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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my work, it’s GenX who are completely uninterested in taking over for boomers. When the boomers finally retired, we couldn’t even get GenX to apply for those jobs. So millennials stepped up en masse. They all just want to coast into retirement. [/quote]

I think it was a moment in time. In our 30s, the early 2000s, Gen Xers wanted to take over and be heard. We were finally mature enough, better at tech, etc. But the Boomers, our bosses, then in their 50s still ruled the roost. It was just As It Always Had Been.

Then Millennials come in and are handed entire departments in their 30s, and are bosses of older people.  And of course Gen x is like "whatever"- we tried. But I'm sure it stings a little. [/quote]

Yes I saw this in action starting 10 years ago. Boomer is finally retiring and Gen X person who had been waiting for this moment their whole career is dying to step in. They plan to mainly continue what the boomer started, a profitable and highly productive department with loyal employees, while eliminating some outdated practices.
But then a challenger emerges! 30 year old with six sigma certification! She wants to switch us to just in time shipping eliminating all product storage. Get rid of half the employees, and all the experienced ones, to “eliminate waste”. The directors have stars in their eyes and hire her.
Two years later millennial is moving onward and upward leaving a complete mess in her wake. Turnover is through the roof, no one knows what they’re doing, complaints from clients are constant, we’re always out of something. Now they call Gen X lady and beg her to save them but she’s quit to do something totally different and is happy with that. [/quote]

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