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Then you gotta help them, you go take a bottle of water and they already forgot ya, when they are done (after you helped them again) they will return to treat ya like someone useless cuz to them you are “the useless keyboard jockey”
Or they’re embarrassed and appreciative, because the old old (but still critical) Cobol guy is doing it for the first time, and you become friends.
I’ve got a guy like this now. I’m sure he does what he does perfectly fine, but I watched him struggle to identify a very obvious bug he pushed to production which disabled an entire function. It’s a little different now when I see him being snarky with other team members…
My first job out of uni was developing an internal system for a company.
On a certain day, I was the first of my team to arrive. Before I could even get to my desk, a distressed colleague stopped me.
“Hey, can you help me? The system is broken! The tables are cutting off and everything is in the wrong place.” he says.
We go to his desk and he shows me the problem. I grab the mouse and click the Windows maximize button.
“Oh! Thanks, it’s fixed.”
That guy worked there for decades and earned over five times more than me.
Some people genuinely do not understand the concept of GUI windows and how they work. They do not generate a full mental model of the desktop and the windows on it and only see the whole screen as one bewildering interface. They focus on what they do know in order to get by.
This may be especially true of people who learned their IT with small screens or low resolutions where running an application full screen (or as the only active application!) is required to get anything done.
Your colleague saw you click on part of the interface they were ignoring because they didn’t understand it and magic happened.
Fastest way to save a PDF in windows is to tell it you want to print it.
“Can we get an AI tool to save pdfs?”
Only if it can also be a microservice.
Many people struggle to save some pdfs lately.
I watched someone print his screen by putting his monitor on the photocopier.
Most devs refuse to take on any sort of responsibility of management. The manager gets paid to deal with that for you. Want more money? Manage coders on a successful team. You’ll e miserable but at least you’ll hit 200k.
Lol, just received a quote as a ppt.
Struggle to paste the path to a file. Seriously.
My boss didn’t know how to use my ergonomic mouse, and needed me to walk them through how to sign their signature on a PDF.
My boss didn’t know how to use my ergonomic mouse
I use a logitech M575 trackball, people have tried to scoot it like a mouse and yanked their hand away from it as if it burned them.
