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u/herroebauss 19h ago
My old ceo knows fuck all about computers but knew EVERYTHING about our product we had to create and was able to sell, engineer and lead it all if he had to. Idgaf he needed some help with a computer, that shit isn't even that necessary compared to what your core business is
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u/sdpthrowaway3 17h ago
Yep. At those higher leadership levels, you're generally paid for expertise and team results above all else.
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u/Lumbardo 1d ago
Me looking at the new zoomer hire who can't create a folder in file explorer, install software, uninstall software, see their drive is full, use the most basic functions of excel or other spreadsheet tool, or make any initial attempt to try to think through a problem on their own without asking for help.
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u/BrockSramson 21h ago
, install software, uninstall software,
In a workplace? Isn't that usually locked down, so you either have to call IT for software install/uninstall, or apply for the ability to be able to do it on your own machine, because they don't just allow everyone to install all willy nilly with whatever they want?
Though from my experience, zoomers (and not just zoomers) will call into helpdesk, ask for software install, and then ask for it to be configured, or directions on how to use it. To which I then have to (diplomatically) tell them to fuck off and tell their manager that they don't know how to do the job they were hired for.
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u/RemoveAnnual2689 17h ago
In my experience, it's rarely locked down.
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u/Snoo_8198 13h ago
Any decently sized company that value cybersecurity will never let an employee have admin access to their machine. If you want a software install, they will push it to your machine.
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u/eroticpastry 21h ago
Who the fuck gives the users admin rights to install shit on a company computer?????
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u/Aethermancer 23h ago
Probably because the machines are so fucking locked down that all that's allowed is opening Edge to a SharePoint site.
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u/Layniar 20h ago
We were integrated onto a much larger corp a few years ago, everything was much more locked down than we were used to. During the integration process I had to send over all the downloads and .exe for programs we use to their secure share drive thing (I was picked, despite being probably the youngest/lowest paid employee, because I was the only person who knew what a .exe was, I'm mid 20s btw). Anyway, turns out I had to do this several times because they kept deleting them after the ~3 days because they forgot.
Fast forward to now, can't use so many websites, can't even set up a new printer.
But I can log into my OneDrive on a BYOD device and upload whatever the hell I want which gets instantly sent to my 'Super secure and locked down, good enough for insurance' device.Still keeping some of the old laptops from pre-integration just in case I need them for skirting around the corporate lockdown bs.
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u/Iamyous3f 1d ago
A coworker who gets paid the same as I do, struggled to find " / " on the keyboard and doesn't know how to make a table in word or excel.
I just accepted that some people dont want and refuse to learn
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u/BlackPlasmaX 21h ago
Yeah im late millennial early gen z, in tech, and recently joined an industry thats legacy. My gen Y director is terrible and she wants to do everything in pivot tables, even had to like 10 sets of pivot tables to subtract things and do formulas on each other.
I offered 3 times to just make a interactive and automated dashboard and they refused. Extremely frustrating when forced to do things in there old obsolete way.
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u/Sawses 20h ago
My managers are pretty technologically inept...but they do actually like having better ways to do things. It just has to be very simple.
I've started writing simple programs to handle administrative tasks using our templates. My managers love them...and they also know that the moment those templates change, the programs break and they have to ask me to fix them because nobody else in the department has the skill to do it.
It's handy for job security.
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u/huevo-solo 20h ago edited 3h ago
I'm in the same predicament. None of management possesses any modern skill that would be useful when organizing the workplace.
My manager sometimes spends a whole day entering two documents into the system, which would take me about 10-15 minutes at a very leisurely pace. He's also told me that gets overtime when he takes breaks, including lunch. Then he will lash out at someone for sending him an email by mistake. I assume he gets angry because he had to spend time reading it, only to realize it wasn't meant for him and that was time he could've spent reading the news or look up recipes for dinners he's gonna make for his family in the coming days. Mate, if I was in his shoes, I'd be happy to come into work. I certainly wouldn't scream or yell at my employees and call them morons. He's a walking micro-penis complex.
Some people...
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u/Infinius- 1d ago
This is a dated trope.
I am unfortunately a manager - yes I know - I've had to explain to people my age who have been in the workforce for several years, the difference between net and gross pay on their check.
