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[โ€“] canofcam@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (15 children)

The amount of times people told me this when I worked IT support, and crossed over to see them on-site, and restarted their machine myself, and found it suddenly magically started working...

I'm not saying they lied, but the 'IT Support Aura' may be a genuine thing. Like the computer is afraid of getting scrapped so it quickly starts working.

[โ€“] jeff@programming.dev 24 points 1 week ago

My former career was in IT, I'm a developer now. I work with a bunch of tech savvy people, but I still have the 'IT Support Aura'. I've lost count of how many times a coworker has a computer problem, asks for help, and then watches me fix it and they claim they tried the exact same thing and it didn't work. I never really have an answer besides 'computers fear me'

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