ON BECOMING AVERAGE

working for the defense department for 30+ years i became used to stupidity from the motor pool to the top bosses and the officers. just grin and bear it. now that i'm in my mid-eighties, sorta' sick and am affected by my required meds i feel that my IQ must have decreased to about 99. fiddling with new operating systems, new technical products, etc. is a difficult chore.

when my group got one of the first apple 1 or something computers an employee was afraid to touch it. i assured him that it wouldn't break to no avail. he was afraid of it.

a boss told me not to spill coffee on it. so clever of him. he never did anything useful anyway. he carried a ledger around and appeared to take notes presumably for some important purpose.

in the dilbert comic strip of that time the boss was given an etch-a-sketch and told it was a computer. i believe it could have been a true story.

a division chief told a computer knowledgeable employees to just put a job in the computer. the employee told me he didn't know where the division chief wanted him to stick it. after the chief overheard this employee say that the chief was a horse's ass he had to transfer to another group.

i have many such true stories but my point is or was supposed to be that i am turning into one of these morons.

nevermind.

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