So today I had to help a bigwig with a webconference.<\/p>\n
I like webconferences. I wish we used them more. I was happy to help this guy.<\/p>\n
But earlier this week, I was having meetings with some managers that were supposed to assist me with my conferences, with the set up. Their staff was being assigned to do what I’ve been doing.<\/p>\n
I explained to them how the program is currently set up. I told them how the different people set things up for the conference participants. One of the managers said,
\n“It sounds like we aren’t placing very many demands on the participants”<\/p>\n
Yes, well…That’s a problem. I would like them to learn to do it, but I don’t believe they will retain the knowledge. ANd I want them to use the stuff. So maybe we just do it all for them, since they are blithering idiots, not able to find a power switch, let alone handle the more complicated aspects of the equipment.<\/p>\n
We in the Info Tech department have a low opinion of the abilities of the end users.<\/p>\n
Another of the reasons we have a low opinion of the end users is because they have a low opinion of us. It is held in varying degrees, but at times it is flagrantly evident that they consider us blithering imbeciles.<\/p>\n
We are not allowed to be as evidently scornful of our “superiors.” But here on the lower floors, we often wonder what exactly they learned in the 8 years of college to enable them to hear the same explanations of how to UNLOCK a docking station before removing a laptop 10 times and still not retain it.<\/p>\n
However, they did go to school. Theoretically, the attorneys we have here are the cream of the crop.<\/p>\n
Back to the webconference. I was helping this attorney learn how to use webex. He completely and easily grasped it. He explored it, just the same way I would. He was not a blithering idiot!<\/p>\n
It was strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So today I had to help a bigwig with a webconference. I like webconferences. I wish we used them more. I was happy to help this guy. But earlier this week, I was having meetings with some managers that were … Continue reading