1 in 5 young office workers say they feel judged when experiencing tech issues.
found that “1 in 5 young office workers feel judged when experiencing tech issues.” The youths are also “Ten times more likely to feel shame in these scenarios when compared to their more mature peers,” according to the computer manufacturer.
“[Older colleagues] find it kind of amusing — they’re telling me ‘you should know how to do that’ or ‘you should be able to catch on and like figure it all out,'” Castillo added.Damien Andrews, 22, who lives in Birmingham, Ala., and went to school to learn coding, confessed to feeling equally weak on the basics.
In some cases, the next generation of office drones is having trouble with the most basic tasks. One Reddit user delighted the internet recently with tales of Gen Z co-workers who were so feeble on the fundamentals, they had to start labeling the power buttons on the office desktop computers to remind everyone how to turn them on.. “After far too many calls, I finally had to spell it out for them.
Randall Wade, 26, also from Alabama, told The Post he hates the office printers just as much as his colleagues do. “My friends and I joke that printers are [run] by Boomers — if it was up to us, everything would be a lot different with a much better interface,” he added.“We have an older woman she locks [herself] out of her computer six times a day and we have to go in and unlock her. But that printer, that fax machine, that scanner — she knows all the ins and outs,” he said, laughing.
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