I work retail, and customer and fellow employee alike have no ability to google fucking anything, and this isn’t bound by any age bracket or demographic. Young and old alike, half my job is googling shit for them, I’ll do it in front of them in an attempt to be like “see you can do this yourself next time” and it never works. People will call my shop and ask me to google the phone number and directions TO OTHER STORES!

I forced a younger coworker to google a question he asked me yesterday and I swear I heard the fucking 2001 Space Odyssey theme played as he realized you can find information to answers your questions yourself!

  • SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    47·
    9 days ago

    True but they still work well enough that with some problem solving you can generally find what you need.

    If nothing else there’s YouTube tutorials for damn near everything.

    • isame [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      24·
      8 days ago

      I felt a strange sense of what I’m going to call pride when I saw a young person (~20) using a YouTube tutorial to figure out the ratchet straps they were using to move and how to properly secure a load.

      The pride comes from more of a personal place, but I think it applies more broadly. ‘kids these days’ aren’t being taught what they need, and I appreciate resourcefulness when I see it.