diffaldoReal Struggle 😔
I have a colleague making close to twice my salary struggling with IT…but he’s extremely skilled at his actual job.
Yeah my bet is that the meme is facetious
Onno (VK6FLAB)Nope it’s not facetious … I’m an ICT professional and I see this regularly.
Ok then, sure it’s extreme but document handling is not necessarily a key (or even important) part of their work. Yes they absolutely shouldn’t 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 don’t know your specific case, but this is almost the case I mentioned.
If your work involves using a computer all day, but you can’t be arsed to learn how to use it, I’m going to assume the rest of your output is incompetent too. I see this all day.
In the case of my colleague he’s expert-level in the software tools we need for our actual job, but he struggles with basic office tools like MS word and excel.
gustofwindThe more I read here the more all these people come off as being super insecure and jealous that their skills are just to help people with real skills do basic computer stuff
I’d say it has more to do with feeling under-appreciated for what they do to help workforce. To their colleagues they’re treated as little more than lowly keyboard jockeys until they’re needed for an IT problem, then they’re sent back to languish in the computer mines.
At the end of the day it’s more a managerial problem, as they arent treated as an equal contributor to the group. Despite how much they contribute to overall efficiency and productivity.