[geeks] How can people put up with this....

[Tim H.]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:30:15 -0400
Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> Then he obviously wasn't a human who was worthy of working in a print
> shop. 

whoa, from what I have seen the requirements of these chain copyshops
are similar to the ones for McDonalds.  My brother, with a reading
disability and no technical training whatsoever  (he maxed out at PS2,
the playstation, not the IBM) was a star employee at the local Staples
in the print shop.  Not that he isn't a good worker, or dumb or
anything, but hand him a PS file on a floppy and he'd have not a clue if
he couldn't open it with the official program.  Remember, this whole
post industrial age is all about accepting mediocrity at all levels of
society. Demanding a reasonable level of proficiency is not politically
correct.  Don't blame the incopetent worker, blame the company that
hires/promotes incompetent people.  Eventually the become Dave M's
favorite type of person, suits.

Tim