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It’s not without foundation, but I feel like I have a magical power to make computers work. Someone will be having a problem and when I walk over it starts working. And then when I walk away it happens again.
And I think this power is hereditary because one of my kids appears to have it.
Some people are bogon emitters. They radiate fundamental particles of cluelessness.
Some people are bogon absorbers.
No, they’re not clueless. They show me exactly what they did before and it just… works. Local apps, websites, networking issues just disappear.
I do feel dumber and less capable after spending time with certain people...
I call that "Threat of Administration". Works way too often.
According to legend aving a theoretical physicist close enough can break any well designed equiment nearby. In the same way a good engineer can make the same equipment work by proximity only.
I sometimes call it my "healing hands" when a user swears up and down that they did everything I told them to but the problem persists. Until I demonstrate it personally and voilá, the problem is gone.
I think that some appliances have a dark soul and just hate their owners. A lot of time I will take something back to a shop because it just won't turn on, open, rotate, heat up or whatever they are supposed to do. The person at the shop tries the cursed thing once and just like that it works perfectly and I feel like an idiot. Then, back home, it will work for a couple of times and then stop again.
And it happens also with myself in the role of the "fixer". A colleague will show me an app that does not work, a laptop that won't boot or a printer they can't connect to and it all works if I try it.
Printers, for example
Though I have a similar effect on them, too.
Maybe it's time. E.g. waiting for IT to walk over or remote in, or doing something slower because the user is explaining what they're doing.
I find that waiting for the click to have a result makes some problems not appear, vs. the user double/right clicking something 6 times because they don't want to wait. Me waiting for the OS to finish loading everything, vs. the user clicking something 6 times while services or even UI elements are still loading.
I’ve thought that but there doesn’t seem to be a time limit on it.
I have that too, that drives people insane.
I feel like there's a hierarchy to it. The presence of people above me will make my things start working. My presence among them will make their things stop working. The presence of people below me will make my things stop working, and my presence will make their things start working.