Meeting hijackers

So.

There are always Luddites out there, in various forms. In fact, I think almost everyone on the planet has a Luddite tendency toward something.

Why, oh why, does there always, ALWAYS, have to be one in whatever tech meeting I am in?

The meetings usually start with the trainer talking about what he or she will be training the group on, followed by slides, goodies for folks who ask pertinent questions or offer pertinent observations, more explanations interrupted often by intelligent questions but also often by questions such as "I don't know what the heck you are talking about!"

These interruptions are always voiced belligerently, as if the trainer was imposing some impossible technology on the meetees. There is an expectation, almost, of a chorus of "Yeah! What are you talkin' about!?" Expectation is usually never met, because interruptor is a MORON, who wants to hijack the meeting and use it as a lesson for everything he doesn't know about email, or Google, or whatever.

The good trainer, and most of them are, say with a big smile, "Hey, I am teaching you about options. Use however many of them you want." In other words, (I'm interpreting, because I so would not want this job) Use your brain and figure it out. Not hard.

As a total technology aside, I really miss my pink Motorola Razr phone, which I lost on the morning bus in January. I think in 10 or 20 years it will be a collectible. Did I mention it was pink?