I mean, you have a bit of a point, they're not exactly idiots even if they seem that way, but I definitely get the stink eye. You must know a lot of nice people.

I relate more to the alien in the first panel, and not at all to the second.

I decided to make a career change into IT (didn't stick). When I was working the other employees were just other people trying to make ends meet and I never judged them for, like you said, not being specialized in general computing. I did however judge some of the other admins for their decisions and attitudes. It was so weird being an "admin" and this being told I'm "above" the general employees.

I used to provide some user support at a previous job. (It wasn't exactly my job, but people would ask for help.) And it'd be easy to get frustrated, thinking people were stupid or incompetent, but I'd remind myself that being good at computers isn't part of their job, it's part of my job. These people were hired for other areas of expertise. If I had to do take on parts of their jobs, I'd look stupid and incompetent too.

That said... sometimes the level of incomprehension people have really is incomprehensible to me. There's a level where you're reaching wilful ignorance. When I point at something on the screen and tell the person to click on that... and they can't or won't move the mouse there and click on it...

Do you think the normies looking at the IT guy as an alien are the assholes, or only the IT guy who perceives them as cavemen?

Nah, you didn't give us admin privileges. You just forced them to call you that way.

Source?

(just saying, because we used CRTs in 1993, and those look like LCDs... 👽)

Probably studying for a PhD.

Yeah, I'm in the IT dept (companys conatantly flop between throwing software into engineering, IT, or its own dept) and the other day, 5 minutes before I leave for a week long vacation a user comes up and asks if we're ignoring her.

Outlook is constantly asking for a password to one of the emails she uses. She doesn't know it and keeps clicking close on the popup. So she sends an email, FROM THE ACCOUNT SHE IS LOGGED OUT OF, to helpdesk a few days earlier.

Why on earth are you putting double quotation marks inside double quotation marks? We have single and double quotation marks for this exact reason. It took me forever to understand what you're saying

I've had to walk someone over the phone through a prompt that says "Click OK to continue" and there was nothing else except the OK button.

Also when I used to work for Federal Student Aide help center it was common for (people who were about to enter into higher education) to get stuck at the end of the online form when a final screen came up with the options "Submit" and "Cancel"

Then do IT security guys vs everybody.

Then do software engineers with mathematicians. (I'm a software engineer, I admire mathematicians)

My current boss will print out Excel sheets and use a calculator to sum things and then write in sharpie on the page the changes that he wants me to make to the sheet.

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I sent in a ticket recently, and the new IT kid's response 3 minutes later was a long the lines of "That's weird. I don't see anything about it on Google" and he marked it "resolved."

Most technology problems would be solved by people having basic problem solving skills. I don't feel bad for people who don't "understand" technology while at the same time not putting in the slightest amount of effort to understand. Some people get thrown off by 2FA, and every single 2FA I've ever done has had easily followed instructions. People just don't put in the effort.

Everyone who uses a computer has a responsibility to understand the basics of how it works because computer usage is so ubiquitous to daily life, and that's true regardless of your field.