From 1986 to 2006 and back again
Alright, now listen: I didn’t have a computer in high school. The internet was just first peeking its head above ground at the time. I also didn’t have one in college. I went to the computer labs to type my papers on Word, and used Excel briefly for an administrative assistant job I had on campus. I had a student email account, and only created my own hotmail account during my senior year. I also played video games a lot on the classic Nintendo Entertainment System when I was a kid.
Bottom line: not a lot of computer experience here.
However, my job requires me to be online pretty much all the time, typing shit, researching shit, using windows, Access, Excel, Word, et. al. okay? And ya know what, IT AIN’T THAT HARD, BITCHES!
Where I work—granted, not a bastion of technological advancement—many of the employees can’t type up an email to save their lives. They thrive on picking up the phone and interrupting your ass to tell you something that really isn’t that pressing, and that could have been rapidly relayed via email.
Worse yet is when they call you with information that really needs to be forwarded to the rest of the staff—again, another opportune moment for email—and thus transform you into a secretary, forcing you to transcribe their message and send it off to your co-workers in an email of your own.
The moral of the story: WE NO LONGER LIVE IN THE 1980s. IT’S OKAY TO USE FUCKING EMAIL. IT WON’T BITE. IT’S NOT THAT HARD. IF MY SIXTEEN YEAR-OLD SISTER CAN SWING IT, SO CAN YOU.
February 17th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Bulldyke department head…inquiring minds. Moreover, who is the blessed recipient of said lehderhosen?Life in HRHQ is getting to you? My suggestion: swing by Chiu’s for a handful of Omega-3 rich almonds. They’re good and good for ya.