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re: Does anyone else work with technologically illiterate
Posted on 4/11/18 at 2:38 pm to LouisianaLady
Posted on 4/11/18 at 2:38 pm to LouisianaLady
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Someone brought up a really good point to me the other day. Your people who really shine with programs like Excel is a very small range. Basically people 25-40. Nobody younger. Nobody older. With exceptions of course.
To an extent, I understand people not fully grasping Excel and Access. They're not the easiest to learn. It's when idiots can't figure out how to save a document in Word or do any sort of formatting that I lose my mind.
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Posted on 4/11/18 at 3:22 pm to JJ27
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Doctors...pretty much all of them
Hey now! Not all of use are terrible at it. Like starsandstripes said, I'm in the Gen-X generation, and learned to use computers with DOS. I had trouble with converting to windows. In college, I built computers and did programming on the side. Recently built a VR machine for rehabing trauma and burn patients. In the process of building some Pi's with sensors to monitor patient rooms. Frequently use DOS commands to hack into hospital computers when I need to do a function it won't allow me.
So, not all of us are technologically illiterate.
As for the others that said something about docs and EMRs, and paperwork. Going to EMR has not removed needing paper. In fact, in many instances it has created more need for papers (i.e. I used to be able to do an H&P on 1 sheet, now it takes 5-6 of printed sheets of mostly inconsequential BS).
And EMRs are designed by people who don't understand how medicine/doctors think/work, and it seems they don't care to have physician input. For instance, it takes me 8-10 clicks and 2 minutes to get to and complete putting in just a billing code. When you see 50+ patients a day, that's an extra 2 hours of work.
With the advent of EMR, I spend more time in front of computer instead of in front of or taking care of patients. It has decreased my productivity, not increased. The only positive is readability of notes, and data-mining for the bean-counters and government.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 3:24 pm to TheSlizzardKing
Yes a few of our reps are asking for a class on Facebook - geez
Posted on 4/11/18 at 3:29 pm to Jim Rockford
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Well a HS kid in our town was making internet threats thinking a fake email address would protect him, so I'd say tech illiteracy is pretty widespread.
Wait what? Uh-oh
Posted on 4/11/18 at 3:35 pm to TigersSEC2010
An older executive at the company I work for, has had the same job he's had since he started at the company. He was assigned a report to fill out in Excel that had to be turned in to me. He filled out the entire report in one single cell of the worksheet because he didn't know how to tab to the next cell.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 3:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
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If anything at all changes they completely lose their shite.
I worked for the State of La for my first job out of college. I was in charge of getting all the office computers upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7. I'm not sure how I made it out alive.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 4:11 pm to cattus
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My mom in her 70s has a facebook account and surfs a smart phone.
My 87 year old dad has an ipad, a laptop, a tablet, and a smart phone. He's been on the LSU Tigerroar site forever, does FB, and a Suddenlink email account. He misses Dandy Don's holiday stories, but still reads the site every day. He reads The BR Morning Advocate, NOLA.com, and The News Star online.
My 83 year old mom does all of the above, and she uses Outlook to send group emails to her Sunday school class. The class is all 70, and 80 year olds. All of them, except four or five people, get her emails.
When they got a new router a couple of weeks ago, I had to go set it up, and get all of their devices logged into it. My mom could have done it, but it didn't kill me to do it. I went with my dad to buy the router. First I read a couple of "Best Routers for Your Home Network" articles online, and picked out the router for them too. I'm an 59 year old myself.
This post was edited on 4/11/18 at 4:15 pm
Posted on 4/11/18 at 4:24 pm to starsandstripes
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If something like this happens, millennials will panic and will be the first to resort to violence.
You mean protesting, right?
Posted on 4/11/18 at 4:31 pm to LouisianaLady
quote:I must be one of the exceptions; I'm 60.
people who really shine with programs like Excel is a very small range. Basically people 25-40. Nobody younger. Nobody older. With exceptions of course.
edit: NB4 "you old bastard."
This post was edited on 4/11/18 at 4:38 pm
Posted on 4/11/18 at 4:44 pm to starsandstripes
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many can plug through some Excel manipulations to produce summary figures and graphs or tables but can't figure out (and are too fricking lazy to learn) how to add legends, titles, captions
If someone can't add legends, titles, or captions to a graph on Excel then they shouldn't be operating a computer
Posted on 4/11/18 at 4:47 pm to TheSlizzardKing
I used to and it was brutal being the youngest one in the office. If the internet was down it was immediately my fault. Teaching them how to send emails and faxes was bad.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 4:49 pm to TheSlizzardKing
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Baby boomers ? Why do they call Millenials lazy and unwilling to learn when half of them can’t even work basic functions of outlook or excel ?
The number of mid-20s people in my office who are technologically illiterate is ever more astounding.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 4:49 pm to tss22h8
This thread has made me very paranoid.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:04 pm to TheSlizzardKing
I just worked with a guy who is math and English illiterate
Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:06 pm to TheSlizzardKing
I'm the tech illiterate at my workplace.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:07 pm to TheSlizzardKing
I have people of all generations that are technologically inept- it is not an age or generation thing only
Posted on 4/11/18 at 6:08 pm to TheSlizzardKing
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Baby boomers ? Why do they call Millenials lazy and unwilling to learn when half of them can’t even work basic functions of outlook or excel ?
The 50 and up group is painful to watch.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 8:07 pm to TheSlizzardKing
I’m a boomer, I’ve picked up tech literacy along the way. I started out with a 80186 processor. Funny when anyone has computer issues in our office they all come to me.
I think tech illiteracy is a choice. It’s just too easy to say I can’t do that.
I think tech illiteracy is a choice. It’s just too easy to say I can’t do that.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 8:13 pm to LouisianaLady
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Someone brought up a really good point to me the other day. Your people who really shine with programs like Excel is a very small range. Basically people 25-40. Nobody younger. Nobody older. With exceptions of course.
I guess I'm the exception to the rule because I'm 58 and been using and working with spreadsheets since the days of Lotus 123.
Posted on 4/11/18 at 8:16 pm to TheSlizzardKing
It’s pretty nice actually if you work for a small family company. I can make vba codes to handle like 90% of the mundane tasks of the job so I can basically kick back and drink coffee/frick off
This post was edited on 4/11/18 at 8:22 pm
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