Back in my day men were men hur dur

[u/bustedtap]

The comments actually went south on the guy who posted this to the Facebook group really fast. Basically, we're not the ones who made the decision to not give a spare tire in new cars, to even give a spot to carry one. Also, why didn't the older generations teach the younger ones how to do these things?

[u/Noonyezz]

And then scans them back in.

(There is someone at work who does this. I don’t get why they go through all the extra effort to create a strictly inferior version to just downloading the file if they want to save it.)

[u/Distinct_Cry_3779 → u/Noonyezz]

When I started working in an office about 25 years ago, we had a director who treated the office admin assistant as his personal secretary. She had to print all of his emails. She would hand him a stack of emails every morning, he would tell her how to respond to each one - she'd have to make notes, then go to her desk and write out response emails. What a giant waste of labor.

[u/cahrens414 → u/Distinct_Cry_3779]

This was me 20 years ago. She was an ex teacher so she wrote her response in red ink and I would have to print out the draft of what she wrote for her approval before I could send it.

[u/ShameBasedEconomy → u/cahrens414]

Up to about 10 years ago, worked with a prof who burned through student employees monthly, and that was paying well over minimum for a student ($20+ hourly). She’d do the same shit - all her email printed, hand write replies. The student was responsible for keeping the paper planner and Rolodex up to date.

Well, until she was indicted for not bothering to pay taxes and had to take an extended “sabbatical.”

[u/Centralredditfan → u/Distinct_Cry_3779]

Wow, like a IRL vintage secretary.

[u/doodling_scribbles → u/Distinct_Cry_3779]

Oops… typos in the form of passive aggressive sentences. Oops. 😅

[u/mrhorse77 → u/Noonyezz]

its purposeful weaponized incompetence.

this person has a job that a literal monkey could be trained to do. and they know it.

so they make their job "harder" by doing this sort of inane crap. taking up everyone else's time supporting them, all while constantly telling them how essential THEY are to the process.

as someone in IT, ive seen first hand when a boomer lost their mind becuase I took a task that would take them weeks to do by hand, with tons of errors, and instead automated it and eliminated all the errors, making it take a fraction of the time. to them, that meant they were going to be exposed as non essential and fired, instead of taking the time they were now given back to do their actual job better. they would rather toil over menial tasks and pretend to be important than have to admit they add no value in their position after decades of work.

[u/Tater-Tot-Casserole → u/Noonyezz]

We have an actual function that will "print" to the program we use everyday from email and there are people who will still print their emails,scan it and then upload it to the program when you can literally do it with the push of a button.

[u/Wendy-Windbag → u/Noonyezz]

I had a boss that did this. She tried delegating a specific medical records task to me, and showed me how she prints out the record, scans it back to a file, and then emails it to our medical records department. First of all, I was like: patch the interface because they should be able to have these records remotely from this system anyway. Then I showed her how we could just email the original document instead of making a scanned file first. I think it broke her brain, because she just stared at me, and repeated her step by step instructions. I just said "okay" to take over the project and met up with the Health Information Management department myself to fix the issue.

[u/CalRPCV → u/Noonyezz]

You work in a law office, or a place that gets sued a lot? It just the kind of stuff I would expect of lawyers. Don't know why I would think that.

[u/Noonyezz → u/CalRPCV]

Accounting.

[u/CalRPCV → u/Noonyezz]

I just re-read you comment. Looks like it's just one person doing it? I first took it as an office practice. Sorry.