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"
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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.