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Originally Posted by gmw
One way or another I've been doing computer support work for most of my working life. I started off helping bank branch staff with their terminals and printers (back before PCs were allowed anywhere near the banks). They'd think you were miraculous for knowing when x happened you just had to press y - in once case "y" was bending a little lever inside the printer. When you do it every day, it's obvious. When you do it once a year with very limited interest or background as to why you're doing what you're doing, who's going to remember?
So, no, the stories don't surprise me. I'm more surprised that people expect any different. Almost every day I find myself wondering how people manage to survive their computing experiences because I see myself doing stuff that I only know because I've been at it for so long.
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I just spent an hour, with a steely-eyed missile man options trader (mind you) who reportedly spent a few
HOURS yesterday, frustrated, because apparently, the
PROTECTED VIEW warning, in Word, about having to "click here" to edit a file in Word that you "downloaded from the Internet" was
invisible to him.
I mean...it's one thing to not know something. It's another to not know something that I or we think is "widely known" and lo, it's not. But it's another to STARE at a goddamn prompt and IGNORE IT.
As in the attached. I mean, REALLY? You can't see that,
even AFTER I've sent you this image??????
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Originally Posted by VydorScope
On that topic, I just watched a man-on-the-street interview show and they asked this random guy why he should change the air filter in his car, he said: "Because cars can get viruses just like your computer."
I would not be really sure how to respond to that. LOL
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I laughed, because I assumed it was a joke. Moses on a pony, I certainly hope it was.
Hitch