granny
Fledgling Freddie
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2003
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- 253
OK this is based purely on observation and personal experience (15 years of it). I am not a sexist person by any stretch of the imagination and I abhore sexism. So why I'm posting this on a forum that has a "babe of the day" thread on it I don't know... I just need somewhere to vent, ok? 
WTF is it with middle-aged women (secretaries mainly) and zip files? WHY can they not understand them? I have explained maybe TWENTY times to several of them downstairs what a zip file is, how it works and how to open them.
EVERY SODDING time one of them gets emailed a zip file they phone me up acting all confused and proclaiming to have NEVER EVER seen such a thing before.
They ALL have power-archiver installed on their PC's, the University does it by default. NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM can use it. Despite my having slowly, carefully and patiently gone through the process with them on numerous occasions.
What is the problem? How can I overcome this? It is actually starting to become a problem in the amount of my time it takes up fucking babysitting these (otherwise highly capable, efficient and intelligent) people through this stupidly fucking simple task. I honestly don't understand how someone who is capable of organising and running an entire gamut of clinical research trials, budgeting salaries, expenditures and orders for an entire research & teaching department or performing complex surgical proceedures (3 real examples of middle-aged women in my department) is incapable of understanding "save to disk, double-click, extract file to somewhere useful".
And it IS JUST WOMEN! I've resisted the idea that it's restricted to females over ~40 for a long time but I can no longer fly in the face of overwhelming and unbroken evidence. Sorry.
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WTF is it with middle-aged women (secretaries mainly) and zip files? WHY can they not understand them? I have explained maybe TWENTY times to several of them downstairs what a zip file is, how it works and how to open them.
EVERY SODDING time one of them gets emailed a zip file they phone me up acting all confused and proclaiming to have NEVER EVER seen such a thing before.
They ALL have power-archiver installed on their PC's, the University does it by default. NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM can use it. Despite my having slowly, carefully and patiently gone through the process with them on numerous occasions.
What is the problem? How can I overcome this? It is actually starting to become a problem in the amount of my time it takes up fucking babysitting these (otherwise highly capable, efficient and intelligent) people through this stupidly fucking simple task. I honestly don't understand how someone who is capable of organising and running an entire gamut of clinical research trials, budgeting salaries, expenditures and orders for an entire research & teaching department or performing complex surgical proceedures (3 real examples of middle-aged women in my department) is incapable of understanding "save to disk, double-click, extract file to somewhere useful".
And it IS JUST WOMEN! I've resisted the idea that it's restricted to females over ~40 for a long time but I can no longer fly in the face of overwhelming and unbroken evidence. Sorry.
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