In a way, I sort of see Tehk’s stance as being like giving your computer to someone for repairs and when they give it back they comment on the contents. …Stay out of my cringe life please. Let me live in my shame.
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
…..oof.
I did comp repair for a bit. Had one lady whose desktop was a picture of her in lingerie. No, she wasn’t pretty.
In your opinion you didn’t find her pretty, but maybe she was proud of her body and that’s all that matters. Your comment is really rude and unwarranted honestly. What gives you the right to comment on someone else’s looks and determine their worth? You should’ve kept it to yourself instead of shaming a woman’s body.
Or, alternatively, people are allowed to think someone is not attractive.
Better yet, she exposed herself unwarranted to him with that picture.
Agreed. Yes, it may have been “right there on her desktop”, but one’s computer is a *personal* piece of equipment and if you’re working on someone else’s computer you need to respect that (I speak from 24+ years in IT). She didn’t *ASK* this person to review her body, and they have no business coming on here and sharing their opinion of it with the internet public. Absolutely rude.
It’s a mix. If you have to have the computer on to see if it was working, her having a picture that would make people uncomfortable as her desktop is a bit insensitive on her part, no matter how comfortable she is with her body and that it is her computer. If it was any other workplace, it could be considered harassment (think of a guy sharing pics of himself in briefs to a female client or coworker, it wouldn’t fly well). That being said, commenting about someone’s personal stuff online is also generally frowned upon, and it could be that she didn’t realize that he had to turn it on.
It isn’t that hard to change a desktop picture, so I tend to lean towards thinking that she could have been a little more respectful to the workers. It could even be possible that she was purposefully trying to flirt with that picture, which would be inappropriate. It could also be possible, like I said before, that she was completely oblivious at the moment and forgot or didn’t know that the computer would have to be turned on (though if you have a password, you are normally told to share it or turn it off when you send it in for repairs in the paperwork).
That all being said, it could be that the computer suddenly broke down and she didn’t have an opportunity to change it before sending it in to be fixed. I still might have sent an apology for the worker about it personally, but that’s just me.
It depends though. The lst three times I brought my laptop in for tech help it was for pretty severe startup issues. I wouldn’t have been able to change the desktop if I wantes too!
She may have had it on her personal desktop for herself then had to bring it in. Depending on her computer skill level she may not have known how too or even remembered.
I think this is very different then an intentionally sent message with erotica. It’s more like a repair person coming in to the house and seeing nude art on the wall, or an EMT responding to a person in disress and finding them in underwear. A person needed help and as part of the process the skilled helper saw something personal. A professional looks away from the irrelevant stuff and moves on. They probably have things on their computer/browser history that they wouldn’t want to be made fun off on the internet for. We all do.
I’m so confused as to this concept now that people can’t say a single word about someone’s attractiveness. It’s not like he went up to her and called her ugly. People talk about other people. It’s just a subject of conversation. There was no worth-determining here. You’re projecting really hard. Some people look good to us, some people don’t, aesthetics are a thing humans have cared about since we had eyes to see with.
I think folks might consider lightening up a bit on Too Old To Be Cool. I also did computer repair and work for awhile and have seen some pretty, ummm, interesting to say the least, photos– the type the owner might now have wanted to share. But, Too Old To Be Cool did NOT post any descriptors of the photo owner so jumping on him/her for violating the woman’s privacy for sharing the story is falsely depriving Too Old To Be Cool of HIS/HER voice. I, for one, could not ascertain the identity of the woman in the photo, or even where in the world the event took place, or when it took place. We all know that “she wasn’t pretty” is in the eye of the beholder so let’s not shame Too Old To Be Cool for saying that, either. In my opinion, Too Old To Be Cool was improperly assaulted by an image that should not have been where it was. In the worst incident I encountered at work, I would rather have seen the I person in the picture I saw wearing at least lingerie and definitely with an older person laying on the bed in the photo. I honestly don’t know if either person was pretty; I immediately started hyperventilating and called the police instead of my supervisor though it was a violation of workplace rules to do so. I still get worked up when I think of that horrible picture, but the local sheriff’s office had some matching bracelets waiting for the guy when he came to pick his package up. At least that particular little girl was rescued…
I’m so sorry you had to go through that. No one should. I feel you made the right call, you got someone off the streets who has no place being there.