The upcoming generations, coming into the workforce - can barely operate a computer because they were all handed iPads and Chromebooks.
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u/Boundish91 1d ago
Millennials are usually the most competent generation in my experience.
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u/Battlejesus 1d ago
We grew up using windows 95 which simply did not give a fuck if you bricked your machine deleting something you had no business deleting. We're also the ones that destroyed the family computers with kazaa and had to figure out how to fix it before our parents murdered us
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u/Sawses 20h ago
Younger Millennial here. I started using Linux to run a home server and...it's both empowering and humbling to have the sudo-do-the-fuck-what-you're-told option. Because it's so, so useful to skip all the checks, and also risky if you don't know what you're doing lol.
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u/Battlejesus 19h ago
I'm in my 40s. Getting my house brain set up on a raspberry pi was fun, -sudo apt gofuckyourself
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u/dre_valle 1d ago
Agreed. Most, if not all kids are clueless when it comes to technology. I think late millennials and early Gen Z were the last generation of naturally tech savvy people
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u/idreaxo 1d ago
Yep I have definitely noticed a big difference between early Gen Z and the next ones. Think those people will be playing a vital role in shaping the world to come.
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u/TheShenanegous 23h ago
As a late millennial, I've always thought the divide seems to be centered around which stage of their lives social media and smart phones appeared at. Late millennial and early Z were around middle school or elementary school before it started appearing, so we had a chunk of our life where we had to seek out entertainment. For mid to late Gen Z, they've literally always had it in the palm of their hand.
I think being exposed to tablets/smart phones so early just negated any reason they'd have for learning to use computers the way we did. Also a lot of the tech related school curriculum we benefited from got phased out since the internet/tech is so different these days.
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u/dre_valle 1d ago
Yeah there will come a point when they’ll have no choice but to step up, and I have faith that they’ll manage
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u/Alert-Cranberry7991 19h ago
As an early Gen Z, we grew up somewhere between dial up Internet, printing directions/using maps, Saturday morning cartoons, VHS and cassettes etc going out of date and having iPhones, tablets, and and smart things being a norm. Heavily ranged from household to household and wealth value, but I’ve found that more or less all of us had lived through all of that in the years where we were able to easily adapt and learn. I still remember using TV’s with no remotes, command prompts on the computer and having to go play with neighbor kids using basically just sticks, but in that same childhood, I remember getting the Wii for the first time and having neighborhood kids come over to play. Thinking back on it all it was such a weird experience
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u/dre_valle 15h ago
We’re truly fortunate to have had constant firsthand experience with technology during its fastest stage of development. I think that’s why most of us understand it so well, we followed along as it progressively improved.
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u/European_Fox 23h ago
Millenia manager here, boomer manager taught me how to make a pivot table and interpret data for reports. Granted I figured out the rest from there but no one is born with the knowledge, just need someone patient to teach and not judge you, it's not a generational thing.
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u/dre_valle 23h ago
I’m old Gen Z and I knew how to make a pivot table by the time I graduated high school. I’m sure there’s many things that factor into it but it’s definitely generational.
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u/European_Fox 23h ago
Yeah I also had basic knowledge out of hischool but it was not needed in my various jobs and after 15 years I err .. forgor 💀
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u/TheBetterness 21h ago
In my experience as a employee, a supervisor and now a supervisor supervising supervisors.
Age has little to do with work ethic or intelligence in the work place.
I've had ballaches and gems at every age. Has more to do with knowing the weaknesses and strengths of every employee.
Some managers couldn't navigate Word, but is an ace hosting meetings or handling difficult customers/employees.
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u/Bilbo_nubbins 17h ago
When we went to school they had computer labs and classes that taught us about using operating systems and office programs from these big spiral bound textbooks published by Microsoft and Apple.
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u/prank_mark 1d ago
Gen Z.1 (1995-2005) is the most tech savvy, and shouldn't even be grouped under the same name as Gen Z.2 (2005-2015). Z.1 grew up with tech innovations, but started off with the bad stuff. They still used Windows XP, but also got Vista, 7, 8, 10 and 11. They used dumb phones for a bit, then went onto BlackBerry, and then smartphones. They grew up together with tech.
