I always appreciate when someone tries some basic steps to resolve their own issues with some tool before going to someone else, but it can be a little frustrating when a person develops a pattern of associating totally unrelated actions to a fix. Eg "I closed Notepad and suddenly Completely-Unrelated-Tool-X worked properly again!" - this then spreads as a tip throughout the rest of the team and all of a sudden you have dozens of people closing Notepad to try to resolve totally unrelated issues.
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I'm a Software Engineer and a teacher.
There's no feeling quite like the one you get when you watch someone's eyes light up learning something they didn't know.
I always appreciate when someone tries some basic steps to resolve their own issues with some tool before going to someone else, but it can be a little frustrating when a person develops a pattern of associating totally unrelated actions to a fix. Eg "I closed Notepad and suddenly Completely-Unrelated-Tool-X worked properly again!" - this then spreads as a tip throughout the rest of the team and all of a sudden you have dozens of people closing Notepad to try to resolve totally unrelated issues.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy a clàssic.
Oh, I have somebody who still does this when programming. Gets one error, sends all the files to me saying "this doesn't work".
"When I turn my monitor off, spin my chair, then turn it on again, the save button works properly"
Spinning your chair can fix a surprising number of problems...
Wheeeeeeee..... :D
LOOL indeed!