Rant of the week #8

Subject this week: Technologically illiterate rude people.

There are three kinds of TI's; the ones who don't bother, the eager learners, and the flat out rude ones.

The ones who don't bother tend to stick to traditional ways of communication. Letters, going places, so on.

The eager learners tend to ask a lot of questions, but tend to be happy about it and learn quickly.

THEN THERE ARE THE RUDE ONES. They ask for help, they're loud and rude when you try to talk them through it so you have to go over wherever to fix it. And after you fix said problems, they tend to blame you for future problems, even though they have no idea what is going on throughout the whole thing.

For instance, let's say you have someone who clicks on every scam ad, and opens every email they have on Internet Explorer. You try to talk them through cleaning their computer, but they just yell at you. So then, you're forced to their house so you can clean out their computer, put their firewall up, install a new browser, and then physically clean the dust out of their ancient computer. You leave, to have your own life, eat food, so on. You get a call about 4 hours later. Said person is screaming into the phone, saying it's your fault that their computer is messed up worse than it was when you started. You go back over to find that not only have they somehow uninstalled their virus protection and taken down their firewall, but they have also infested their computer with over 300 different viruses.

If you are that person, STOP IT.

If you see someone like that, SLAP THEM.

Ugh. I've had to deal with that too many times this week alone. Stay hot, guys.