Computers in the Workplace
While my goal is to eventually be a librarian, I do not yet have any real life experience working in that environment. Therefore, for this post I am choosing to write about the standard box store retail environment and the role computers play in them. Computers, with their more recent trends of becoming more powerful and portable, have become increasingly significant in big box retail stores. It is important for these employees to be computer literate on the most basic of levels so that when registers upgrade from a keyboard function to a touchscreen, they are able to use logic and knowledge of computer software to determine how to navigate the programs run in order to ring up a customer's cart. The employees that monitor the self-check registers need to have a basic understanding of troubleshooting in addition to the software operating system so that they ca...