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screenshot, probably from Ex-Twitter but I saw it on NOSTR, showing a guy saying that training a zoomer to use a PC at work is as difficult as training a boomer, with a reply indicating that there is only one generation that can rotate a PDF and that knowledge dies with us

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

I work on a help desk. We hired multiple Zoomers and they literally don't understand how computers work. They don't know what the registry is. Or what POST means. Or how to properly back up a user's data without using automated software.

They're fucking dumb. Nice. But dumb.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Why would someone on a help desk be expected to know what POST is? A software engineer, sure, but helpdesk? If it's needed knowledge…that's what training is for. Businesses' expectation that people will come into the job already knowing exactly how you do things and never require on-the-job training is absurd.

[–] jonc211 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Guessing they’re talking about Power-On Self Test rather than the HTTP verb. I’m assuming you were thinking of the latter given you mentioned a software engineer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Half of software engineers don't know what a POST is either

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Software engineer here, can confirm I've never received anything by post in my life, it's always couriers. My assumption is that post stamps are boomer NFTs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, but postage stamps are completely fungible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

As opposed to images on the internet... XD

If anything it would actually take more effort to replicate a physical stamp now that I think about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I was thinking of the HTTP verb, you're right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

help desk definitely doesn't need to know that either. "does the shit turn on... no, well send it in then we will give you a new one"

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