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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Never heard of it; *highly* applicable! I've often wondered, when I help people with their computers, how they can *possibly* write "computer literate" on their resumes, when they don't know how to find the desktop, or what a folder is. They only know the inside of MS Word. And they don't KNOW that. It drives me up the WALL.
Sigh.
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Oh, yeah. We get this ALL. THE. TIME. I've had clients tell me--the ones who I have to call, and walk through finding their downloaded files--that they are 'tech-savvy,' and that "this never happens to me when I deal with OTHER people!" (Talk about making you grind your teeth...). Of course, everyone ELSE just sends them Word files, that "download" (read: open) when they double-click it. They think that's downloading.
All I have to do is see a yahoomail, aol, or hotmail email address, and my blood pressure
literally starts to rise. Thank God I have low blood pressure, naturally.
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
On the subject of computer literate, when I worked at the college, a student needed a helper in Access. The first two helpers that were hired, the first one literally asked the professor how to turn on the computer and the second one asked how to find the program.
Needless to say the professor told the front office that she had to interview the next potential helper before approval.
The student wasn't too fond of the third helper but the professor loved the new one.
The student knew he would have to actually do the work to pass with the helper.
I know she asked the new potential helper if the helper knew access. The helper was honest and said not sure how well I know it but I made a card catalog.
The professor had seen the card catlog.
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GEEZE. Now, that's bad. Do we know what happened to the poor student, who among all the parties involved, was the one most shafted?
Hitch