screenshot, probably from Ex-Twitter but I saw it on NOSTR, showing a guy saying that training a zoomer to use a PC at work is as difficult as training a boomer, with a reply indicating that there is only one generation that can rotate a PDF and that knowledge dies with us

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why would someone on a help desk be expected to know what POST is? A software engineer, sure, but helpdesk? If it's needed knowledge…that's what training is for. Businesses' expectation that people will come into the job already knowing exactly how you do things and never require on-the-job training is absurd.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Guessing they’re talking about Power-On Self Test rather than the HTTP verb. I’m assuming you were thinking of the latter given you mentioned a software engineer.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Half of software engineers don't know what a POST is either

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Software engineer here, can confirm I've never received anything by post in my life, it's always couriers. My assumption is that post stamps are boomer NFTs.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, helpdesk should know the basic steps that happen when you power on a computer.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Do you think that's what he meant by POST? Could have meant data delivery through http? Do you think they should know that one too?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    That's not one helpdesk needs to know, unless you're in a specific niche where it's relevant to how your normal users interact with your product. (For example, some backend service, where your users are web devs)

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