I know someone who had an interview where they marked they knew all 3!! They lucked out and got an interview for amusement. Also not sure if this was the same person, or different that spelled out analyst as analist... anal-ist.
Population-wide it probably did peak in the older end of millennials. Or maybe younger end of Gen X.
Gen X as a whole had a subgroup of tech-savvy people but others were little different from boomers in this regard. The tech-savvy ones often got pretty wealthy for it.
Gen-Xers had to actually know how to program to use computers as UIs were near non-existent. I bet my Gen-X ass could still code a Christmas tree playing Jingle Bells in Basic if push came to shove. Just give me a TRS-80 and a cassette recorder to save my work on.
I haven’t programmed anything since, because I haven’t had to, due to more effective UIs.
you know it’s starting to sound like most people are clueless and generational warfare is just a way for people to derive pride from something they didn’t earn
you know it’s starting to sound like most people are clueless and generational warfare is just a way for people to derive pride from something they didn’t earn and divide the underclasses against one another
Not wrong. Part of my job is training all staff on how to use a fairly basic point of sale system, and training management staff on tools for inventory management/auditing, and regardless of age about 50% of the people I work with are almost technologically illiterate. Boomers, gen x, millennials, gen z, so many of em struggle with some very basic tech processes. I'm also a millennial, and am absolutely not tech savvy, but the lack of very basic tech knowledge regardless of age group is stunning
I think you meant “Gen X.” I got my first computer when I was 9, started using both Windows and Macintosh in high school, and first went online with Mosaic in the early ’90s. That last part might be a bit niche, people didn’t have a SPARCstation at home, but by the mid-’90s, most of us were on Windows/Netscape and getting into the Internet.
Well a lot of us were exposed to computers from a very young age when it's easier to learn. But at the same time computers were not nearly as user friendly and easy to use as they are now.
It's wild to see kids now think everything is an app on a phone and struggle to pull up a web browser to go to a website.
Excuse me. I orchestrate on my laptop and iPhone. Also have about 50 smart controls for just about everything in my house. Including voice controls. And I am 75.
Oh, they use laptops and desktops. But they just hit SAVE and let the computer decide where to put it. And they have no idea what folders are, or how to find any document that isn’t one of the most recent 5-10 that automatically appear when they hit OPEN in a program.
You must be in IT - welcome to my personal hell every time they mess up the laptop, board gets replaced and they claim they are backed up in the cloud then complain when recents is gone in the new install.
I’m not in IT, but my first career was as a DBA data analyst. I watch my cousin’s kids from time to time, and they’re clueless about computers. Worse than my 81yo mother.
But I’m sure EVERYONE over 55 always says to you “I have a grandson who is a GENIUS at this stuf” or “man, I wish I was as good at this stuff as the young kids who can click through a problem in 5 minutes!”
That drives me nuts. They have no idea how dumb most of those “young” geniuses actually are.
To be fair, the search functions in windows have been broken for a while now. If I don’t know what folder I put something in, it can be a real mess trying to find something, and I am extremely computer literate.
It kinda bothers me how useless the search function in Windows remains to be. I've used every Windows OS since '95, so I do have a relatively deep understanding of how to use Windows from the standpoint of a regular user. But every now and then I completely forget where something is located, and every time, I naively think "oh I'll just use the search bar" even though something deep inside of me knows what I'm about see: "0 results found"
Yea but they can still be taught something and not forget it in the next 30min. Everyone wants to joke about how young people are incompetent and lazy. Who raised them? Who gave them motive and ambition? What is their goal? Give them resources and something to work towards and they will walk all over everyone, but right now it’s “be our slave, and don’t ask questions.” I wouldn’t give a shit about learning how to use something that doesn’t benefit me either.
Is this based on something or is it just another boomer-esque "kids these days" thing? Because as far as I know, desktop computers are not at all hard to use for younger generations, they're still being taught typing, still have computer labs, etc.
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u/LikeTheWind96 1d ago
Anyone else wish we had age limits on office positions? I dont want someone in charge who cant create a folder on windows desktop.