Followed by listening to them complain about how they are struggling with money because of how much their cars are costing them. Meanwhile I can’t even afford to learn to drive and had to walk or cycle to work in the pissing rain again.
depends
are they trying to export a PDF from Microsoft Word? because Microsoft makes that difficult nowadays
Now combine this ordeal with getting them to properly sign the damn thing.
We just got a new employee at work. She is in her 60s and 100% computer illiterate. I had to give her training on how to use a mouse and how to click on bookmarks to open our shared sheets. She somehow deleted everything on one sheet the first day, but shes getting better. She doesn’t own any computers and her phone is some no name model from 12 years ago. Im kinda impressed shes made it this far.
That’s the youngest I’ve heard of someone like that. My grandpa was like that and in his 90s and I still thought he should get a computer for at least banking and stuff.
She must have been in her mid 40’s when the iPhone came out, that’s young enough to be interested and learn about the tech. She must have just actively ignored it or refused out of principle or something.
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Been under a team leader long time ago. She double clicked all web page links. It was the first time I have been silent while witnessing something so outrageous.
No word of a lie, I worked in a place where HR would print the company credit card statements, load the printed sheets back into the printer scanner, and email them to each employee individually from the copier.
I recently had a hard time explaining to a coworker that the “Increase number of decimals” button in Excel doesn’t work if you already exported to a CSV with only a decimal of precision. It worked on their end because they had the excel file, but I had the CSV. I managed to come up with a clever and innovative solution to the problem though; I gave up and worked on something else.
I managed to come up with a clever and innovative solution to the problem though; I gave up and worked on something else.
There ya go.
Yeah sucks when he’s the only guy giving you tasks and what else are you going to do?
Excel is pretty awful software.
10-15 years ago it was good, but it just isn’t anymore.
Considering it is being saved in another format, I’d hardly consider this an excel problem.
CSV has existed since before personal computers, much less Microsoft office.
That’s actually pretty terrible. Can you load the csv and then save it again as an xls? Once it’s loaded, why does it care what the source format was?
As soon as you convert from an .XLS file to a .CSV file, the data and sig figs used to display that data are saved while the math formulas used to calculate that data are erased.
This means that when you try to go from .CSV to .XLS, Excel doesn’t know the original formula that created the data to then be able to display more decimal points. The formula is absolutely necessary to change sig figs of displayed data.
The only other way I can think of that would allow one to change sig figs in .CSV data is if the .XLS file was converted with like the maximum number of sig figs displayed, or let’s say 10-20. Then in a .CSV, you can modify the sig figs to something less, like 0-20.
But I want to say that if you save that .CSV file after the sig fig change, where you original converted it with 10-20 sig figs but then changed them to 0-20, the .CSV overwrites the data and you lose the sig figs that you concatenated.
Result: adding decimal points in a .CSV isn’t possible.
the original doc has the math, the csv only has the pre-calculated numbers
you cant recover lost data by just resaving in another format lol
I think you misunderstood the problem.
Is the problem that someone else is wrong and we want to relish in the agony of dealing with it?
I have a colleague making close to twice my salary struggling with IT…but he’s extremely skilled at his actual job.
I overheard someone considerably high up in my organization struggling to understand the concept of an email BCC (Blind Carbon Copy).
He was trying to figure out how to notify a large number of people via email without letting them know who else was receiving the email.
Some things may fall under IT but they should really fall under the category of things every professional should understand.
But like… saving a PDF should not be considered IT lol
The fuck else is it? Did you come out your momma’s vajayjay being able to save a pdf?
Lol, it’s just computer literacy. Most jobs require using the computer, saving a file required for the job is part of that job.
Computer literacy is exactly what is taught in IT lessons, just like regular literacy is taught in school as well.
Yeah my bet is that the meme is facetious
Yup. The key is are they paid to save pdfs? Or are they paid to do other things?
I can save the shit out of some PDFs, but I’ve only ever made one sale in my entire life.
Me watching someone who makes three times my salary use Excel for graphic design.
And you probably don’t know how long chicken Mcnuggets need to cook in the fryer.
You would be right, I can’t afford ultra processed foods. Root veg and grains for me with legumes if I am feeling fancy. Although I do have rosemary now because I pirated the plant.
tell it to me at the first day and i will. the thing is if you work with pdf you better know how to use pdf format. your competence should be part of the reason why you earn more. if your boss works with a computer for more than a year and still struggles it’s not a sign of “i don’t need to know that”, but idgaf. these people never needed to climb a ladder hence they don’t know shit about the environment in which they work and slow everybody else down.
If someone needs to save pdfs on a regular basis, they remember how to do it. If not, they don’t.
By the way, isn’t it something weird where instead of using Save As, you have to go to Print, and then save as a pdf from there? Who the fuck cares
You can’t be serious. I show people how to do their basic job functions every day and as soon as I’m out of eye contact that information falls right out of their heads. Sometimes it happens while I’m still standing there.
also gaining information should be the bare minimum - don’t know how to save as pdf? use a search engine or even an ai, if nothing works.
it feels exhausting to explain an easy task three times that could have been two lines, because they don’t want to know it - they take want the money but prey on your competence.
I will be shocked if there isnt a button with a picture of nuggets on it.
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Sable went up to the counter.
“Hello-my-name-is-Marie,” said the girl behind the counter. “How-can-I-help-you?”
“A double blaster thunder biggun, extra fries, hold the mustard,” he said.
“Anything-to-drink?”
“A special thick whippy chocobanana shake.”
She pressed the little pictogram squares on her till. (Literacy was no longer a requirement for employment in these restaurants. Smiling was.)
I’m willing to bet the teach that day one and even have a single function button just for nuggets
Are you saying you don’t know for sure? How much do you make? It better not be more than minimum wage
You must take me for a fool if you think I’m making more than min. I went into the hiring office and demanded to work for free!
