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Nice Clients > Nasty Clients

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    Posted on July 19th, 2006

    Written by cliff

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    anger, anger managment, angry clients, angry computer users, blood pressure, computer down, down services, downtime, IT, nice person, services, sysadmin, system administration, system down

    It occurs to me that when you work in IT, you can easily tell how how nice the person you are working with is by the extent to which he is pleasant to you when things are not going well.

    All too often people act as nice as can be when they want something, but as soon as a service they want to use is down, they start spitting fire and calling managers. As if we can somehow resolve issues faster with all the added blood pressure of higher-ups breathing down our necks.

    Anyone can be nice when they want something. If you really want to stand out from the crowd, remember to be nice and respectful when you are waiting for your IT department to resolve a problem. Outages are stressful enough for your IT guy without you making his life harder. Remember that he wants the service back up as much, or more than you do.

    This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 at 8:56 am and is filed under Et cetera. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
  • 2 Comments

    Take a look at some of the responses we have had to this article.

    1. Matt
      Jul 19th
      Reply

      Shut up and fix my internet.

    2. Wandering Pig Effer
      Jul 19th
      Reply

      Dude,

      You category is misspelled.

      “All Stories , Thouthts and Essays”

      LMAO You miss me, you know you do.

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