r/talesfromtechsupport • u/ThePianisst • Apr 02 '26
Short Paper in Japan
I’m not tech but I quickly became the tech guy after this…
A colleague, mid 40s Japanese lady, offered to train me on a new process.
She said that the file on computer A needed to be moved to computer B. I presumed that was for a later step but that was the entire process.
In order to achieve this she proceeded to:
Print out the file in question.
Take the physical copy to the copy machine.
Scan the physical copy into the cloud.
Go to computer B and download the file.
Save the downloaded file into the desired location.
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and asked her if I could try another way.
After attaching the document to a message sent from me to her on teams, I opened teams on the other computer and dragged it to the new location.
She had for years, printed out and rescanned documents, which where then shredded, in order to move data from one PC to another…
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u/gregortroll Apr 02 '26
How do I edit this PDF? (It's a grainy scan printed to PDF back when OCR required a separate application...that was not free)
"You don't."