This is the “I want to be back at my own desk in two minutes / this shouldn’t take long” posture.
Things are serious if the tech has to sit, and if you’re the tech and you sit right away, you’d better explain if you’re not expecting it to be serious, because users often pick up on the connection even if they don’t consciously realise it.
Users constantly offer me to sit, sometimes repeatedly. And while I appreciate the gesture, that chair means I am capitulating to the machine that is taunting me with its flippant disregard for my desire to doom scroll, drink caffeine, and talk shit on the service desk in the secret group chat from the comfort of my own desk.
I have to touch their mangy keyboard and mouse. I don’t want to use that chair unless I have to!
I’m so glad I got out of that line of work. Offices are gross.
As an IT guy I am able to sit from time to time when helping users, on the floor, under the table, pulling cables.
Man, I don’t miss that. Now with wfh, I can more easily avoid this shit. Oh, you don’t know how to download and save a Teams meeting recording and want me to take 30 minutes to walk you through it over the phone? Take these instructions with screenshots for each step instead and leave me alone lol.
Sometimes that doesn’t work because the person I’m dealing with is just that clueless and can’t follow basic instructions. So I do end up having to speak with them. But I make sure to have a meeting coming up before I call them.
Wrong.
Next time I’m in this situation I’m telling the person I’m helping to get their ass off the chair. If I’m helping you the least you can do is let me sit down!
I dont want to sit in someones manky chair, I always politely decline when they ask.
At least ask if you can sit in their lap.
Yeah cuz like you really don’t wanna be there, but to wanna be kind and also flex your skills. It’s… Complicated.
Also your glasses have a safety chain, mine is paracord…
I have a bad back so I can handle this for about 4 minutes tops before I have to pull up a chair.
This will endlessly fuck your back up. Use a chair or at least squat. My old boss has a permanent bend after doing that for 25 years.
“Fine but you owe me a tea”
Shouldn’t one hand be holding out the vaseline?
