I am new to TechRepublic and from what I have experienced already has lead me to this question.
Are Techies living on mars?
I think that this site is a valuable tool infact its got all the ingrediants required to help those improve and perform well.
The problem being is when I ask a start a discussion it always seems to be replyed with negative or techical answer?
take for instance starting a discussion on a given topic and you ask “what do you think”?
the next answer you get is completely a techicle one, then its usualy followed up by the I know more than you syndrome or you better go away and study it?
HELLO I said what do you think!!
You will find many answers are quite insulting or demeening to other members not in a direct context but in a sly and unthoughtful manor. I think disrespecting another persons view this way only serves to prove the kind of charector and unworthy individual that they are.
I can get by quite comfortably on my PC and I have a pretty good range of skills to do so but I’m not fantasticaly gifted but i cope.
My skills lie in sales, productivity and general buisness and I know how to send an email lol. so why when i start a discussion does this techie mentality suddenly kick in from other users. I want to contemplate the issue and thrash it out? I want to hear your view? I want to look at the issue as whole not direct down the path of Thunderbird has a spam filter!
The aim of this site is two fold to discuss and to help and wherever posible influence good thinking to improve our buisness sense and quality of life. thats the impression I got from the e-mail before I signed up.
another more common dialgue I have picked up from the forum is when a person responds to a discussion with a techical answer and the slight of hand round about way of saying you dont know what your talking about usualy means they don’t know iether!
so why go there in the first place?
Theres always going to be the egotistic knowit all who thinks they know it all but really all they have is the world in wich they live, devoid of real human contact and discussion and in a sense thats not to be mocked! thats sad!
we used to accept that the “geek” as he is known has his own little corner and its his world. Not any more! this is plainly evident in the work place where now if you are not in the team you are not in the job!
I whole heartedly agree with this, it helps breakdown barriers and seperates devides that once where common place in the Office or factory. Its not about looking good as an individual anymore its about team work and how productive as a team you can be. sharing your knowledge is everything now and this way of thinking is already prooving succesful in many area’s. If your good at your job as well as a valuable team member you will be noticed its that simple!
Theres many people that are turning more to sights like TechRepublik for guidance and advice and you will find that there not all computer geeks and games fanatics. In fact you will be suprised at how many important people of industry come to these places to get the low down and to gauge the trends to see how they can develop there buisness.
So before you decide that sombody is not worth your time just take a second to think about this: you just told the CEO of a major world company a techinical answer to a discussion he wasnt looking for. Ummm do you think what I am thinking?
theres more to life than the bits of a computer and how fast the network is, theres communication and life skills that some realy need to learn.
theres no place for this kind of mentailty anymore, no ones realy intersted! what there is though is a firm beleive that you can help others shine and even if its for the good of your fellow workers then so be it. thats the kind of person i like to work with and chat with.
I expect this to stir up some feeling but hey where only human eh.
Now the big question is: What Do You Think?
