image descriptions: several sets of tumblr tags
image 1: uncredited
#shoutout to the person from the admin team who once sent me an excel sheet
#and told me to print it out and fill it in BY HAND
#and then scan it and send it back to her
#and when I cautiously asked if there was a reason why I couldn't just fill it out on the computer
#she gave me a look of mild surprise
#and replied 'oh you could do that I suppose'
#??????
#what the fuck is your team doing up there??
image 2: tags from lordmaddie
#Once one of my colleagues, after asking a user for a screenshot of the error they were seeing
#Received, some days later, a letter from said user
#They'd taken their laptop to the scanner, SCANNED THE SCREEN
#printed off the scan, and POSTED IT TO OUR OFFICE
image 3: tags from nukenai
#my job is literally reviewing documentation that has been submitted
#things have to be uploaded digitally
#either by the consumer or by a worker assisting them
#the amount of times i receive photographs of phones with photos of ID cards on them is insane
#like. just upload. from that phone.
#the phone you are photographing
#why are you photographing your phone with another phone why are you ding this
image 4: tags from jarino
#i used to have managers print out their filled out forms and then send me a picture of said form
#instead of just...sending the form
image 5: tags from hematiterings
#I used to work on PDFs by annotating them with the Adobe tool
#and once someone replied to my comments on a pdf
#by making a PowerPoint with screenshots of the pdf and writing their answers to me in the comments of the ppt
#I have no idea why they did this btw
image 6: tags from iljanne
#work and it related: i had to share links to all our sharepoint folders for a coworker
#no one could get her access for 2 years and counting
#and then my other coworker turned to me after i explained what i did 'oh yeah thats what we did for the boss! ah.. we. couldve done that
#for nadia. huh...'
#like yeAH
#TWO YEARS
#You had the SOLUTION??
image 7: uncredited, partially cut off
email me what was clearly a printed out Excel file that they'd then filled out by hand and scanned back into the system
#Presumably something they did when they realized they couldn't fax it over
#I am not kidding when I say I don't understand how society continues to function when the tech skill level is so low
#Even in my own office it's disturbing
#There was an office-wide freak-out bc I used the color-categorize option on some emails.
#Where all these colors coming from?!
#I don't understand!!!
#The handful of ppl in the office with a brain tried to explain to them but they were like chickens with their heads cut off :/
#The other day it was two of my coworkers not understanding how to message someone on Teams that wasn't already in their chat history
#...we've used Teams for like five years now. And even if you didn't already "know" the process for it it's so easy/intuitive to click around
#and find out? This has to be that fundamental lack of curiosity thing some people have going on
#Bc believe me. I get it being difficult--ever since I became visually impaired it's sooo much harder to learn new tech/software--
#but it's not impossible
image 8: tags from lensdeer
#my boss regularly sends me the worst fucking excel files in history so yeag i believe that
#shes sent me crusty phone pictures of excel file printouts and asked me to input what she wrote into the file
image 9: tags from moonybyte
#literally what it's like whenever I have to order stuff at my job
#most of the stuff we can just fill in and send around/save as a file perfectly fine
#but if I have to order something?
#print the sheet
#sign it
#scan that back in
#put the scanned document into ANOTHER document
#save that document as pdf to send it to my superiors
#who then supposedly print that out and send it via actual non-digital mail
#the process of all that always makes me question things sometimes
image 10: tags from cryptidfloyd
#one time my boss printed out 40 of the exact same sheets and told me to write the same thing on all of them
#and i tried to say "couldnt i just do one sheet and copy it 39 times" but she kept interrupting me telling me "just write x on them"
#i did the copies anyway
#i think she was mad i thought of it and she didnt
#she probably would have told me no if someone she liked didnt tell me how good of an idea it was (help me)
#she is constantly making shit endlessly more complicated than it needs to be
image 11: tags from hollowedskin
#my partner who supervises the robot packaging section of the factory
#and has to report numbers at the end of every shift
#told me recently that his boss
#(a man who makes more than twice as much as him)
#cannot figure out how to open an Excel file that has been emailed to him
#and requires my partner to screenshot each page
#print them out
#and walk them up to his office
#mans fucking JOB is LOGISTICS
