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We have a guy at work; early 60s, doesn't have an email address. He literally does not have an email address. The one he gave when he started with us is his wife's. He has a phone, but he keeps it turned off in his bag. Not asleep, off.
When you ask him to do anything involving a computer he gives you all that "oh I don't do computers" bullshit, and at this point all I can think about is how much household admin and labour he's off loaded to his wife. How much of the irritating day-to-day shit we have to do by email, or by logging in to a website; all tasks that his wife has to carry out because he "doesn't do computers".
He's not brain damaged, he just doesn't see the value in learning.
I set him up with some online training he needed to do the other day. Nothing overly complicated, just watch an online slideshow, then click on a QR code to go to a form to answer questions. He clicked on the link, but because it was already open in another tab it didn't open again. And instead of spending a few seconds investigating the issue, he just walked upstairs to my office to tell me it wasn't working.
I can't wrap my head around being so completely incurious about things. About not having the desire to work out why something isn't working and attempting to fix it. It's such an alien way of being to me.