Even the youngsters couldn’t help me

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Yesterday afternoon I was working at a business event and the whole organisation were super security conscious. You couldn’t leave the foyer without a security pass, meaning that as temporary staff we had to be given cards to open the doors to allow guests into the lecture theatre or even the toilet! In order to be issued with said pass, we had to log in using a QR code. I said ‘OK, I’ve never actually scanned a QR code, how do I do it?’ and everyone laughed and exclaimed over my lack of technical know-how. I asked didn’t I need to have some sort of scanning app or something? And they said oh no, just point your phone camera at it, so I did as I was told and, as I expected, the camera just focused nicely on the QR code. If I touched the ‘button’ then of course I got a nice photo of the QR code. There were six of us in the group, three middle-aged people (myself included) and three youngsters of 24 or under. None of them were able to solve my problem and eventually someone else just had to log in for me. The other really funny thing was that, at an event about the future role of technology in work, the automated ticketing system didn’t work properly. One fifth of the attendees were not logged on the system and instead we had to write their names on a note-pad with a pen in the old-fashioned way. How ironic was that! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2024.