I mean your normal high school graduates who went into whatever. I mean the ability to problem solve with technology to any degree, writing a word document is considered a skill in the current climate.
The latter is purely due to boomer attention to detail. The con-men, and the people who end up making mustard gas in an effort to clean their homes are products of valuing effort and connections without basic knowledge. I'd also consider it a scam to pay someone for months of "work" to complete a task that can be done in a trivial amount of time by technology.
Human error loses to technology in efficiency and effectiveness in almost every situation except those highly specialized.
Why are the ones who work full/part time so stupid than? To the point where if they're asked to do anything involving technology or something like basic math, they get a look of terror?
Beyond that, I think most of the efficiency and attention to detail that work teaches is in the boomer sense of not using technology properly and therefore just being extremely inefficient.
So you can have kids working at McDonalds and the expectation becomes children working at 12? The expectation of teenagers working is already a huge brain drain as it's sacrificing the development of actual skills or knowledge for minimum wage or sub-minimum wage workers.
I blame critics for that, anything creative got shit scores and Yu-Gi-Oh for example dropped all their MMOs, Dungeon Dice Monsters, Capsule Monsters, Final Fantasy-esque games after one release to make essentially Yu-Gi-Oh but it's online titles.
The local staff I've seen here are awful as well, particularly when you're looking at small and medium sized businesses. They can barely use or set up a computer or complete basic tasks, and constantly just upsell services to boomers.