Reply #108: There are some people that shouldn't be around sensitive computer equipment.

[Trillo]

They spend half the day screwing up their email system, deleting stuff from the network and messing up their connection to the office printers. I spend the rest of the day fixing it all only to see them come in the next day and do it again.

Either they have a training problem (which by the way is your deficiency), or they're some of those folks who just have 'less than zero' aptitude for it. In the early PC computer days, there were stories of computers that would act up only when certain people tried to operate them. If a new computer was given to them, it would also start acting up ... ad infinitum. Some thought it was some kind of electrical disturbance around that particular individual, because the problems always were centered around that particular individual.

Whatever the cause, perhaps some people should not be operating computers. We don't hear much about these types of issues anymore, perhaps because the PC has become so ubiquitous.

Whether those people can be retrained to operate them without issue is a curiosity. It's possible that no amount of training could fix their issues with the computer. Curiously, if they can be convinced that they need computer lessons, they could end up taking computer classes for the rest of their lives and still not gain any significant ground.