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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have half a dozen Marks. We keep them around, because that's all we can find for $30-$40 an hour.
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See- this is another issue. The owner is late 70s and thinks $80,000 a year is "a kings pay". His brain is stuck in 1980.
 
I've beat my head against a wall explaing that if we hired a college grad for $110,000 a year who has been using computers and a hundred different software programs, building spreadsheets and doing basic accounting for his entire life that he'd replace 2 Marks in an instant, but he thinks that is insane. So, we get poor, technology illiterate broken old men tha need babysitting.[/quote]

Your ageism is bleeding through in everything you write.  While your Mark may not be computer literate, it's not his age.  Who do you think developed all the computers and the code(s) that your recent college grad has been using his entire life?  Those boomer programmers and sw engineers that first learned programming with punch cards and Fortran and COBOL before moving on to C, Object-Oriented Programming C++, Java, etc etc.

I've met more than my fair share of young college grads who know how to use technology but don't understand it.  Don't conflate the two.

Also, you sound like a terrible manager.  It's your job to train and set him up for success.  [/quote]

I agree wholeheartedly with you.  And to the comment that "Mark wasn't programming COBOL in the 80s," this person never said he was. This person said. "Your Mark may not be computer literate, it's not his age."  There's ageism and illiteracy all over everything the OP has written.[/quote]

Wait, what? So, it’s ageism to expect employees to do their jobs?

That’s your story? [/quote]

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