Asking For Help On Using Email Is A Crime?
from the don't-teach-anyone-that! dept
In a somewhat bizarre dispute that must have more to do with local political positioning rather than any actual outrage, two city council members in Ohio are accusing another council member of misusing resources for asking a city employee how to use her city council email account. This seems like a perfectly normal request -- especially for someone who admits she is computer illiterate. She didn't ask them to set up a personal website for her, but how to use the specific account given to her as a city council member. Of course, thanks to all of this, she's given up on email completely.
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Typical
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The Bigger Crime
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Re: The Bigger Crime
On the subject of her computer skills, one should remember that computer literacy is not easily gained no matter how basic the skill seems after mastery. I agree, however, and that she should not have given up on herself so easily. If I were her constituent, I would have serious questions about her ability to perform in her capacity as an elected city official.
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Re: The Bigger Crime
No? Oh I see, you are not a professor of thermal dynamics.
Then surely you would be able to calculate the trajectory of a craft that will travel to the furthest planet of our solar system, to include the implications of gravimetric variations and implications in passing close to other planets on the way for further study.
No? Well then "How stupid does one have to be not to be able to figure out......."
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More Info
There's more to the story though. The woman is supporting an ordinance that will change the technical guy's job title from "Specialty Clerk" to "Information Technology Coordinator", with a big raise in pay. The two council members who brought the charges oppose the change.
News Article
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Technicalities
As an analogy, assume city council people were provided typewriters to type letters to constituents. A councilmember asking a secretary for typing lessons could be construed as an inappropriate use of the secretary's time.
I'm not trying to justify the other politicians' actions, but simply trying to see why there might be some minute validity to the complaint.
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No Subject Given
Give a man a fish ... he eats for a day.
Teach a man to fish & he can feed himself.
It's a shame we have all gotten so selfish
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Re: No Subject Given
Throw a non-swimmer in the ocean and he'll catch fish for the rest of his life.
Pity that seems to have been the approach of the local council in this case...
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