• lechatron@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    11 days ago

    My project manager refuses to use hotkeys, watching her copy/paste with the right click context menu takes years off my life.

    • lauha@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      Watching people open the browser (whoch open to google by default), typing google on the search field and hit search, selecting the first result (which of course is google) and the making their search when it open

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 days ago

      Years ago saw someone copy/pasting stuff in Excel one field at a time using the “Edit” menu. She told me this way she knew it was working.

      I had to walk away.

      I will also say that back then computers were a lot scarier, since many people had never used them. People were terrified of clicking the wrong thing.

      • sbeak@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        She told me this way she knew it was working.

        To be fair, I always Ctrl+C multiple once to make sure it copied, even though one would be enough. Humans are pretty irrational

        • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          That’s not irrational on some OSes coughWindowscough. There was a time where the hotkey copy would randomly not work with no rhyme or reason.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        Yeah, I am the same.
        I type the code myself, so I know what it actually means, instead of letting AI do it.

        It might seem different now, but 10-20 years down the line, they might be the same energy.

    • JohnSmith@feddit.uk
      2·
      11 days ago

      I had a boss who didn’t use even the context menu never mind keyboard shortcuts. He went for the application Edit menu to copy/paste. Gave me headaches.

    • teslekova@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 days ago

      It can get worse.

      You could watch them post the text into a notepad doc that they keep open, which has all the stuff they copied and pasted before, then copy the WRONG TEXT back into the target document.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      0·
      11 days ago

      Sometimes it’s faster. If I’m already using the mouse to change windows, I’ll use the context menu. If my hands are on the keyboard, I use keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Ctrl or ⌘ + C or V). It just depends on what you’re doing.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 days ago

      Yup. You can’t say “the one leaning to the left” because, and trust me on this, there’s a number of ways a person can screw that up.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    I once asked a co-worker to scroll to the bottom of a list so I could see the last entries.

    I watched in abject horror as he clicked the little down arrow on the scroll bar repeatedly.

    I honestly wanted to wrench the mouse from his grasp and feed it to him.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      0·
      10 days ago

      Honestly, the fact that here in 2026, we still can’t get peripherals like audio, video, and printers to work in a 100% reliable and seamless way, is just embarrassing. It’s been over 30 years of having this stuff mostly standardized (and then re-standardized) and it’s still a shitshow.

      • onlinepersona@programming.dev
        1·
        10 days ago

        Blame the short term focus on profit and the system we exist in. There simply is no reason for it to be stable. It’s not a life or death matter, neither for people nor for companies, hence, it will not be prioritised. The world would have to be very different for these “basic” things to be prioritised.

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Printer companies keep them bad on purpose so you’ll buy new printers hoping they fixed it (or at the high end pay for their maintenance contract).

  • Matengor@lemmy.ml
    2·
    11 days ago

    My girlfriend does NOT use her mouse wheel to scroll web pages. It’s melting my brain.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 days ago

      Page up, down, space, home, and end are WAY more responsive and faster.

      Problem is, some pages do funky things with keyboard inputs and/or focus odd elements. This basically shoots a 30-year-old page navigation standard in the head.

      Also, don’t get me started on apps crippling back-navigation.

      • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        The one I absolutely loathe (maybe because I run into it more often) is them stealing when I press Ctrl+f to focus their page’s search textbox.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    “differently than you” is a funny way to say “triple clicking a hyperlink every fucking time oh my god you only have to click it once, mom”.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    I was a consultant for 40 years. I was that guy that logged in remotely and took control of your PC. People absolutely lose it. It does not matter if you tell them or try to explain to them. On countless occasions I would be on the phone with the person saying I am logging into your computer right now. They would start screaming that somebody is hacking into the machine. It would take a couple minutes to calm them down. Same thing if I said I’ll be logging in in five minutes. I would inevitably get a call from the person that I just told five minutes ago I was logging in saying somebody’s hacking their computer. I am so glad I am retired now.

  • _lilith@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 days ago

    however they get it done is fine it’s just when it takes 10x the time to open something they use every day. bitch how do you live like this

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      1·
      10 days ago

      I don’t let others use my computer, either - but sometimes I have to watch them use their own computer the wrong way.

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
    1·
    11 days ago

    Had a refinement yesterday, where we decided that we should add all tickets of an epic individually into the milestone (except for two).
    And for whatever reason, our project manager had decided to use the in-browser split view and was struggling against that, but also just was about to do it in some cumbersome way. I think, he wanted to manually compare the list of issues in the epic vs. the milestone.

    Either way, I could tell that he’d need 10+ seconds to even get started. And telling him how to do it would probably take equally long. So, I just open each issue of the epic in a new tab and check on each tab that the issue is in the milestone or add it, then close the tab. And yep, I was long done when he was still trying to find the issue list for the milestone.

    That was certainly one of those moments. 🫠

    He isn’t entirely familiar with that issue tracking UI, so it’s fine, and of course, it is my job to be good with computers and all that, but still felt wild that he could’ve easily needed ten times as long to do the same thing.