Gen Z office workers are apparently struggling with antiquated computer hardware, like printers.
, there's a moment where an older worker asks for help with his emails. They're all coming out with weird gaps in them, so he turns to Beaton, a tech-savvy young person, for help. She explains the problem: he's been adding breaks by pressing enter at the end of each line because he's used to typewriters and doesn't realize the computer handles line breaks on its own. It's a touching moment of bonding in an otherwise pretty grim story.
. In fact, it's sometimes the other way around, with one 25-year-old publicist saying he turned to older workers who were veterans of the copy room for help."Things like scanners and copy machines are complicated," Garrett Bemiller said, explaining that his first time using the photocopier in his New York office,"It kept coming out as a blank page, and took me a couple times to realize that I had to place the paper upside-down in the machine for it to work.
While the popular image of young people is digital natives who know how all technology works, it's a narrow stereotype. A generation who grew up using apps on their phones and owning laptops aren't going to magically know how to use the scanner, printer, or workhorse desktop PC in the office, which is why we end up withabout having to label the power button.
"When I see a printer, I'm like, 'Oh my God,'" Max Simon, a 29-year-old content creator told The Guardian."It seems like I'm uncovering an ancient artifact, in a way." At 29, Simon's old enough to know more than his younger coworkers, however."I'll invite them to a Google Meet, and they'll say, 'How do we get a link to that?' But the link is already in the calendar invite," he said.
As the millennial went on to say,"It takes five seconds to learn how to use TikTok. You don't need an instruction book, like you would with a printer. Content is so easy to access now that when you throw someone a simple curveball, they'll swing and they miss, and that's why Gen Z can't schedule a meeting."
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