Ok then, sure itâs extreme but document handling is not necessarily a key (or even important) part of their work. Yes they absolutely shouldnât need to use 15min or get help to save a document, but if their skills in their actual job are spectacular and they produce the work of two in that area, of course they still should be compensated well. I donât know your specific case, but this is almost the case I mentioned.
If your work involves using a computer all day, but you canât be arsed to learn how to use it, Iâm going to assume the rest of your output is incompetent too. I see this all day.
In the case of my colleague heâs expert-level in the software tools we need for our actual job, but he struggles with basic office tools like MS word and excel.
In a capitalist landscape we are trained to only ever be good at one thing. If you do more than one thing, you are worth less because then clearly youre not as good at your primary profession. Even if those other skills benefit that primary profession.
There are, of course, exceptions where managers understand that well-rounded employees provide a bulwark against mistakes and thus inefficiency. But for the most part, if youre not spending time on things that are not your primary responsibility, like learning tangential skills, youre losing them money.
These people have 0 usefulness outside of helping the guy print a pdfâŚ
Until you click on a phishing link.
This is the curse of IT. Perpetually undervalued yet absolutely essential. If IT were ever to disappear, the businesses they support become walking corpses.
It chaps my ass that everyone working in business has grown up with computers being essential to business yet its somehow still acceptable for them to be functionally illiterate in using them.
Sometimes its so fucking bad that the equivalent would be someone being granted a drivers license and given a car but they have no idea how to put it in park, let alone use the brakes.
IT are the Dunedain Rangers protecting The Shire. Theyâre not popular, theyâre barely acknowledged, often scorned, but without their presence The Shire cannot be.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Nope itâs not facetious ⌠Iâm an ICT professional and I see this regularly.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Ok then, sure itâs extreme but document handling is not necessarily a key (or even important) part of their work. Yes they absolutely shouldnât need to use 15min or get help to save a document, but if their skills in their actual job are spectacular and they produce the work of two in that area, of course they still should be compensated well. I donât know your specific case, but this is almost the case I mentioned.
Greddan@feddit.org â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
If your work involves using a computer all day, but you canât be arsed to learn how to use it, Iâm going to assume the rest of your output is incompetent too. I see this all day.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
In the case of my colleague heâs expert-level in the software tools we need for our actual job, but he struggles with basic office tools like MS word and excel.
Zorque@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
In a capitalist landscape we are trained to only ever be good at one thing. If you do more than one thing, you are worth less because then clearly youre not as good at your primary profession. Even if those other skills benefit that primary profession.
There are, of course, exceptions where managers understand that well-rounded employees provide a bulwark against mistakes and thus inefficiency. But for the most part, if youre not spending time on things that are not your primary responsibility, like learning tangential skills, youre losing them money.
gustofwind@lemmy.world â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs pretty funny how the people who only have computer skills are hating on people who only have their own skills too
Computer support is literally only useful to other humans doing useful stuff
These people have 0 usefulness outside of helping the guy print a pdf and yet they consider themselves so high and mighty
AstralPath@lemmy.ca â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
Until you click on a phishing link.
This is the curse of IT. Perpetually undervalued yet absolutely essential. If IT were ever to disappear, the businesses they support become walking corpses.
It chaps my ass that everyone working in business has grown up with computers being essential to business yet its somehow still acceptable for them to be functionally illiterate in using them.
Sometimes its so fucking bad that the equivalent would be someone being granted a drivers license and given a car but they have no idea how to put it in park, let alone use the brakes.
IT are the Dunedain Rangers protecting The Shire. Theyâre not popular, theyâre barely acknowledged, often scorned, but without their presence The Shire cannot be.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
This is like saying Software Developers have a useless skill set, except to make the important, value creating, end users more productive.