You just found H's birthday present for me! His budding obsession is keyboards. It's insufferable, and obnoxious, and he'll love this. Thanks...sort of.
**note - he uses normal keyboards at work, just likes to have ridiculous ones at home. Nugget's new co-worker sounds like he doesn't have a youth problem, he has a douche/self-importance problem.
We had a guy like that. Would not use our applications, set up all his own stuff. Was told repeatedly he had to use our applications as designed because we track all kinds of stats and run reports, etc. He just kept at it and was finally fired. He was an intern and pulled this, applied for an opening. We ALL told the hiring manager not to hire him, she wouldn't listen. She thought he was a cute kid and we should give him a chance. She also got to fire him. About 9 months later I got a call at home, I KNOW it was his voice. The voice said "this is your bank, there is a problem with your mortgage and we need to resolve it. Can I have the last 4 digits of your SSN". I started laughing and said if you're my bank you tell me what they are because you'd have them on file. He argued for about 3-4 minutes and finally said something like I guess you'll just continue to have a problem with your mortgage. Uh no, no problems.
He kept trying to friend me on Linked-in, facebook, asked me to be a reference for him, etc. Uh no. not ever.
I type over 95 words a minute on my querty. I think my speed is ok.
I hate LONG signatures on emails. I hate people that embed Jpegs, etc in their signatures. It screws with the tracking software all inbound emails go in to at my job. STOP putting crap in your signatures. NO ONE CARES.
I have one of these in my office. Two months after being hired, he asked our boss when he would be eligible for a VP position. We hired the kid right out of college and he was 22.
We had one of these. On one nice, sunny day, he took his laptop outside to enjoy fresh air while writing a report. The VP was the one who caught him. He was the only person surprised when his contract wasn't renewed. I liked the kid, but he was not ready for a corporate job.
He sounds rather desperately insecure. Like, you need to LAUGH at someone about Windows in the workplace? Nah. You're just scared that all your Mac-oriented hipster bullshit has left you unprepared for lyfe.
I'm a millennial too and I think he's weird. I learned Outlook in HS and have used it for almost every job since I graduated college.
I have heard about different functional keyboard layouts (thanks to my computer nerd of a husband), but don't understand why anyone would want to use something other than QWERTY. it's the most common kind in English-speaking countries and what is used in most business settings. a classmate in nursing school used to live in Russia and Israel, so her keyboard had different functions to type in Russian and Hebrew. she could switch between those easily. but when typing in English she used a QWERTY keyboard. I DO understand different mechanical keyboard layouts, like an ergonomic keyboard.
I learned how to type on a keyboarder program (similar to a typewriter in function) but years of writing papers in MLA format, then APA, have trained me to only put one space between sentences.
I have one of these in my office. Two months after being hired, he asked our boss when he would be eligible for a VP position. We hired the kid right out of college and he was 22.
I have never heard that you aren't supposed to double space after a period anymore. I'm not old enough for type writers but I took typing in 7th grade and that's how we were taught.
What field do you work in? Because all of this sounds completely normal for my coworkers (I'm a software engineer). And the guy at my job who has a strange keyboard is mid-fifties and I think it's not dvorak, it's something else. Personally, I only use Windows because I have to for certain things at work. Most of my team is able to get away with using mostly Linux, and I envy them because their computers run much faster. Many of the people I work with don't know much about how Outlook works because they spend their time writing code, not scheduling meetings.
What field do you work in? Because all of this sounds completely normal for my coworkers (I'm a software engineer). And the guy at my job who has a strange keyboard is mid-fifties and I think it's not dvorak, it's something else. Personally, I only use Windows because I have to for certain things at work. Most of my team is able to get away with using mostly Linux, and I envy them because their computers run much faster. Many of the people I work with don't know much about how Outlook works because they spend their time writing code, not scheduling meetings.
This is a lab. Like, a mixing stuff and lab coats and calibration equipment lab. But it's part of a bigger, conventionally corporate office.
Yep, so I'm going to go with wannabe hipster, not certified (or is it certifiable ) tech geek in this case. Feel free to continue mocking