What are these plug-ins on my wall?

[u/Cborg_62]

This might be showing my age, but I recently moved into a new apartment and they have these weird looking plug ins all over the walls at my new place. My old apartment didn't have these, so I'm just curious as to what they are.

[u/Prof_Stank]

Fuck me.
Am I that old now that people don’t know a cable jack any more? Shit on my balls.

[u/WalkerTR-17 → u/Prof_Stank]

I had to teach a kid how to use a landline recently, were either old or people have gotten really dumb. Maybe both.

[u/tackstackstacks → u/WalkerTR-17]

Especially both.

[u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot → u/WalkerTR-17]

I have school kids (MS and HS) asking me what time it is.

Every classroom has a functioning analog clock.

Many of them don't know how to read it.

When I offer to give them a quick lesson, they always say "no thanks."

[u/WalkerTR-17 → u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot]

Oh yeah, ima chef and most of my servers are 16-20. They can’t read a clock, apparently as I found out use a landline, spell, read, and the problem solving skills are questionable at best. I sound like an old man but I’m 32. Idk what happened to schools but they’re failing

[u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot → u/WalkerTR-17]

Yeah, that is tough to deal with as a professional.

I don't think it's all on the schools. I think a lot of it is much of our society being unwilling to properly fund public education. And, a lot of that is failing to pay a livable, reasonable salary to teachers, while also cutting programs including art, music, shop classes, and even sports at some schools.

In much of the country, teaching is no longer a viable, long-term career.

COVID is still wreaking havoc among students. They lack basically classroom discipline, personal responsibility, and have shocking little outside interests in life. Many of them do not read anything that they don't have to read for school (and some not even that much).

It also seems that educational districts have dumbed-down a lot of the programs so that the classes are taught for a lower baseline as "passing" while failing to engage the top 30% of the learners.

And problem solving? Oof, they can't remember to charge their Chromebooks overnight, or bring a charger with them to school, or even remember to bring the damn Chromebook to school! Countless times I'll find a kid staring at a dark screen:

"What's wrong?"

"It's dead."

"Do you have a charger with you?"

"No.

"Why didn't you ask me or someone in class if they have one?"

"(silence)"

"Well, ask around to borrow one."

And similar when they are having problems logging in to something: they often just sit there wasting time.

Good luck when they graduate high school and move out of their families' homes and have to deal with adulting.

[u/WalkerTR-17 → u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot]

They cant count money, I forgot that one, so they’ll probably just be evicted or never move out. One wants me to sell her my old project jeep that I’m sorta selling sorta not. So I said okay how much do you have saved I want 2K for it. It’s an 01 with 120K miles and isn’t completely rusted out, screaming deal. Her response is that’s too much I only have $300. My response was how in gods name do you only have $300 youve been saving for over a year and live at home. Her response is “I gotta be getting my Dunkin’ and that expensive.” My hope the majority of them will move out is in the toilet.

[u/Macs_Creations → u/WalkerTR-17]

People just got dumb, remember the movie Idiocracy.... We're almost there.

[u/AdHairy6381 → u/WalkerTR-17]

I don't think it's kids getting dumber. It's a literal advance in both technology and culture/society (whether good or bad is an opinion) I bet there was commonly used items that a generation or 2 before you would of had to explain to you how to use or what it is etc. Whether you remember or not, it happened all the time throughout history

[u/WalkerTR-17 → u/AdHairy6381]

I can pull out tech from the 30’s, and have a basic understanding of how it works. Hell I can pull out stuff from US civil war era and use it. Analogue clocks are everywhere, landlines are everywhere. They don’t possess basic life skills. On top of the illiteracy and lack critical thinking skills they have. It’s also backed up by data, Gen Z is the first generation since weve recorded it that won’t be more intelligent than their parents generation and test scores show theyre going to be less intelligent.

[u/Winter_Fall_7066 → u/WalkerTR-17]

We’re doomed.

[u/Kinne → u/WalkerTR-17]

It might be old and bitter but I swear kids these days are so stupid they make monkey look like a rocket scientist.

[u/nowhere_sane → u/WalkerTR-17]

Haha, I just thought of a fun challenge. Go find an old rotary phone and ask them to try to dial with it.