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Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover.

Posted by Tuscy <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Tuscy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:04:31

I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

"I wouldn't mind the DP here." - jumpingdan

I’ll be contrarian and say I don’t think this is that crazy.

Posted by OB25 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=OB25' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:41:16, in reply to "Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover. "

While I would expect young people to have had to do this more when going up through middle school/high school, I am guessing that I haven’t personally used a stapler since before Covid. And while I know I have a staple remover somewhere in this house, I wouldn’t have a clue where to find it.

So I can envision a scenario where a person has just never had to do this.

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

When something is happening, young people like to say it’s “lit.”

I'm not so much surprised that she hadn't used one before

Posted by IlliniSax05 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniSax05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:43:57, in reply to "I’ll be contrarian and say I don’t think this is that crazy."

but the fact that she couldn't figure out how to use one saddens me. It's not exactly a complicated device

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

cosign*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:42:29, in reply to "I’ll be contrarian and say I don’t think this is that crazy."

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

Sidejack...things outside your generation / age that coworkers say...

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:48:40, in reply to "Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover. "

...that you sound like an immediate doofus if you try to use.

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

All of it, except maybe "mid"*

Posted by AintHatin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=AintHatin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:52:16, in reply to "Sidejack...things outside your generation / age that coworkers say..."

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...that you sound like an immediate doofus if you try to use.

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

"my dude" *

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:48:51, in reply to "Sidejack...things outside your generation / age that coworkers say..."

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...that you sound like an immediate doofus if you try to use.

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

it is wednesday, my dudes.*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:42:39, in reply to ""my dude" *"

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...that you sound like an immediate doofus if you try to use.

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

"the sum value of my outfit will always be higher than yours."

interesting factoid: there's a Vine that uses that exact phrase!*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:55:32, in reply to "it is wednesday, my dudes.*"

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...that you sound like an immediate doofus if you try to use.

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

Also, doesn't know how to clean out a clinker*

Posted by Chilango <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Chilango' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 8:19:57, in reply to "Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover. "

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

There's a word out of the past. Next thing someone will bring up is a stoker.

Posted by osklister <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=osklister' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:45:21, in reply to "Also, doesn't know how to clean out a clinker*"

even stokers need a little stoke*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:45:52, in reply to "There's a word out of the past. Next thing someone will bring up is a stoker."

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"the sum value of my outfit will always be higher than yours."

I do know one thing, the young kids definitely know how to deal with a clanker.*

Posted by Warrin'_Illini $<iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Warrin\'_Illini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'>$ on October 3, 2025, 8:46:45, in reply to "Also, doesn't know how to clean out a clinker*"

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

If you read this, you are gay. LMAO

I recently said to my team that someone was “out of pocket” and..

Posted by General Engineer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=General+Engineer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 22:28:06, in reply to "Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover. "

They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

neither idiom makes a damn lick of sense*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:36:39, in reply to "I recently said to my team that someone was “out of pocket” and.."

strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

"Outta Pocket" analogous to "Showing their ass" IMO. I'm 46...if a coworker were unavailable...

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:28:16, in reply to "I recently said to my team that someone was “out of pocket” and.."

I'd just say they're OOO.

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

pronounced "oh oh oh" or "oooooh"?*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:35:31, in reply to ""Outta Pocket" analogous to "Showing their ass" IMO. I'm 46...if a coworker were unavailable..."

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I'd just say they're OOO.

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

You forgot to log back in as "complainant". *

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:40:49, in reply to "pronounced "oh oh oh" or "oooooh"?*"

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I'd just say they're OOO.

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

you out of pocket for that, fam*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:43:10, in reply to "You forgot to log back in as "complainant". *"

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I'd just say they're OOO.

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

Lulz. *

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:43:33, in reply to "you out of pocket for that, fam*"

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I'd just say they're OOO.

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

To white people, it means unavailable. In the Community, it means inappropriate

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:04:38, in reply to "I recently said to my team that someone was “out of pocket” and.."

apparently, young people have appropriated the latter meaning.

I've only ever heard it to mean unavailable work wise*

Posted by Gene Parmesan <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Gene+Parmesan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 9:54:52, in reply to "I recently said to my team that someone was “out of pocket” and.."

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

Correct, that's a common phrase to mean unavailable at my firm*

Posted by reggiedunlop <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=reggiedunlop' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 10:01:20, in reply to "I've only ever heard it to mean unavailable work wise*"

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

my kids use that phrase that way all of the time. its a source of much argument in our house.*

Posted by LovetheChief <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LovetheChief' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 9:49:03, in reply to "I recently said to my team that someone was “out of pocket” and.."

