...wow.

[falnfenix]

Dear $Name,
Please give me a quote on a new, larger monitor. My current 22" monitor is full - please see attached pic.

Thanks


can't attach the pic due to sensitive data (patient names are visible all over this doc's screen), but he's got an icon for everything...every document he's ever written is on the desktop, as well as everything he's ever downloaded (some in triplicate). this doc has been told how to save to his network share...repeatedly...

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[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

do they use the cup holder?

[falnfenix]

*snort* it wouldn't surprise me. this isn't one of my direct users...and the dept this person comes from is full of people lacking basic computer skills.

[kukla-red.livejournal.com]

That really is a head banger.

[falnfenix]

a good portion of the new staff brought into that particular (entirely non-clinical) department lacks any and all computer skills, even down to the most basic tasks.

[kukla-red.livejournal.com]

It completely boggles my mind that anyone under the age of 40 can claim to have NO computer skills. What is with these people??!! I'm 50 and I've been doing this stuff since I was just out of college. You can't survive these days without knowing how to use a computer.

My SO works for a company with 2 guys (sons of the owners and therefore protected) who couldn't turn a computer on if their life depended on it. And they use Macs!! They both have lovely brand new shiny iMacs on their desks and don't have a clue how to read their own email.

Yes, the stupid burns.

[vtladyhawke.livejournal.com]

*Eyetwitch* If I have more than 3 or 4 icons on a desktop, I go batshit.

Teh st00pid, it BURNS!!

[falnfenix]

heheh

[egearman.livejournal.com]

I had to look at my desktop and it's nearly 5 columns, mostly folders (because I have to have some organization) and that's nearly too much for me. The idea of filling a screen....

[jennlee2.livejournal.com]

Bump up his resolution and then he should be able to fit another couple months worth of icons...

Even for a doc, that's pretty pathetic.

[falnfenix]

for some reason, that dept hires a lot of staff (doctors included) from 3rd world countries. it's reasonable to believe some of them have never had to touch a computer before.

thank goodness they're only researchers, and don't deal with patients...

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

LCD monitors generally run at max resolution by default these days. And a 22" is almost assuredly an LCD.

[awarrenfells.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my room mate.
His desktop is FULL of icons. I seriously doubt he understands any kind of basic file management.

[revchris.livejournal.com]

Give him a quote on a larger monitor, but make sure that it has the same native resolution as his old one.

Or, you could introduce him to the concept of folders.

[falnfenix]

as stated, this doc has been told how to save to his network share...repeatedly...

it wouldn't matter how often he's shown this concept. he's like one of my previous "special cases" from an old job: said doctor couldn't figure out how to synchronize his Handspring to his computer. the Handspring had a cradle...and all he had to do was put the device in the cradle. *eta* he'd forget and call us daily, so every day at 8:15am someone would have to be at his office, helping him put the device in the cradle.

i think the real problem is a lot of doctors lose their basic common sense abilities once they've gotten too far up the food chain.

[chaobell]

Okay, I'm notorious for having a messy desktop, but at least I know I don't have to put shit there. wtf.

[falnfenix]

yes, i have a lot of those...

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

Ha! Sounds like my boss. His desktop is COVERED with icons of all sorts. I've joked that he recently got a bigger monitor just so he'd have more space for them - it kind of horrifies me that it might be TRUE. (Also? He once asked his poor secretary to organize his computer FOR him. I believe she just dumped all his desktop icons into a folder.)

[kukla-red.livejournal.com]

Icon love.

[reyvin.livejournal.com]

LOL. Wow. Even if he's been told repeatedly how to save to network drives or anywhere else besides the desktop, he's going to have to DO it at some point because monitors only go so big....he's just gonna "fill it up" again.

Still chuckling tho..."my monitor is full." XD

[falnfenix]

glad to give a laugh. :)

[gholam.livejournal.com]

CMO has a 3840x2160 56" display in the works...

[kalifla.livejournal.com]

No. D:

[ptstech.livejournal.com]

One of my clients brought me her computer because stuff she was saving to the desktop was "disappearing." At a forced resolution of 800x600, she had so many icons on the desktop that it took fifteen full "screens" of deletions to get them all. Ow.

[attackgypsy.livejournal.com]

We're sorry, but your request for a new monitor is denied.

Please refer to the proper procedure to save file to the network instead of the desktop, in order to conserve desktop space.

Any request for hardware must be accompanied by a cost analysis as well as documentation on why this change is needed and how this will affect other users.