Oh, let me get off subject for just a second and say this: I hate people that give me advice. I also hate their advice.
Thats not to say, I hate friends who give me life-pertinent pearls of wisdom from time to time, or even friendly suggestions.
No, I hate people who give me advice about my arcade, how to run my arcade, and how to make my arcade better. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the validity of the advice itself, which (I imagine) ranges from 'feasibly-helpful' to 'Lewis-Black's-stick-a-spoon-up-my-own-ass-because-only-I-should-be-allowed-to-make
-myself-feel-that-much-pain'.
No, it's not the content of the advice, but the nature in which I receive it. Now it's worth pointing out that I havn't managed this place for a terribly long time, but I have been coming here pretty regularly for the duration of it being open and even worked a short stint as a cashier early on for no pay.
Yes. No pay. Thats another story, so remind me to get back to it.
But no, in that time I've either observed or been the recipient of copious amounts of poorly-delivered advice. And each time it's struck me the way people choose to inflict their insight rarely deviates from several significant factors:
Firstly: advice never, ever comes in the form of a friendly suggestion. Rather, whatever it is, it's something we should do, to go so far as to say that (in their mind) it's silly we're not doing what they said. Hell, we're idiots for not jumping up rightfuckingnow and implementing whatever the fuck they're talking about.
It doesn't matter if it'd make me a million dollars, the way you told me (or led into telling me, I'm ignoring you at this point) suggests that you think you know how to run my arcade better than I do. They're entitled to think that.
Fuck, they should start their own goddamn arcade. Please, I'd love the competition (I owe this mode of advanced thought to my zen-master head-honcho and pseudo-partner-in-crime). Furthermore if whatever you suggested in the first place works for you, and well, I'll probably steal the idea and claim I thought of it first.
Secondly, the person spouting advice is usually very new to the arcade. Often I get their advice ejaculated at me on their very first visit. This also means I try to be as accommodating as possible...I really only get away with crucifying people when they're regulars.
But I digress: they've usually got a job or a degree in the techie...ahem...genre of expertise. Maybe they're a geek-squad grade-A douche-bucket or something similar. They often like to lead in with some asinine interrogation about our system and/or way/philosophy of doing things.
I don't mean system specs (something I'm more than happy and able to spout off at a moments notice)...no, they darent be so pedestrian in their queries. No, they ask some fucking question that I can't cite, can't even paraphrase because it was so obscure and/or convoluted.
This is always entertaining to me because I'm not exactly computer illiterate. But I'm no aficionado either...the problems I run into and have to fix regularly are, by and large, a pretty small list of cookie-cutter issues.
But when they ask me questions about shit with nouns I don't recognize I just want to say get the fuck out, this is an arcade, not a firm IT department.
Call me ignorant if you want, I get to sit around all day playing videogames and get paid for it. I don't even have to write a review afterwards. Suck it.
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