sapphirescales
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I'm not trying to shame anyone. It's a legitimate question/comment. I'm sorry if you took it the wrong way. That wasn't my intention.
New Mystery Issue - Machine Won't Boot or Get Past Initial Black Screen
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britechguy
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I would not consider an expression of surprise, and real surprise, to be shaming in any way, either.
I've been on the receiving and giving end of both that sort of surprised reaction, and actual shaming, on many occasions. And there are times when shaming is absolutely, entirely appropriate. When someone does something wrong, blatantly wrong, the appropriate reaction from others is shaming and shunning. This was neither.
I've been on the receiving and giving end of both that sort of surprised reaction, and actual shaming, on many occasions. And there are times when shaming is absolutely, entirely appropriate. When someone does something wrong, blatantly wrong, the appropriate reaction from others is shaming and shunning. This was neither.
Sky-Knight
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I read that as an expression of shock or surprise as well.
Take care not to read text negatively, it's human nature, and it's a thing. We tend to inject our own emotional state into text for some reason. Which under most circumstances results in things being read with a negativity filter. Combine that with the fact that we're all IT pros here, and we have a disproportionate amount of people that shall we say... lack social graces. It comes with the territory, and makes things difficult sometimes. I hate stereotyping, but they do exist for a reason after all.
Take care not to read text negatively, it's human nature, and it's a thing. We tend to inject our own emotional state into text for some reason. Which under most circumstances results in things being read with a negativity filter. Combine that with the fact that we're all IT pros here, and we have a disproportionate amount of people that shall we say... lack social graces. It comes with the territory, and makes things difficult sometimes. I hate stereotyping, but they do exist for a reason after all.
sapphirescales
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Yes, it was definitely surprise on my part. We've just moved past the point of needing to do all that stuff nowadays. It just takes too long when a replacement SSD is so cheap and re-imaging a drive is so quick and easy. The only time I'd do something like that is if it was an old legacy computer running XP or older with custom software that couldn't easily be reinstalled, and I still would've simply imaged that drive to another new drive (SATA based SSD or CF card) and then tried to fix whatever software issues were preventing bootup.
Ain't that the truth? It's really hard to find an employee who's actually good at their job AND good with clients and can sell. If you can find an employee like that, do whatever it takes to make them stick around. I don't know why it's so rare to find a good IT person who also has good social skills, but it just is. I like to think I do, but that's only when I'm in selling/client mode. In my personal life I'm terrible at socializing. So sorry @Barcelona and everyone else here on Technibble. I'm not trying to sell you guys anything so I have pretty much zero social skills on here.
