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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, you were clearly wrong. I hope you are trolling us but if not, they should fire you. Really.

- manager[/quote]

So you are saying treat staff like Mushrooms? Keep them in the dark.

Look I recall the say (many many many years ago) when I made Manager in the Big 4. I was all bright eyed and naive. We went to Florida for new manager training. Was like 500 of us nationwide. The senior partner at start said I want 50 of you to stand up. Some in room pointed to one or two rows holding 50 people to stand up. The other 450 of us was left sitting.

He then said only one out of 10 new managers make it to partner. The reality is 90 percent of you sitting wont be here in 5 years.  You need to really step up our game, learn, sell and add value just to make it to next level and then even more to make Partner.

I dont think it is a good thing for someone only 35 who had 30 years to retirement to give up on them. Next thing you know you are 50 in a blink of an eye. And the job market for 50-60 is a fierce market where unless you are a true SME or made it to VP or higher when let go you most likely will never work again.

Sadly the 35 year olds somehow dont think they ever will be 50 plus. Once you break 55 you are essentially a hired gun. You get hired to do stuff ASAP with no training at all and as soon as done you are out the door. Or not hired at all. My expectations were too high.

Remember the famous movie The Blob. In it a creature is killing everyone in the remote Artic compound in Dead of winter with sub zero temps where they are cut off from any rescue. In the end in a mass fire fight they realize they could kill it via fire. In the end only two men are left and all buildings are burning and creature dead. One man turns to the other and says thank God we killed it but now what once the fires go out we have no buildings and no heat source and we are in the Artic circle. The man holds out his hands, warms them by the fire and says we will worr your that once the fire goes out.

That is basically a 35 year old today thinking about 50.          
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You cant even quite the right movie. “The Thing”[/quote]

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