I rode my eScooter to the allergist today, and I got there super snotty/puffy eyed/raspy. Did the allergy test and sure enough, I’m very allergic to basically ever grass, tree, and weed in the known world.
Allergist straight up said, “Well we knew when you got here” and I was like… guess I’m in the right place! Learned some allergies I wasn’t aware of, and got some super important advice about how to manage them. So overall a great visit.
Have you ever had a moment of seeing someone at your job and being like “Oh yeah, you’re in the right place.”
The story earlier knocked loose a memory:
I worked at a small law firm years ago, and we used to have a could of community-support workers, a man’s and a woman both with Downs, come in to do janitorial tasks. The woman was an Elvis Presley fanatic. She would listen to Elvis on headphones while she worked. She’d talk about Elvis all the time. She’d mark his birthday, and the anniversary of his death. She was sad that she never got to see him sing.
One day, a potential client came in for a consultation, and this guy was an Elvis impersonator by vocation. And who happened to be there, by chance, even though she came for only about an hour a week? Yep, our Elvis fan.
The guy was really sweet, and put on an impromptu performance for her, and she was Over. The. Moon. It was a good day in the office.
This is one of the most wholesome things I’ve heard, brings joy to my heart. People can bring so much joy to each other’s lives when they’re open to it
Hhah amazing story. 😊
Only in a bad sense.
Worked for an ISP only time I visited a customer was when their internet was hard down and we couldn’t access our gear.
It’s odd that people are annoyed when the tech arrives, like the reason we are here is because you messed something up in your comms room and won’t admit to it.I just heard a similar story from an HVAC guy. Some jackass absolutely furious because he broke the pipes on his own AC unit and released the refrigerant. This guy is screaming at the tech from the second he is out of his vehicle. Literally no reason, he hadn’t even gotten a quote yet. So they just left. Wish more people had the freedom to decline a job if the person is behaving like a fool.
A million years ago, back when Reddit still existed, I used to hang out in the Firefox Subreddit and basically helped out with tech support there. At first, I just answered all the low-hanging fruit, but also read the answers from the more experienced folks and learned a lot from those.
And so, every so often someone at work (usually colleagues) will remark that their Firefox isn’t working as expected. At which point, I have my ten minutes of being a Firefox support professional, where I walk them through the usual troubleshooting steps and we get the issue resolved in no time.
It’s always kind of funny, because no one expects it. Like, it is a tech job, so it’s not unusual for a colleague to have deep knowledge about a technology, but with browsers, people just seem to think there isn’t much to know about them.
That’s amazing. What’s the most common issue you have encountered and how is it fixed?
To be honest, the issues are quite varied, because there’s so many webpages and extensions out there. But thankfully the solutions are pretty uniform.
Very often, all that people need is a hard refresh of the webpage they’re looking at (Ctrl+F5).
If that’s not it, then frankly these steps will resolve 95% of problems: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-and-diagnose-firefox-problems
If the problem looks more fundamental, I also like to narrow it down by trying a fresh Firefox profile right away.
This gives you practically a factory-reset Firefox (except you can switch back to your old profile to get your configurations back). So, if it still occurs in the fresh profile, then something’s wrong with the OS or the Firefox installation, not with Firefox’s configuration.
Sad fistbump, my immune system also hates all the plants. A HEPA air purifier in the bedroom and living room have made a huge difference for me, to the point I’m considering coming off one of my allergy meds. The allergist’s office probably already mentioned air purifiers as an option, but if you were wondering if it’s worth dropping the money on it, I’ve definitely found it to be.
We were having an issue with a particular type of electrical relay.
Turns out our facility’s controls engineer used to work for the company who MADE that relay. She helped DESIGN it. In like 30 seconds she had it sorted.
So probably she was the one thinking “oh yeah you asked the right person”
My job is hard to explain and has no real terminology for it (which is natural, it is conceptual), which is why you’ll see me label it differently depending on when I refer to it, but it’s basically the hometown equivalent of how a school might highlight student achievements (and yes, it’s highly quasi-official). People come to us often to put it on record that they did something good, an uphill request I might add if society is based on shame. From this position, I’ve had encounters with a few people who, to put it lightly, if they lived in Japan, they’d be asked to commit a hundred seppukus from the literal atmosphere, often locally ordained, swirling around them. And at least once I was like “this is what I live for”, which is also at the same time tragic because what they go through is also the kind of life I live; ironically, for the deed of pointing out the good in these pariahs, on top of that even more shame is accumulated onto me.