@judgedread Holy shit, Linotype. The episode of the Twilight Zone where Satan is really good at shitposting is only reason I even know what it is, and I'm a millennial so I wasn't too far behind you. Lifetime job security, indeed.

I took the word processing class because I took every class that let me touch a computer, and it turns out that this was the same line of reasoning that occurred to my friends.

:peggy: In the future, they won't have secretaries any more.
:zerocool::cereal::phantomphreak::lordnikon::acidburn: ...
:peggy: No one is going to be there to take dictation.
:zerocool::cereal::phantomphreak::lordnikon::acidburn: ...
:peggy: You'll have to type all of your own letters.
:zerocool::cereal::phantomphreak::lordnikon::acidburn: ...
:peggy: So if you don't know how a business letter is laid out, you'll look foolish.
:zerocool::cereal::phantomphreak::lordnikon::acidburn: ...

And it turns out there are secretaries, nobody takes dictation, nobody sends letters, nobody knows how to format a business letter, and nobody needs to because the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk for $40B was done over grey bubbles in Twitter DMs, so she was 25% accurate.