Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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Idiots I work withIn my last job, I was working away beside the bank of shared computers used by staff. Next to me was the training manager who was showing the recently-introduced learning directory to one of the commercial managers.
I overheard the training manager say: "Now, the only pages that apply to you are these ones here, but unfortunately we can't print just these ones out."
Now, the directory was a Word document with hyperlinks, so there was no reason whatsoever that it couldn't be printed. I felt I had to interrupt and help out.
It turned out that the only way the training manager knew how to print something was by clicking on the icon of a printer on the toolbar at the top of the screen, which as you know prints the entire document. I showed her how to go to file, print, and choose the page or pages she wanted by typing in the page numbers.
She gave me a pitying glance and said "But Flurble, the pages aren't numbered."
So, I showed her the bar at the bottom with "Page 6/87" on it. She was greatly impressed by this.
I was yet again staggered and depressed that someone earning over 4 times my salary could be so thick. She'd been printing out 87 pages each time, and binning the ones she didn't want. And in colour too!
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No apologies ever
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