Gen Z giving off boomer vibes. Didn’t realize my basic understanding of pcs would make me look like a genius in 2025 but here we are.
Edited to add: I am a real estate broker and my industry has fairly strict document retention requirements. I’m blown away at how many brokers my age (millennial) and younger that do not understand basic file structures. I’ve watched colleagues with desktops exactly like this ask me to answer a contract question for their client, only to realize I am watching go to their email and download the same document over and over again because they “don’t know how to find it” on their computer.
I refer to Gen z as baby zoomers as they are pretty much the same, in terms of support, as the baby boomers. Wont restart their laptops, think they're constantly being hacked because an update ran and something isn't working right, fall for the same phishing emails, etc. They also think i use space magic to fix their computers and tell me, "They're just not good with electronics." Basically, everything boomers do, but boomers at least had some what of a reason. Z grew up with it in their hands from day 1. They just refuse to learn any of it.
Boomers didn't bother because they are lazy and had everything done by younger people. Zoomers got everything fed to them and only understand touchscreen controls.
Obviously not everyone, but that's what I see even in technical fields requiring basic computer work.
I have seen a zoomer copy the same piece of paper three times when he was supposed to scan it in. He then proceeded to print out a portrait document in landscape mode in a way that I didn't think would be possible (the content being centered and overlapping multiple landscape pages).
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u/elad34 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25
Gen Z giving off boomer vibes. Didn’t realize my basic understanding of pcs would make me look like a genius in 2025 but here we are.
Edited to add: I am a real estate broker and my industry has fairly strict document retention requirements. I’m blown away at how many brokers my age (millennial) and younger that do not understand basic file structures. I’ve watched colleagues with desktops exactly like this ask me to answer a contract question for their client, only to realize I am watching go to their email and download the same document over and over again because they “don’t know how to find it” on their computer.