I’m very sorry that you had to deal with that but also very glad that you got that person off the streets.
Calling the cops was the right thing to do. Possession of that material is a crime, and if there’d been any chance the supervisor wouldn’t have called the cops or would have told you to delete it…
Sympathies for having to deal with that. (But you made the right call, literally.)
Look what happened when someone looked at Hunter Biden’s laptop. Lots of personal information that the world now knows. Poor Tehk, feeling sorry for himself and not wanting to bond with someone in exactly the same circumstance.
“Look what happened when someone looked at Hunter Biden’s laptop. Lots of personal information that the world now knows.”
You know that was a Russian plant, right? Literally nothing about the story makes sense. Hunter was literally on the other side of the country when he supposedly handed it over.
Can we not? American politics has fuck all to do with this strip.
“You don’t know anything about it!” he says to the kid who grew up without parents or even an idea of what she was.
…is…is he trying to be emo? That’s cute. Also…*looks at tweet* Is this you doin a loss meme?
Something something 1 2 2 50 something.
Ouch. Poor Selkie. It is hard seeing what she feels about her own situation.
Was Tehk…aware, actually, that Selkie didn’t even know what a Sarnothi was and they figured out what she could eat via trial and error? I can’t remember how much the other kids have learned about her background.
Tehk may feel that way, but he assumed that Selkie and her Echo mentor would recognize what the thing was supposed to do, and would know that there was a potential privacy issue. Selkie and Pohl did not.
Even if you know that it displays something doesn’t mean that you would know that it could be a privacy issue. It could display something like the time, or school notes, etc. Also, it very well could be that it needed to be turned on to be sure that it was fixed. It might have been better for him to be there himself to check in privacy and give it back for more fixing right away if it was still broken, but I doubt anyone thought of that and there are non-disclosure issues to consider too.
As I recall Pohl mentioned the display was so small as though that was also an issue that potentially needed fixing. If so they genuinely WOULDN’T have been sure without turning it on.
Yeah, no one thought of that because Pohl just got ‘oh hey can you help me fix a classmate’s thing’ but Tehk being on hand for this probably would have been a good idea, logistical issues and all.
I mean, the computer repair analogy doesn’t really work. This is like getting a camera repaired and then being annoyed that the person who repaired it comments on the fact you apparently take pictures. Well duh.
Considering that just turning it on showed the picture, I think that it might be more equivalent to a digital frame. The problem is that I don’t know how easy it is with sarnothi tech to tell what something does without turning it on (hence why I think more are using a computer analogy since a desktop picture would be an unexpected occurrence, but a personalization of the tech). In any case, I don’t really think it matters what type of technology, whether camera, digital frame or computer, I think that it is typical to have to turn it on to make sure that it’s fixed. Even when I had a broken hinge on my laptop screen and sent it in to be fixed under warranty, I was still given paperwork saying that they would have to turn it on (needed the password, etc.).
Which makes sense, because replacing a broken hinge can result in a flatcable suddenly not connecting anymore because they didn’t secure it properly. So they need to check before and after the repair if it’s working as it was before the repairs.
Closer to asking someone to scrape the tarnish off the cover of a photo then getting upset at seeing the photo.
Meanwhile, Selkie lands one right in Tekh’s feels. Let’s see how that works.
I’m guessing his mother was “collateral damage” in the fight between Selkie’s parents.
Eh. As an (occasional) IT tech, I feel this is closer to said computer technician commenting on either your highly inappropriate-for-polite-conversation desktop background or your custom and even more outlandish startup jingle.
They weren’t trying to look, they weren’t peeking into anything, they got immediately confronted with it the moment the device turned on.
There is a difference. Selkie and Pohl literally didn’t have a choice; it turned itself on the moment they fixed it.
I get why Tehk is taking it poorly but he’s overreacting and needs to chill the ff out.