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u/sight2Ceek May 05 '26
“The hang on can you just”
Move
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u/pineconefire May 05 '26
"Uhmm actually do you mind if I just..."
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u/Shark7996 May 05 '26
"Before I forget, I had a couple things that weren't on the ticket..."
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u/UnicornSuffering May 05 '26
My new thing is to ask "Can I drive please?"
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u/Pyyric May 05 '26
I go with "Can I borrow your chair please" because sometimes they just roll away and leave me there standing??
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u/Chipring13 May 05 '26
I do this too! “Do you mind if I drive?”
To which they always try to respond with a car joke
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u/poundsdpound May 07 '26
It looks more like a move where he's about to get that D from behind, but maybe it's just perspective.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness May 05 '26
Me when I have to use my basic PC user expertise with young yet tech-illiterate colleagues
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u/JalapenoPopPoop May 05 '26
Remember when everyone said gen z were gonna be tech geniuses but then they spent a ton of effort towards "UI/UX should be so simple the dumbest person can figure it out" and now they just assume if they can't figure something out right away that's someone elses fault for not making it more obvious. Can't problem solve their way through an open doorway
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u/SanityPills May 05 '26
I also think people severely underestimated how much touchscreens have streamlined a lot of processes. Most, if not all, of Gen Z have never truly experienced a world without touch screens. So give them a problem that requires more than that, and often they don't know how to even begin interacting with it.
Source: Have handed many a Gen Z a laptop/desktop, and teaching them how to use a non-touchscreen device often takes more training than the task I'm sitting them down to do.
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u/Disastrous_Visit9319 May 05 '26
My coworker accidentally zoomed the browser in as far as it would go and I said hold control and press 0, I was looked at with awe like Jesus healing the sick.
Also typing 120wpm blows their minds
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u/Automatic_Alligator May 05 '26
That's the problem right there. This is a shit load of fuck
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u/TabbyOverlord May 05 '26
Yeah, but they are fucks we are paid to give.
And we hate problems that our towering interlect cannot defeat.
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u/MrPlace May 05 '26
Me every time. They ask "do you want to sit down?" No, no I do not. I want to get done with this asap
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u/Mertoot May 05 '26
If I sit I may become too comfortable and involved with the problem that wasn't mine to begin with...
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u/Any-Site827 May 05 '26
When they sit, shit gets real
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u/Ghostronic May 05 '26
My mom always needs help for something and I'm happy to give it but every once in a while she manages to find something weird happening and that's when I'm in this position for so long that she goes, "Here, let me move, you can sit down in the chair."
No, mom, I can't. If I sit in the chair it means the problem is real and I will be unable to focus on anything else.
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u/i_am_a_real_boy__ May 05 '26
Most folks with jobs are solving other people's problems.
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u/TallyMay May 05 '26
Makes sense, his sharp angle indicates an extremely focused engagemented, where someone who interacts with it more passively would be in a parallel position to the display (or curved towards it they have given up on life outside the computer)
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u/Lynn-The-Sparrow May 05 '26
Haha this is me rn on my lunch break watching others mess up stuff and just knowing once my break is over im gonna have to fix it
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u/ExaminationFeisty832 May 05 '26
you know you fuckd up if the Problem solver says you need to stand up so he can sit.
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u/____DEADPOOL_______ May 05 '26
I'm one of these guys. I'll straight up tell people to move like Nick Burns.
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u/sanatolanetajcm May 05 '26
cuando me decian que me iban a poner trucos en el gta san andreas, y se quedaban todo mi tiempo en el cyber disque poniendo trucos
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u/krishgamehacker May 06 '26
As the officially unofficial IT guy for all my family and friends, I can say this is true.
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u/SlapMeFox May 06 '26
Ahah, and you can tell the problem is small or big. If problemsolver standing - problem is small. But if he sits down - keep it shut cause the deal is big.
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u/AniYellowAjah May 07 '26
My staff would offer me their chair but I always decline because most of the time, I’m sitting in my office crippled looking at the screen.
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u/VoidMunashii May 05 '26
They seem incapable of solving the problem of having a worktop that is the wrong height….
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u/yoshis_satoshis May 05 '26
My back hurts from working like this, AND carrying this whole MF division…
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u/Gaetan_D May 05 '26
I have the same position when i realy have to go to toilet but there is 2 min left on what i'm warching
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u/namegoeswhere May 05 '26
"Mind if I drive?"
Worked magic back when I trained people on some complex devices.
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u/dimechimes May 05 '26
"Did you wanna? I can move and you can sit in my...No? Okay, I'll just crouch and be quiet"
But I get it, little makes me as anxious as telling someone what to do on their computer and watching them not have any idea what I'm saying.
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u/Organic-Scheme2494 May 05 '26
The people who are using the computer are likely solving problems too. Just different ones.
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u/dreamdaddy123 May 05 '26
Literally what a guy used to do on my old job. Such a friendly guy though he complains a lot.
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u/aFriendlyAlien May 05 '26
I usually do the kneel beside them and take mouse and keybaord maneuver.
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u/diabetusbetus May 05 '26
The problem "You can sit down if you want"
Nah, just gonna fix this and leave
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u/picklevirgin May 05 '26
Every time I have to do this I hope and pray my deodorant is doing its job.
