I work as a sys admin in a Silicon Valley company. Recently I have noticed how absolutely terrible Zoomers are with computers if it doesn't have an easy to use interface. Forget using the command line, these people are incapable of accessing file shares with explicit instructions on how to do it. They can't even map drives. They are literally awful at everything unless it has an easy to use interface.
I've even had to teach multiple programmers fresh out of college how to use Git. I don't even use GitHub or any of their competitors very often because the only thing I really program is Python or Powershell scripts, but this stuff can be literally googled and solved with 5 minutes of work. Yet they open up tickets with us because they are getting errors claiming they don't have access to things when they should just look up on Stack Overflow.
Then there is our Zoomer helpdesk, which literally is incapable of solving any problems. I can see their chats and it is the blind leading the blind. The most cringe shit ever. We get stuff escalated to our team which is the most basic shit that Gen X or Millenial employees can easily do. This isn't generational warfare because I'm only 30. But they seriously can't do jack shit and we hire from some of the best schools in the nation.
I think this comes down to how easy everything with computers today. You don't have to troubleshoot opening up ports or getting things saved to the right file or anything like that. It's just point and click. Literally that if it's on your phone or tablet.
And I don't mean to make this a rant about my job, but my experience plus talking to others has shown me how screwed we are because this is happening everywhere. If you think about it, none of these younger people unless they are huge nerds are going to know how to actually use computers. If everyone is only trained on a few interfaces, how can they navigate around corporate censorship? How can they use Tor or a VPN or do anything not controlled by Amazon or Microsoft? When the average user just points and clicks on their phone, they are only seeing what the biggest corporations want them to see. They are easily controlled consoomers and are just going to repeat what they say.
I don't mean to be a Doomer, but I hardly hear anyone talking about this. And then when you combine this with how bad most Americans are with Math and Statistics, who is going to think critically?
Am I crazy or is this not the straight up truth?
I was having a discussion with someone about this the other day.
In the Bay Area, itβs such a common conversation to talk about how low your pulse rate and then use that to brag about how you biked windy hill in portola valley last weekend...then eventually, talk about your product and then get more funding. In most places, if you told someone you did that over the weekend, youβd get a reaction of make a Tv show about that...as I love burgers, fries, my dark beer, and my couch too much to pursue that life and it sounds fun to watch... or I got better things to do like not torture myself.
Just kidding. It probably would be about politics or how the packers played or something like that.
But what is up with this Bay Area obsession with fitness? People talk about the sf marathon or tough mudder and they wear their overpriced athleisure clothing from lululemon and are always in sneakers even if it is a Saturday night.
Hi everyone!
We try to be environmentally friendly in our household and I notice that I go through A LOT of parchment paper.
Has anyone switched over to using just silicon mats instead of parchment? Does it effect your bakes in anyway?
We only have one mat right now but I barely use it since it stayed greasy after the first time my boyfriend used it to bake chicken and I only now got around to cleaning it..
Thanks for the help!
P.S this subreddit has been my favorite thus far!
EDIT: wow! Did not think there would be this many responses. Such good information from everyone and I will definitely do my research. Thank you everyone!!
