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In a week where it emerges that the new Health Secretary is a fan of the hocus-pocus that is homeopathy, tell us about people who are spectacularly out of their depth in a job. Have you ever found yourself wallowing in your own incompetence? Tell us. (Note: "Name of football manager/politician - nuff said" does not constitute an answer)

(, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 12:48)
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True enough.
But they're definitely starting from a disadvantaged position if they're not even sure what a spreadsheet is as they've never used a computer before...

EDIT: Sorry, just noticed you said "Limited IT experience". Yep, absolutely. I was talking about people with no IT experience though.
(, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 15:42, 1 reply)
apart from maybe some of the old ladies of the WRVS there are painfully few NHS employees who have NEVER used a computer.

(, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 9:38, closed)
You've clearly never worked at the same trusts I did, AB
I started a training session once with a chap from the post room who had been told he could use the internal email system to find out where people worked when envelopes hadn't been addressed properly.

After going through the basics of logging in and loading the email program, he interrupted me and said "Sorry, but can we go right back to the start please? How do you actually turn the computer itself on?"

People with that level of IT knowledge were a regular occurrence. I had another woman come for training who told me afterwards she'd been so worried about using a computer (in case she broke it and shut the whole hospital down) that she'd been up all the previous night, unable to sleep.
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