How old is too old?
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Anonymous
Care to explain this a bit? Other perspective: it seems like employers are not really interested in training younger candidates. They want someone to "hit the ground running." And what do you mean by entitlement? I don't think lack of experience is necessarily a bad thing, but I guess it depends on your industry. Some "experienced" people are very set in their old ways of working... and they don't want to use data/technology. |
Anonymous
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Guitarists Ace Frehley from Kiss and Mick Mars from Motley Crüe each released a new solo album yesterday. They are both 72.
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Anonymous
DP but the “motive new staff “ thread below is a prime example. It’s about how new people are put off by a 90 day in person requirement during probation. A time when they are getting TRAINED and getting to know the staff and procedures and having a mentor on hand for feedback and questions. The need for that being in person shouldn’t need to be explained. Ones the newbies have proved themselves to be competent, reliable and self motivated then they can WFH but not before that. |
Anonymous
What was your role and background, would love to learn from you. |
Anonymous
Aren’t you a boomer? |
Anonymous
What is going on Gen Xers? I thought the poor me bit was reserved for the millennials and gen Zers... |
Anonymous
It's difficult to say without knowing the line of work. The 90-day thing is kind of strange to me. If other people get to WFH, what type of training/mentorship would be available at the office during my probation? I say this as someone that doesn't particularly enjoy working remotely. |
Anonymous
Us GenXers complain but not as loudly and no one listens to us 
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Anonymous
Midlife is the age of regret and grievance. We never wanted for much, the slacker generation, but ended up with even less and there is no more runway to make it up and we see our kids suffering for it (our kids, like Millennials will be worse off than prior generations, but even further behind since we are too poor to give them the boomer windfall that most millennials will receive. ) |
Anonymous
| Landed my current role last year at 46. It’s my highest paying job yet. Not leadership, exec or management either. |
Anonymous
Yes because our parents were Silent Gen! Lol! Or atypical Boomers... |
Anonymous
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I have worked with a couple of 80 year olds. They were hearing-impaired and had other problems. I helped one retire; she had no sense of what to do and no stamina to do it. It was grim.
Most people I worked with in my career retired some time before 70. I think 70 is the limit. During their last few years many became irritable and complained a lot or acted out towards other people; they didn't care. I retired at 62 because I could, luckily, and I didn't want to ever get like that. |
Anonymous
I've worked with quite a few people in their 70s. I can only think of one person who sounds like what you described. The rest were just like everyone else, some better than others, some nicer than others, but nothing that seemed age related. The only hard-of-hearing person I ever worked with was (at the time) in their early 30s. |
Anonymous
I worked for someone 77ish, he is constantly giving contradictory instructions and accusing me of doing something I didn’t do, or accusing me of not doing something I already did. He also gave me a bad review but the example cited in the review had his previous employee’s name in it. I feel bad for him but I had to leave and remind myself not to work with them in my life time again. |
Anonymous
You're my twin. But it's April 26 for me. How long do you plan to work? |