Ordinary everyday things I no longer know how to do

Audi10 Thank-you. I'm crying with laughter. We had that once. Keep looking and you'll find a way to delete it. ?

I get the puzzled by job application situation but from the other side. Back in the days I felt I understood what was going on, myself and a Co-manager and HR would get ad advert in the post, short-list and set questions pertinent to the post to be filled. Then, our organisation was 'assimilated' into the civil service.... The short listing still fell to us to do locally, but the questions we had to ask weren't about the vacant post, but were about 'competencies' at which point I lost all competence in interviewing. We weren't allowed to ask if someone could use a spreadsheet, for instance, but had to ask questions which resulted in candidates telling us about jobs they'd done about the house such as fitting kitchen cabinets.... Or their experience as bar staff.. None of which related to what we needed to know. I decided it was time I retired due to the many strange changes to the way we had to work.
I also struggle with catching a bus (not that they have any reliability or feasibility where I live) - apparently there is a (very unreliable) app to check times, and when you get on the bus you're expected to pay by card? And apparently you don't tap the card on the card machine, it had to be placed and left on the payment machine? Give me a my car, which is not keyless, any day!

Calendargirl I always think that this chap looks rather smug ? or perhaps this one ?

LynneH yes, I think that it probably does.
(To clarify - my TV probably stops working if the WiFi goes down.)
I hadn’t really given it much thought as our WiFi is very reliable (touch wood ?)
You’ve got me worried now!

Kartush

I love my technology and do most things online, shop, pay bills, talk to friends and family, watch movies etc. I havnt carried cash for years and I cant say that I find any of it difficult

Another ‘smug’ emoji required.

Barmeyoldbat

I also teach technology to older people at our local library

I’d rather go to Meryl! Not so touchy.

I haven`t read all these posts, sorry,

I had to renew my car insurance, online today, well actually started 2 days ago,, doing a chat....

ended up with a migraine.. truly,,, so very , very stressful, yes, I could have phoned, but though I have a mobile I don`t use it..
hate it.. so landline,, even then,,, oh gosh, told the person, at Saga! would you believe, that not sure if the car will go or me first.. which is it to be to die off?

Oopsadaisy1

MrOops (as a surprise) bought me, and had installed, an all singing all dancing Radio/CD player for my car, except that I can’t make it sing or play the Radio so I can’t dance.
It just sits there, when I eventually manage to turn it on (Difficult as the whole front pops off when I push the incy wincy button) it just changes colour with the fancy lights dancing on the front.
B****y thing, by the time I’ve changed my glasses to find the on off switch, I’ve lost the will. So it sits there . Off. And I fume.

Apparently the chap who fitted it in the shop showed MrOops how to use it, but he’s forgotten and I now have to go online to try to figure it out, it’s been 2 years now…………

Actually radio / CD players are old fashioned. Very few new cars have CD players (if any). It’s Apple CarPlay and Bluetooth from your phone these days. I love listening to Audible while driving.

FannyCornforth

Coastpath I recently treated us to a swanky Sky Glass TV (and it’s navy blue ?)
You literally talk to it and tell it what you want to watch.
After four months I still have to explain to DH how to use it, every single time ?

I’m fascinated by this. What happens if your WiFi goes down? Does it mean that you can’t watch TV?

I love my technology and do most things online, shop, pay bills, talk to friends and family, watch movies etc. I havnt carried cash for years and I cant say that I find any of it difficult

I’m ok with the tv and iPad, but the phone is my downfall. I finally gave in and got a smartphone a few months ago, just in case it became absolutely necessary to use qr codes for some things. This phone isn’t nearly as user friendly as my old Nokia. It’s cumbersome, and I find the keyboard more fiddle than the letters and numbers buttons on the old phones. I’ve done nothing with it apart from text and make the odd phone call. I’ve not set up the internet, and I don’t know what all it does and no instructions came with it. This morning, as I crept along the hall, so as not to wake my son, a loud voice said,
“ what can I do to help you? “. I’d obviously pressed something by accident on the phone in my hand!

@ MissAdventure, if an email has come from your domain email address it’s legally binding that conforms as your signature. ??

I recently purchased a'container ' you fill with water to which you add weed killer. No not a watering can but a technical piece of equipment which comes with a list of instructions/battery etc etc that has to be charged and then inserted etc etc into the appliance. Sound simple ?so where am I going wrong

Hollysteers - hope you have better service from Talk Talk than I did. Kept charging me more for "fast broadband" despite the fact that it is not available where I live and probably never will!! - only 7 properties up where I live.

I feel defeated by a lot of modern life. My basic PAYG mobile died and I haven't replaced it. I still use money when I go shopping, I'm defeated by the childproof locks on boxes of washing pods and have to wait for my cleaner to open it. The alternative is me hackling at the box with a huge carving knife like a mad person. I also often find vacuum packages containing eg meat, are impossible to open with the tiny corner triangle so resort once again to hacking with carving knife.

My writing has got worse through lack of use, along with mental arithmetic , since I got a calculator!
Anyway, who thought of the idea of "Modern" maths? Totally useless as I can't remember the last time I used a quadrilateral equation in my life!

Thanks for the tips ladies it nearly went through a window I was so frustrated. I did get it on but it had all the books I had deleted in the last 8 years from my old kindle which had a different operating system.
Today's problem is I can't open the box with washing tablets in, it has a child and obviously granny proof lock.

My son despairs of me so sends my granddaughter to sort me out. Trouble is she is so fast I can't see what she is doing so when I need to do it again I can't remember! I just use general principles and hope for the best.

I’ve never had a CV. I was a radiographer and moved through various hospitals on phone calls and interviews. I would know where to start now ?. How times have changed.

I know, we hardly use cash these days! My son always asks me if I've got a bit left for when he needs air for the car tyres.?

When I was looking for jobs you just turned up at the company and provided you seemed like you could do the job you started the next Monday. CVs were not a thing, neither was "how to impress". They didn't want people who were too full of their acheivements, they wanted people who would just learn the job and do it. That was in the 1970s when workers kept going on strike and there were more jobs than people to fill them. Employers were just pleased to get someone.

My father died during covid...I had to deal with everything online....Also had to apply for probate...I spent many days crying as I had so many documents to fill out and returned.....Thank god my hubby is more savvy than me...

I have a banking app on my phone which can be quite handy but always worry about what happens if I lose phone. Last week heard from bank that we are now able to put banking app on more than 1 device. DH added his to his I-pad and all worked but then tried to do mine and even the app on phone went caput. He spent a good 45 mins on phone to bank to re install app, he was being told to go to different screens on i-phone and do all sorts of stuff I didn't have a clue about. Could never have managed this myself on a million years. BTW I'm another who can't work the TV.

My daughter got Alexa though and all the lightbulbs.That would be no good to me- I'd spend half my time arguing with it!?

Tried to use cash the other day, restaurant wouldn't take it.
My son in law paid with his watch!