Watching my parents use a computer

plepord · 1 month

No. None of you even know the pain I go through.

I recently started a new job as a nurse and I am being trained by a nurse in her 60's. We do the majority of our charting and medication administration on the computers. The first 3 days of work I still had not received my computer log ins so I had to do all my computer stuff with her. Oh. My. Gosh.

It takes her about 30 seconds to move the mouse to the place she wants and click on something. If the computer starts working slower or doesn't respond all the way her first instinct is to unplug it. She also cannot grasp the concept of the refresh button on our labs so when looking for a new lab value she will log out and log back in to make it appear. I think the real kicker though was when she was trying to explain a new system to me. She brought up a word document explaining the system complete with pictures. She kept trying to click the different tabs in the pictures and was getting frustrated when they were not working. I explained that they were just pictures on the word document, not the actual program and she called me stupid. I really can't wait to get off training!!

P3chorin · 1 month

My dad reads every dialog box like it's a fucking contract.

nastylittleman · 1 month

She's almost as pretty as Stop Girl.

Kuina · 1 month

Use Google Chrome instead...no Mom, the internet isn't deleted.

creepy_is_what_I_do · 1 month

I wish I turned into a hot girl every time my parents screwed up something on the computer. I'd just install a ton of crappy programs that slow down the computer, then I'd go in the other room and look at myself naked. For hours.

somisinformed · 1 month

Just wait until you get a job. You make 40k they all make 150k and they still don't know how to use a mouse, or alt tab or copy and paste. WTF YOU WERE WORKING WHEN EXCEL AND THE COMPUTER WERE INVENTED WHY YOU NOT LEARN THEM BETTER IN 30 YEARS THAN WE DID IN 4

ctborder · 1 month

It is quite frustrating.

fassaction · 1 month

My mom is pretty computer savy, as she has worked for a law firm for 15 years....has been using a computer the whole time.

I dont know why, but as soon as I ask my mom to follow some simple instructions, her IQ suddenly drops about a 100 points.

"Click the start button? What is this "start button" you are talking about? Is it near the clock?"

My father....hes just a riot. He hates computers, never uses them...I played a little trick on him a few years ago. I popped off a bunch of the keys and switched them around. He kept typing, looking up at the screen and then furiously hitting the back space. He finally wised up to my antics and said "Alright...whos been fucking with my keyboard?"

LimaEchoCharlie · 1 month

I have the same reaction in my head to 98% of the questions I receive as an IT support person for a public university. (I deal only with faculty, not students.)

UseThe4s · 1 month

Not my parents, but my completely computer illiterate aunt.

"So how do I look up 'such and such'"

"I don't know, just google it."

Opens IE, MSN as homepage, types 'Google' into Bing search bar, opens link to google.

"Okay, what now?"

"Umm, just search for it"

"Well how do I do that?"

Wat?

Phyrion01 · 1 month

What is this from and who is that chick?

ScaryGarcia · 1 month

Never let divorced fathers browse unsupervised. "but there we're locals in my area wanting to chat!"

lotictrance · 1 month

Every time I see this gif, I can hear her saying it in a mild Texas Southern accent.

"Oh. Mai. Gawd."

Mapes · 1 month

Find top post on /r/reactiongifs
Post to /r/funny
??????
Karma!

steelfrog · 1 month

"Hold on, let me get on the fox fire so I can ask the Google"

extreme_kiwi · 1 month

Please allow me to play Devil's advocate here. I am 43 years old. I currently hold a BSEET and a dozen certs. I also type at about 80-90wpm.

Most of the computers that come into my shop are trashed by kids. Viruses and malware, failed upgrades and repairs, corrupted OS installations... you name it.

Now get off my lawn! Dang whippersnappers!

CheeseStalker · 1 month

My mom is getting better. She still has three or four browsers open at any time, but she's getting there!

latino_steak_knife · 1 month

Hey, this exact thing with the exact same title was posted 3 months ago with over 2000 upvotes. Reddit will upvote anything even from u/irepostoldstuff...

