dude we have to do the same shit with people, and it’s not always young people. Some people just don’t fucking understand stuff
literally step by step instructions with screenshots and they sometimes still don’t get it, and usually it’s not because the instructions were unclear, they simply did not follow what it clearly said because they fundamentally lack understanding or something I don’t fucking know
I used to think it was an unreasonable challenge just to get people to paste values and not formats in Excel. it seems like that’s going to be even more difficult going forward. I fucking hate it when I’m looking at a table with a half column of cells with a border on the bottom because my dumbass coworker doesn’t give a shit about quality and just dragged the first row cell down. like it takes no extra effort to do it cleanly, that shit pisses me off. and it’s not for lack of knowledge, they’ve been taught this and shown it explicitly and told that it’s the expectation to have cleanly formatted files. I couldn’t imagine handing in work that just had a giant shit stain on the front and thinking that’s okay.
I wonder if it is the IT magic. Recently I needed a group to fill a table with values from a test that produced a radar chart. Click on the point, get a numeric value, not too hard. The only complication was that it was a “totally legally disctinct”-test so translated differently and truncated from the proper test. So I worked out translations and a table in order.
My instructions was that you start at 9 o’clock and fill in the table clockwise.
Cue constant question regarding translations and where whatever value should go, while I had done the work and all they needed to do was follow a simple instruction to fill it out as directed. I did that work for them, I don’t even remember the translations, that’s why you should follow the simple instruction.
Group of all ages, just somehow unable or unwilling not to try and express themselves in that was supposed to be 30 seconds of data entry.
that’s what pisses me off about going the extra mile and making such clear instructions
like why the fuck am I doing it if you’re not going to read it
a separate issue to this is the feedback I’ve been getting from management lately
“so and so needs more clear instructions, you need to accommodate that as a supervisor”
“your messages are too long, they need to be more concise” — meanwhile it’s literally a flow chart in bullet point form of “if this do that, else go to next bullet”
like what the fuck do you guys want from me, I’m doing extra here to make it simple, if people are fucking stupid that’s not my problem
a guy who just quit routinely turned in work that had some shit wrong with it. just today I found something that was wrong in yet another way every time I looked a bit deeper at. the short version is: “this thing needs to be able to move in the positive x direction. here is a message that this guy sent me showing that he intends for it to move in the positive x direction. here is what this guy designed, that moves in the negative x direction.” okay I’ll go fix that, wait the way this is set up clearly shows that this was not a simple mistake and that he simply fundamentally misunderstood what this thing is supposed to do, even though he sent me a diagram of what it’s supposed to do.
dude we have to do the same shit with people, and it’s not always young people. Some people just don’t fucking understand stuff
literally step by step instructions with screenshots and they sometimes still don’t get it, and usually it’s not because the instructions were unclear, they simply did not follow what it clearly said because they fundamentally lack understanding or something I don’t fucking know
I used to think it was an unreasonable challenge just to get people to paste values and not formats in Excel. it seems like that’s going to be even more difficult going forward. I fucking hate it when I’m looking at a table with a half column of cells with a border on the bottom because my dumbass coworker doesn’t give a shit about quality and just dragged the first row cell down. like it takes no extra effort to do it cleanly, that shit pisses me off. and it’s not for lack of knowledge, they’ve been taught this and shown it explicitly and told that it’s the expectation to have cleanly formatted files. I couldn’t imagine handing in work that just had a giant shit stain on the front and thinking that’s okay.
I wonder if it is the IT magic. Recently I needed a group to fill a table with values from a test that produced a radar chart. Click on the point, get a numeric value, not too hard. The only complication was that it was a “totally legally disctinct”-test so translated differently and truncated from the proper test. So I worked out translations and a table in order.
My instructions was that you start at 9 o’clock and fill in the table clockwise.
Cue constant question regarding translations and where whatever value should go, while I had done the work and all they needed to do was follow a simple instruction to fill it out as directed. I did that work for them, I don’t even remember the translations, that’s why you should follow the simple instruction.
Group of all ages, just somehow unable or unwilling not to try and express themselves in that was supposed to be 30 seconds of data entry.
that’s what pisses me off about going the extra mile and making such clear instructions
like why the fuck am I doing it if you’re not going to read it
a separate issue to this is the feedback I’ve been getting from management lately
“so and so needs more clear instructions, you need to accommodate that as a supervisor”
“your messages are too long, they need to be more concise” — meanwhile it’s literally a flow chart in bullet point form of “if this do that, else go to next bullet”
like what the fuck do you guys want from me, I’m doing extra here to make it simple, if people are fucking stupid that’s not my problem
a guy who just quit routinely turned in work that had some shit wrong with it. just today I found something that was wrong in yet another way every time I looked a bit deeper at. the short version is: “this thing needs to be able to move in the positive x direction. here is a message that this guy sent me showing that he intends for it to move in the positive x direction. here is what this guy designed, that moves in the negative x direction.” okay I’ll go fix that, wait the way this is set up clearly shows that this was not a simple mistake and that he simply fundamentally misunderstood what this thing is supposed to do, even though he sent me a diagram of what it’s supposed to do.
/rant
9 o’clock? I’ve left the office at that hour.
/j