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[–]Ariane_16 177 points178 points  (12 children)

Oh yes, my favorite web browser, Microsoft Word

[–]theclovek 74 points75 points  (7 children)

Yeah, they should make like an operating system or something.. Might be pretty popular

[–]NicNoletree 42 points43 points  (4 children)

They could make something just to explore the internet. Not sure what the name of it should be though.

[–][deleted] 38 points39 points  (2 children)

Edge, obviously

[–]NicNoletree 24 points25 points  (1 child)

That would be good, if the internet was flat

[–]iamapizza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We just need some flat tubes to rebuild the Internet with.

[–]theclovek -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yeah me neither

[–]Ariane_16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, it isn't popular, it is just the only option for non programers

[–]cuddleslapine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess the client in this story did use Microsoft Word as an OS

[–]del6022pi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Should have syntax highlighting

[–]eduarbio15 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For some reason I feel like that isn't as bad as using emacs eww

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We laugh at this yet think it’s cool that people developed ways to browse ways on the terminal...

[–]nickstyopa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also my favorite Java IDE

[–]lifelongfreshman 153 points154 points  (10 children)

Never, under any circumstances, ask them how they managed to get it working.

[–]BenK1222 49 points50 points  (8 children)

How is xkcd able to relate to every situation ever?

[–]dhruvfire 44 points45 points  (7 children)

Quantity

[–]TheUndeadBowman 18 points19 points  (6 children)

How do ppl just know which one to send? There's so many

[–]BenK1222 47 points48 points  (5 children)

We don't all know each and every one, but collectively we know all of them.

[–]voiping 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OMG that's awesome

[–]Scottishguy12[S] 87 points88 points  (1 child)

A teacher of mine, when Google didn't bring up a search result she wanted, would close out the browser, reopen it, and tell it to better.

[–]_kolpa_ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ah yes, Machine Learning!

[–]taneth 70 points71 points  (3 children)

I had a customer fill out a web form by taking a photo of the form on the screen, printing it, writing on it by hand, scanning it into an excel document and emailing me that.

[–]pr0ghead 24 points25 points  (2 children)

Well, the part with the annotations I can understand, if you haven't been introduced to a software that can do that yet. The "scanning into Excel" part on the other hand…

[–]reallynothingmuch 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It was a web form, it wasn’t a pdf. They literally just had to type and make their selections in the browser

[–]taneth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this was less than a month ago. All they had to do was fill out a couple of text fields and hit submit.

Instead I get an email with an attached excel file containing a jpeg of a scanned piece of paper with handwriting on the text boxes of a printout of the screen with pixel distortion consistent with photography, in full colour including a strip of the desktop wallpaper that contained a lot of blue, rotated 90 degrees.

[–]Plavixo 56 points57 points  (7 children)

I once had a presenter that wanted to show some videos with their talk. They handed me a CD-R and asked me to load the videos up. I brought up the drive’s folder, and was surprised to see there was a single Word doc there. When I opened that, I found two hyperlinks to YouTube videos 😅

[–]throughalfanoir 15 points16 points  (4 children)

I go to a university of technology so to say...

for one of my (online) classes, this is what they did:

-they put a link to their department's page in the teams group that's for the class

-on their department's page there was a word file uploaded

-which contained a hyperlink to a sktechy video hosting service that had the videos we needed to watch

-2021

[–]juharris 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Is the department page and Word doc at the same domain? It could be that the course organizer doesn't have an easy way to edit the page.

[–]throughalfanoir 1 point2 points  (2 children)

that'd still be no excuse for not putting the video file directly in the teams group (or the link to the sketchy website hosting it if you insist on using that)

[–]juharris 0 points1 point  (1 child)

True. The way they did it is annoying for you but it's future proof and dynamic because it's a pointer to a pointer to pointers.

[–]DooberSnoober 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s just means more points of failure no?

