As someone who aligns more with the OOP and can all but confirm I generated a disproportionate amount of tickets, I tried to err on the side of over-reporting rather than under-reporting because while my colleagues would encounter a bug and declare IT and our equipment were awful and needed replacing before even trying a reboot, I figured if I reported all the problems I saw it would help both halves, especially considering the IT-impaired often gravitated towards influential positions.
That’s great, and you are correct. Even just a paper trail is helpful even if you resolved the issue internally. What I meant is that there’s this specific type of person who thinks that just because they’re young or x or y that they know more than they do. And that unearned confidence is a killer! I don’t mean that they’re creating tickets to document problems, I mean they are so confident that they don’t need IT that they end up turning little issues into big issues. And the whole time you’re there trying to fix the problem they caused, they’re acting like you guys are on the same page and they’re being helpful when really they’re so incredibly in the way it’s exhausting.
Like the guy who tries to fix his plumbing issue but makes it worse, then stands over the Plumber the whole time like “Yep, exactly, I knew that was the problem” “Yep, that’s what I was going to do” Except the plumber can fire that customer.
I see what you’re saying now, but you went the opposite interpretation of the post that I now realize is ambiguous.
My interpretation, and experience, is that older colleagues will go to you long before they consider going to IT. It’s annoying and I think OOP was venting about that.
The extent of my helping colleagues, and potentially hers, is those laughably easily remedies like rebooting, wiggling cables, etc. Beyond that and it’s time to weigh the pros and cons of sending them to IT and irritating them versus acting like computers are magic and malicious black boxes conspiring against us and pleasing them.
As someone who aligns more with the OOP and can all but confirm I generated a disproportionate amount of tickets, I tried to err on the side of over-reporting rather than under-reporting because while my colleagues would encounter a bug and declare IT and our equipment were awful and needed replacing before even trying a reboot, I figured if I reported all the problems I saw it would help both halves, especially considering the IT-impaired often gravitated towards influential positions.
That’s great, and you are correct. Even just a paper trail is helpful even if you resolved the issue internally. What I meant is that there’s this specific type of person who thinks that just because they’re young or x or y that they know more than they do. And that unearned confidence is a killer! I don’t mean that they’re creating tickets to document problems, I mean they are so confident that they don’t need IT that they end up turning little issues into big issues. And the whole time you’re there trying to fix the problem they caused, they’re acting like you guys are on the same page and they’re being helpful when really they’re so incredibly in the way it’s exhausting.
Like the guy who tries to fix his plumbing issue but makes it worse, then stands over the Plumber the whole time like “Yep, exactly, I knew that was the problem” “Yep, that’s what I was going to do” Except the plumber can fire that customer.
I see what you’re saying now, but you went the opposite interpretation of the post that I now realize is ambiguous.
My interpretation, and experience, is that older colleagues will go to you long before they consider going to IT. It’s annoying and I think OOP was venting about that.
The extent of my helping colleagues, and potentially hers, is those laughably easily remedies like rebooting, wiggling cables, etc. Beyond that and it’s time to weigh the pros and cons of sending them to IT and irritating them versus acting like computers are magic and malicious black boxes conspiring against us and pleasing them.
Oh, interesting. I hadn’t considered that.