As one of the younger workers in my office, I am frequently sought out by less computer-efficient workers for help (the elderly love to assume youth alone makes you computer-literate). It's usually little things, like creating desktop shortcuts, file size adjustments or printer problems. Our office recently upgraded to Windows 7, which meant most everyone's settings got reset, and I suddenly found myself a very popular go-to person for resetting default printers and adjusting security settings on the web so people could access Data sites and so on. I'm no computer whiz, but I do understand computers. So when my workstation did not survive the software transition I became good buddies with the IT guy, who spent about 3 days with me trying to get it set straight. We talked about simple stuff: common computer problems found in the office, life in the country, football, cats... (the weather simply wasn't interesting enough). I gleaned some fun stories from him about life in the IT department, and plan on giving Scott more screentime in the future.
Meet Scott, the new IT guy!
As one of the younger workers in my office, I am frequently sought out by less computer-efficient workers for help (the elderly love to assume youth alone makes you computer-literate). It's usually little things, like creating desktop shortcuts, file size adjustments or printer problems. Our office recently upgraded to Windows 7, which meant most everyone's settings got reset, and I suddenly found myself a very popular go-to person for resetting default printers and adjusting security settings on the web so people could access Data sites and so on. I'm no computer whiz, but I do understand computers. So when my workstation did not survive the software transition I became good buddies with the IT guy, who spent about 3 days with me trying to get it set straight. We talked about simple stuff: common computer problems found in the office, life in the country, football, cats... (the weather simply wasn't interesting enough). I gleaned some fun stories from him about life in the IT department, and plan on giving Scott more screentime in the future.