A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a teacher who was about to retire. She remarked that the younger teachers in their 30s didn’t dress appropriately. The ones in their 40s weren’t very focused. She laughed. One group doesn’t have any money and the other has kids.
I thought of that conversation when I read Businessweek’s top reasons gen X ers are unhappy at work. particularly #1 and #10.
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I think Gen Y’ers have such a competitive advantage over Gen X’s. Gen X had to learn about the internet, had to learn about computers, had to be given their blackberry by their company, etc. Usually it was their Gen Y children who had to teach them about most of the above.
Gen Y also communicates way differently so managing Gen Y’s as a Gen Xer cannot be easy - we have a very different set of expectations and different way of doing things.
An interesting read though - thanks for the link (business week)
Posted by Ryan on 20 May 2008 @ 3am
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