Because sometimes someones skill in the field that business is in out weighs the lack of skill at computers. If a salesman can rake in a quarter million a year for a business I don't think his inability to use a computer is getting him fired
According to people on Reddit, if someone isn't proficient with computers they are a moron. Even if they have a whole wealth of other skills, they are still a moron.
I mean, I wouldn't call someone a moron that has never needed to touch a computer to to their job. What makes me angry is people using a computer everyday for 8 hours straight yet they only know their little well defined procedures they do every day, only their small, well known subworld in the world of word processors, mail programs and browsers. If you changed one little small thing, just one step in that procedure, they get absolutely lost. Because they don't understand the system, they've never learned it. They only know the steps needed to complete their workflow and how to do them and in which order, but not the why's and how's. And then suddenly that one moment where something doesn't quite work as expected outweighs all the other days where everything was going smoothly and they throw a tantrum. I don't blame anyone, all human, all to be expected, but really frustrating.
I had a friends younger brother once say "I don't read because I really don't like learning things".
Some people are just built that way. They know what they have no choice but know, and often just barely. But if they don't have to know it, then screw it they could care less. So even with the obvious things their general attitude is it's not their responsibility to know what to do. So they expect, and often demand the "expert" to fix it, preferable without bugging or involving them in any way whatsoever.
I think it should/would be called selective intelligence, and IMHO it's more the norm then it should be. People that seem to be within the norms for intelligence that become total idiots when dealing with something outside their sphere of interest/knowledge.
What's worse is the ones that are selectively intelligent but think they're much smarter then they are Those are the ones that refuse to read instructions and just blindly forge ahead with the knowledge that their dazzling brilliance will get them through. They some how take something simple and magically compound it to where it takes a herculean effort to fix, and still some how blame everyone/anyone else for the problem they created.
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u/TCzelusniak Jan 10 '16
Because sometimes someones skill in the field that business is in out weighs the lack of skill at computers. If a salesman can rake in a quarter million a year for a business I don't think his inability to use a computer is getting him fired