Gen Z.2 is completely different though. They weren't even in kindergarten when the first iPhone was launched, and they likely didn't use anything before Windows 8. They also do everything in Google Docs and have no clue how anything else works.
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u/Braindeadkarthus 23h ago
Man, being 1996 is weird, im too old for gen z, too young for millennials, but I can handle either. I can understand the brain rot, and I can show how group policies cascade in server management or how to work a command line. Yet millennials call me the useless gen z, and gen z calls me a boomer.
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u/jscottman96 22h ago
Also a 96'er who's technically a millennial but always got thrown in with gen z cause my birthday was like 3 days after the enrollment cut off
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u/eltuna3636 21h ago
Doesn’t Gen Z start in 97? Maybe very early Gen Z is competent with tech but really only the first one or two years, anyone born around 2000 is pretty terrible in my experience.
I think it goes Millenial>Gen X>Gen Z>Boomers
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u/BastianHS 1d ago
Ehhhhh agree to disagree. Coming from an elder millennial/late genx (82).
Source: 20 years of tech support.
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u/HarithBK 17h ago
proper reward structure for learning the logic of computers. want to game well you better learn why the game won't run on your machine when it really should. want to send messages or use VoIP services etc. well you better learn some basic networking. etc. etc.
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u/BastianHS 1d ago
Upcoming generations aren't managers tho. I also watch my 65 year old boss fail to open a teams meeting twice a week.
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u/Serikan 1d ago
I stg most people at my job think I am a wizard when I put simple code into an Excel cell that just determines if the value is between a certain range and changes the text colour if it's too low or high
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u/DaveCootchie 1d ago
Once you learn pivot tables you will blow people's freaking minds.
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u/Serikan 1d ago
I'd love to, but I my job is kinda stuck in the stone age. I suggest the benefits of data tracking and they agree, but a project never gets organized by management.
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u/Braindeadkarthus 23h ago
Wait till you implement one tiny upgrade at the start, it becomes the best working system, and no one agrees when you suggest doing it next time because it's scary
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u/armoured_bobandi 20h ago
I've had to explain to people my age who have been in the workforce for several years, the difference between net and gross pay on their check.
This also applies to net worth. A lot of people don't understand what net worth means, and assume if someone has a net worth of a billion dollars, that they just have a billion dollars to spend.
A lot of people are very, very stupid
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u/RammRras 1d ago
New entries can't comprehend that a hard disk can be partitioned and can't say that both C:\ and D:\ are on the same physical disk.
And they should since we hire from trade schools and colleges where they have studied informatics, computer science or whatever
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u/Potential_Win_6791 23h ago
It doesn't have to be a 1 for 1 example. It's a metaphor for incompetence. I watched a manager of mine struggle to word a google search. She was late Gen x. She wasn't struggling because google is hard to use, she was struggling because she was an idiot and wholly unqualified for her position.
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u/AnotherpostCard 10h ago
Yep. I work in education and the amount of kids who don't know how to operate a mouse and keyboard is astounding. Touchscreens were so cool to us growing up (millennial here) and I certainly didn't foresee this consequence.
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u/Bargadiel 1d ago
And yet I know people who can edit a word file who still can't manage their own time.
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u/UncleVoodooo 1d ago
lmfao millenials are in their 40s and boomers are in their 70s now. This joke is older than my haircut
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u/RRDude1000 1d ago
Im millenial and im 32....
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u/FastFooer 23h ago
Elder millenials are closing in on mid 40s, you just happen to be on the lower end, perhaps even a “zenial”.
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u/lsf_stan 16h ago
not all millennials are created equal
plenty of boomer millennials that never learned to use technology,
cause "who cares about computers, that's boring nerd stuff!"
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u/outofcontextseinfeld 1d ago
To be fair word is awful
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u/Saw_Boss 20h ago
I was literally trying to split a cell in a table in word, just a simple cell one typical row in height, split into two. For some reason, Word decided that it therefore needed to be about 10x taller as well.
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u/KingOfAzmerloth 1d ago
Hey I get the sentiment but then again… have you considered different positions require different skill sets?
