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Jim is a 75 year old IT person with over 50 years of experience. Growing up with Doonesbury and then Dilbert, he followed xkcd, User Friendly, The Joy of Tech, Glasbergen and Bug Bash a decade ago. He began creating this strip in 2014 and started it up again in 2025. He welcomes interactions.
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by JimBT200
8-13-14
People sometimes confuse empathy and sympathy. You know, like "I feel for you because I have been in your shoes" or "I feel sorry for you because I can sense you are in pain".
It doesn't always seem significant but it's a very important part of our humanity.
So we decided to see how industries, businesses and individuals express both empathy and sympathy.
It was somewhat along lines you might expect with service people having more empathy and product people having some sympathy. The poll was fun.
Until we asked people in the IT Industry. No matter what they did nor what level they were, the opinions were the same.
They didn't care about the poll or the questions but they did help us set up some wicked pivot tables and a hosted dashboard.
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arbi says:

the thesis of "men are from mars women are from venus" is that when women talk about their problems they want to be listened to so they will feel better, but when men hear problems they tend to react by trying to fix the problem. so i try to ask people, do you want me to try to fix this, or do you just want me to listen to how you are feeling?
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