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My wife started a new job a few years ago, and during training she was shown how to create invoices.
She was completely dumbfounded.
I'm a professor and require students to submit typed homework as either docx or pdf format - a student wrote their paper in Word, took a screenshot of it (including their desktop), then saved the screenshot in pdf format.
It was probably cuz you can't run plagiarism checks on it.
Yeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.
That bad eh
Ocr is a thing, not that hard to get the text back.
I wouldn't be surprised someone else wrote it.
I’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.
I've had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation
I wouldn't equate that to not realising you can let the shower warm up. Not even close.
The programmer in me died when I read #3
The compiler in me died when I read #4
Don't correct the trainer and reap the benefits, I guess... ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Here's your arm: \
Ah thanks, I was looking for it everywhere!
The best thing about Excel is the look of hatred you get when using ctrl+; in front of someone who's been manually entering the date through their entire career.
Ugh.
At least my Excel efficiency just increased.
As an engineer, I hate the way excel handle dates