Comment by teddyh
2 days ago
It is with the confidence of decades of experience that I can say that the problem is that you have a bad attitude about your job.
(I have elaborated on this in the past: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164086>)
2 days ago
It is with the confidence of decades of experience that I can say that the problem is that you have a bad attitude about your job.
(I have elaborated on this in the past: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17164086>)
It is with the confidence of decades of experience I can say that to quote Alan Watts aloud is a sign of desperately needing to read another book.
Is anything in that quote so wrong that it invalidates the larger point the quote is meant to illustrate?
What am I meant to think the experience of providing IT support shares with that of the bodhisattva nature, such that quoting the ever tiresome Watts at paragraph length is meant to aid understanding of either? It's just a lot of self-aggrandizing humblebragging nonsense, "look whose name I drop and you don't." Good grief, in this millennium having had an encounter with Watts doesn't even really qualify anyone as being familiar with the literature.
If one means to say it's not people's fault that computers suck to use and they shouldn't be blamed for exhibiting some emotional dismay when forced to do so anyway, then one may say so clearly and concisely, and without insisting on oneself even by implication.
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