Why Do People Refuse To Help Themselves?

I have a real problem with people coming to me for help, but haven't done the least little bit of reasearch. One of my fellow bloggers (I am unknown to him I'm sure) has the same problem, but he's way nicer about it.

Don't be helpless: You can find information, too, if you try

I also direct you to my previous post

How To Stay Out of The Forums You N00bs!

I just encountered this in-person last week. A co-worker was terribly struggling with ASP.NET, and was asking me to basically build this whole page for him, because he did not understand how to use View State.

The very sad part was, he had a perfectly-good book on ASP.NET sitting on his fucking desk, apparently unread!

Rather than do the work for him, I spent some time acquainting him with his book, directing him to the relevant chapter. I also recommended additional reading, since he was going to be doing this quite a bit here at this job.

Needless to say, I asked to borrow the book over the weekend; I am still picking up good bits from it, as I am not an expert, but I know how to become one; do your fucking research...