Remarkableriots Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 ‘Scanners are complicated’: why Gen Z faces workplace ‘tech shame’ | Technology | The Guardian WWW.GOOGLE.COM They may be digital natives, but young workers were raised on user-friendly apps – and office devices are far less intuitive Quote Do they know what button to press to turn on a bulky computer monitor, when many simply close their personal laptops when they’re done with them? (No, says one Reddit user who works in IT and has resorted to putting a sign over the power button on work computers.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShader Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Tech illiteracy isn't generational. There are people that spend 22 hours a day on their electronic devices and know them inside and out, and everyone else that still refers to a computer monitor as 'The hard drive'. No in-between. Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have all had this dichotomy. Usually made worse by the fact that most of the people that couldn't tell an LCD monitor from a hole in the ground think of themselves as tech geniuses because they once right-clicked something. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 Scanners fucking suck no matter who you are. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 "Why don't these kids know how to use this stuff they've never used before?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted March 12, 2023 Author Share Posted March 12, 2023 4 hours ago, Paperclyp said: "Why don't these kids know how to use this stuff they've never used before?" Yeah, because turning on a CRT monitor is so complicated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 37 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said: Yeah, because turning on a CRT monitor is so complicated! “Why don’t these kids know how to use this stuff they’ve never used before!” 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 "No," says ONE REDDIT USER These articles are the fucking worst. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 Just now, Paperclyp said: "No," says ONE REDDIT USER These articles are the fucking worst. LISTEN THEY MAKE ME FEEL SUPERIOR WE MUST HAVE MORE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 My grandpa used to like to say: "No generalization is worth a damn, including this one." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 I had never used a copier before either but after fiddling with it for a while you can get the basics down pretty easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 That Office Space scene was amazing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer.tv Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 Trick is to YouTube the tutorial, then you can be the office ‘tech person.’ Can confirm this is how it happened for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 This article should be Exhibit A in the case against unlimited freedom of the press. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unogueen Posted March 12, 2023 Share Posted March 12, 2023 I'm telling you, culture wars don't just appear out of thin air. The millenial discourse was a lay-up of all what we have now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysDyingX Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 On 3/12/2023 at 12:43 AM, gamer.tv said: Trick is to YouTube the tutorial, then you can be the office ‘tech person.’ Can confirm this is how it happened for me. I once built a PC 7 years ago. Now Im the office tech person. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 I've been relatively tech literate my entire life -- and am basically self taught. My kids show literally no interest in learning how tech works. And refuse to even learn the basics of how to troubleshoot even basic tech problems. That said, office copiers/scanners are no more complicated (at least in my experience) than your basic at home printer/scanner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 On 3/12/2023 at 12:43 AM, gamer.tv said: Trick is to YouTube the tutorial, then you can be the office ‘tech person.’ Can confirm this is how it happened for me. I got some bad news about what surgeons do before operations... @CastlevaniaNut18 @TUFKAK 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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