INTPs: How much do you like a BIG PRODUCTION?

[Nibbler]

Is it EXCITING to you when simple tasks turn into a Leo Tolstoy epic?
Examples:

Big Production 1.

You: Let's go for ice cream.
(you envision jumping in the car and going)

Them: Sounds great! First, I'm going to call Peter and Laura and see if they want some... Oh, and do you know the parking situation over there? Maybe we should call ahead to find out... What time do they close? Let's call back... Oh! Let's pack our own nuts, I prefer our own nuts... I'd better call Sean...

Big Production 2.

You email: Help desk, I got a new laptop. Here's my MAC address.
(To regain access to wifi at work)

Help Desk email: Hi, just select the wireless icon, select the XYZ Network, and you should be set!

You again: You'll need my MAC address.

Help Desk: bla bla bla
You again: bla bla bla <-- clinging on for dear life to stick with this task
Help Desk: bla bla bla
You again: bla bla bla <-- white knuckling it on a "dead" issue
Help Desk: bla bla bla

(TWO DAYS LATER)

You again: bla bla bla <-- ("Remember Mentor's patience-for-others advice.")
Help Desk: Ok, sounds great. What's your MAC address?
You again: It's at the top of this email thread. <-- ("Patience!")

(NEXT MORNING)

Help Desk: Ok, you're in!

You privately: HULK SMASH!

Or is it just me?

If not, please share your Big Production horror stories...

 

[Seteleechete]

Every time I encounter a computer problem... I honestly consider tech-support as one of the top jobs I want to work at.

(I bought an expensive laptop for the first time and I am disappointed it comes only with minor issues...)

 

[Nibbler]

Every time I encounter a computer problem... I honestly consider tech-support as one of the top jobs I want to work at.

(I bought an expensive laptop for the first time and I am disappointed it comes only with minor issues...)

Oh, yes. What I mean is the simple task that leads to the better things.

Me: "Let's walk down the hall to get to the exciting computer problem."

Them: "Ok. First we have to put in the paperwork to get permission to walk down the hall to get to the exciting computer problem..."

That's what I mean. I mean: "Please put the MAC address in so that I can use the computer to do all the exciting problem-solving without you holding me up."

 

[The Gopher]

I don't care if it's a big or small production just get it done properly. The first big production is fine it's expanding to be better the second one is just pathetic.

 

[Seteleechete]

Every problem I encounter seems simple at first... sometimes they are(in my new comp) other times they aren't (my old one). I am far more optimistic than pessimistic when it comes to problems. Either it will be easy to solve, or it will be fun to solve.

 

[Yellow]

I hate big productions, but I've learned to handle them. I supervise case managers, which means I first had to learn the job, so I could structure my expectations and train them. I'm short staffed right now, so I have to help out a bit between my own clients. Last week, I had to hook an old, mentally disabled homeless man up with residential care. He had SSI and Medicaid. It shouldn't have been that hard. After talking to the man to figure out what he wanted, it should have been one form, one doctor's signature, and a 10 minute phone conversation. Instead, it was a 5 hour ordeal over 3 days (and don't forget follow-up!). It's just such an xxFJ job anyway, and it's made a million times worse when it gets unnecessarily complicated by bullshit.

I really WOULD rather read Tolstoy, and he's my least favorite classic Russian author.

 

[Jennywocky]

As far as the ice cream trip: *facepalm*
Been there.
Done that.

translation: Small impromptu fun-sounding excursion becomes a Cecil DeMille cast of thousands epic. dear lord, execute me now....



As far as tech support stories of horror go: Don't get me started.

When I realize I know far more than the tech support person and they're not even understanding that I'm far beyond the piddly first-step things they're suggesting I try, I see red. Excuse me, but do you have anyone there who knows something about computers and isn't just reading off a card?

I also have been through the data provider discussions where some pricing/service questions becoming a twenty-minute pitch where they kept trying to sell me more expensive packages I've already said numerous times I did not want, and where I basically had to break the connection in order to get away. (It taught me to be more emphatic and less "polite" in the conversation.)

 

[rainman312]

On a very different, non-computer-problem related note, I used to do this a lot when I was a little kid and expecting packages. For example, one time I ordered a cap gun, and made up an entire narrative about how it was a railgun that I was going to destroy some evil empire with, if only the construction of it would be completed on time. The construction being completed, of course, was UPS delivering my package. I probably did this because I was (and still am) incredibly impatient, and I really wanted to spice up the boring process of waiting for my packages. I also used to do this on standardized tests, pretending I was a rebel codebreaker and the bubble sheet was a complex enemy code that I had to break.

 

[Architect]

Sounds like most of my life. Upbringing, ESTJ family. HS Friends, ES. Workplace, IST. Too many horror stories to relate. I'm at the point where I simply don't mingle with S types, except what is necessary. I've done my time.

And by mingling I mean that I just don't give it any energy, I don't care anymore. Kind of like the old whore who is just tired of walking up the stairs to the boudoir because her feet are sore, I don't put out anymore. When ES's congregate, I don't.

 

[DrSketchpad]

I dislike anything requiring more energy from me than what is necessary I think. I guess it's nice for other people who enjoy it in social situations, I just wish I didn't get dragged around in such situations (unless it's an ESFP, in which case it's usually worth while (although I only know one (I hope that still counts (I love twisting English to my own benefit))).

ExFx: Woo, we're all here let's go do something else that'll increase the social energy, and let's also do it in the least efficient and most convoluted fashion imaginable while cackling!!

Me (secretly): How about no plz thnk u. I'll just follow behind and try to work out the dissonance of loving warmth and humanity but hating the company of actual warmth and humans.

Whatever, I have alone time right now, but I'm wasting it by re watching Futurama and rolling around INTPf. I'll go be "productive" now

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Every time I encounter a computer problem... I honestly consider tech-support as one of the top jobs I want to work at.

You may not realise what tech-support really is.
It's talking to idiots about idiotic problems 95% of the time.

 

[Seteleechete]

well, the amount of top jobs I consider is 1. Writer 2. IT-related field 3. Tech support... those 5% still beat most other jobs. Also tech support is the least stressful and demanding of them.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

well, the amount of top jobs I consider is 1. Writer 2. IT-related field 3. Tech support... those 5% still beat most other jobs. Also tech support is the least stressful and demanding of them.

Low pay (relative to your needs), hopefully low stress and responsibility (not guaranteed).
Sure, tech support geeks/nerds are fun people, maybe not getting the most out of what they know.

 

[strangeduck]

I hate big productions.....I am the only introvert in my family so big productions often plague me. Going anywhere is a production~ staying home can be a production...I keep repeating "goosfraba, goosfraba" from Anger Management with my inside voice to maintain control in these situations. Probably the most frequently used word in my vocabulary


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