HouseWolfSep 10, 2023

What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about?

https://lemmy.ml/post/4711640

What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? - Lemmy

I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before. What’s some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

Show threadContramuffinSep 11, 2023
Lack of computer literacy. When I was in school, we had computer classes that taught us how to use Word, Excel, even Photoshop and Illustrator, etc. And also things like proper netiquette. It seems like students nowadays are just expected to have computer literacy, and it’s either not being taught anymore or is being taught in a severely diminished way. I’m extremely concerned by the number of younger students who don’t know how to use Excel (or, frankly, anything that’s not a social media website/app). Likewise, I believe the fact that young people are no longer taught to be wary of privacy on the internet (and are in fact encouraged to share their personal lives on the internet) is an oversight in education that will harm these people, as well as society, in the future
Show threadNobsiSep 11, 2023
why do you need to know how to use excel if you don’t ever use it?
That’s what you learn when you get a job. How to use the tools.
Show threadBirdyBoogleBopSep 11, 2023
You know school is there to prepare you for working life right?
Show threadNobsiSep 11, 2023
Does School teach you welding? Does school teach you how to swim? Does school teach you thermodynamics? Does school teach you how water drainage systems are being kept in good condition?
Want me to go on?
Show threadDRUMS_
I hate to burst your bubble but you have to go to trade school to learn the basics of welding, then you can grab an apprenticeship to learn how to do it professionally.
Sep 11, 2023 at 12:24pmWeb
Show threadNobsiSep 11, 2023
You proved my point.
You go to trade school. That is when you have already decided to be a welder. Then you get an apprenticeship.
And both teach you how to when you need it.
Didnt need a schoolcourse on it.
Show threadDRUMS_Sep 11, 2023

But you said your job should teach you.

I’m saying that your not going to find a job that teaches you unless it is an apprenticeship (which is not a common thing outside of trades anyways)

Show threadNobsiSep 11, 2023

There is not a single program, that every job has as a requirement.
None of my employees, unless they choose to, work with Excel.
We have no Excel sheets. Unless someone chooses to.
And if someone comes to me and has the technical skills required to do networking or low voltage work, then we teach him all the software we use.

And nobody that learns the trades that i employ for learns networking in school. They learn it when they need to learn it, which is when they have already decided that they wanna do the job.

No Starbucks Barista needs Excel

Show threadproleSep 12, 2023
That’s because random Joe office worker doesn’t need to know networking to do their job. But they need to know basic Excel. I really don’t think you understand just how common spreadsheets are in just about every profession that uses a computer.