about working on other peoples computers and problems?
Mine
When people don't listen to my suggestions, break their computers, then blame me for it.
Proprietary technology
When some weird natural phenomenon or completely undocumented disease strikes them and they forget this thing called "Google" we're always on about.
I hate it when you're working and they ask you a thousand stupid questions. Then after you explain what they're done, they have to hear it 5 more times in moron.
When you peek at their files out of passing curiosity and find loads of horse porn.
When they keep asking me, "Why has this thing broken?" Fucking shit, why do you care why it's broken? Isn't fixing it more important?
Or launch into a spiel about how broken the device is, or how terrible our service is. Well, wow, okay. Fuck you, assface. I'll go somewhere else then, if you're so unhappy with what I'm doing.
Or lazy techs. You know what? Fuck that, users may be stupid, and obnoxious, or outright treacherous, but at least you expect them to be. Catching someone else, someone else on your own team being an idiot is about three thousand times more annoying.
Catching the project team making an ill-designed application, and then running the fuck away from support, when all you've asked from them is the documentation and at least a clue about what the fuck is up, hey, at least give us a briefing and keep in touch, can you do that at least? GOD, SHIT LIKE THAT PISSES ME OFF.
Oooh, ooh, another one.
There's this application, you know? One that you'll need to run and probably answer a series of questions or sacrifice puppies or bugger children or something.
It could be a survey, a performance appraisal application, or even just something that you run just to see how much bonus you're getting this year (8 months? Wow, okay. Fuck you, bitch).
It doesn't matter. What matters is that it has a deadline before the application is closed / goes for a break / gets maintained. It doesn't matter.
What matters is that thing has been sitting there for three weeks, and you haven't even looked at the application or, even better, know that it exists (that's what announcement emails are from HR for, assfuck).
And so, suddenly you realize that it needs to be done by a deadline. And you give us a call.
Six hours before the deadline. All several thousand of you. And it happens all the time.
...yeah, I'm bitter.
System administrators who block all but a few ports at the firewall, such that when you actually need to download something required for work, you won't be able to. (Sysadmins in general are more of a productivity drain than recovering from a virus outbreak...)
People bitching about bumped threads
oh no you don't!