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[Rick Welykochy]

Malcolm Miles wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:01:56 +1000, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>i think that anyone who has worked in any kind of tech-support role
>>is painfully aware of just how computer-illiterate(*) most people are.
> 
> 
>>(*) and worse, most of them are wilfully and deliberately ignorant (as
>>in "i don't want to know that" or "why should i bother learning that?")
>>rather than just stupid or incapable of understanding.
> 
> 
> And the higher up in the organisation you go, the more wilfully and
> deliberately ignorant they become.

And to add to the irony, it is those higher ups that make the
decisions on what platform to buy and what software to run on
it. And do they listen to those at the coalface? Of course not.


cheers
rickw


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