Here’s the Situation

There’s an image on a web page. You just asked someone to email you that image. The one that’s on a web page. A public web page. With an image on it. The image that’s on a public web page. The JPG that is displaying on a publicly accessible World Wide Web page on The Internet™.

Look, I get it. Not everyone “grew up” with “technology” (????? are you a dinosaur, like literally a triceratops ?????)… but how have we allowed it to be possible to get to any stage of management without basic computer literacy like knowing about right-clicking?

How to Do It

Your mouse (probably) has two main buttons on it: one’s on the left, and one’s on the right. Drag the mouse and float the cursor so it’s directly on the image in question. Click that right mouse button. (Just once. Stop double-clicking things online.) You’re probably going to get a new, context-dependent menu with all sorts of options. See “Save Image” (or “Save Image As” or “Save Target As”)? Click that with the left mouse button. TA-DAH~. You just learned how to save an image file from the Internet! You’re a total boss now, boss!

Here’s What Your Employee is Thinking

They think you don’t know how to use a computer, because you clearly don’t. This is extremely basic computer literacy, and has been a part of web browsers since they were first able to show images… which was a very long time ago.

For the sake of argument, fine, yes, there are plenty of situations where right-clicking and saving an image from a web page isn’t the appropriate course of action. Maybe it’s a thumbnail, and the original/full-resolution photography lives somewhere. Maybe there’s JavaScript preventing right-clicks on the page (this is extremely unlikely).

What Other Magic Exists?!

Just wait until you learn “Inspect Element”…

(Maybe the only thing worse than this is actually receiving an image from someone… embedded in a Word document. But that’s a lesson for another day.)