Incompetent
Excel Phobia
Tech-Illiterate
🟢 Low legal riskTelltale symptoms
- Can't use basic office programs
- Dumps all IT tasks on 'young people'
- Extremely resistant to digital transformation
Psychology profile
Techno-anxiety. Fear that learning new tools will expose incompetence. Fixation on legacy methods.
Legal risk analysis
Not classified as harassment
Likely to be read as legitimate management, so relationship tactics beat legal ones here. Try the counter-strategies below first, and start documenting if it escalates.
Counter-strategies
- 1Say 'Let me show you how' instead of 'Let me do it for you'
- 2Provide step-by-step guides at comfortable levels
- 3Request task redistribution if IT dumping becomes excessive
Often appears with
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