Computer illiteracy.

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I dont expect people who dont care about computers to really be familiar with them.
I particularly dont expect people who dont use a computer to be familiar with one.

What I do expect is that if your day to day life or work involves a computer, then you damn well better figure it out.

Whats worse is that with a lot of people, it has gone from "I have no idea but I am trying to learn" to being proud of their ignorance and refusal to ever learn.


If I became a plumber, I couldn't get away with bragging about how I know nothing about plumbing and think its a waste of time. Why is it okay when it comes to computers in a workplace ?

I work with tech support too!

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Ohh man!  Poor Runequester.  He forgot to turn [rant off].
He's gonna have a crap day.

Ignorance is less stress, because its always something/someone else's fault. How could I be to blame.?
Just let out the standard; "Hmmm seems to be working fine now, show me how you did that again."
"Arr yes, I see.  We call that an ID Ten T Error in I.T. "
Written "ID10T"

Error 40: Located 40 centimetres from the screen. :lol:

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I've often felt the same towards the tech support monkeys at various places I've worked.... "You can't code, this makes you no better than the users you despise so much. Now shut the feck up Mr Point'n'Click admin!"

Don't get me started on those "programmers" who are scared of curly braces......

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So I take it you're one of those old stooges who brag about programming mainframes with punchcards back in the 60's, but who still can't figure out how to update his Java VM, and keeps yelling that I need to talk slower?

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Nope, there is nothing tech support monkeys can do for me that I can't do for myself.

If only the customers I support had the ability to generate RMA numbers!

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They were still doing things that way when I worked for Farranti at the start of the 80s and these were mainframes being sold to the British Ministry Of Defence... :eek:

Yelling and telling people to talk slower?

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Yeah, that's what you get for working with punch cards. Some of those machines are incredibly noisy!

I'm happy I've never been working with anything that didn't at least have some kind of magnetic storage.