'IT manager' had never heard of a command line • The Register

On Call The very premise on which The Register is built is that our readers know quite a lot about information technology, and that stories featured each Friday in On Call – our weekly tales of your support experiences – therefore reflect your working lives.

We mention the above because this week's On Call, sent by a reader we'll Regomize as "Jack," involves a supposed IT manager who was startlingly ignorant of basic technologies.

Jack's tale comes from his time working at a large western country's tax office.

"I lovingly called it 'Idiots R uS' while I worked there," he told On Call (yes, the odd capitalization in that quote is a clue).

In Jack’s telling, this tax office never hired managers from outside the organization. "They rose from new hires, most of whom are only required to ha