Aye, pretty much a miserable cunt.
Yes, cow-orker is a pun - as popularised by Scott Adams. Which will give you a bit of an idea of the mouth-breathing buffoons with which I work.

While I'm on, I'll add the computer clueless in an office environment. Once a week on average, I'll be approached by some apologetic git who comes out with 'I closed my work but didn't save it, can it be recovered', or 'I downloaded this file but don't know where I put it'.

Now I'll appreciate that not everyone wants to eat, sleep and breathe computers (although I won't say they're NOT weirdos), but this is a deeper malaise. This is people who are being wilfully and deliberately ignorant.

But let's put this into perspective. In our office we hire people to work on computers for a good 50% of their working day, maybe 75% even. Day in, day out. And surely it's not unreasonable to expect that people are not actively trying to unlearn any computer-related fact that manages to seep into their consciousness?

If you had the same low barriers to entry for office work in every other profession (including those where being maimed is an occupational hazard) we'd rid ourselves of the stupid sector of the population within months.

Who's with me?
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Sat 3 May 2008, 11:21, Reply)