Idiots, just stay far away from me
moneyrelations :: Feb.19.2008
I was sent to a Microsoft Sharepoint training course a couple of weeks back. My work place is planning to implement it as a web content management system / knowledge collaboration solution so I was sent to check it out. Unfortunately, the class was pretty full so we had to bunk up on computers. I was sharing a computer with a web developer from another organization.
From my previous post about the importance of job reputation, you get the idea that I try to be helpful. However, I have my limits and I cannot stand downright stupidity.
Throughout the 1-week intro course, we had hands-on exercises to familiarize ourselves with what Sharepoint is about. There were no earth shattering concepts but more of an investigation of how Sharepoint implements pretty basic tasks. However, my partner was having a really hard time. That’s fine – it’s an intro course. But when one’s job description is web developer, I’d expect some technical background.
To my absolute shock, this was not the case.
As an example, we had to do an exercise that required the scheduling of an event. The instruction said: Put in [tomorrow] date.
My partner took it literally.
I gasped out loud, “You’ve got to be kidding me” and then thinking it was rude, I bit my tongue.
But what logical person would put in “tomorrow” when there’s a calendar button right beside it so you can choose a date? Aren’t these standard visual cues that even a non-technical person would figure out?
Okay, I let this one pass. Maybe she didn’t understand the instructions properly. But throughout the week, she was driving me nuts – not listening to the instructor and commencing lessons in which she clearly didn’t understand the point. She’d inevitably screw up so I’d have to unravel what she did so we wouldn’t get left behind. I got so pissed I ripped the mouse from her hand.
And then when I would “drive” doing the exercises, she’d say, “yeah, uh huh, that’s right”.
Bitch, please. I don’t need to hear it from someone who didn’t even know that you can open up new tabs in IE7 instead of new windows. And IE7 has been out how long? Also, don’t tell me that you only use Firefox because it’s your job as a “web developer” to um, develop for the web and to make sure it is compatible with all major browsers.
The whole experience just left me more jaded about jobs and working in general. I’m sure everyone has experienced office gossip that so-and-so doesn’t deserve their job position because they are incompetent. On the flip side, I’m sure that others work really hard and deserve their salary or are even underpaid.
Frankly, I accept life’s little quirks and I understand that there are no absolute hard and fast rules in the work force. I just know I hate working with morons, so just get out of my way.
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