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I don’t see it as nerd shaming. It seems to be more poking fun at the skills people list on their résumés.
by imgabe 5y ago
I don’t see it as nerd shaming. It seems to be more poking fun at the skills people list on their résumés.
- probably_wrong 5y agoI agree with you that it's probably not nerd shaming. Having said that, I read it as poking fun at the skills people are expected/forced to list on their CVs. "M.Sc. in Software Engineering. 15 years of software development experience. Successful founder of two startups. Other skills: E-mail, Word, Excel, Powerpoint". In any case, and seeing how varied the comments here are, I officially label it "art".
- bqmjjx0kac 5y agoI am surprised by the number of people completely missing the piece's tone! I wonder if the folks seeing nerd shaming are being thrown off by the Napoleon-Dynamite-esque photo.
- mrweasel 5y agoWhich makes sense, because VERY few people actually knows how to use Word with any significant level of proficiency. I'm guessing more people have advanced Excel skills. Word is pretty forgiving, for smaller texts, where you could easily go around and fixing heading manually for instance. That leads people to believe that they have "Word skills". I've seen maybe a handful of people being able to seriously utilize Words huge feature set to make their job easier.
- kazinator 5y agoIt seems to be more at people with real skills being drilled about their Word skills in an interview. "Well it's nice that you have a few university degrees and 19 yeras of experience in journalism; how proficient are you in MS Word?" "Oh, I can't even begin to tell you how! You better sit back and relax as this story takes us all the way back to Windows 95 ..."