I was sitting at my desk working with someone from IT because there were problems. The goal was that my laptop should be setup so it is possible to do all of my daily tasks remotely. I should have know that it wasn’t going well when he made the following comment.
Nobody works quite like you
Everyone hopes that comments like these are well meant or at least I was certainly hoping so. It is also possible that I am a bit of a walking anachronism. Back in the day when computers had no windowing environment on your PC and to a certain degree every PC user was a command line user.
Everyone else grew out of this phase but somehow I am a bit stuck, so my while the technician was asking questions I was showing him how various programs were started which for me meant from the command line.
It took about an hour before he had investigated all of my issues and had actually not come up with any solutions to my problems. It was just before he was going to leave that I found out that most of the other external users for the treasury used another aspect of the token device for their access. Most of the users were using only intranet enabled access while my access was a bit more global, so perhaps the comment was truly putting my usage into a separate category.