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Christo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@CiaraNi
Oh my this drives me mad too. Went into a store last Christmas and told what I wanted was online only plus as I'm old treated like I'm an idiot. I was online nearly 30 years ago and an elearning facilitator when I retired - sigh

10 Dec 2023 at 11:09 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodonapp.uk
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Ciara

@Christo This occurs to me sometimes too - younger people treating us like technological fools if we don't want to use a certain app or technology because it is unhelpful, or data-bloated, or unnecessary for our needs. We are just old enough and have been online long enough to know that there are other, sometimes better, ways.

10 Dec 2023 at 12:11 | Open on mastodon.green
Citoyen européen Ray Hindle

@Christo Reminds me of the time, many years ago, when I went to a job interview and was told “But they didn't have computers when you went to school, so how can you possibly know about them.”

10 Dec 2023 at 13:58 | Open on noc.social
Christo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@rayhindle
Oh my the ignorance is scary. I can remember telling colleagues in schools and colleges they needed to be teaching coding when they taught word processing as IT

10 Dec 2023 at 14:00 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Citoyen européen Ray Hindle

@Christo A colleague of mine was once denied a post in IT because he didn't have an engineering background, despite being fully trained in FORTRAN and COBOL! (His background was in mathematics.)

10 Dec 2023 at 14:07 | Open on noc.social
Mother Bones AKA Bae'd Runner

@Christo @CiaraNi
Right? I had email in 1992. I worked at a software company until 2000. I was one of the invited early adopters of Gmail. I was in the first blogging wave! How dare they. 😂

10 Dec 2023 at 14:25 | Open on mstdn.social
Ciara

@_L1vY_ @Christo I wear my Hotmail-address as a badge of pride! That and the ability to touch-type. :-)

10 Dec 2023 at 17:06 | Open on mastodon.green
Chookbot

@CiaraNi @_L1vY_ @Christo Indeed. We're the generation that built the friggin internet and they're offering to "help us" use the friggin self-checkout.

11 Dec 2023 at 12:59 | Open on theblower.au
Mother Bones AKA Bae'd Runner

@anne_twain @CiaraNi @Christo Now, the self-checkout is a whole 'nother beast, because that thing never wants to scan and has an annoying voice! 😂

11 Dec 2023 at 13:05 | Open on mstdn.social
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@Christo @CiaraNi

This is why I find it hard to have sympathy for high street business owners who have to close down due to online competition as their staff seem increasingly unwilling to provide any customer service, in spite of most people paying a higher price to deal with an actual human in physical premises..

10 Dec 2023 at 14:50 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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