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“Stop, you were born with computers so you don’t notice it, but I’m not technical enough to paste an image in a Word document.” — The intern I just had to fire
by eastbound 4y ago
“Stop, you were born with computers so you don’t notice it, but I’m not technical enough to paste an image in a Word document.”
— The intern I just had to fire last month. She pretended because her generation was born with iPhones, that knowing advanced computer skills like Cmd+V was something that wasn’t a given at 21 years old. It blew my expectations about school - but at least school teaches them to find unexpected arguments.
- rcarr 4y agoExactly, there is a certain level of basic technical competence you have to have to work any position, not just computer based ones. No-one is suggesting you have to do it all alone but if you're not willing to put the effort in and learn, or able to carry out a task after repeatedly being shown how then you're the wrong person for that job.
- georgebarnett 4y agoShe grew up with computing systems that had no concept of keyboard shortcuts and intentionally abstracted away the concept of the file system and documents. I think her assessment of the situation is fair.
- eastbound 4y agoMy assessment is that she can’t work in an office. They can’t belong on the side of the world where we make things. She’ll forever belong in the people we’ve designed our apps for, viewing videos, playing games, instagram models, struggling to afford a flat. Maybe we’ll make her rich! Our apps will decide that.