My project manager refuses to use hotkeys, watching her copy/paste with the right click context menu takes years off my life.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
I have to leave this thread.
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.
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.
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.
Where else would your other hand be but the keyboard?
“that’s right! The square hole!”
My girlfriend does NOT use her mouse wheel to scroll web pages. It’s melting my brain.
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.
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.
Page Up/Page Down gang
There is a reason I always say, “backslash, the one without the question mark”.
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.
By “differently” you mean “utterly wrong every time”, right?
That’s why I stopped letting others use mine unless there was absolutely no other way.
I don’t let others use my computer, either - but sometimes I have to watch them use their own computer the wrong way.
I have the opposite problem. I don’t care how other people set up their workflow, but I get criticized for not using the defaults while performing better. 🙄
I have the problem that I give off a vibe as an onlooker. I’m not trying to be judgmental but I guess I ooze it.
Edit: Your case makes me chuckle. I used to love watching IT struggle because I got rid of default desktop and quick launch icons. Finally we have all learned to search.
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.
yup - def a pet peeve