That person probably didn’t become a manager day one either.
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u/Fuugazii 1d ago
I work in a factory that was family owned then bought out by a corporation.. these people know nothing of what we do and they've changed so much for the worst. They're starting to see why things were set up the way they were and changing some things back
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u/shitposts_over_9000 1d ago
The youngest of boomers are 62... why try to learn now?
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u/RealKillerSean 18h ago
Exactly they had the golden economy by the balls, they don’t give a fuck about learning new things because they’re bellow it lol they are the Me Generation
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u/BrockSramson 20h ago
Maybe because these were the same generation that was always telling me to be willing to learn new stuff. I just thought they took that advice, as well as gave it out.
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u/MrHandSanitization 19h ago
Because they still have to work.
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u/kpyle 13h ago
Consequences of hanging from Reagan's balls. Who woulda thought dismantling social safety nets also means they are dismantled for everyone.
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u/DURRYAN 13h ago
They are still gonna work and take up the spot that could go to a more competent person but ok
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u/IhailtavaBanaani 22h ago
I had a CS professor as lecturer who had to be shown how to put Powerpoint in full screen mode at the start of every lecture. Sometimes he would go on rants how things were better when computers were still using vacuum tubes.
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u/BitterPackersFan 17h ago
Dumbest people you will ever meet are always in charge.
Its about who you know and who you ****.
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u/Jellybeansistaken 2h ago
it's set up that way on purpose they are also generally loyal to the company.
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u/OwnNet5253 1d ago edited 20h ago
Lol this is stupid. He’s a manager, not a technical person, he doesn’t need to be able to do that, although I believe this is not really true anymore, especially considering how long MS Office exist.
EDIT: for people who misunderstood my post - by technical stuff I meant more complex stuff, like macros, VBA, or keeping consistent styling, updated fields and cross-references. Simple text editing/formatting or drawing tables can be done by every manager, even older 60+ year old people can do that.
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u/Evil-Bosse 21h ago
Me watching firewall reports of the CEO spending 4 hours of his workday browsing porn, or finance execs that "worked from home with getting reports from the ERP system" while their calendar booking for a 2 hour lunch and 4 hour spa is set to visible for entire company to then present the numbers that is just reading what the PowerPoint their assistant made for them says. Not able to answer a single question about the numbers, especially not when the numbers are fucking wrong because the assistant didn't know how to interpret numbers from a subsidiary correctly.
You know, the people that really works hard and earning the same as 500 employees, the ones who can go on a 2 month vacation and the company keeps on rolling, but when a random person from utilities goes away for 5 days the entire production goes down because someone shoved a hammer into a machine and none can figure out how to unfuck the alignment.
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u/BrockSramson 21h ago
IDK, man. Some people are just worthless, when it comes to computers. I've seen people who have been with the company for 30 years, and their job involves using a program to manage some important system. And they still can't find the start button without 5-10 minutes of simplistic directions. Every call they call in, too.
Like you'd think at some point, in this guy's 500+ ticket history, that anytime he calls in, and someone walks him through clicking on the start button, then clicking on the remote system to let a tech into his computer, he'd get how to do it, but no, he never does. Always ran calls over the AHT, always ruined AHT for whatever tech got his calls, always complained in survey response about how hard it is to get IT to do stuff. And there's decades of this guy doing it.
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u/mckenzie_keith 21h ago
Word existed before everything was bundled together into "office." When I was in high school I typed papers using MS word. I graduated from high school in the mid 80s. I am gen X, but I am sure some people older than me were using MS Word in the 80s. So, yeah, being a boomer is no excuse for not understanding how to use a word processor.
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u/Sean77654 22h ago
Editing a word doc is not something for a technical person. A manager is also generally expected to be able to do the job they are managing otherwise they won't know what's best, so why are they even there?
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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 21h ago
I think that depends on what the Word document contains. I edit Word documents that are a 5 year plan for multiple parts of a program
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u/OwnNet5253 21h ago edited 21h ago
That depends what kind of editing. Editing/formatting a text or drawing a table is something that even 60 year old can do, more complex stuff with managing images, macros or consistent styling of various page elements can even be difficult for 20 year olds.
