HR steps in for Tech team after incompetent staff refuses learn how to work with them, creates a quiz they all must pass with 90% accuracy: 'It's great when HR has IT's back'

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  • "It's great when HR has IT's back"

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  • We had a huge issue where staff were contacting IT staff directly via Teams, email, in passing or just straight up interrupting IT staff when they were doing other jobs to raise their incidents and requests.
  • Like most large organisations, we wanted all new requests and incidents to come in via the service desk, and offered staff their choice of an email, via an online portal or calling through via a telephone call to do this.
  • Whenever we were approached by staff directly as described above, we would always let them know they needed to log a ticket.
  • Problem was that 90% of the time this would result in "how do I do that?" And you would then spend 10-15 minutes with them going through logging a ticket with "It's asking me to describe my problem.
  • What do I type in? OK now it's asking for my phone number. Do I type in my phone number in there?" I imagine about half of this was the of the "I'm not good with computers" (and apparently not good with basic comprehension) type, and the other half of people being so difficult that the IT person they were speaking to would give up and just do their request without them logging a ticket.
  • The solution? Anyone that has worked in a large organisation has probably dealt with mandatory online training/learning.
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  • The type that usually relates to safety, whistleblowing, raising grievances, etc. where you do a short online module and have a test at the end where you need to get something like 90% to 100% to pass.
  • In this organisation, this was part of the HR system and baked into the HR software package, so HR managed this.
  • We worked with HR to develop a course called "Contacting IT" which was literally a course on how to log a ticket with us.
  • And yes, there was a test at the end. All new starters would needed to complete this before starting, and all existing employees has 6 weeks to complete.
  • This was great as after that 6 week period, whenever we got a "I don't know how to log a ticket", we could mention that they would have had an online module to complete explaining how to do that, and if they don't know about this or forgotten what to do, they should contact their manager to request (re)training.
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  • Scrapheaper Honestly I think not knowing how to use a computer in 2025 is a sackable offence. They're essential for modern work
  • OP speddie23 I mean if you're employed as say a gardener, who wouldn't be expected to touch a computer in their employ, fair enough. But if you're a receptionist, or claims processor, or pricing analyst, whose role literally involves using a computer then yeh, na, you should know how to use a computer.
  • Broccoli--Enthusiast This morning I saw a ticket that just had the title "Emails" and the description says "can you help?" Like fuck off. Use your words, you are an adult. If you can't even understand why you need to provide more information without being asked, you should be jn a secure unit, not out amount the public, absolute weapon of a person
  • higherbrow An old boss described it to me this way. A modern office worker not understanding a computer is like a carpenter not understanding a hammer.
  • Loki-L Ideally it shouldn't ask for things like phone numbers. If the person's name is known thanks to logging into the tickets system or just by the email they contact helpdesk with, all their data should already be known by the system. Users shouldn't be expected to provied more info than who they are, what they were trying to do and what happened that they didn't like (ideally with a screenshot of that event) and maybe an answer to the question: "Has it ever worked the way you want it to befo
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