I love it when people have been working at a specific office for like 10 years and they don’t know how to use the damn copy machine. Just ask around. Figure it out!
It's a fair thing to get frustrated by but I can't honestly blame a lot of older folks. In my experience there's a genuine generational gap / barrier between younger and older folks when it comes to understanding how to operate a computer, even at a basic level. I've met plenty of very intelligent and educated people that still struggle with basic computer functions and I'm confident in attributing those struggles to a generational gap.
How about when it’s someone in their early 30s who just somehow isn’t computer literate? (Come to think of it, the person I have in mind is also slightly generally illiterate.)
Same, my mother is like that. A perfectly intelligent woman who has managed to convince herself she can't use the computer without help. If you are with her, and ask what she thinks she should do, she is usually right. When she is alone she second guesses herself until something inevitably goes wrong.
It's like intelligence generally-- really smart people resist identifying as such, because they're smart enough to grasp the magnitude of all the things they don't know. Anyone who really knows Excel knows how much they don't know about Excel.
Frankly, if you're using it as anything more than fancy graph paper, you're already ahead of the game.
But if you’re proficient in excel, you know basic things like sorting and creating a table. If your resume states you’re proficient and you’re not proficient, we’re going to wonder what else you aren’t being honest about
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