jim Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 New guy at work, mid forties, was talking to someone on our online chat. They had asked about ordering some products and how to find them. I told him to copy and paste the links into the chat. A few minutes went by and he was just staring at his computer, completely lost. I asked if he was OK, he hadn’t got a clue how to copy a link and paste it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 1 minute ago, jim said: New guy at work, mid forties, was talking to someone on our online chat. They had asked about ordering some products and how to find them. I told him to copy and paste the links into the chat. A few minutes went by and he was just staring at his computer, completely lost. I asked if he was OK, he hadn’t got a clue how to copy a link and paste it I did a fair bit of IT training in my Uni job, mainly to do with using specific packages, but also some basic PC usage. Some of the fastest learners were the Asian cleaning ladies (many of whom wouldn't have wanted their husbands to know that they were getting access to so much information on the internet). The slowest? Often the middle aged white male academics on the humanities side. One guy (who probably had a PhD) I had to treat like a five year old. Mouse? Window? Folder? File? Open? Close? Copy? Paste? Not. A. Clue. This was in about 2010. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 1 minute ago, mjmooney said: I did a fair bit of IT training in my Uni job, mainly to do with using specific packages, but also some basic PC usage. Some of the fastest learners were the Asian cleaning ladies (many of whom wouldn't have wanted their husbands to know that they were getting access to so much information on the internet). The slowest? Often the middle aged white male academics on the humanities side. One guy (who probably had a PhD) I had to treat like a five year old. Mouse? Window? Folder? File? Open? Close? Copy? Paste? Not. A. Clue. This was in about 2010. My old astrophysics tutor (who was by far the cleverest person I ever met and was involved in the first British rocket programme amongst other huge achievements) could only type using one finger and I'm pretty sure didn't really know what to do with a mouse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted August 14 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted August 14 1 minute ago, Lichfield Dean said: My old astrophysics tutor (who was by far the cleverest person I ever met and was involved in the first British rocket programme amongst other huge achievements) could only type using one finger and I'm pretty sure didn't really know what to do with a mouse. Oh, and another one: I was running a project that required frequent meetings with academics and managers. We had an automated scheduling app, where you could specify your required attendees, and it would check their diaries, find a time when they were all available, book a room, and notify everybody. Worked brilliantly, except with one guy. He didn't understand it, and refused to use it. To get him, I had to phone his secretary, who kept all his appointments handwritten in a big ledger book. He was the Professor of Information Technology. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshVilla Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 A girl I shared a house with at Uni asked us how to set the oven to "chicken". 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 I bloke I sued to know referred to Acorns as Oak Nuts, and not in a jokey way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 1 minute ago, JoshVilla said: A girl I shared a house with at Uni asked us how to set the oven to "chicken". It's one more than 'slightly apprehensive' and one less than 'abjectly terrified'. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshVilla Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 3 minutes ago, mjmooney said: It's one more than 'slightly apprehensive' and one less than 'abjectly terrified'. I also walked into the kitchen one day to find her frying some frozen chicken nuggets. No oil in the pan either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 My sister tried to cook dried pasta in a saucepan with no water, she just thought it softened as it heated up, she must have been 16=17 at the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 2 hours ago, StefanAVFC said: Finally a thread for @lapal_fan to feel completely at home in The really funny thing is I was going to make this exact same joke but you beat me to it Sorry @lapal_fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 14 VT Supporter Share Posted August 14 When I worked at JLR I once sent out a couple of Excel files to a guy who had requested them, he wanted to check the data on each file matched. We're talking hundreds of lines of data but a 5 minute job using a vlookup Passed his desk later in the day and saw him working. He'd printed out each list in it's entirety and was going through it line by line, finding the corresponding data on the second printout and making sure it matched. I reckon it would have taken him days 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted August 14 Popular Post Share Posted August 14 We had bought a lot of recycled paper for our copier. But it was too course, too recycled and was gumming up the machine, so we were advised not to use it. Whilst we were waiting for the paper to be taken away, I took a single sheet of A4 and wrote on it ‘do not use this paper in the copier’ and pinned the notice to the pile of boxes of paper. Thirty minutes later the copier is bunged up with shitty flaky recycled paper. ”Did you not see the notice saying do not use this paper?” ”Oh, I thought it meant that piece.” 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post fightoffyour Posted August 14 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted August 14 13 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: When I worked at JLR I think you're on the wrong forum, mate. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogso Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Once there was a poster on this forum called @lapal_fan and he was really silly LOL he'd like call people big and fat and stupid losers but then sometimes he'd do a serious post and I'd spend ages trying to find the joke The funniest thing was, as we all know, lapel's are properly rubbish, who would want to be a fan of them? Welcome to the Lapel thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDR V2 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: I did a fair bit of IT training in my Uni job, mainly to do with using specific packages, but also some basic PC usage. Some of the fastest learners were the Asian cleaning ladies (many of whom wouldn't have wanted their husbands to know that they were getting access to so much information on the internet). The slowest? Often the middle aged white male academics on the humanities side. One guy (who probably had a PhD) I had to treat like a five year old. Mouse? Window? Folder? File? Open? Close? Copy? Paste? Not. A. Clue. This was in about 2010. I'll always be grateful 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 44 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: When I worked at JLR I once sent out a couple of Excel files to a guy who had requested them, he wanted to check the data on each file matched. We're talking hundreds of lines of data but a 5 minute job using a vlookup Passed his desk later in the day and saw him working. He'd printed out each list in it's entirety and was going through it line by line, finding the corresponding data on the second printout and making sure it matched. I reckon it would have taken him days Probably 10 seconds using “highlight duplicates”. Crazy how some people workz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rob182 Posted August 14 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 14 These two examples are less idiotic and more unlucky. A guy (I guess you could call him a friend) was stood at the vending machine in our office. Put his money in, but couldn’t decide what to have so clicked a random letter and number. He picked the only number with nothing there. The little metal wire just span around I laughed. Another day, the same guy bought a hot chocolate from the drinks machine. “Own cup?”, he clicked “no”. For some reason no cup came out and his hot chocolate just poured out the spout and into the drainage I laughed again. That guy was @Paddywhack 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 14 Moderator Share Posted August 14 59 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Sorry @lapal_fan There's an oven setting for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post rodders0223 Posted August 14 Popular Post Share Posted August 14 We have a system that allows us to attach pretty much any file type in it for future reference. This person was receiving PDFs through email, printing them off for years, scanning them on the photocopier into I presume PDF to attach to the system as a PDF. The money. The wasteage. The time. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 1 hour ago, Davkaus said: My sister tried to cook dried pasta in a saucepan with no water, she just thought it softened as it heated up, she must have been 16=17 at the time I saw a friend from school poor himself an entire glass of neat orange squash and proceed to drink about a third of it, pulling a face with every sip and muttering “this is strong” to himself. When we eventually asked him “you know you’re meant to add water to that, right?” he looked genuinely amazed. The guy was 15-16 at this point. Got into Oxford a year or two later. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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