Just as the title asks I’ve noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they’re reading.

They’ll read it and despite all the information being there, if it’s even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it’s complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it’s making me lose my fucking mind.

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    Also one my favourites:

    „Nothing works, and this annoying message keeps popping up. I keep closing it, but it just comes back every time. Can you help me?“

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      Them: “All the PCs are broken”

      Me: “ok, cam you see any lights on the monitors or on the front of the pcs”

      Them: “i dont know”

      Me: “ok I’ll come have a look”

      walks down

      Me: “Ok show me one of the broken ones”

      Them: “ok well its actually just this one”

      Me: dont get mad, they are just an idiot

      Me: turns on screen

      Them: “how did you do that?”

      Me AAAAAARRRRHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGG “magic 😀” AAAAAAARRRRRHHHHHGGG

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        The amount of people who work on a computer every day and still don’t know the absolute basics is astounding.

        I fully understand that someone who never used a PC doesn’t know their way around one, that’s absolutely fair, of course. But if they’ve used one for years because of their job, and are still not able to work out where that one file is…
        That’s just inexcusable.

        Great job security for IT and tech support though.

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        I once had six monitors shipped to us from onsite, complaining they were all dead.

        Each one, just twiddle the brightness knob right on the front (yes this was the 90s, CRTs with analogue knobs…) and they were absolutely fine.