My first job out of uni was developing an internal system for a company.

On a certain day, I was the first of my team to arrive. Before I could even get to my desk, a distressed colleague stopped me.

"Hey, can you help me? The system is broken! The tables are cutting off and everything is in the wrong place." he says.

We go to his desk and he shows me the problem. I grab the mouse and click the Windows maximize button.

"Oh! Thanks, it's fixed."

That guy worked there for decades and earned over five times more than me.

Lol, just received a quote as a ppt.

"Can we get an AI tool to save pdfs?"

I've got a guy like this now. I'm sure he does what he does perfectly fine, but I watched him struggle to identify a very obvious bug he pushed to production which disabled an entire function. It's a little different now when I see him being snarky with other team members...

Then you gotta help them, you go take a bottle of water and they already forgot ya, when they are done (after you helped them again) they will return to treat ya like someone useless cuz to them you are "the useless keyboard jockey"

Fastest way to save a PDF in windows is to tell it you want to print it.

Many people struggle to save some pdfs lately.

I watched someone print his screen by putting his monitor on the photocopier.

Its because people get other priorities with age. They dont care about learning new things as much, as a general rule. They have their paycheck and they value time with family or friends. The job is just a way to get money, not a choice or a passion.

This is in contrast with young people, who often wants to show how good they are, make a career, get recognized. Believe it or not, those older people wanted that too but not anymore. They did it, but other things became more important than work.

My boss didn't know how to use my ergonomic mouse, and needed me to walk them through how to sign their signature on a PDF.

I mean I see this all the time but those people tend to either have the tribal knowledge or specialist expertise to keep things moving when we hit snags. It's not obvious until the obvious or textbook solutions to problems run out

Though there are also people around because they talked to all the right people all the time so I partially take your point

Struggle to paste the path to a file. Seriously.

Most devs refuse to take on any sort of responsibility of management. The manager gets paid to deal with that for you. Want more money? Manage coders on a successful team. You'll e miserable but at least you'll hit 200k.

moron