• Bye@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I have some on my team

    They can’t write to save their lives. I’m not sure if that’s generalized or not.

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      10 months ago

      I’ve noticed a consistent decline in all skills in the last decade of new apprentices. It used to be that you’d get a “computer smart” kid or a “hand skills” kid, farm, shop class, etc. Now I typically see neither. My last apprentice had only ever used an iPhone and a Chromebook(what schools use now apparently) and an Xbox. So when I handed him my laptop to teach him how to configure some devices he got lost on the use of filling in an excel spreadsheet and saving and finding and opening the files. It would have been just as fast to have someone who’d never even seen a computer before. And he wasn’t able to lift very heavy things and had poor grip strength. Good kid, he’ll be ok but it could all be a lot easier for all of us.

      I blame the school systems and the general trend of making all devices extremely consumer unfriendly. I used to tinker with all the aspects of the family computer as a kid, and my dad and his friends would regularly get together and work on their vehicles. Now every device is more appliance than tool. Anyways that’s my prematurely old man rant for the day.

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      10 months ago

      It is not.

      I am gen z. Bit of an exception as I’ve been around older people entire life and mom read to me every single night as a kid.

      WE CANT FUCKING READ. Any time I’ve come into contact with people of my generation they will almost always have a shit work ethic, subpar spelling. Text abbreviations, leaving work, showing up when they want, etc. Not going to act as though I’m perfect but it’s real.

      Work ethic is horrendous generally speaking. There’s something to be said about how boomers killed themselves at a company and said thank you sir, BUT, to take that the opposite direction and be a flakey piece of shit is another story.