re: Older ppl in the workforce who aren't computer literate at all

That is pretty much every company man on a drilling rig.

Reminds me of my Dad who was a railroad guy for 45 years.

Older co-workers? No, don't bother me. I don't hold that against them. Younger ones, yes it bothers me sometimes.

If you are under 50, none of the routine work tasks, to include almost all of MS Office, should baffle you at this point.

Co-worker, probably a little older than me needed help with routine Excel stuff. I was surprised but not annoyed. However, she had an assistant - a college student, about to graduate with a bachelor's - and the assistant didn't have a clue. I was more surprised than annoyed with that, however. Very surprising.

I deal with this on a daily basis. Sometimes I just shake my head and walk away. Some people shouldn't use computers.

Sorry.

I'm 32 and I'm pretty stupid when it comes to computers.

I can type faster than anyone I know, though. I'm stupid fast at it.

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complicated programs like Salesforce or Excel.

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I had to teach Salesforce. Never could get to that step, because they couldnt even turn on the computer and login.

I work next to an old timer, he's still rocking a flip phone and raises hell every time we have any update.

We went to all Laptops this year and I thought he was gonna quit.

I am baffled at the number of people hired to sit in front of a computer 8 hours a day who have no idea how to use it.

People say I should have empathy for computer illiterate, but but I think I do. I do not expect most people to read me their IP address, to know how to boot up the BIOS menu, or to even know how to change their screensaver,but you should not be hired to sit in front of a computer if you can't 1) turn it on, 2) open a webrowser, and 3) operate MS Office.

I asked a lady to open a website in google chrome once and she types in www.googlechrome.com then proceeds to tell me she doesn't know how to get to the website from there.

Computer literacy in 2015 is really a lot like the ability to read in 1865. A lot of people can't do it and perceive no use for it, but you can't imagine how disadvantaged you would be in today's world if you didn't grow up learning to read.