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Boomer: "I need a locksmith."

Employee: googles locksmith "yeah here's the phone numbers of every one in town."

Boomer: "thanks there's now conceivable way I could have done this myself."

This is like half the calls we get.

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[โ€“] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

:this: :this: :this:

Boomers come into a massive chain store and are surprised to learn that the retail employees of [massive billion dollar company] are not specialized tradesmen with years of experience but rather minimum wage workers who could not give less of a shit if the table the customer is buying is "good quality".

[โ€“] jaywalker@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure Lowe's or home Depot used to hire a lot of retired tradespeople to work there.