Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent
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@Cobalt I worked at a job once where I was Marketing Assistant. The Marketing Director? I had to show her how to add an image to an email. As well as how to add a column to an excel spreadsheet. As well as how to copy paste using ctrl c and v. She made 5x my salary. Oh and 25% of the time when she started addressing me she called me the wrong name.
Pouring a shot of espresso for you today. I too feel your pain.
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@SockMonkey said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
As well as how to copy paste using ctrl c and v.
What I find really interesting is that I think my generation (I’m a millennial in my mid-30s) would associate this sort of tech ignorance with Baby Boomers.
Except I find that so many new college grads (so I guess Gen Z? early 20s) on my team – also don’t know about these keyboard shortcuts. I have watched them right click on so many things to select copy and paste. I cannot even fathom doing things that way when we work so much with spreadsheets.
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@Roz I think (I could be wrong) it’s because a lot of these new grads are much more used to mobile technology.
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I’ve noticed that too.
I think a lot of Gen Zers didn’t actually grow up on computers like we did. They grew up largely with ipads/tablets and smart phones. So they’re more familiar with the touch screens rather than traditional computers and so didn’t really learn the short cuts and stuff that come with frequent computer use.
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@Roz My kid hunt and pecks on her laptop keyboard, but can text at the speed of light so I believe it!
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Yeah it’s absolutely a mobile thing. I grew up on desktop computers starting when I was like five or six, and I’ll do just about anything to keep my hands on the keyboard and not have to move one to a mouse.
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@Raeras said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
So they’re more familiar with the touch screens rather than traditional computers and so didn’t really learn the short cuts and stuff that come with frequent computer use.
Yeah also so many things are cloud-native apps and abstractions that they miss out on things that kids of the 80’s/90’s would consider basic tech skills. My youngest has learned a lot of that only because they’re into mods for games. Both my kids have even resisted their (required) typing classes because they don’t see a huge need for it.
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lol man, we had a typing class when i was in eighth grade, and i was already a way better and faster typist than the teacher at that point
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@Roz I once set up my action-PVP MMO keyboard layout such that I only had to use the mouse to click on quest objects. All my movement was on my numkeys.
I felt your post in my bones, fam. 
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@SockMonkey said in Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent:
@Roz My kid hunt and pecks on her laptop keyboard, but can text at the speed of light so I believe it!
I’m also a mid-30’s millennial who started very early with desktops but taught myself to hunt and peck at the speed most people average with typical typing, lol. it used to get me mercilessly teased at my last desk job because people could hear me super-pecking from across the room.
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@Wizz I do that too! It’s sort of a weird hybrid of hunt/peck and touch type but it’s fast!
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I have old people ankles and knees and can now apparently tweak ligaments JUST STANDING STILL NOT DOING ANYTHING. Like blinding fall on the floor pain for a few minutes. In an unrelated matter perimenopause fucking sucks.
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Why is there a Vehicle Registration Fee that’s separate from Vehicle Registration Renewal? I paid my shit in August thinking I was ahead of the game. Still hadn’t gotten my tags but also my driver’s license had apparently expired in May so I renewed that. Got pulled over this weekend for unrelated reasons and they said my registration was expired.
Called the city this morning and they were like ‘that’s separate, you have to go through the dmv’, which you think I’d know by now because I’ve had to do this a hundred times but it’s too much to keep track of x.x
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Apparently I’m in jury trial tomorrow because two other trials canceled so there goes every plan I had for Halloween night.
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I wanted to post in RL Happy initially, but I’ll post it here, since although immense gratitude is involved, it’s rooted in struggles.
It’s been rough. It’s been really, really, really rough. If you know what’s going on right now, and if you know my personal connection to what’s going on, then if you know, you know. I’ll leave the specifics at that. I have thought of scarcely else for the past 25 days. I’m conscious I may have become a drain on my friends because of it. I feel depressed. I don’t think I’m clinically depressed, but I feel I’m experiencing symptoms of depression, temporarily, as a consequence of events. Minor provocations feel like hurricanes. I feel like I’m turning into a hurricane. I am angry and raw.
The happy — kindness is never not appreciated, but in times of need, it’s appreciated that much more. The silver-lining right now is how clearly I’m able to see and feel the love, care and compassion some of my friends, and even some distant acquaintances, have for me. The goodness I can see in people. Friends I haven’t spoken to in ages who reached out, out of the blue, to show solidarity and support in a sea of trauma. In a time when it would be so easy to believe that the entire world does not care, there are people who haven’t just told me, but emphatically shown me how wrong I would be to believe that. I think back to history of stories of people who’ve really stood up, and I see them echoed in people I’m glad I know today. People whom I know, in those historical shoes, would’ve done the same and profoundly right thing.
I’m emotionally overwhelmed, and holding onto hope against bitterness when, as Mr Rogers once said, I find the helpers. Or in many cases, when they’ve found me.
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I over slept my alarm on the second to last day of training after being told how important it is to be here today and tomorrow AND knowing I’ll be cut if I miss any more time before next week.
I’ll be crying in a corner and spending the next two days worried I’m going to get fired.
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I’m on the brink of a big move and I just finished training at my new job and I’m going to miss the people I trained with because we’re in different branches. And I just feel unstable with so many upcoming changes and don’t know how I’m going to cope. I know change is inevitable but it’s hard.
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My computer died.
I bought a new one. It crashed endlessly.
I returned it. They charged me a service fee to change out the parts.
I bought a new one. It ran at 105 Celsius under load, and shutdown.
I have to return it. And probably pay another service fee.This has been a two week saga at this point, and I’m so frustrated and stressed that I could cry. My PC is where I conduct all of my work, all of my hobbies. Losing the lottery on hardware issues twice in a row has been just gutting. I just want to relax and play video games, not get off work and immediately launch into troubleshooting and chores.
Just fuck.
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I am sick of having health issues. Every month, or so it seems, I have been having pain in my side. Sometimes it is so bad I can barely move. I was going to the ER and all they tell me is it is some sort of muscle thing. X-rays, CT scans, etc, have not shown anything wrong. I am seriously starting to doubt it is just muscle. This happens enough I opt out of some trips I could go on, and really want too, with a program on my reservation because I worry the pain will hit and the trip will be wasted because I can’t go do the stuff that is part of it. The people who run the program are awesome. They would all do their best to make sure I have the stuff I need to ‘succeed’ at the trip. This is on top of a bunch of other health issues I have.
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Depressive episodes suck send tweet.