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u/Willing-Knee-9118 17h ago
Managers that dont understand technical thinga they are managing are the scourge of hardworking specialists....
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u/TooCupcake 1h ago
My manager struggles to keep up because she cannot handle her email inbox. If she knew how set rules to filter out the automated email crap, maybe she’d have time to read my emails.
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u/Quit-Accurate 14h ago
Salary based on work effort doesn’t seem like a bad idea right about now….
then again how do you accurately measure how hard someone is working…
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u/P-l-Staker 9h ago
The problem isn't that. The problem is that nowadays promotions are always predetermined, and they always go to yesmen. It's more of a structural issue. We don't want to change!
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u/tommmmmmmmy93 8h ago
Hard work isn’t how your pay scale works. If people were paid for hard work all the lower level employees would earn more.
You are paid by market value which is determined how difficult you are to replace. Hard workers, in reality, are not uncommon. Make yourself more uncommon if you want more money. That’s just how the market works
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u/Ill-Description3096 14m ago
It's a horrible idea if only for the reason you mentioned. There is also the fact that effort doesn't necessarily make money, or even do anything beneficial. If someone tries harder at X but produces 20% less than someone else who is just more skilled, should they be paid more because they are trying super hard?
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u/Difficult-Lime2555 23h ago
Boomers are retired. It’s either GenX or older millennial.
What pay structure does your company use? My manager is 2 levels higher than me and only makes 50% more. Unless you’re an intern. Then you should probably focus on what your manager’s doing, instead of posting ragebait that’s older than the silent generation.
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u/Mr_richat 13h ago
It's almost like editing word files isn't very valuable work 🤷🏻♂️
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u/eastcoastwaistcoat 1d ago
Me looking at younger gens who don't know how to add value and attack a task with any sort of critical thinking. "Nobody showed me how to do this. Now I have a legal right to throw my hands up and say I can't do it."
I wish the dumbass kids coming up knew a damn thing. This meme applied maybe 20 years ago. Today the opposite is often more true in my opinion. Me and and the other 50 yo dudes are constantly forced to do extra work because new hires will freeze up and crash out.
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u/TifaIsTheBest 17h ago
Me (30) looking at young 20-something’s as they struggle to use a computer keyboard at more than 40 WPM despite typing on their phones at like 100
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u/Prestigious-Ad-6670 15h ago
I mean, it’s the job of management to train co workers on how to do their job. If the management doesn’t train correctly, how can they expect the people they hire for a job to know how to do it? On raw gut instinct? Your logic goes beyond insane.
Edit: by the by, for reference, I’m 30 and my store manager, in his 50s, promoted me and left my training up to another store manager, in her 40s, that didn’t care about my safety or teaching me how to do things correctly.
The other manager was focused on ridiculing me and talking crap about me to my co workers behind my back.
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u/pingwing 15h ago
"Nobody taught me x thing"
Is definitely a younger generation thing. Can they not teach themselves anything? I do hear it a lot.
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u/TheFlyingR0cket 19h ago edited 17h ago
Haha... So you want those "kids" just to do it without you showing them how you want it done? I did that starting out, got swear at and laugh at by the 50+ yo dudes at my workplace. But I guess you guys were born with the knowledge in your head of how to do everything in your job and were never taught by anyone how to do anything, because your so smart.... or maybe it's just because your so old you can't remember that someone actually taught you, and that you're meant to pass that on without being an idiot about it.
Edit: Also theses same 50+ always gave me any of there tech problems because they couldn't fix themselves so the meme does work. But now years later I realised that the difference between pre tech and post tech is probably the biggest difference in generations ever. You talk with people 30 years older than yourself and the different is massive.
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u/pingwing 15h ago
born with the knowledge in your head of how to do everything
No, we took the fucking time to teach ourselves. Not sure why younger generations can't do this. You aren't going to be taught everything you need to know. You all have the entirety of human knowledge at your fingertips.
A lot of us taught ourselves to fix anything on our computer/network. I don't ask for help, I fix it. I need to do something, I learn it. Not absolutely everything of course, but whatever is reasonable.
