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[–] White_Raven 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

I find it depressingly pathetic that there are that many people who don't realize that things need energy to god damn work.

I mean, what the fuck are you expecting? You buy a device and it reads your mind, springs to life, and you start using it? What doesn't plug in? Almost fucking everything either plugs in or uses gasoline for fucks fucking sake! AND WE HAVE PEOPLE WE ALLOW TO HELP PICK THE PRESIDENT RUNNING AROUND NOT KNOWING THIS. I don't understand how, even if you skipped 13 years of normal school, how just being alive doesn't teach you this. It's as if aliens showed up and their ships were made of jello and they burned titanium for fuel - makes no fuckin sense.

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[–] septopus ago 

Things like these are when I hold a very arrogant belief that there are those asleep in plato's cave and those who are not. I'm better than the cattle because I can identify a fricken 110 plug! YAY! King of the mountain... fuck... the mountain is made of shit. This of course is unfair... still I am prone to feel superior to others... I mean they believe in god(s) and shit.

There was an assistant to some head honcho at GE I remember... Pretty woman. I think she was a cheer leader for the cavs before she switched careers. Her printer wouldnt print. It was plugged into a power strip. I asked if the power strip was plugged in and she said yes. I asked if the light was on, she said no. I asked her to try a different outlet. She did, same... In the course of shit she unplugged her computer, losing her unsaved work... You have guessed it I am sure. Power strip was plugged in to itself. I was a hero because I found her work in a temp file (MS office shit...)

The worse is people in a field who dont know basic shit... You are in voice and data and dont know how to make a loopback plug? Get into the oven.

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[–] GumbyTM 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

It used to annoy me that step 1 on any procedure was 'is it plugged in' because I thought there couldn't be that many people that stupid.

Sigh, those were the days.

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[–] the_spectre 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

I did the same shit, but made $15/hr. Lucky bastard.

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[–] Donbuster ago 

I STILL do the same thing, for $12 an hour... At least I get a 401k...

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_BOOBS2 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I mean it keeps all us tech people employed so at least it's not without some upside, it's incredibly depressing to think about but that's why we have alcohol.

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[–] Gravspeed 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

We got a call a few years ago from a client who stated that their computer simply would not turn on. So we asked her if it was plugged in, she says it's hard to tell the powers out so it's dark in here

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_BOOBS2 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I'm so sorry that one would have pushed me over the edge.

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[–] Gravspeed ago 

Facepalm so hard... I really thought I was being trolled.

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[–] deltasly 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Personally, I believe that if your job that you are being paid money to perform involves a computer, then it is your goddamn job to learn the basics (the very fucking basics even) of how your tool that is required for you to do your job works.

Fucking UPS drivers, I'd hope, need to know how to use a truck...probably change a tire as well; you* should know how to read & record an error message, then apply logic to said messsge (and make sure the fucking thing is plugged in - for our analogy that would be ensure the gas tank is not empty).

*You: the people I am referencing, not necessarily you: the people reading this.

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[–] 3630645? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The day they became ubiquitous is the day everyone stopped thinking of them as tools.

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[–] deltasly 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I'd prefer we view them in the same way that we view reading and writing. Perhaps a group or movement to improve what is taught in schools (is it still pretty much just 6 weeks of Mavis Beacon and a quick 'how to print' or has that improved?) - we could petition tech companies to build and/or sponsor courses. It's win-win, they get a tax write off and we (maybe) get better peers.

Though honestly the tools are all there and free; someone too dumb, scared, or lazy to teach themself isn't likely the type that can be taught, no matter the effort or true want and care of the teacher. I train people in a tech-related field...it's goddamn depressing.

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[–] 1moar 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

jobsecurity

But to be fair, I hate idiots.

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[–] thrus ago 

I have always considered that if you were to attack a military base do not engage the help desk area just lock them in there and leave them be, out of everyone on the base they want to shoot someone more then any other.

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[–] thrus ago  (edited ago)

If an adult dose not understand a tool they rely on it is not my job to train them it is their job to ask for help from their manager about a role of their job they don't understand. It would be my job to point out to HR/their manager that they do not know how to use a computer after that if falls to HR/manager to decide if they lied in the hiring process and deal with it.

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[–] Viropher 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Friends internet wasnt working. Wifi was up,could connect to it,but the only computer that had internet was the one wired to the router. I run ipconfig and get back garbage Id never seen before. I then notice the router was moved since my last visit. The modem cable was plugged into a LAN port rather than the dedicated port. Switched the cable to thr correct port and suddenly it all works!