Comments on: Just Like Dad

By: Citizen of the Month » The Unveiling

Citizen of the Month » The Unveiling — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:28:59 +0000

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By: Richard Mason

Richard Mason — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:23:42 +0000

If you think about it, it’s not as if young people are so smart. Young people, to make a sweeping generalization, don’t even know how to change their oil. They don’t know how to fill out a 1040 Schedule C. They can’t fix a faucet or hang a door. They don’t know who their Congressman is. Often they don’t know where their classes are. Their knowledge of classic movie stars is poor, their grasp of twentieth-century history abysmal. They are bad drivers. In short, young people are incompetent ignoramuses because they are seeing things and doing things for the first time.

The thing about technological advances is that they make old people like young people.

By: Edgy Mama

Edgy Mama — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 18:00:28 +0000

You LA folks are way ahead of us down here in the South. We just got computerized boarding passes at our airport. I didn’t even know there were computerized ticket vendors at movie theaters.

So how was the movie?

By: Leese

Leese — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:34:28 +0000

I work with a lot of older folks who just don’t get it sometimes. The company is trying its best to be high-tech but the employees are technology-challenged so most of the time the technology just sits there waiting to unleash its full potential.

Simple things like setting meetings. We friggin have Outlook but everyone still email memos to set meetings.

And everyone knows emails are not always read in a timely manner yet people still insist on using them when we have Instant Messaging available.

I think I’m the only person in my group that belongs to Generation X around here and even though it’s not my job I end up being the IT support person here for things like “empty your mailbox” or “press ctrl alt del.”

The older generation also try to make sense of everything, which makes it hard for me to explain things like “that’s just the way it is, it’s Microsoft acting like Microsoft, so just reboot.”

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:46:14 +0000

Some people just don’t like change.

I loved the movie, thought that it was a lot of fun.

By: Noel

Noel — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:21:30 +0000

1960 — ATM predecessor installed in NY.
1971 — First true bank ATMs

Your dad must have been old-fashioned from birth…

ATM timeline:
http://tinyurl.com/aa7pw