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submitted 5 months ago by DxK@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Smallwater@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago

My wife's standing at her company's IT dept skyrocketed during COVID lockdowns.

Why? Because we were both working from home, and aside from helping her with basic troubleshooting, I also helped her formulate her tickets better.

Turns out, tech support folks like it when a ticket has concise info, instead of "screen broke".

[-] disgrunty@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

As a former IT help desk person, I can confirm that we do in fact love it when people give us good info. People who write screen broke shouldn't be working with technology more advanced than a shovel

[-] DokPsy@infosec.pub 6 points 5 months ago

"please call so and so, they're having issues with their browser"

Call the user, they are out for the day. Leave message to call back

Either never hear back or the issue was not browser related

Either way, tell the original ticket creator to have the person having the issue call us if they want prompt service

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

My God the amount of times I have to pull the frickin issue out of people...

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

It doesn't work.

[-] laranis@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

I find this a fascinating phenomenon. Some of it is ignorance of the technology. Which I get because you can't expect everyone to be experts (but if you don't know the difference between a browser and your desktop just fuck off back to the bronze age).

The other is a true lack of empathy in the context of communication. Being able to communicate effectively with an equal onus on both parties to understand and adapt the dialog until the information has effectively been transferred is not hard, really, but some people just don't care enough about the person on the other end of the line to be bothered.

That is infuriating when you're trying to be helpful.