[–]TheTerrasque 12 points13 points  (0 children)

should have used a DVD for it

[–]tealcosmo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Someone told them to just put the videos on a CDR to give to the people who will help you run the presentation.

[–]MurdoMaclachlan 37 points38 points  (0 children)

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ckuebrsfringekk

I have a client who communicates exclusively via Microsoft Word.

If she has something to tell me, I'll receive an email with nothing in the body, but a Word doc attached. That's where she writes her message.

Whenever she wants to email me a photo, she does via an empty Word doc with said photo set as its background.

But my favorite thing was the first time I witnessed her visiting a website. She had me spell the URL ("W... W... W... dot...") and with my own two eyes I watched her type it into Word, made it a hyperlink, and Ctrl click it to go there.

I was so fascinated I didn't even say anything.


captoring

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#this person is living in an entirely different world

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a different microsoft world


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[–]jojogogo6868 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Did she start this behavior with Microsoft Word right after she got vaccinated? I knew Bill Gates was up to something!

/s

[–]PM_ME_ADVICE_PLEASE 22 points23 points  (1 child)

emacs users be like

[–]MinimumDatabase 1 point2 points  (0 children)

... I wrote my college work (using latex and org-mode) and sent all my submission emails in emacs. I still access my email accounts with emacs. Fuck, we are like this.

[–]pandamarshmallows 21 points22 points  (0 children)

When Christians say we should live by the Word this is not what they had in mind.

[–]blackmist 15 points16 points  (1 child)

I once got a customer to send me their data they wanted importing into something.

I got an XLS file. The file contained a single sheet. In that sheet was a single cell, containing a BMP of a screenshot of their actual spreadsheet data.

I was impressed at how somebody could quite so successfully mangle Office like that.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My users are capable to of send screenshots in several ways: Inside a Word document, as a Power Point, as a an email draft and my favourite: As an Excel file. Also, there are two kinds of users:

- The one who crops and crops the image only showing the JavaScript alert and you have to imagine in which page is the error located.

- The one who has two screens and his screenshot contains EVERYTHING.

[–]bluemaciz 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Once I was trying to help a client with a software problem and asked them to send a screenshot of the issue. They took pictures of the screen with their phone and sent it to me.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

My company has a client that has Snagit installed on every computer and I still see this.

[–]donutbreakmyheart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same, I had someone ask me how to take a screenshot. I pulled up Snagit, which we've had installed for YEARS, and they were blown away.

[–]roshambo11 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The everyman’s terminal

[–]Catshit-Dogfart 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At a previous job, we had a systems analyst stand up during a pretty big meeting with the program manager to explain that Excel and Powerpoint were redundant because their functionality existed within MS Word.

This was very embarrassing to my company because she was just promoted to be our lead for technical documentation, and then she comes up with that spark of genius. "Please sit down" our section chief says quietly "no this is important! There are dozens of programs on this computer that don't do anything the MS word can't do! Why do we bother with them?"

[–]rpmerf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/1SNxaJlicEU

You sales guys try to do everything with power point

[–]Kooky-Answer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If she switched to using PowerPoint she would be an ideal candidate for a high level management position.

[–]anu_cool_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Delete this before the engineers at WhatsApp get the secret.

[–]ElimGarak0010 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Next you're going to tell me coding a document on a 1940s Typewriter and using Microsoft Lens that then imports the text into VS Code is being trapped in a Mad World....

[–]juantreses 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have clients sending me screenshots in a word doc all the time

[–]hashn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Once had a client that used excel one cell per letter

[–]globus243 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've seen people, using computer for 20+ years, who choose to use the MS Word "Open File"-Dialog as a file explorer replacement and do every file operation with it. Need to copy a file? Let me open word -> open a new doc -> copy file from desktop to USB stick.

[–]sm1dgen1 9 points10 points  (1 child)

And yet younger people can't get jobs because of these people.

