A major pet peeve: business owners who hire high school kids, college kids, or recently graduated kids to do ANYTHING related to their computers, networks, or websites.
It always, ALWAYS, A-L-W-A-Y-S ends badly. It’s always a TERRIBLE idea. First of all, regardless of what they tell you, they DON’T have the skills they claim to, and their young egos won’t allow them to admit this or fess up to mistakes. I know this because I was the same way at that age. (Yes, I do own up to my screw-ups now. Stop snickering…uh…every one of my siblings.) Secondly, they completely lack any sense of perspective. They don’t understand that messing with computers at someone’s place of business is NOT the same as setting up a LAN party or messing around in the CS labs on campus. They don’t get that not returning phone calls for a week and half is NOT okay, because people need to get their work done. They need to be able to receive and reply to emails. They need to be virus-free. THEY NEED THEIR FRICKING SERVER BACKED UP.
AARGH I HATE CLUELESS BOZOS. STOP SCREWING MY CLIENTS UP OR I’M GOING TO HAVE TO BEAT YOU SENSELESS.
Oh, and when it becomes painfully obvious that the client no longer wants to deal with you because we’ve fixed problems YOU have created, don’t blacklist my domain from their mail server. It’s childish, and it’s pointless. I have more than one email address, and the client actually returns my phone calls. But not yours.
Joe says…
This reminds me of me when I was around 18 years old. There was a job opening at a local Canadian Tire store (hardware/automotive/houseware) for an assistant service manager position in the automotive department. It paid well and sounded pretty cool to me at the time. I had no prior automotive experience whatsover and was quite frankly not qualified for the position. There were dozens of applicants and it was one of those multiple interview deals with aptitude testing, etc. Anyway, I interview real well and can bullshit like you wouldn’t believe.
I got the job. I was fired two weeks later.
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Um.. have a recent run in with a pimple faced post high schooler with no clue? I mean, you need to be a bit more specific about your peeves here. You’re so vague!
He’s a recent college grad. I haven’t actually seen the face in question, but I guess we should assume there is a terminal acne problem. ;)
AND it interrupts adorable phone calls from your nephew.
THE BASTARDS
Hey Dave, remember the guys with the voices that crack working at Best Buy?
“Well, no sir, the Apple platform will probably not be around after a few more years…thats why we dont sell it here…but have you visited our iPod wing?”
Jim
That’s why I politely ignore Best Buy employees. :D
Did some 18 year old dipshit acually say that?