Oh and wouldn't you know it, the number one comment in this thread is the number one comment in the old thread as well.

flashcats · 1 month

Five years ago, I was a summer intern at a major car manufacturer as a finance intern.

One of my projects was crunching a bunch of old financials and projecting what they would have been under certain cost situations. The old financials were in a series of Excel files.

My boss said it would take me a few weeks to do everything.

I turned in the project in about one afternoon. She was shocked. "How did you do that so fast?"

Turns out, she didn't know you could copy + paste from one Excel file into another. She had been re-typing everything by hand for years...

This car company no longer exists. ಠ_ಠ

JRLindgren22 · 1 month

Whenver I see the same gif w/ the same caption monthly

doctor_x · 1 month

Clicka-clicka

"You don't have to double-click hyperlinks."

Clicka-clicka

"You only need to click it once for it take you to—"

Clicka-clicka

"I said you don't have to doub—" Clicka-clicka.

"It doesn't—" Clicka-clicka

"STOP FUCKING DOUBLE-CLICKING EVERYTHING!"

Crossfox17 · 1 month

Relevant username: irepostoldstuff.

InTheHamIAm · 1 month

Watching Texas play football this year...

anthrocide · 1 month

I would really ike to have sex with you when you're watching your parents use a computer

undeterminedalius · 1 month

My parents use Internet explorer and refuse to get chrome or Firefox because they know it annoys me.

jhangel77 · 1 month

I was just down in CA visiting my parents and while I'm there my mom wants to know how to transfer pics from a camera to her computer (again!) and how to load FB pictures (again!). I show her and we go step by step through it. You know how you were in school and had a project on writing down all the steps to make a PB&J sandwich? Well, there are actually a lot of steps to doing what we have come to do automatically. She would write these steps down and I would have to repeat them and go really slow. Once we had all the pictures on the computer, I showed her how to select the pictures for FB. I also showed her how to do select SHIFT and select CTRL for pictures. She wrote it all down, but I don't know... She jokes that people will know when I'm visiting because that's the only time she loads pictures on FB.

jennaberry · 1 month

I feel like one of the few without this problem. My dad has worked with computers almost his entire life... he hacked into his library's computer system and stole their passwords when he was a teenager. And my mom is very competent, she's never once gotten a virus or used a toolbar. I'm very proud. :)

Dubrock87 · 1 month

My parents are bad at computer machines, too.

kidcurly · 1 month

Watching the netherlands (if youre dutch.

Ortekk · 1 month

Watching my dad using the computer, he's doing fine.. A bit slow.

Watching my mum using the computer. No, no, no, NO! BAD MOM! BAD!! You just deleted everything, how the fuck did you do that?

SuggestiveMaterial · 1 month

Any time i watch my alma mater's football team... University of Idaho.

ContaxG2 · 1 month

They did the same thing during your toilet training.

Vanthu · 1 month

Just to put things in perspective. This is probably exactly how your parents feel, watching you grow up and become responsible. In other words, for every time you feel this about them, they felt it about you 1000 times.

AshtrayPettingZoo · 1 month

/r/reactiongifs ? maybe? Isn't this exactly the kind of post that should be there?

apextek · 1 month

back in the 90's i felt sorry for them it was new and they were learning, early 2000's I was patient, but in 2012 when they call me to figure out how to use skype, their wifi, the printer, ect.. i feel like lecturing them. "you know you've owned a computer for 15 years and still don't know how to use one?, you realize my daughter is 6 and understands the computer better?"

Dominoes282 · 1 month

And this is my parents face when I tell them how to do something on the computer.

arkhound · 1 month

Watching everyone in my workplace use a computer.

lgtheright1 · 1 month

Ha! She's wearing a WWJD? bracelet!

A_Hippie · 1 month

You just took the exact title of a highly rated post from React-

Fuck, it's irepostoldstuff.

robotortoise · 1 month

Don't say anything....let them figure it out for them.... "MOM! That is NOT a virus scanner!"

funny

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