re: Do any of your co workers refuse to use updated technologies?

I had one night operator that I made $5,000 in overtime off of last year because he cratered his computer every night. I had to quit charging because it was starting to look bad on him. An outright refusal to adjust here would cost you your job.

I want to say "Boomers", but the truth is there is middle ground between staying in the stone age and needing every task to be handled via some tech/gadget.

Where that line should be is where max productivity meets ease of use for a majority of the group.

Failure to obtain proficiency of the technology, either through lack of ability or want should trigger a review of job competency.

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It’s incredibly infuriating as a younger employee that we are being inefficient like that as well as spending god knows what on printing so much paper

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sorry the junior staffer cant accept that his veteran superior doesn't embrace your way of thinking. when you get promoted beyond your secretarial position, maybe someone will ask for your opinion.


Only thing you need to be efficient at is doing what your told. Meanwhile, shut up and retype the memo with my corrections.

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Yes I know people who make 6 figures a year who can't rotate a PDF.

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Productivity and profitability are going to go through the roof over the next decade as the boomers start dropping out of the workforce in larger numbers.

i guess i'm that guy. i use wordperfect because it works, and is easy to use. the whole world is going word, but it's a third rate word processor for basic stuff. i'm trying to hang on until retirement, but it gets tougher every day.

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sorry the junior staffer cant accept that his veteran superior doesn't embrace your way of thinking.

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Only thing you need to be efficient at is doing what your told.

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Sorry, but no. If you're working in teams and your "way of thinking" is severely slowing the work of your teammates, and leading them to potentially work with outdated information and/or forces them to make a phone call before doing anything productive, they're better off without you.

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i guess i'm that guy. i use wordperfect because it works, and is easy to use. the whole world is going word, but it's a third rate word processor for basic stuff. i'm trying to hang on until retirement, but it gets tougher every day.

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If you're building things with other people, it's helpful if you're all using the same tools. You're going around putting metric bolts in stuff where everything else is standard. You're slowing everyone else down and forcing them to maintain an extraneous set of tools.

I work with good ol boys who have been with the company since the HQ was moved to LA 35 years ago. There are guys who PRINT out their emails & sift thru them in high levels meetings when asked questions/have to look up points.

The absolutely REFUSE to learn our CRM or basically anything having to do with Microsoft Office.

Then they complain & blame others for our company falling behind others in response times & job executions while remaining confident that it's not their fault due to the time it takes to deal with them & get answers out of them.

The company continously attempts to send them to Microsoft Office "training camp", all expenses paid, & they always balk at it/never go.

And somehow these clowns earn $200,000+. They'd make another $100,000 if they would just learn how to use Office + Outlook + learn to text message. Or be bothered to get to the office before 10am & take less than a 2 hour lunch every day.

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i use wordperfect because it works

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It's still the best.

If we converted to Word, every one of our girls would walk out too


I just hate how the conversion to Word looks sometimes. Of course, none of my clients have Wordperfect.