So I went to our COO's home yesterday to fix a computer prob...

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PanzerIV

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How professional and so unlike where I work. Here the owners give me their home computers, their kid's computers and once expected me to help a business they are only partners in and don't even own outright. All for FREE. I do computer work on the side and it's an insult to me for them to expect free work because they hired me to work their company and not as their personal tech slave. It's probably not even legal.
 

MmmSkyscraper

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Originally posted by: PanzerIV
How professional and so unlike where I work. Here the owners give me their home computers, their kid's computers and once expected me to help a business they are only partners in and don't even own outright. All for FREE. I do computer work on the side and it's an insult to me for them to expect free work because they hired me to work their company and not as their personal tech slave. It's probably not even legal.


So fill 'em full of spyware and viruses :D
 

diablofreak

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Originally posted by: PanzerIV
How professional and so unlike where I work. Here the owners give me their home computers, their kid's computers and once expected me to help a business they are only partners in and don't even own outright. All for FREE. I do computer work on the side and it's an insult to me for them to expect free work because they hired me to work their company and not as their personal tech slave. It's probably not even legal.


so tell them its not work-related
 

PeeluckyDuckee

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Don't over do it. Just simply say thanks the next time you see him and follow up on how things are going. Anything more and you'll look like you'll have alternative intentions.
 

Qwest

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Originally posted by: fbrdphreak
Originally posted by: codeyf
Maybe just a quick thanks and how's everything working? next time I pass him around the office.
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best answer yet.
dont write a letter/email...overdoing it.