however they get it done is fine it’s just when it takes 10x the time to open something they use every day. bitch how do you live like this
My personal hell will be this but they’re also a loud chewer that licks their fingers and gets wet Cheeto dust all over everything.
My project manager refuses to use hotkeys, watching her copy/paste with the right click context menu takes years off my life.
Watching people open the browser (whoch open to google by default), typing google on the search field and hit search, selecting the first result (which of course is google) and the making their search when it open
It can get worse.
You could watch them post the text into a notepad doc that they keep open, which has all the stuff they copied and pasted before, then copy the WRONG TEXT back into the target document.
Years ago saw someone copy/pasting stuff in Excel one field at a time using the “Edit” menu. She told me this way she knew it was working.
I had to walk away.
I will also say that back then computers were a lot scarier, since many people had never used them. People were terrified of clicking the wrong thing.
Yeah, I am the same.
I type the code myself, so I know what it actually means, instead of letting AI do it.It might seem different now, but 10-20 years down the line, they might be the same energy.
Sometimes it’s faster. If I’m already using the mouse to change windows, I’ll use the context menu. If my hands are on the keyboard, I use keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl or ⌘ + C or V). It just depends on what you’re doing.
People use the mouse to switch windows?
watching… and not doing anything about it…
😅
By “differently” you mean “utterly wrong every time”, right?
Years ago I came in hot to a new team acting like I knew everything and the lead refused to teach me. Totally my fault for being a horse’s arse. However, I taught myself and got really, really good at it. The team lead had been doing it for four years. When I saw how he was doing it, I had to cringe. My way was way better. But if I tried to show him my way, it would have been like I was acting like I knew more than them. Had I come in more humbly, my contribution would have probably been better received. It didn’t work out with that team.
I don’t act like I know better than others so much now, if I catch myself. Sometimes their way works for them. And I’m not young. There are probably younger people than me who are faster. Maybe they use AI. I refuse to.
You’re never gonna be the best. Try to be the kindest.
There is a reason I always say, “backslash, the one without the question mark”.
Not necessarily … I have a young colleague who has an absolutely Insane typing speed, he never copy-pastes anything shorter than something like a hundred characters simply because he types that much faster (and during all these years, I’ve never ever seen him make a mistake).
yup - def a pet peeve
Had a refinement yesterday, where we decided that we should add all tickets of an epic individually into the milestone (except for two).
And for whatever reason, our project manager had decided to use the in-browser split view and was struggling against that, but also just was about to do it in some cumbersome way. I think, he wanted to manually compare the list of issues in the epic vs. the milestone.Either way, I could tell that he’d need 10+ seconds to even get started. And telling him how to do it would probably take equally long. So, I just open each issue of the epic in a new tab and check on each tab that the issue is in the milestone or add it, then close the tab. And yep, I was long done when he was still trying to find the issue list for the milestone.
That was certainly one of those moments. 🫠
He isn’t entirely familiar with that issue tracking UI, so it’s fine, and of course, it is my job to be good with computers and all that, but still felt wild that he could’ve easily needed ten times as long to do the same thing.
That’s why I stopped letting others use mine unless there was absolutely no other way.