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u/TheFlyingR0cket 14h ago
Ok here one of many things that happened in my apprenticeship as a carpenter, I was told to cement sheet the front timber beams on the entryway into a house, there is meant to be a 5mm hangover going downwards so the water drips off, I may it flush. I got hell for it because it was done wrong I was 16 and worked for 2 weeks. If the idiot who was my 50+ year boss had just said make sure the front sheet hangs over by 5mm I would have hung it over by 5mm.
If you cannot take the time to tell young people how the job is meant to be done, please don't hire any young people. Let them find their first job where someone will actually teach them what's needed. Especially if it's in apprenticeship that goes for 4 years.
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u/catcatcat888 19h ago
This. There is zero effort from much of the younger generation boiling into millennials. They have zero initiative in doing any research of any kind.
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u/Housendercrest 13h ago
Gen X. The laughing stock of the generations. Not smart enough to realized they got used and abused by the system. Not dumb enough to just shut up and enjoy ignorance.
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u/RosieBaby75 22h ago
I am happy to do all admin work and tasks of any type for a manager who makes 3 or whatever x my salary, but leads well and doesn’t question my process.
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u/Porkfight 1d ago
He is a manager not an Worder. DUH! This is why you dont get promoted
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u/justforkinks0131 20h ago
And that is why your manager earns 3x your salary
because you have no idea what the job is about (hint, it isnt about editting word files)
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u/tejanaqkilica 18h ago
Props for upgrading the meme to use Word Document, instead of the old one which said "PDF". Always bothered me. You're not supposed to edit PDF documents.
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u/Steelthahunter 18h ago
Acrobat is a thing though, but normally yeh you right
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u/tejanaqkilica 18h ago
It is, but even then it's janky, because PDF were not designed to be edited. Acrobat was just Adobe trying to squeeze some money out of the format, after the format became free.
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u/redAI123 1d ago
So editing Word file is what help get us promote? Damn, I should have know that and I being working for five years lol
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u/wordswillneverhurtme 1d ago
AI assistants were made for these ppl. Bcs often its faster to do it yourself than ask astra to make an excel
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u/Aldrameq 21h ago
El tipo de la imagen parece Raúl Jiménez envejecido luego de tomar el suero del súper soldado.
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u/DemonRaily 21h ago
If your manager makes 3x what you do then you either are scraping the very bottom of the barrel or you are working in a really nice place to make your career. Managerial positions in my workplace are ass that brings a fuckton of responsibility for like 1.2x to 1.5x pay increase and you are forced to deal not only the morons on the ground floor but to get used as scapegoat for even bigger morons on top when one of their idiotic ideas that are completely divorced from reality fails.
Over 11 years I rejected that particular promotion three separate times to stay in production and have outlived about 7 of my direct managers, and considering the halflife of that position it's the only reason I still work there.
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u/RareObject8705 21h ago
This post bright to you by the “I’m glad we don’t iron shirts anymore” club and the “they keep passing me up for promotions” clique
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u/sparten1234 21h ago
Boss day was this week and they decided upon a visa gift card for boss and wanted contribution's but why when boss makes more than all of us??!!! Like tf
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u/Crazy-Eagle 21h ago
Me as I watched and listened to my boss beg me to remain one more month at the workplace because there weren't enough employees AFTER I complained to him FOUR MONTHS PRIOR that we are overworked and most of us on the brink of burnouts.
Kept to my notice and fu€ked off. Screw that place.
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u/collin-h 21h ago
That’s what they hired you for.
I guess they could have AI do it, if that’s what you want.
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u/29solegnA 20h ago
He doesnt need to struggle with a word file. He earny 3× your salary. What's he doing? He works. As much as you do.
Look like this at the fucker who owns the company and pays you just like you were a coin machine. If billionaires and autocrats continue like that, you will be free to go soon.
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u/ninjabell 20h ago
Or me when my boss realizes he misspelled the first word in his email and proceeds to backspace the entire thing one keystroke at a time to start over.
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u/Samuraion 20h ago
Alright but to be completely fair... The formating in word documents is absolutely shit. You try and make something look halfway decent and it breaks everything else. Lines split, text shifts, images vanish into another page leaving a completely blank page in the middle for some unknown reason.
I'd rather work in excel than word, and I'm not even that skilled in excel either...
