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californical01/15/20261 replyview on HN

Eh, I can think of some examples for sure, I think there are still a lot of people like this.

* Bookkeeper & planning approval within city government

* Doctor/dentist/optometry receptionist & scheduler (both at independent offices and at major hospitals)

* Front desk staff at almost every company with a physical front desk

* University administrative staff (there can be a lot more of these people than you'd think)

* DMV workers

* Probably lots of teachers

Those jobs all will use other software as well, but a lot of their job is making and filling forms on a computer, where they are likely needing to use MS Word fairly often to write things up.


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mrdependable01/15/2026

A lot of these have to do with other peoples data. Are we feeding these machines social security numbers and other PII?

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