‘What are younger generations criticised for not doing but is largely obsolete anyway?’ – 21 skills that are pointless for Gen Z

13.

‘In my first office job I got asked to send a fax. This was in 2019 and I had absolutely no clue how to use a fax machine.’
–Bbew_Mot

14.

‘Apparently, telling the time from an analog clock. My wife has some younger colleagues who saw her watch and couldn’t interpret the time from it. I’m not sure it’s an obsolete thing, though.’
–glymph

15.

‘Back when I was a student and worked part time as a barista, I got called stupid by my middle-aged manager for not knowing how to change the vinyl on the cafe’s record player.

‘I was born in 1999, I grew up with CDs and MP3 players – how the fuck would I know how to work a record player.’
–awkward_irishman

16.

‘I supervised an office a couple of years ago and the apprentices coming through are barely computer literate. Which meant that, as a millennial, I was among the only ones in the sweet spot of old enough to know how to work a computer properly, and young enough to know how to work a computer properly.’
–MysteriousFan7983

17.

‘My dad (almost 70) was flabbergasted that no one seemed to know the names and rough dates of the ‘quarter days’. These were the traditional days that the rent was due and are: Lady Day (25/3) Midsummer day (24/6) Michaelmas (29/9) Christmas Day. In case anyone wanted to know.’
–Alternative_Wafer277

18.

‘I learned joined up writing at school, but lost the muscle memory for it because I use block capitals so much and use a computer for the rest. Use it or lose it.’
–Barry_Umenema

19.

‘Not sure if this is quite the same but my Grandad thinks I don’t know about anything that’s going on in the world because he reads tabloid newspapers and I don’t. Yet he’s never used the Internet once.’
–joshtt2

20.

‘Not using an AA map, instead relying on Google Maps.’
–AdnyPls

21.

‘Not knowing a film or a song that came out BEFORE THEY WERE BORN! ‘Omg you don’t know who Prince is?! Youth these days do they teach them anything in school?!’

‘That’s an extreme example but we are all guilty of making people feel stupid because they don’t know of a certain film or song, etc. Just be nicer! Just take the ‘Oh cool, I get to introduce to you a whole new genre of music that I enjoyed when I was your age’ approach.

Stranger Things did a great job at this.’
–Samwrc93

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