very profitable, and does a lot of good for the community. I'm very happy he wasn't wasting his time learning about computers as his talents are creating businesses and generating profits which employs the Nerds who cannot even compose a full sentence, or iron a shirt, or have a social interaction with a live being (not YOU, but I'm sure you know more than a couple of 'em).

I've worked at quite a few companies that employed a cadre of Nerds, some who could actually speak English, and even one or two that wasn't a complete social embarrasment. When the Nerds would give you the "your an idiot" look, I always would invite to go out to the bar and pick up some women. That would shut them up fast, because deep down inside they knew that they were Nerds, and completely unable to interact with a real live woman.

God Bless those who risk it all to provide jobs for others....and bless the salesmen too!