The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsWorld's Biggest Jerk Revisited
This post submitted via the internet by Lostinlimaohio and approved from hundreds of miles away via the internet by Sam.
35% of American's Don't Read Sam:
Not only do they not read Sam, they don't have internet access. That's down right scary, but true according to a recent study of people who are too dumb to use computers. (Hey, I can insult them all I want- let's face it, it's not like they are going to read this and get mad!)
I don't want to be mean to everyone, I realise that there are those who simply cannot afford to have computers and internet connections.
And there are those who are just too old- it's like sex after 60- you shouldn't engage in it.
And there are those who, well let's face it, they are just lazy, and have way to much money. Yeah, they brag that they don't use the internet, and how it's so much better for them that way, but they are lying:
John W. Rogers Jr. The CEO of Ariel Capital Management LLC doesn't use the Internet at work or at home. The 47-year-old Princeton University grad thinks the Net is largely a waste of time. Assistants print out e-mails for him and researchers give him paper copies of Wall Street analysts reports from the Web. He prefers to spend his time reading, talking directly with his staff, working out at the gym, or spending time with his teenage daughter. "If you're spending all your time on e-mail, you're not listening and reading," says Rogers
I'm sorry but that is just like a man. "Oh the internet is a waste of time- honey go print my emails off for me" What the ??? Clearly what he should have said is that the internet is a waste of HIS time, because he has enough money to pay someone to do all the internet type stuff.
And just who are these assistants? I hope to *** that if they happen across this they will look up at their lazy boss and tell him to "research this". (IMHO number two seems most fitting in this case)
Now, I don't mean to insult his lowly "internet" employees- but does this idiot realize that he is indeed using the internet, he's just doing it via other people. I mean, if you are going to state that you "don't use the internet" and then act all high and mighty about it- I don't want to even hear about you coming within say two hundred feet of a online connection. Otherwise, shut up and admit it- you do use the internet, in fact you're so addicted to it- you even pay other people to check your inbox.
Source of my aggravation for today can be found here.
*** After writing this I realised that this guy with too much money should hire the people with not enough money, then everyone could be on the internet, and reading Sam.
This post submitted by Lostinlimaohio, who happens to be willing to admit that "I am completely addicted to the internet- but not enough to pay other people to do my surfing for me".
Comments
Back when I was in the business world (the pre-AT&T SBC), I would run into a few upper managers like this. I don't know if they acted snobby about not using the internet, but they did have their assistants print out all their e-mails and reports and absolutely anything else electronic, and then had their assistants type out their written responses to e-mails and send them, etc. Really, the problem was that they didn't grow up in the business world using computers or the internet and they were in a position where they didn't have to if they didn't want to. They had ways of compensating for their ignorance. Other older folks who were in more peon positions didn't have a choice since the use of computers and the internet was an integral part of their job.
The attitude of those upper-levels, though, really annoyed me because these were the same idiots talking about being more efficient and cutting costs and here they were wasting paper, toner, the time of their assistants, and the time of others who had to wait for the whole process to be complete, all because they didn't want to learn how to use something new and different.
I even remember developing a new sales compensation approval process that involved having an e-mail with the scanned paperwork attached as a pdf file that went to various level managers for their approval. In theory, it should have much faster than using company mail - two days instead of two or three weeks. It, however, invariably got bottlenecked somewhere because the printout of the file (which could be 20 pages or more) the assistant made had been sitting in some twit's paper inbox for a week. It completely defeated the whole purpose of the new process. And don't get me started on the people who couldn't figure out how to use Adobe correctly and then complained to and about me because of it.
Ummm... so yeah, Rogers is merely trying to cover up the fact that he's computer illiterate by claiming snobbery. It sounds better to say you're too good for computers and the internet than admitting you don't know how to use them and are scared to try. It's like some people I've known who refuse to eat something due to their childish pickiness but who try to make it seem like it's because they're some kind of gourmands.
Posted by: Dangerous Dan | January 2, 2007 08:15 PM