One of the things I like about the stock market is that it’s one of the very few areas where you get paid guaranteed if you are right.

In most of life, you just get castigated and exiled if you’re correct against conventional “wisdom.”

I surprised someone else again today with my age. A woman I work with asked me how old I was. I told her, she looked incredulous for a moment and then said, “What!?! You look amazing!”

So that was an ego boost. (She’s an immigrant, so she’s not been captured by the primarily-American PMC lib feminist HR drone mentality. Thus, she acts like an actual human being at work. Had a few in-person meetings this week.)

there should be a minimum computer literacy test when hiring new people.

I agree. I would probably not be so vehement about this if training and blame did not get foisted onto the IT department. New hire does not know how to use Outlook, Microsoft Word, that specialty accounting software or do anything on a computer == the IT department isn’t doing their job!

The last time I looked “Training Specialist” was not in my title nor in the title of anyone on my team. We are not qualified trainers. We have no idea how your department’s practices and procedures work. It is and should be the manager’s role to make sure a new hire is 1) Qualified for the job, including having seen a computer before and 2) Receives the necessary training for the role.

Many times I have pissed off people by refusing to have my team train incompetent new hires on software that we have no expertise in or on. And I will do it again, I absolutely promise.