America's expectations for its leaders have always been low. We've had presidents who needed help with basic tech, and we were okay with it. But now, we face a terrifying prospect: a leader who might know how to convert a Word document to a PDF.
Yeah but the career politician part means that she hasn’t had a job since McDonald’s that didn’t come with at least half a dozen underpaid assistants, so it’s a fair assumption.
My HR manager is also 60 and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.
Nothing is a given in this life.
Also the new intern might not be able to do this either. There’s a surprisingly narrow age range where this skill set is expected
Yeah but the career politician part means that she hasn’t had a job since McDonald’s that didn’t come with at least half a dozen underpaid assistants, so it’s a fair assumption.
This is good or bad?
Using an easily editable format seems good. Microsoft though
A) Why would a newsletter need to be editable?
B) The vast majority of our staff access the newsletter via their phones, and will not care to install an app just so they can read it.
A) To make remarks and comments.
B) Ugh.
Who’s making remarks on a company newsletter? Those guys don’t even use the feedback form we provide them.
Seriously though, does it piss you off when you buy a newspaper and can’t send them remarks and comments by writing on it?
You actually can write on a newspaper
Just give them Windows phones, problem solved.