this probably should be in the labor shortage thread at this point. not sure if there's a way to move it...
you seem fixated on the millennial part, so I'm assuming you are one? I'm not sure why you keep fixating on that aspect.
the issue is that even the people doing the instructing don't know, due to the experience vacuum in the late aughts caused by the recession. Many of them are Gen Xers. I started in the industry in 2001 and many of the people I see screwing up the training due to a lack of their own understanding are Xers. And the Boomers are maxing out their 401(k)s and trying to bail before the next bust. or are too far removed from the day-to-day to know what's going on. it's kind of funny though once they find out and say "wait a minute, we're not taking meeting minutes or doing daily reports? WTF?" and I say "I dunno, ask your protoge, he's in charge now".
Of course, not only do the "leaders" not know how to teach any of this now, most of the "learners" weren't even in college, let alone the industry, when all of this happened.
it's not about hand-written notes at all. this is ALL electronic. Send an email asking them to start their mockup. Send a text. Email their boss. Email them again. Text their boss. Call them. Show up on site. Nothing. Guess what, we're having a meeting with an agenda and minutes (electronic, not on paper, although amusingly most of these people want to write it down on paper regardless of age).
Daily logs are done electronically, and the trades enter their own time, the weather auto-populates, etc. All things that used to be hand-written. and many times double-entered.
I have another theory that most of the people going into construction management do so because they *think* they can hide from tech. They take an accounting class.... spreadsheets. pre-med.... xrays are digital. pre-law... lexis/nexis (or whatever it's called) is online. Shit. I know, construction! there can't be tech in construction!