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u/therealsouthflorida May 05 '26
Been in IT since 2012, from team lead to management. I do this even if I'd be standing for a bit because 90% of my coworkers chairs smell like ass and balls. The other 10% were recently replaced and I can't keep track of that shit. I only sit in my own office chair.
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u/Roboman20000 May 05 '26
My mom once asked me why my fingers automatically go to the WASD position whenever I use a keyboard. Ooof I play too many games.
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u/fsanchez622 May 05 '26
Yooooooo this just hit so close to home. I was litteraly just doing this right before taking lunch.
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u/_kajm May 05 '26
This guy is probably employed to fix co-worker computer problems and he gets mad everytime he has to do anything 😂
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u/VegasGamer75 May 05 '26
As someone who worked in IT for nearly 2 decades, let me tell you that if I an standing like that at your desk it means:
I have explained it to you nine times.
I put a detailed how-to in the company wiki.
I put a Let Me Google That for You link, showing how the issue works on your desktop.
I am only standing like that as it's much more difficult to brain you with your keyboard from this position.
Fine, I will just do it for you.
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u/VexahliaDe-Yolo- May 05 '26
Hottest pose ever tbh yes fix the problem that’s been pissing me off, harder
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u/oN_Delay May 05 '26
Um... That's how I work at my own desk. What does that say about me...and myself?
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u/Summonest May 05 '26
Please keep in mind that who ever you are helping WILL remain in the most awkward position possible and try to interrupt everything you're doing.
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u/Dry_Veterinarian_475 May 05 '26
I have 0 IT experience outside of being born in '95 and growing up with a computer. Most of the people I work with are barley computer literate - at the office I'm "IT Rob" and the amount of times I find myself in this exact position just to reconnect a BT headset, or reconfigure screen layouts cause screen 1 became screen 2... Simple stuff lol
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u/DaAussieAdmin May 05 '26
When I worked in helpdesk IT my go to was: "Can I hop in the driver's seat?"
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u/coporate May 05 '26
Also the stance of someone about to get up and use the toilet but remembers something at the last second.
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u/nexay4 May 05 '26
In this position typed mistakenly on colleague's PC: $ sudo chmod 777 / # (instead of ./). Scrapped his linux in seconds, issues appeared after reboot. New rule unlocked: No sudo commands in this position!
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u/imZ-11370 May 05 '26
The looking around for the chair and sitting down after this quick fix doesn’t work is humbling though.
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u/6894 May 05 '26
Me, moments before the problem inexplicable resolves itself and my coworker is convinced i'm a magician.
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u/ac_cossack May 05 '26
Or when shit just got real in a video game. Lounging back < leaning forward < standing up < just walking right up to the TV.
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u/azhiazthesky May 05 '26
My grandpa took me to Peter Lugers when I was a kid on a weekday night. We sat upstairs next to a full table, my grandpa (québécois WW2 vet), starting talking to them. In thick Russian accents they started talking back. Invited us to sit at the table, towards the end of the meal, they asked what my grandpa did. Grandpa asked the large man to my left what he did, he responded with “I’m a problem solver”. They were nice, got us into a cab so he could get yelled at by grandma and my mother the next day. I still have the beer stein, gravy boat and cocktail swizzle stick they gave me. TLDR; I met a real problem solver.
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u/OG-87 May 05 '26
Me at work… then having to try type or read something because they refuse a mouse and keyboard and or screen. Rage!!
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u/DaddysFriend May 05 '26
What I find insane about people that can’t use a computer is its laziness. I’m 27 and all I do is read the screen and they think I’m a wizard or somthing. About half the issue I run into on a computer I don’t know how to fix so I just google it. But not one does these two simple things.
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u/ChampStar3817 May 06 '26
As a veteran of Retail, I can concur with this. My arms were perpetually in this position.
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u/smoke_003 May 06 '26
It's just 2 minute problem I can solve it and me standing there for 30 min figuring how to solve it
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u/Senior-Main1725 May 06 '26
Damn right, his first task is to Undo every stupid thing we did. Look at his fingers.
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u/dretepcan May 06 '26
A piece of art. It needs to be framed and hung in a gallery. The title of the piece is "Move".
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u/Traditional-Rope7936 May 06 '26
This came at a good time, gotta need all the pickup we can have with these problem generators
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u/No-Eagle-3941 May 06 '26
i solve my own problems like this, but that is because by the time i'm done pacing thinking of a solution, my cat has already humbly taken his curled up position on my chair and is pretending to sleep. and that bugger gets what he wants. stupid manipulator.
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u/Withdrawnauto4 May 06 '26
it will just be quick fix i dont ned a chair. several hours later and you regret that
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u/SumSkittles May 06 '26
This position I found also puts a lot of strain on your wrists. Posture is important!
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u/Admirable-Common-176 May 06 '26
I think I’ve seen a movie where a lady solves her rent problem using that position.
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u/Weary_Ad2590 May 06 '26
I solve way more problems when I’m standing in front of the computer instead of sitting
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u/Dry-Caterpillar-1448 May 07 '26
“Can I sit there?” or sometimes they’ll straight up say to me “You drive” and get up. I like to help, but sometimes I wish they wouldn’t try first 🫠
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u/Gamebobbel May 07 '26
My colleagues when I log them into their mail account
(I know the bare basics of computers)
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u/Sad_Mood_8747 May 05 '26
My first phrase after accepting to help is "give me your chair"