We all have a style of learning when it comes to new systems or computers. I am a poker, I mean I will click on everything and “poke around” until I understand what the system does. Some are more methodical in that they read and learn it and are very cautious and don’t do anything they don’t understand. I drive those people crazy! They ask me not to mess with their system, but how am I going to learn if I can’t poke around? Some are smart and give me a “developer” area which I can go knock around in or they have a sandbox which can be restored every time I oops! When they are trying to show me how something works, they have that look of despair on their face, and they say things to me like, please whatever you do don’t do “x.” It gets bad when they are looking over my shoulder as I am clicking away on every box seeing if it will let me change something I can see the pain and twitching in their eyes. Most of the time all they can say is, no don’t touch that, but you and I both know I am not going to stop. Maybe I could be a little kinder and wait for them to leave my cube before I go clicking around but at some point, depending on how close they sit to my cube, they will hear the clicks and wonder what hell I am causing.
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