True story.

[onecaliberal]

An individual just hired in our department had no clue she needed her laptop to be in the docking station for it to display on her monitors. Wondered why her monitors were not on when her laptop was in her car.

[snowybirdie]

1. ?

[brush]

2. Need more info. Have no idea what you're talking about or what the job is.

[onecaliberal]

4. The job is irrelevant. Do you sit at a desk with you computer in your car and wonder why you can't

See what’s on it?

[brush]

5. Still not enough info to get what you're talking about. Employer doesn't supply computer or is the..

worker supposed to supply their own computer? Again, not enough info.

[onecaliberal]

11. Employer supplies lap top, docking station and dual monitors. She didn't know the laptop had to be

Plugged in to the docking station.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

3. What's a laptop?...

Haven’t had a “computer” for years. Pad is all I need, lucky me

[captain queeg]

6. I don't think docking stations are used everywhere

I just started running into them 10-15 yrs ago.

If you haven’t seen them, your stick your laptop onto them and it connects to peripheries like monitors, printers. But the dock is just a connection; no computing power of its own.

[jpak]

7. Is she actually sailing her laptop?

Why can't she pull it up on the beach?

[Arazi]

8. I save everything externally (ie in the cloud)

So I also would have probably done that - assumed I could access all of my work at my desktop computer without needing my laptop

[Nitram]

9. There must be better things to do than mock co-workers for not knowing how the computer system

is set up.

[onecaliberal]

12. There is lots to do and don't need to hire people that need that level of hand holding.

[W_HAMILTON]

14. Well then...

...you've probably spent more time complaining about the problem on these forums than the few seconds it would have taken to simply explain the situation to the new coworker.

Life is hard enough without people giving you shit over something as trivial as this -- just be a compassionate coworker and help the new person out.

[lastlib]

10. PLEASE do NOT let her play with subatomic particles.....!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. So?