Relatives Memes

The duality of every programmer when family asks for tech support. First panel: confident, top-hat wearing gentleman pondering a printer issue like it's beneath his intellectual capacity. Second panel: same gentleman gleefully announcing "NOT A CLUE!" with the enthusiasm of someone escaping a trap. Third panel: the crushing realization that he's now obligated to try anyway because he's "the computer person." Being able to build microservices architecture doesn't mean I know why your printer is making that weird grinding noise. It's like asking a neurosurgeon to fix your kitchen sink because "you're a doctor, right?"

The moment you mention you "work with computers," your entire extended family suddenly transforms into a horde of technological zombies with broken printers and forgotten passwords. It's like being the only doctor at a hypochondriac convention, except instead of asking if that mole looks cancerous, it's "Why is my Facebook doing that thing?" What thing? THE thing. You know. THAT thing. And they all expect immediate tech support during Thanksgiving dinner while your turkey gets cold and your will to live evaporates faster than RAM in a Chrome tab.

The dreaded family gathering where your entire coding career is reduced to "can you fix my printer?" The meme brilliantly mashes up Among Us with the universal software engineer experience - suddenly you're not the person who builds complex systems, you're just the designated tech support. It's like getting a PhD in neurosurgery only to have your family exclusively ask you about their headaches. The transformation from "software engineer" to "laptop repairman" happens faster than a production server crashes after you push untested code on Friday afternoon.

The ultimate self-preservation tactic. When a relative discovers you're "good with computers," you're suddenly the designated IT department for every printer jam and Facebook password reset until the end of time. Saying "no" despite having a CS degree is like having a panic button for family gatherings. It's not lying, it's strategic incompetence - the only firewall that actually works against tech support requests.