Adults Are Revealing What Their Younger Coworkers Said Or Did That Made Them Hyper-Aware Of Their Age, And I Relate A Little TOO Well

The workplace is wherever you tin conscionable radical from each walks of beingness — wherever your coworkers tin beryllium astir your age, older, oregon adjacent importantly younger. Well, sometimes, interactions with those younger coworkers tin truly punctual you of your age, and Redditors and BuzzFeed Community members person the stories to beryllium it. Here are immoderate stories from radical with younger coworkers who made them consciousness reaaaaally old:

1. "Our receptionist astatine enactment was successful her aboriginal 20s, and she was calling different spot of business. She told maine to travel perceive to the telephone due to the fact that it was making a weird sound. I past had to explicate to her what a engaged awesome is."

2. "I knew I was aged erstwhile I had to archer an worker our harmless code, and that they had to deed the lb motion astatine the end. She looked astatine me, confused, but I recovered rapidly and said to deed the hashtag symbol. Good grief."

—simplysarahish

3. "I had an intern notation to the '90s arsenic 'the precocious 1900s.' WTF? It's true, but it makes my teenage years dependable similar The Oregon Trail oregon something."

4. "We were talking astir wherever we were connected 9/11, and 1 of my coworkers went quiet. He hadn't adjacent been calved yet."

—u/Itsagabby

5. "Some coworkers complained astir however hard and awkward it was to conscionable women connected dating apps. I asked if they've ever had to telephone a miss astatine location and had her dada reply the phone. They were horrified. Another time, 1 of my guys asked what a payphone is. Mind you, we worked astatine a telephone company."

6. "When I had to thatch my 25-year-old coworker however to usage 'Ctrl + C' and 'Ctrl + V' connected the keyboard. They went from having nary machine to touchscreens, truthful I conjecture they ne'er had a people connected however to usage computers and lone knew however to transcript and paste utilizing a mouse. Hotkeys blew their mind."

—u/Conscious_War_9855

7. "A younger pistillate coworker said she was going to travel by with 'some unthinkable tea.' I ended up profoundly confused and disappointed erstwhile she showed up to my bureau without a calming elixir of the gods and alternatively proceeded to speech crap astir our coworker."

8. "I erstwhile overheard a younger coworker talking astir however helium couldn't basal it erstwhile radical who are successful their 30s effort to support up with manner and style. He said thing like, 'You're aged — conscionable get immoderate jeans, a polo, and immoderate New Balances.' I was 34 astatine the time, truthful that was frightening to hear."

—u/Jamileem

9. "When I fell down the past mates of steps connected a stairway. No 1 pointed and laughed similar I expected. Instead, my coworkers helped maine up and asked maine if I was okay. That's erstwhile I knew."

10. "They started calling maine 'Mom' and 'Mama Bear' implicit the walkie-talkies. I find it benignant of endearing, actually."

—u/WhoaThere87

"A coworker asked maine if I had immoderate Advil. He said helium figured the 'mom of the workplace' would person some. I did."

—u/MommaChem

11. "I was talking to a coworker astir movies and what our favorites were. I said thing like, 'I watched that movie truthful overmuch erstwhile I had it connected portion during my assemblage years.' She said, 'Tape?' I said, 'You know, connected VCR?' She had this confused look connected her look arsenic she asked, 'VCR?' I shrugged it disconnected due to the fact that young radical not knowing astir VCRs is fair. So I said, 'Oh, good I conjecture VCR is old. Everything is connected DVD now.' She said, 'DVD?' I replied, 'I conjecture those are old, too. I conjecture Blu-ray is what's connected disc now.' I kid you not, that confused look ne'er near her face. Then she said, 'Disc?' I ended up conscionable saying, 'Never mind.'"

12. "My overmuch younger sister works successful a hotel, and she said that she erstwhile served idiosyncratic famous. She said casually, 'They were successful immoderate set called Queen.'"

—u/AllSonicGames

13. "A person and I were moving astatine a summertime camp, and we had to bring our Gameboys to enactment 1 time to show to the younger kids that, yes, we had multiplayer backmost successful the day, and yes, that was the lone mode to bash it."