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

I've never heard it in the way you used it*

Posted by illini21 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=illini21' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 8:38:00, in reply to "I recently said to my team that someone was “out of pocket” and.."

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

I have only known it to mean acting inappropriately and I am a 42*

Posted by JacobRDaugherty <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=JacobRDaugherty' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 6:07:20, in reply to "I recently said to my team that someone was “out of pocket” and.."

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

I’m 60 and never heard that meaning*

Posted by TarheelIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=TarheelIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 6:14:57, in reply to "I have only known it to mean acting inappropriately and I am a 42*"

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

Recrudescence

Nope. I'd suspect GE got a call from HR*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 8:27:21, in reply to "I’m 60 and never heard that meaning*"

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

Who knows? No one ever uses that expression

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 4:59:04, in reply to "I recently said to my team that someone was “out of pocket” and.."

Ever

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

6,7 years ago?

Posted by assassin <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=assassin' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 22:46:06, in reply to "I recently said to my team that someone was “out of pocket” and.."

Siiiiiiiixxxxx sevennnnnnnnn

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

Brandon Schrock of Laredo, Texas, told the federal government that his employer was “poop,” and his occupation was “pooper.”

Fortyyyyy one *

Posted by MC <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=MC' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 23:19:30, in reply to "6,7 years ago?"

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Siiiiiiiixxxxx sevennnnnnnnn

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it'd be you.

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT. BOTH OF YOU STOP IT*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 9:58:21, in reply to "Fortyyyyy one *"

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Siiiiiiiixxxxx sevennnnnnnnn

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They all thought I was saying that person was acting crazy/inappropriate instead of unavailable, which is what I intended. When did this change?

"the sum value of my outfit will always be higher than yours."

I found out that kids don't learn about Mt St Helens in school and thought it was odd

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 13:51:52, in reply to "Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover. "

Learned this from an aerospace engineering student at Ga Tech. I figured you'd learn about vulcanism in science class and people would use Mt St Helens, as it is in living memory and in the US, as an example.

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

they learn about vulcanism from Star Trek

Posted by IlliniSax05 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniSax05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 14:07:35, in reply to "I found out that kids don't learn about Mt St Helens in school and thought it was odd"

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

I learned about vulcanism back when I went to Goodyear HS.

Posted by osklister <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=osklister' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 9:08:13, in reply to "they learn about vulcanism from Star Trek"

Was just discussing this with a co-worker and learned this isn't the first mind-boggling....

Posted by Tuscy <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Tuscy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 13:48:37, in reply to "Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover. "

incident.

Apparently yesterday she needed to scan something but the two pages were stapled together.

"These are stapled. I can't scan them like this, can I?"

"Well, no."

"So what do I do?"

"You're going to have to take the staple out."

"How do I do that?"

JFC

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

"I wouldn't mind the DP here." - jumpingdan

when you show her the key ring hack with that thing

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:56:28, in reply to "Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover. "

she’s going to have to change her panties

claw-style or nail-file-style?*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:43:13, in reply to "Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover. "

strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

Claw. *

Posted by Tuscy <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Tuscy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:46:57, in reply to "claw-style or nail-file-style?*"

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"I wouldn't mind the DP here." - jumpingdan

Is she hot?*

Posted by Poldark <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Poldark' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:08:53, in reply to "Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover. "

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

Social Misfit who wants to coach Illinois women's basketball.

"This is the internet. Patience lasts for one bad play then everything is over"

Cute. Not hot. *

Posted by Tuscy <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Tuscy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:17:48, in reply to "Is she hot?*"

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

"I wouldn't mind the DP here." - jumpingdan

Ask her to write her name in cursive*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:05:35, in reply to "Just had a Gen Z "leadership trainee" struggle with a staple remover. "

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

I bet she's never even spun a rotary dial!*

Posted by RVA <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=RVA' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:07:15, in reply to "Ask her to write her name in cursive*"

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

I bet she doesn't know what a rotary dial is

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:08:59, in reply to "I bet she's never even spun a rotary dial!*"

Remember in high school if you wanted privacy for your phone call you would have to have an extra long phone cord?

Side note: not only do my parents still have a land line, but it's honestly still their primary means of communication to the outside world. They probably talk more on the phone in a day than I do in a month. The phone is constantly ringing, and they have to pick it up no matter if they know it's a robo call. It's absolutley maddening and incredibly stressful.

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

Has she ever whipped a horse?

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:23:44, in reply to "I bet she doesn't know what a rotary dial is"

or anything else, asks bonbon

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

so hot on so many levels*

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 2, 2025, 12:51:07, in reply to "Has she ever whipped a horse?"

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or anything else, asks bonbon

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I had to show her how to remove a staple.

I don't know what else to say.

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