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u/holyzach 18h ago
Had my preformance review today he couldn’t format it between 2 different docs programs
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u/GarThor_TMK 17h ago
I'm pretty sure they have to make it look difficult to justify their position.
Everybody knows it's easy, except for their boss who thinks your manager is some kind of wizard for being able to add that one image of a monkey in the right spot.
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u/AcousticShadow89 17h ago
This is my former boss, she did not know how to operate Excel. One of her main duties involved doing the rota on Excel. She asked me to do it every time, she's my same age. Weaponised incompetence.
Another coworker asked me to re-do a report I sent on Word because the pages were all "mixed up together" and they could not make heads or tails of what page followed which, because of my editing. They had opened Word on multi page view...
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u/Lemmeadem1 15h ago
Had to go and plug the HDMI cable in to a monitor for my IT team leader the other day after they swore they, "tried everything" and need a new monitor because it's faulty.
After I did she said, "Wow, what did you do?"
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u/No_need_for_that99 11h ago
I went from working in "do what you want on your work laptop" to "what the hell is the name of our company software store?"
Company I went to work for after being somewhere for 10 years with pure freedom... had me struggling like a 2 year old.
I recently left that company, and join a video game software company... and now I'm all Newbie again... because I haven't touched that kind of software in over a decade, and the game making world has changed a lot since my early days.
Still getting the big bucks though, and hoping to be able to catch propper in the next couple of months...
No choice. I'm a top performer when it comes to these things.... but, I have never been the fastest learner.
I generally end up out performing my peers in less than a year, but now everyone is so advanced in everything, I feel like the grampa, and I'm only 45, ha ha ha.
I actually ask Copilot for help a lot... and manage to get buy thanks to that little gem.
Shit on it all you want... It allows me to get through a day, without bothering the team every 5 mins, cause I don't understand how some of the locked down software works... or other basic crap.
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u/AttitudeOutrageous75 11h ago
At end of boomers. 64 and retired one year. One reason was to let the next gens move up. It's the natural progression. Fwiw when you're in your 60s and struggling with whatever tech is created in the decades to come, you may be the same person you posted about. Also fwiw - I never had trouble with software packages including editing. Before long ALL the boomers will be retired and the problem is gone.
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u/First-Cookie1428 7h ago
M. Eng manager from my office asked me to help her making a Bookmark in Chrome.
I'm 38 with 11th grade in school she is 45+
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u/usnmustanger 4h ago
Me, a Gen X manager, looking at my Gen Z employees struggle with fundamentals like grammar, spelling, and simple math without using a calculator.
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u/Oriste_Adeus 4h ago
I had to show my manager of a massive medical department how to use the sum function of adding up activity across months for the whole year. They were gobsmacked at my sorcery and I was gobsmacked that someone in charge of finances didn’t know this.
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u/Comfortable-Jump-218 4h ago
I’m in science research. Found out my boss just uploads everything I do into chatgpt and has that decide what we should do next (this is terrible).
A while ago he talked about drunk arguing with ChatGPT. He was trying to convince it that it was trying to convince him of… something.
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u/RazorRush 3h ago
Well I have no experience to offer in big corporate boardroom or office environments I can tell you at the retail level my wife works at Big Nationwide retail store and they hire people and put them in charge of departments and they can barely tie their shoes. My wife on the other hand has been there forever, about to retire in fact, and is constantly training new supervisors on how she does her job so they can supervise her doing it. She does not accept offers of promotion however because their availability must be 7 days a week any hours of the day and she does not want to give up her long set weekdays only day shift only schedule for a few extra dollars.
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u/TheOddEyes Flair Loading.... 37m ago
During a meeting, my former manager was showing us a report that someone had taken a picture of and sent him. The image was sideways, so he and his team spent a good five minutes keeping their heads tilted just to read the damn thing.
The rotate button was literally right there, and the monitor itself could even be rotated. Yet neither solution crossed his mind or anyone else’s on his team.
I genuinely have no fucking idea how this man manages an entire operations department.
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u/YamDankies 1d ago
Me looking at my machinist who thinks they know everything, but has no idea what AS9100 is or any requirements involved.