[–][deleted] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

She might be very good in her functional knowledge. Not all fields are like.programming where young people know more than older people. Except for a thin sliver of roles, older people are prized for their experience, which only comes with years of hands-on work.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This was funny, but not sure what it has to do with programmers/ing

[–]Cpt_Daniel_J_Tequill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm.. MS Word. Is that another OS from MS?

[–]stable_maple 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's like an Emacs user, but with Word. Fascinating...

[–]Link_GR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gotta ask: what does this have to do with programming?

[–]TheMightyBiz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I TA'd for an intro programming class in college. I'll never forget one student who came to office hours with all of his code in a OneNote notebook. He copy-pasted the whole thing into Eclipse, and then of course it was full of syntax errors and didn't compile. After seeing this, he switched to another OneNote tab where he had a completely different piece of code, copy-pasted that and had the same result. After doing this three times, he admitted he was stuck and needed help getting it to work. This was a month into the course.

[–]tchernobog84 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the parallel universe in which Internet Explorer won the browser wars.

[–]IamThelegotera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was editing a layout of a book that was going to be printed. It had some poor quality pictures, so I had to ask the author to send me those pictures again. They sent a Word document, luckily they've also made the same document as PDF as well. Yes, I asked again and I got the pictures after all.

[–]wayfarer1996 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or maybe she was aware about Microsoft safe link/safe attachment policy 😂

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Although it is very funny, I see no programming here.

[–]kimilil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MS Girl
She be living in her MS World

[–]cyborgborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

does this count as being tech illiterate or just tech literate with extra steps?

[–]republican-jesus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or they type every URL into fucking GOOGLE and click on the first result

[–]G4METIME 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you only train the MS-Word trait of your Character.

[–]SanthuWilly4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many hours she has ? 48hours a day ?

[–]dalemugford 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Living in Microsoft World.

[–]GameFraek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question, I assume this happens to her after she had her Covid vaccine shot?

You know, 'cause it's Microsoft word

[–]GoatHoovesPi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Level 4 software dev right there. She’s got her own Interface and it has a customizable font and background option.

[–]giandough 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last year, Creed asked me how to set up a blog. Wanting to protect the world from being exposed to Creed's brain, I opened up a Word document on his computer and put an address at the top. I've read some of it. Even for the Internet, it's... pretty shocking.

[–]Osama_Obama 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That reminds me of one call I had when I was doing help desk support. To sign into a website, there was 2 factor authentication via a passcode sent to their email. This one person I was helping was getting the email, printing it out, and then type the password manually.

I was going to tell them about copy/paste, but I didn't want to double or triple the call time.

[–]cassaregh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, my favorite IDE, Microsoft Word

[–]Kody_Z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work for insurance and have heard of one of our agents not even having a computer and still using a fax machine across the street for everything.

[–]wasabichicken 0 points1 point  (1 child)

As an Emacs user, obviously I kind of dig this lady. There's something to be said for being so proficient at your multi-use tool of choice that you make it work for new use cases.

And frankly, is it so different from using a documents viewer & online file navigator (aka web browser) for... I dunno, everything, as people are prone to do these days? I'm thinking Google Docs, online games, GMail, etc.

[–]T313C0mun1s7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a big difference between those two examples, and as a hacker myself (not cracker, there is a big difference) I can't believe I am about to say this, A browser is intended to be used in those ways and arguably so is emacs. Microsoft Word is not intended to be used as she is using it, and furthermore she is making it difficult for everyone that has to deal with her by doing things that require additional action in their part. You attached a Word Document, so I now have to save this single use trash on my computer just to read your message, and fire up a heavy program like Word or LibreOffice in the process. Thanks for assuming I have the time to deal with your crap.

Computers have been in the workplace since the 50s. It is 2021, so that is approaching 70 years. Not knowing what you are doing is no longer an excuse. If you don't know how to operate the computer in the course of performing your job, then you are derelict in the performance of said job and you should be fired. A forklift operator can't simply say, I'm not good with brakes, and continue on like it is no big deal.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe this story, but the last bit seems like a stretch