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Why are bosses never able to use technology?

At this point in my communications career (10 years in, at Director level), I find it so frustrating that my bosses and the folks that run teams seem to lack the ability to do simple tasks such as searching for a specific email in Outlook, opening a Google doc, having to sign into anything, having to troubleshoot anything, etc. It baffles me that the people paid the big $$ are not expected to be as technology forward as younger team members. For example, my boss calls me more than a couple times per week where I basically sit on Zoom while I walk him through how to post on LinkedIn or sign into Google when he's done it before. It's a waste of my time and absolutely not my part of my job. We have an IT department. At the same time I just have to grit my teeth and…


At this point in my communications career (10 years in, at Director level), I find it so frustrating that my bosses and the folks that run teams seem to lack the ability to do simple tasks such as searching for a specific email in Outlook, opening a Google doc, having to sign into anything, having to troubleshoot anything, etc.

It baffles me that the people paid the big $$ are not expected to be as technology forward as younger team members. For example, my boss calls me more than a couple times per week where I basically sit on Zoom while I walk him through how to post on LinkedIn or sign into Google when he's done it before. It's a waste of my time and absolutely not my part of my job. We have an IT department. At the same time I just have to grit my teeth and do it. Basically venting but anyone find this frustrating too? What have you done to mitigate stress around this?

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