At this point in life, all I want to do is retire, and yet that goal is still several years out. I want to stay at home, have a dog or two asleep beside me on the sofa, watch television, and waste time online with the blogs. Is that so wrong? This is my forty-first year in the workforce, and I'm so ready to be done with it.
I'm sick of supporting corporate Windows users who as a group—after more years than most of them have even been alive—still don't (and don't want to) understand how any of their necessary-to-do-their-job hardware and software shit works. And if I'm being completely honest with myself, I've probably felt that way for the last twenty years.
I think you'd be surprised to learn how many people still do not know how to add a network printer to their workstation. Or how to set Windows to use two monitors.
It ain't rocket science, folks!
I wouldn't mind supporting MacOS because—despite my bitching—I still far and away prefer it over anything from Microsoft. Yes, it has its own issues, but at least for the way my head is wired, how it works just makes so much more sense.
But I wouldn't work for Apple in a million years. I can't ingest enough of that Kool-Aid ("We're disabling the battery health display on your iPhones when you get your batteries swapped out at 1/3 the cost of what we charge by third-party providers for your own protection!") to even be considered for a job there. Not to mention I'm a curmudgeon who has very little tolerance for the kind of bullshit they spew on a continual basis. ("A very small percentage of users are affected by problems with the butterfly keyboards—but we're implementing a 4-year replacement program even for the MacBook Pros we just released!"
Ugh.
You have to remember that at home all they do is watch Youtube and Porn and at work they use the same software over and over again.
I feel your pain. Oh do I feel your pain. I work for a telecommunications company repurposing itself as a "software development powerhouse" and yet I'm astounded by the number of people who think their laptop is magic and "the system" is some sort of mystical realm where software can completely reconfigure itself without any rhyme or reason.
I could work for Apple without hesitation, if only because there seems to be smart people there. Yes, they may be smarmy, but they at least know how their stuff works.