Helped my dad write and email yesterday to send to a friend. I asked him what her email address was and was told <her full name>@hotmail.com. After getting an undelivered notice and trying different combinations of upper and lower case versions of her name he says he's got a piece of paper with the address on. Brilliant! The address is <her full name + a six digit random number>@gmail.com.
My father is the same, he is a person people call when they need help. My husband is the same. The only ones I have to deal with is my in-laws. They are completely hopeless. My grandfather in-law has trouble seeing the icons so I made them larger. So the next day he accused me of braking his mouse. Saying the icons are making the mouse unable to move. (0.o) (o.0) Turned out the mouse (which was cordless) needed new batteries. That was all.
My grandad periodically sets all of his fonts in office to superscript. I've told him how to get out of it at least 6 times, and he still rings me and insists I come over to sort it out for him. The last time I was over I asked him why he kept setting it to superscript.
"Because it's supposed to be better than the normal one."
Oh my god, the stupid, it burns.
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Social & personal use at home and you are hopelessly stupid, fine. You are just woefully behind and need to be educated.
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However in a professional business setting and you are this ignorant... I'm sorry, you need to be fired. When business depends so much on computers and you can't use or understand them, you don't deserve that job.
Fire them and give it to someone more qualified and more deserving.
Well it made me angry because I've lived some of these. I work with dinosaurs who assume I know everything about technology and computers because I'm half their age.
I would look right back at them and say "Well I assume that you know everything about computers because, well... your fucking job actually depends on it."
The most maddening situation is when you are tech-savvy but other peolple assume you know EVERYTHING about electronics. For example, in my school there is this teacher who at least tries to solve her problems, but when she can't, she gets somebody to call me, because I solved a printer problem she had 3 years ago, most of her problems have to do with Microsoft Office and should be easy to solve, but I know nothing of Office since I use Libreoffice. And even though I've told her that I don't know, she keeps calling me because, "You should know since you know about those things"
I get incredibly pissed off when my parents ask again and again the same computer related questions, then I realise there is no reason they should know. And when I was young I would always ask them stupid questions that were bound to piss them off yet they remained patient and I should return the favour!
You know what grinds my drives?
When people bitch about being blamed by their ignorant relatives on the internet.
Next time, confront them about it and tell them that you'll never touch their computer again. Jesus, what a mewling bunch of quims some people can be.
"Because it's supposed to be better than the normal one."
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Social & personal use at home and you are hopelessly stupid, fine. You are just woefully behind and need to be educated.
.
However in a professional business setting and you are this ignorant... I'm sorry, you need to be fired. When business depends so much on computers and you can't use or understand them, you don't deserve that job.
Fire them and give it to someone more qualified and more deserving.
Mom: *clicks every single download button and link possible on the screen.*
When people bitch about being blamed by their ignorant relatives on the internet.
Next time, confront them about it and tell them that you'll never touch their computer again. Jesus, what a mewling bunch of quims some people can be.