14. "Our payroll institution went nether (not with our money, luckily), truthful for that period we got real-life, honest-to-goodness insubstantial checks. Several of my younger coworkers didn't truly cognize what they were oregon however they could crook them into money."

—u/Ambitious-Eye975

15. "I offered immoderate $1 DVDs to immoderate assemblage kids I worked with, but they said they had thing to ticker them on. I was like, 'You tin ticker them connected your laptop.' They said, 'Uh...no, we can't.' That made maine consciousness old. Apparently, laptops don't person disk drives anymore?!"

16. "I enactment part-time astatine a brewery arsenic a 'beertender' for other income and escaped beer. I'm 45, and astir of my coworkers are successful their aboriginal 20s. I similar each of them, but boy, did I recognize rapidly that I was retired of interaction with today's slang! We were trying a caller beer, and my coworker was like, 'Damn, this truly slaps.' That was followed by idiosyncratic other who said, 'No cap.' I stood determination truthful confused astir what these guys said. Since then, though, my coworkers person taught maine each astir the caller lingo."

—u/StopTouchingThings

"A coworker and I were talking, and they said, 'Say less.' I replied, 'Oh...okay.' And I walked away, truthful confused. I decidedly had to Google what that meant."

—u/MaritimeRedditor

17. "A beauteous coworker of excavation invited maine to a enactment astatine her house. The enactment started astatine 9 p.m. I was truthful confused; that's bedtime!"

18. "When 1 of my coworkers tried to acceptable maine up with their mother."

—u/seyheystretch

19. "I worked astatine a restaurant, and we had a caller hire. She was 18, and we were talking astir TV shows. I'm not definite wherefore I did, but I ended up mentioning TV Guide. She had zero hint what I was talking about. I told her we utilized to person to hunt done this publication successful bid to cognize what clip a amusement was playing, and that we had to ticker it connected clip oregon other we'd person to hold for the adjacent showing. She looked astatine maine similar I was crazy; the thought of not being capable to person instant access, oregon astatine slightest beryllium capable to grounds the show, was alien to her. We had a laughter astir it, but that is erstwhile I realized I was mode excessively damn old."

20. "My younger coworkers collectively thought that landline phones were attached to walls to support them from being stolen."

—u/Elegant_Document11

21. "I had to explicate what rickrolling is."

22. "A younger coworker asked maine if I had a 'gram,' and I told him that I didn't bash drugs. He conscionable wanted to cognize if I had an Instagram account."

—u/lazyflavors

23. "My coworker recovered immoderate aged CDs successful my closet and asked maine what they were. I said, 'Blank CDs.' They asked, 'What bash you mean by blank?' I replied, 'They don't person thing connected them, but they're similar a regular disc. You tin enactment immoderate you privation connected them.' They looked truly intrigued and asked how. I said, without adjacent reasoning astir the property difference, 'You pain them.' They replied, 'Burn them? Like with a lighter?' Ugh."

—u/wanderingnightshade

24. "We had an intern, and we were talking astir societal media. I brought up MySpace, and she had nary thought what I was talking about. She'd ne'er adjacent heard of it."

25. "I went to a gathering with my team. It was meant to beryllium a speedy meeting; determination weren't capable chairs for everyone, but it didn't truly substance since we weren't going to beryllium staying for long. But everyone offered maine a chair. When I declined, everyone stood up. I realized past that I was the oldest connected the squad by implicit 10 years. I was the 'older idiosyncratic who got entree to the chair.' I sat down, thanked them, and past realized I had deed a caller play successful my life."

—u/Dreadedredhead

26. And finally: "I near a enactment for a caller prosecute to telephone IT to assistance acceptable up his enactment phone. He asked maine what connection I wrote the enactment in. Turns out, helium conscionable couldn't work cursive."

Alright, that's capable net for today. Have you experienced immoderate moments successful the workplace wherever you thought, Wow, I'm really aged now? Let maine cognize successful the comments, oregon you tin anonymously taxable your communicative utilizing the signifier below!