Would this bother you?

[critter crazy]

If you bring someone into the house to work on your internet, you have to ASSUME he's going to check to see if it's working. To not assume he will check websites to make sure stuff work, is just sily. That's why he's there, of course he'll check. Why would he need to tell you he has to check it? That's part of his job. Most people wouldn't leave someone alone in a room to work on the computer and the guy isn't just going to wander through your house to find you if you don't stay there, to tell you he need to check the internet...that's worse than accessing the internet from your computer. Goolge and things like that are often cached and are not a true test of the internet wroking. Google pulls up on my machine even when the internet is down. He probably typed in sites he knew would test it, and if he was truly worried about the sites he looked up he probably would have cleared the history. I am not going to assume he did something wrong just because...I know lots of people who work on that sort of stuff and they DO type in sites they know will test things to make sure everything is working properly.

Well I have to say that last week I had the cable/Internet Reapirman out Because our cable Fried due to a lightning strike. He was here for at least an hour, and during that time he informed me of everything he was doing. He asked if he could look in my closet(where the cable comes into the house). He also informed me that he needed me to get on the computer to verify if it was working. I had the computer on and no password required, so he could have gone on himself, but he called me downstairs to do it. I have never in my years of having Internet Service ever had a repairman go onto my computer without at least telling me. That is why I would have been bothered! Just voicing my opinion and that is why we have these polls! So people can voice their opinions and not be chastised for it!

[catnapper]

Ok, I missed one piece of info -- he asked me to check it. I DID. I went to sites I KNOW are hard to load. I promnounced it to be in working order.

It was an hour later that this surfing episode happened. AN HOUR LATER! It was AFTER the internet was all set up, AFTER I deemed it working, WHILE he was fussing around doing god knows what that he surfed the web. AFTER he did his job and we were all wondering what on earth the dude was doing. We were honestly cursing him, and I constantly left the livingroom to see what he was doing, but every time I walked in to my office, he was talking into his headset as if he was talking to tech support.

PS: One website he viewed had to do about a teacher being fired after kids saw him having sex. It could have been a link he tried.... but why press on THAT link? It made me feel weird and violated.

[Vela]

Well that's kind of an important piece of information you left out. Yes I probably would have wondered why he was still there, and was he was donig, and would have stayed in the room to find out if he was still messing around with my computer an hour after it was supposed to be working, but you didn't tell us that. The poll was "would I be bothered if someone was checking websites on my comptuer if they were there to fix my internet", so I answered no. Would I be bothered if someone was still there an hour later messing around on my computer? Yes I probably would but I wouldn't leave them alone and I'd ask and find out why they were still there. If they had a reasonable explanation then no it wouldn't bother me, but I'd be REALLY wary of leaving somone alone with my computer for that length of time after it was supposedly working.