I agree with you that it's probably not nerd shaming. Having said that, I read it as poking fun at the skills people are expected/forced to list on their CVs.

"M.Sc. in Software Engineering. 15 years of software development experience. Successful founder of two startups. Other skills: E-mail, Word, Excel, Powerpoint".

In any case, and seeing how varied the comments here are, I officially label it "art".

Which makes sense, because VERY few people actually knows how to use Word with any significant level of proficiency. I'm guessing more people have advanced Excel skills.

Word is pretty forgiving, for smaller texts, where you could easily go around and fixing heading manually for instance. That leads people to believe that they have "Word skills". I've seen maybe a handful of people being able to seriously utilize Words huge feature set to make their job easier.

It seems to be more at people with real skills being drilled about their Word skills in an interview.

"Well it's nice that you have a few university degrees and 19 yeras of experience in journalism; how proficient are you in MS Word?"

"Oh, I can't even begin to tell you how! You better sit back and relax as this story takes us all the way back to Windows 95 ..."

Isn't this comment nerd-shaming? I use LibreOffice Writer (and sometimes Word) quite frequently, and I consider myself somewhat of a nerd.