Re: [Nolug] Are You Noticing Nerd Fatigue?

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 02:58 -0400, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > If I'm responsible for the smooth running of IT, I need the power
> > to control said computers, printers, etc.
>
> I'm not going to disagree with that aspect of centralization. That's
> not what I (meant to) address in the article, though. The author
> seemed to desire the centralization of knowledge. Yep, it'd be nice
> if everyone could only beg help of IT.

Yeah, I know. That's what started the decentralization movement
in the 1st place.

> > *keep* the users dumb??????
> >
> > Oh, puleeze.
>
> I know it is fashionable to consider them "lusers", but if this is
> the kind of respect you have for your users, then I wouldn't want you
> running my helpdesk.

There will always be some clueful users (amazingly, I married one!),
but most just want to be clueless about it. That ranges from the
guy/gal who would rather focus on the job s/he's being paid to do,
to people who Think The Are Too Stupid To Learn About Big Scary
Computers But Really Aren't, to people who Really Are Too Stupid
To Learn About Big Scary Computers.

Stated differently, the class of people who know what they are
doing is much, much smaller than those who know just enough to
be dangerous, but think they do know everything, which is much
smaller than the "my cup-holder broke" class.

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