GrumbleTower

Having been born in the 80s, I have lived through some incredible changes in technology - some good and some not so good. I have always loved technology and used to get really excited when something new and innovative was released. I adopted as many awesome devices as my wages would allow in my younger days. Now though, I am starting to feel that things have gone too far. Allow me to go back a bit. In my house, we didn’t get a phone until maybe around 1990. I can’t be certain of the year and it’s not really important. What is important is that we had one phone in the house. It was in the living room, it was connected to the wall by a wire and the handset was connected to the base by a wire. We could move the phone into the hall by pulling the wire under the door if we wanted privacy or to avoid interrupting anyone who was watching TV or having a conversation - something people used to do back then. If someone tried to call you on the number assigned to that phone line and you weren’t t...

I don’t know when this started to become an issue but it definitely has. These days, people seem to have a terrible inability to follow instructions - or more specifically, to follow written instructions. I have a feeling that it is the result of everything becoming a video. It is as though most people have lost the ability to read all the words, interpret them and act on them. I see so many offers of jobs being posted on social media. The poster asks that a CV be emailed to them, yet so many people will instead comment something along the lines of “interested” or “how do I apply?” If I were the person offering the job, I would take note of all those people and make a point of never employing them. If you can’t follow simple, written instructions which tell you how to apply for the job, what bloody use will you be if you actually get the job? There have been many times when I’ve seen something listed for sale on Facebook. Even on posts where the seller has specified a price and given a...