10 Ways you can tell an IT worker is *NOT* up to the job:
- You ask them to burn a DVD and they literally set fire to it.
- You send them to the shop to buy a dozen new mice and they come back with hamsters because they were cuter.
- You ask them to clean up their cluttered screen and they reach for a can of Spray N Wipe.
- Looking admiringly at their new computer, you ask them how much memory did they get, and they reply "I can remember back to when I was 3 years old !"
- You ask them if the database they are meant to be working on is in 3rd Normal Form, and they reply "It should be, it was fine yesterday !"
- You ask them how many bits in a byte, and they ask "Are we talking dogs or rats ?"
- You ask them to backup the office computers, and they reverse their car up.
- You ask them to virus scan the office computers, and next thing you know, they have latex gloves and a microscope.
- You ask their opinion about which language would be the most suitable for developing the new accounting system, and they reply "English ... probably ... umm ..."
- You ask them to point at something on screen with the mouse and they physically lift the mouse off the desk and hold it against the part of the screen you indicated.