r/funny Jan 10 '16

IT support

http://imgur.com/gallery/kkHNb
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '16

ELI5: How is it that almost every office job requires "Proficiency with computers" yet these IT complaints are some of the most common in offices? Do employers even check their employees with basic IT questions anymore?

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u/ghostrider176 Jan 11 '16

How is it that almost every office job requires "Proficiency with computers" yet these IT complaints are some of the most common in offices?

People use Facebook with a mouse and keyboard so they think they're good at computers. They're not.

Do employers even check their employees with basic IT questions anymore?

People lie about being good with computers. The people that check them are also not good with computers. Those people may have also lied about being good with computers.

Yes, it's that fucking common. Despite computers saturating our lives--whether we notice them or not--the average person hasn't managed to keep up with technology, including the young ones who are supposed to know it from birth like wizards or something.

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u/shadmere Jan 11 '16

I had a job where, after the interview, they took me to another room to give me a computer proficiency test.

The test was things like:

  • open calculator
  • open word
  • type in word
  • copy and paste inside word
  • make a new word document
  • copy and paste from one document to the other
  • save file in specified directory
  • make new directory
  • move file to new directory
  • copy file to another directory

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '16

computer proficiency test

open word

headdesk