10 Commandments for getting along with your IT Guy

[timj219]

The ironic thing about #6 is that, in my experience, if the boyfriend brother or roommate is an actual IT professional they will most likely not touch the machine. I know when I'm approached for help on a corporate owned asset that belongs to a friend or relative I always tell them I'm as likely to screw something up through my ignorance of their company's config as to fix it and it will get them in trouble with their boss if they have me work on it.
Of course I work on their private machines if they need help. Being in IT has shown me what it must be like to be a mechanic. Everybody is your friend when something breaks. And people always seem disappointed when I haven't always got an exact off the cuff answer to their questions about facebook or whatever game they play or exactly why their seven-year-old PC sometimes reboots itself or which mp3 player to buy.