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How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs?
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a small software company (around 60 people) as the sole IT guy. It's my first time in a position like this and after about 1.5 years I'm starting to get a bit burned out. I try to be friendly, helpful, and responsive and I get no respect whatsoever. Users tend to be flat-out rude when they have a problem, violate our pretty liberal policies constantly, and expect complex projects to be finished immediately upon requesting them. My knee-jerk reaction is to be a bastard, although I've avoided it up to this point. It's getting harder. For those of you who have been doing this a lot longer, how do you get a reasonable level of respect from your users while not being a jerk?"
You have to options: slap some reality into your users and put them in their place, or burn out. Your choice.
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Nah. What works is ...
Always blame Microsoft.
First blame Microsoft.
Then find out why.
Works annoyingly well.
The computer is an object of rage. Justified.
You can be on the side of the computer or the side of the human.