Difficult Users

I hesitate to say that I hate my users at work.  Honestly, hate isn't the right word.  They cause me no end of frustration some times, and they constantly complain that everything is slow.  Granted, a lot of our equipment is ancient.  Often times, things are slow.

However, my problem is that they've all fallen into the Basic Computer User's practice of thinking everything is always slow.  Even when things are moving along at a good pace, the user still sees it as being slow.  They're frustrated, and understandably so.  Lodging complaints when they aren't warranted or just telling me how slow something is is generally as diagnostically relevant as saying metal is metallic.  There just isn't much useful information there, and it doesn't provide any insight into what may be causing it.

Oh well.  Perhaps that's just part of the job of being a network administrator:  One part geek, one part guy, and one part dartboard.  Ouch.