I work in IT and the amount of times that people call me up and expect me to help them out with anything on the computer is crazy. I mean I usually don't mind and when I go over to their house because I can't walk them through something I will get beer\dinner\etc so whatever.
The part that gets me is I have been asked by former co-workers who in this downtime have started their own consulting business to get them up and going. As soon as I say sure but there is a cost I just get crickets. It's almost like they expect me to set them all up with laptops and server and backups for free, sorry not going to happen because I know as soon as something goes wrong I am on the hook for it.
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