Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Tags: activism, art, gender studies, humor, networking
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  • 5 comments
siliconshaman

siliconshaman

June 24 2015, 12:47:05 UTC 5 years ago

There's also one that a lot of geeks are all too familiar with. You help someone with their computer once, and they keep asking you to 'help' them with different things, like showing them how to add an attachment, or download photos from a camera [stuff they could figure out themselves]...and before you know it they're calling on you when your eating or sleeping and they've got a mate with the same problem and you can totally help them can't you?!

Pretty sure you could probably get the idea across to anyone in the tech industry with that example.
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

June 24 2015, 17:59:11 UTC 5 years ago

Which is why I offer generous perks for my friends who help me with tech stuff. My assistant website editors are getting paid in sneak previews and I've offered occasional free sponsorships of poems to people who do other helpful things, for instance. Facetime, I've bartered everything from homemade food to mending clothes. I get twedgy if a relationship gets too far out of balance, so I try to keep things as even as possible.
siliconshaman

Re: Yes...

siliconshaman

June 24 2015, 19:13:18 UTC 5 years ago

I would be totally ok with being paid in home-baked cookies!
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

June 24 2015, 19:42:28 UTC 5 years ago

I think I actually have paid someone with our favorite peanut butter cookie recipe. We call them "crack" because it's impossible to stop eating them. On the bright side, they are pretty healthy as cookies go -- peanut butter, flour, butter, eggs, sugar.
siliconshaman

Re: Yes...

siliconshaman

June 24 2015, 22:33:18 UTC 5 years ago

Yeah, I can see why.