• Nora@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Option 3: I work in IT. I see on a daily basis people with bachelor’s and PHDs doing some of the stupidest shit. I assume no one knows fuck all.

    Them: “My camera for teams isn’t working please help!”

    Me: Flicks open the webcam cover and smiles trying not to make them feel too bad😅

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      5 months ago

      Having received a screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet, embedded into a Word document, I always go option 3.

      I’m also old enough to have had to explain why a 27MB Publisher file could not fit on a floppy disk to be sent to the printers.

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      5 months ago

      The older I get the more I kick myself for “knowing” I’m too stupid for a PhD or master’s in anything.

      I’ve always had an interest in science, I love watching something like PBS spacetime or fermilab videos (because I’m obviously a layman and won’t understand anything actually detailed), but I’ve always held this belief that I’m “wayyyy too stupid to actually do the work.” and then I hear story after story of “very smart people” simply not understanding the simplest of concepts.

      Oh well lol