What you do if you don\’t want to?
It happen to me few times that people whom I helped in the past start calling me after long time passed and asking to do some work for them. They do it the way that I start feeling like I have no choice and that it is a kind of my duty to help them again. On the other hand, there are many reasons why sometimes I do not want to come back to some people and do any kind of job for them.
So the question is what you do in such cases, because if I reject to help, I will feel somehow a bit uncomfortable and by my nature I hate rejecting to help, on the other hand, I am totally not in the mood doing any kind of job with some people even again :(
It\’s like to help or not to help :)
P.S.: please do not the case above to be global. It rarely happens that I am not willing to help someone ;-) Otherwise I would just right here something like \”Do not even bother to ask me\” ;)
Just tell them that you can’t because you don’t do this sort of things nomore. It happens to me all the time. People ask me for help with their Windows boxes. I just say that I don’t do it anymore. Guess what – five years later, some of them are still asking, but I really don’t do anymore Windows. :)
yup, that’s cool, but they still ask and I really hate refusing (but I have to, or this will be forever) and they still ask – how can I explain it :(((
And even worse, sometimes they tell you like “You used to help us all the time before and it was cool and we can’t without you now :(!”
sometimes I am really in the mood to tell them “this is not my f*cken business anymore!” but I really can’t :)
Tell them that a lot of time has passed, and since you’ve been working with something else, you totally forgot everything that they need help with. ;)