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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"...people make a tidy living giving corporate presentations on this type of stuff. I just sat through one for course credits and he specifically characterized Boomers as spending everything they've got before they die and "sliding in [to the grave] with the wheels on fire." ... leaving nothing behind is a legitimate characteristic of that generation. As are selfishness, failure to protect the environment, and general sense that public goods (land, public services, etc) are to be used up by them without thought to leaving anything for other people."

"The training I sat through had an interesting bit about the rewards each generation finds most motivating. The generation before Boomers valued security over all, the Boomers value status, older Gen X value knowledge, younger Gen X and older Gen Y value inclusion, and younger Gen Y value freedom."

I hope your company has a great legal team. If they officially supported this training they are supporting age discrimination. If younger generations value "knowledge, inclusion" then someone younger should have stood up and said NO STEREOTYPES are acceptable including those related to age. [/quote]

Sorry but there's no grounds for suit here.  Learning that people who are different from you may value or fear different things, or may communicate in a different way, is a basic part of management training. If you refuse to hire someone because of their age, that's discrimination.  Recognizing the potential for miscommunication or poor employee retention based on general characteristics is not.  And while being common doesn't necessarily make it right, this is an incredibly common type training and if someone could sue it would have happened. The fact is that the workforce is changing in specific and predictable ways as the age of the workforce changes, and that managing people depends in part of what they value or fear which is in turn affected by their generation.

FYI, the bit about knowledge and inclusion were the rewards that people value in addition to the paycheck.  That is, some people would like a paycheck + a title, some would like a paycheck + professional development, and some people would like a paycheck + inclusion on a decision-making team or big project. [/quote]

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