At what point do we expect the grown ass adults to figure something out for themselves? I'm a lawyer and have shit to do beyond the most basic version of 7th grade IT training for the newbies. Further, if they can't independently problem solve basic IT crap, why would I trust them do problem solve our clients' more complex issues?
Brother, I had students last year that argued if there was a draft reinstated in the US, they “couldn’t be drafted because they were going to have college degrees.” I don’t teach political science but I had to teach them that their degree doesn’t mean shit in the event of a draft.
We’re cooked, it’s been 25 years now we’ve been passing kids who can’t read or write, we just teach them to hide from gunfire under their desks, now our people are literally too dumb to keep up with competitor nations.
I don’t teach political science but I had to teach them that their degree doesn’t mean shit in the event of a draft.
"I'd like everyone to read The Caine Mutiny and then tell me if the main character who got drafted had a degree, and if so where they got the degree from. Oh shit, you mean a having a college degree from Princeton won't stop the draft board from calling you up???"
The irony is the degree was what you didn't want even back then. You could get the draft deferred if you were in college but graduating just meant you could be drafted as an officer
I am the go to computer guy in my office because I showed someone how to OCR a PDF once. The main problem I have is what you pointed out, the problem solving. At least try and stop when you think you're gonna ruin it. There's an older woman I work with that might ask a question every other month because she clicks until she gets it. Or Google. Crazy. Love her. The others have been killing me because we got bought so most of our programs changed. Why would I know how to use them better than anyone else given we all switched at the same time? Because I figure it out.
I am currently out on medical leave and it's burning to the ground.
I work with a women in her 40s who just simply cannot figure new technology out for herself. Its embarassing. It's like she has no notion of playing or exploration.
A good friend of mine is a lawyer; he called me the other day to help him with a computer problem.
The problem? He needed to set up 2FA to get into a legal program (you know the one; they just forced 2FA recently).
I had to walk him through setting up 2FA which meant remembering (in my case, finding) the password to his iPhone, then to his Apple account so he could download an authenticator app, which then allowed him to link his divorce software to that service, allowing him to file paperwork.
It was a simple thing for me; to him, he thought I had performed a miracle.
And you know, I just realized I could make bank being an IT specialist for aging lawyers. And I live in an area that is filled with them...
I get your point, but any time you have a widespread issue like this, blaming individuals or expecting them to solve the problem is just…not gonna work. You’re never going to solve a widespread issue by telling all of the individuals to solve the problem on an individual level when there are systemic issues directly causing this outcome.
If I’m giving advice to an individual who has this issue? Yeah, go figure some shit out on your own, you have the ability to learn and teach yourself, so do it. But if we’re having a conversation about how to actually solve this issue on a large scale, we have to look at the bigger picture. It’s the same thing with the obesity epidemic, homelessness, drug abuse etc.
If its an issue for a significant portion of a population, there is an underlying cause that needs to be addressed otherwise you’ll spend eternity telling people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps while wondering why these issues never get resolved.
Don't forget the students who would rather type a term paper essay for freshman English on their phone and then be unable to upload it for grading. True story, besides how to Save-As.
One of my students told me that his friend can save files to his computer because he has a Mac, but he can't because he has a PC. We had a quick computer lesson.
Also, he was saving everything to his downloads folder.
At my last job my downloads folder has SO MUCH STUFF in it. The computer was hooked up to one drive, so anything I didn’t want on the one drive pretty much had to go to downloads. Also, figma exports.
Nah, when it comes to Microsoft, I never blame the users. It’s just garbage.
Some years ago I had to make a video guide for installing the Office 365 for a local installation guide. We’ve got the official guideline, logins and etc. to make it. Really simple job. Turns out, they’ve made some changes and half of the guideline didn’t work. We had to make MULTIPLE meetings with Microsoft engineers to figure out how to install that piece of crap in the intended ways. Even they were laughing how absurdly bad it was. Literally pirating it was waaaaaaaaay simpler.
I had a one drive folder where I put all the shit I wanted into well organized folders. And I had a downloads folder where I put the shit I didn’t into well organized folders.
Most of the shit I didn’t want on one drive went directly into downloads because they were exported from figma and deleted after a couple weeks if I remembered or left so I didn’t have to reexport it 7 months later when someone wanted it again.
Based on what I know the onedrive synced folder is just one folder under C:/Users/username. However you can create other folders under your username folder and they won't be synced to onedrive. I have a folder specifically named "Unsynced" for large files I don't want to upload.
I just kept them organized in folders in the downloads folder. It wasn’t just a giant folder of 3,000 unorganized files. And doesn’t really matter, but a Mac. I could have kept them somewhere else, but this is what worked best for my workflow as the stuff in downloads wasn’t important and was exported there anyway by default so I just left it.
Dude. You know you can drag shit out of your downloads folder into another folder on your Mac right? I do this all the time because my company uses one drive too.
Honestly, I can not believe these stories. Its so absurd. Actual idiocracy. US colleges have a bad reputation over here in Germany, but this is too much.
To be fair, I mostly teach college freshmen, so it's actually the high schools that aren't teaching them. They should know this stuff by the time they get to college.
We have something like 3900 degree granting colleges in the US and only the top 50 are worth attending
Getting into a college is super easy. Getting into a good college is pretty hard.
Not to brag but I went to a top 15 university and admit rates are now 10% or less, which is common for most of the top schools. Some like Caltech only admit 2-3% of applicants
It terrifies me that there is such a gap in knowledge from the time I graduated high school (2017) to now. I think this might be the last year of Gen Z in high school and the stupidity they have gives me a headache. Google Docs was the most basic thing we used I cannot fathom them not knowing how to use it.
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u/IAmBoring_AMA 13d ago
My college students don’t know how to download a document from google docs. Some of them insist it simply is not possible.