No More Free Tech Support

I spent twenty years doing IT for Cisco. After I retired, I spent seven years fixing my neighbors’ computers for free.

I never charged a single cent. I even paid out of my own pocket for replacement parts dozens of times.

But then, because I refused to recover her son’s hard drive data for free, the woman downstairs, Linda Miller, reported me to the Bureau of Consumer Affairs. She claimed I was running an unlicensed repair business.

I was fined three thousand dollars and ordered to cease and