I work in the IT sector. My job involves support and consultancy for SAP. As such people often ask me computer-related tech-support questions in my private life. I also get asked questions by colleagues at work about their home computers. Naturally as part of my job I also get asked tech questions by people at work which relate to their work computers. Even though I don’t actually work in desktop support, people recognise when someone in the office is tech-savvy and they ask the geek questions.
I don’t mind this, it’s of course great to have ones talents recognised. I don’t actually work in tech-support as part of my job, so really it’s an aside to what I am getting paid to do. Helping to fix problems with colleagues desktops means they can potentially get on with their work and do their job better as a result, I figure a few minutes here and there to sort desktop problems isn’t overall a bad thing so long as it doesn’t adversely affect my ability to complete other tasks.
