What is the easiest task your boss is unable to do?

[Evil Genius]

My boss can't act like a human.

 

[Missy1961]

I'm lucky--my boss can do everything. In fact, I go to him when I can't figure out how to do something in Excel or Access.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Talk to people like they might have a brain.

 

[Fintastic]

I am thinking your boss is YOUNG meaning learned to type after say 1990 and learned on a PC with a word program and not a typewriter. Anyone who learned properly how to type, using the touch method on a typewriter (heck I learned on a MANUAL Typewriter) uses two spaces after the period. It made the document look better. Heck when I learned to type an envelope properly the big discussion was how many spaces to put between the state and the ZIP CODE, as zip codes were the NEW item on the block in those days. Once word programs came out that space a sentence for you to make it look pretty on a page the use of two spaces after a period became obsolete, not wrong.

I think MS Word will try to correct it if you don't use two spaces after a period, won't it? I've always put two spaces after a period. I thought that's how you're supposed to do it.

 

[Teresa Pitman]

I'm a writer - I write articles, copy, etc., for a living - and I can tell you that the rule now is to put ONE space after a period. I originally learned to type on a typewriter and had the "two spaces after a period" drilled into me, so it was tough to learn the new way when it changed. But one space is now considered correct - although I don't think any terrible things happen if you use two.

Teresa

 

[tink_n_pooh]

My boss really struggles with technology... he can barely use a computer. We are interviewing people right now for a part-time office position and he asks every single one of the applicants (most of whom are between 18-30 years old) if they know how to use the internet and how to send an email This is after 99% of these applicants have emailed their resume to us from a help wanted ad which was listed on the ... you guessed it, INTERNET

Oh and by the way, we are in the office equipment/technology sales & support field

 

[WDWKOOK]

My boss really struggles with technology... he can barely use a computer. We are interviewing people right now for a part-time office position and he asks every single one of the applicants (most of whom are between 18-30 years old) if they know how to use the internet and how to send an email This is after 99% of these applicants have emailed their resume to us from a help wanted ad which was listed on the ... you guessed it, INTERNET

Oh and by the way, we are in the office equipment/technology sales & support field

More, please!

Nice sig. _n_

 

[missypie]

I am a boss and even though I have an administrative assistant, I do a lot myself. I'm fairly competent. I do refuse to learn how to use styles/special formatting in Word...I figure that keeps me from doing a huge amount of word processing because no one really wants to pay my hourly rate for that.

I also refuse to take the class on electronic billing...I think that's an administrative task and I don't want to do it.

The thing that I'm embarrassed that I can't do is add a third party to a phone call. It used to be easy but with the "new" phones (we've had them for two years) I can't do it. The problem is that unless I turn the lights off in my office, I can't easily read the screen, so I can't see which buttons to press without standing up and moving around until the light is just right. Add to that that the directions that the Help Desk gives me to do it are different than the directions in the instruction manual.

But I can cut and paste and scan and email.

 

[Quiksilvr]

The thing that I'm embarrassed that I can't do is add a third party to a phone call. It used to be easy but with the "new" phones (we've had them for two years) I can't do it. The problem is that unless I turn the lights off in my office, I can't easily read the screen, so I can't see which buttons to press without standing up and moving around until the light is just right. Add to that that the directions that the Help Desk gives me to do it are different than the directions in the instruction manual.

But I can cut and paste and scan and email.

This sounds familiar. I'm good with styles and billing is easy, but the phone system kills me. I get my secretary to do that stuff because I can't remember how to transfer calls or do conferencing. It makes me feel incompetent.

I also get my secretary to print stuff for me... not because I can't do it but because I don't feel like it. Does that count?

 

[Quiksilvr]

I'm a writer - I write articles, copy, etc., for a living - and I can tell you that the rule now is to put ONE space after a period. I originally learned to type on a typewriter and had the "two spaces after a period" drilled into me, so it was tough to learn the new way when it changed. But one space is now considered correct - although I don't think any terrible things happen if you use two.

Teresa

It's funny that you say that... I have also had a difficult time with this... I'm a lawyer, but I used to do some work in art direction. I learned "two spaces after the period!" my entire life, but my boss at the time (the art director) said "one space! two spaces no longer makes sense and one space is better anyway!" So, after months, I broke myself of the two-space habit. Then I became a lawyer, and during my first months at the firm, every assignment that came back to me had "two spaces after the period!" scrawled on it somewhere. So, I've fallen back into bad habits, because that's what they pay me for.

 

[missypie]

I also get my secretary to print stuff for me... not because I can't do it but because I don't feel like it. Does that count?

I do that too, on long documents and with emails with lots of attachments to print. I also admit that sometimes I'll send her something to print just to get her to come to my office. She sits very far from my desk (at her request because she doesn't want to be near the admins who are closer) and she hardly ever comes to check up on me...there are many days that I don't even see her until after lunch, and many times I'll just see her once during the day. I've sent her stuff to print at 4:45 just to see if she's still at work (sometimes she is and sometimes she isn't.)

 

[missypie]

Then I became a lawyer, and during my first months at the firm, every assignment that came back to me had "two spaces after the period!" scrawled on it somewhere. So, I've fallen back into bad habits, because that's what they pay me for.

I had to just open a blank Word document and type something to see what I do. Two spaces.