Telling me how to do my job.

[draggar]

Most people wouldn't tell a doctor how to do their job, right?

Or a car mechanic?

Or an air conditioner repairman?

A fireman?

A policeman?

Or most professions?

Then why is it that everyone feels that it is perfectly OK to tell IT people how to do their job? What, everyone thinks they know enough about computers to understand how an IT department works (yet don't know anything advanced like installing a printer, adding a "favorite" or bookmark, or how to plug in a USB drive) to dictate to us how to do our jobs?

I don't go to the other departments and tell them how to do their jobs so why is he IT department different?

[blas87]

I'm reminded on a daily basis how to do my job.

Gee, I coulda sworn I was trained in and certified, even took tests, have to re-take them every year...but I guess I still don't know how to do my job.

It's one thing if I don't know what to do NEXT, as in what my next project is, but when anyone, and I mean anyone, tries to tell me how to do my job when I haven't asked for help or even insinuated being confused, then I get upset.

[jackfaire]

Oh god I get customers all the time who tell me how I can and will do my job even though I am pretty sure I know and am trained on the propietary database and they are not.


BUt hey I could be wrong.

[Ghel]

My hubby works in IT, and I've heard a client tell him, while he was diagnosing a network problem, "Are you just changing random things, hoping something will work?" That was the first time he threatened to quit.

[HYHYBT]

Faulty premise: people *do* tell members of all the professions you listed how to do their jobs. They shouldn't, of course...