On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO [email protected] wrote:
They pay me to take control of the machines of stupid people all day long. It's called the helpdesk. What a concept. Some people can't be bothered to remember how to do anything on their computer.
Yes, it's called "your job" and the computers are owned by your employer, not individuals in their homes. You are being paid to provide support for company owned computers being used by company employess.
I also have relative strangers that are referred to me by acquaintances, that ask me to fix their computer. I frequently take said strangers PC or HDD to my home for sometimes several weeks until I get time to work on it. During this time, those people know I have complete access to it, but are so happy when I return it fixed that they pay me.
Right, and you do not have complete control over their machines full-time while it's sitting on their home and they're trying to do work / play game / look at porn. You are not installing Linux on their PC and managing *that* while providing them a Windows VM to work in.
This "business plan" and what you do are nothing alike.
-- Chris