re: Does anyone else work with technologically illiterate

Dropbox is impossible for a few people around the office to use. Some dude couldn't figure out how to not merge his Dropbox accounts and gave everyone in the office access to his honeymoon pictures.

And these motherfrickers that put two spaces after every period.. the first thing I do when I open anything is find and replace all those. It's not a typewriter!

One of my baby boomer coworkers is literally a genius at everything other than technology/computers and does things which I could never in 20 years learn how to master. I've had a computer since I was 9 years old, so naturally, those types of things come easier to me.

Well a HS kid in our town was making internet threats thinking a fake email address would protect him, so I'd say tech illiteracy is pretty widespread.

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That's all I work with. Im the youngest by 20+ years. Every single one of them acts like the computer picks on them or something when they cannot operate basic functions like passwords. It's frustrating because I have to bail them out.

ETA: The worst is when a program such as Excel/Word, etc does an update to the program and the interface changes or some features change. Windows 10 is a good example.

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Yep

If anything at all changes they completely lose their shite.

I've only noticed this with the older blue collar people that can't operate an email account. You tell them to send you an invoice and they print it out and put it on my desk. Like I can process a paper invoice...


The older white collar people are pretty good with computers.

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And these motherfrickers that put two spaces after every period.. the first thing I do when I open anything is find and replace all those. It's not a typewriter!

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People who believe that two spaces after every period began with typewriters don't understand the history of typesetting.

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intellectual arguments against the old style are mostly contrived. At worst, the wide space after a period is a victim of fashion.

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How Many Spaces After a Period

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I hate this so much. They bitch that these youngins dont work hard enough, but it takes them 3 hours to do what it takes a millennial 15 min to do on a computer.

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This is not true. It's not close to being true and it makes millennials look even worse to lie like this.

From my perspective, Gen X-ish is the best technology generation. They grew up without much tech, then learned tech the hard way, on platforms that required coding, understanding, and planning. Millennials grew up with GUI's and point-n-click. They don't understand anything going on behind the scenes with what they do and accept, blindly, the results they get fed back to them. They are the easiest generation to fool, by a wide, wide, wide margin.

The worst part about technology and millennials is that they really don't know what they're doing or why they're doing it - many can plug through some Excel manipulations to produce summary figures and graphs or tables but can't figure out (and are too fricking lazy to learn) how to add legends, titles, captions, or just make sense of what the numbers mean. They hand you stuff that is worthless and then have the balls to say it's not their job, when their job is to be an analyst for example, yet they want to get away with being nothing more than a technician.

As far as boomers go - I have had to help a lot of people with a lot of software stuff. Most of the time it's when they need to do something in Excel for example, that they did on Office 2010 but the utility has moved to a different location in Office 2016 or whatever and they just don't see it, or when they think there's a function that doesn't exist and they keep looking for it. There are some retards out there but they exist with millennials as well like those that immerse themselves in PC's and shite their pants when you hand them a Mac or vice versa.

The worst might be the idiots that only use apps you can get on a smartphone and are completely lost when asked to do things with software you must be on a computer to use - those people are lazy and stupid.

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Does anyone else work with technologically illiterate

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I fix the stuff they break so I like to refer to them as "job security".

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it takes them 3 hours to do what it takes a millennial 15 min to do on a computer.

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This. I work with an older guy who has a pretty impressive resume and always makes sure to talk about how much he knows. He puts out half as much work as the younger guys.

It’s a question of wanting to learn. I found myself falling behind because of being inept on certain business software. I didn’t have to do it but when that changed I found myself struggling. So I got off my arse and took some classes on my own tome to learn that shite and become proficient.