Very true. But they have OTHER skills that we didn’t. I did restaurant/bar work around my college time. We wrote down orders on paper checks, punched them into a cash register maybe.
Now servers and bartenders have to learn relatively complex computer systems. But those systems send the order to the kitchen and total everything and give inventory reports, yadda yadda. I bet servers today aren’t very good at writing neat orders the kitchen staff can read. Or totaling checks.
I enjoy the Home Depot and broken cash register stories because similar anecdotes have been around since handheld calculators and cash registers became the norm in retail.
Darn abacus - the beginning of the end of good arithmetic skills.