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This feels like how we should be living (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do what I do. Tell them to hold on while I look it up. Put the phone down for 10 mins. Then after 10 minutes tell them the answer. Make it longer and longer until they bug someone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or hold his hand through looking at the reference material. The first time, be very nice about it, being sure to conceal any impatience. As time goes on, hint more and more that he should know how to RTFM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That never works. This kind of person doesn't look it up because calling you is less work for them, not because they couldn't look it up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hence the need for slipping in a passive aggressive reminder here and there that they are perfectly capable of looking this up. The art of being just a little bit of an asshole.