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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle
True, but they did know their tools. Now they have to re-learn them and fight against learned behavior.
A western saw cuts on the push stroke, and has a handle perpendicular to the blade. A Dozuki cuts on the pull stroke, has a much thinner blade and a handle parallel the the blade. Both do the same job, but you've changed the interface. Do that abruptly and now the person not only has to learn the again, but also fight against ingrained behavior.
(And no, don't ask me how many dozukis I've bent. Suffice to say it was too many, and I'm not even a carpenter...  ) |
I agree 100% with this.
Most people who use Excel, for example, are just doing very basic tasks that often aren't even really spreadsheets at all. Excel just serves as the easiest way to organize the data they are working with. I use it on an almost daily basis for quotes and general documentation. That doesn't mean I need to be an expert on it to use it efficiently for my purposes.
And what some people forget is that new isn't always better. It's often different just for the sake of being different. There are a lot of aspects of Windows 7, let alone Windows 8, that are like that. Microsoft's ribbon interface is another example that I absolutely loathed because it didn't offer me any advantage in what I do and seems to clutter what used to be a simple menu system.
I'm in IT as well but that doesn't mean I'm an expert in everything related. I'm an expert in a specific area of a specific field. I embrace change. it's absolutely necessary. But what was once fun and interesting when I was young has often become a hinderence in getting things accomplished now that I'm older. Training time means less time doing.
Now, that said, I certainly have plenty of examples of supporting people who don't know how to do their job and could go on for days talking about it. But I also have idiotic moments now and then, just like everybody else in the world.