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Sorry bout your heart

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Some people are shockingly stupid, even though I've spent my entire life finding out how stupid people can be.
- I worked in retail for a decade, and have been in IT for past 12 years. Mostly help desk. Mostly medical.
  The advanced degrees these people have is astounding, but the lack of common sense is terrifying.
  Like, these people are cutting into other people to fix shit? They can't tie their own shoes, and the concept of a power button on a computer is too much.
  This is the same person. Hopefully he has retired or died by now, cause those were his only real choices at that age.
  Seriously, his assistant tied his shoes for him. She probably had advanced degrees of her own. And she had to tie an old man's shoes on the daily.
  Maybe there something to have such a laser focus like medicine specialties really does rob people of their common sense.
  Tie? Shoe? No, but that artery is about to retract or some shit.
  
  I have the exact same experience. I explain health benefits to people for multiple different companies across the US. The number of airline pilots who see a 'forgot username or password?' button and just don't know what that means, or type their username in the password field and vice versa, even though they're clearly labeled, is insane.
  
  Maybe he had back arthritis or similar conditions? If he was an old surgeon I'm sure 8+ hours a day bent over wasn't kind to the core muscles and skeleton. As for intelligence, nobody is all knowing. Everyone has specialized knowledge, and few try to learn outside their interests. But yeah, learning basic pc skills is kinda important.
  
  From my experience, doctors tend to despise IT.
  
  From my experience, anyone that works with doctors despise them, so that road certainly goes both ways.
  Also, from my experience, they tend to love when you pick up the phone at 4am, remote into their machine, and just fix their problem so they can get back to work.
  Day shift people suck anyways.
  
  Also in IT. Complained last week about a guy who is a lawyer who was befuddled by needing to reset his password for an online service. Dude! How can you not have this skill by now?!
  I was utterly forlorn. And a bit angry.
- Every day I am amazed. Carlin is proven more accurate day after day.

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