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I seldom feel as old whenever I stop and take a few steps back and look at my job, and ponder how many of the aggravations and gripes I have stem from the fact that my company hires a lot of younger people, as opposed to older professionals with actual work experience.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, there\u2019s merit to hiring young from a corporate standpoint, they lack the leverages of experience and work history to where companies feel like they hold the advantage when it comes to negotiating salary and benefits.\u00a0 Younger workers are often believed to be malleable to fit into existing cultures, and the theory is that they still have enthusiasm and energy, and hope that they can inject such into workforces that are tired and jaded by a history of Office Space<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n However on the flipside, younger workers lack the work ethic the generations before them have, and their overlap with older workforces often creates a culture clash that companies are still trying to figure out the calculus on how to combat and work through in order to have a harmonious environment.\u00a0 You can\u2019t push younger workers too hard, lest they immediately start updating their LinkedIn profiles and start looking for an exit.<\/span><\/p>\n If it isn\u2019t obvious, the impetus of this post stems not just from a recent resignation of a colleague under the age of 28, but of months and months of being a part of a company that has demonstrated the tendency to hire on the younger side of the spectrum as opposed to possibly more professional candidates, and I feel like it\u2019s leading to a lot of the day-by-day issues that are emerging and compounding as time progresses.<\/span><\/p>\n The recent resignation sucks, because this person was basically the point person of this retail campaign that my company is in the midst of trying to launch.\u00a0 Their departure creates a noticeable hole in the workflow of the project, and until their successor can be identified, implemented and brought up to speed, the project is effectively on pause, because despite them still being present for their two-week notice, they\u2019ve already basically stopped working on anything, instead of you know, trying to leave on good terms and tie up as many loose ends as they can.<\/span><\/p>\n But just in general, I work with a bunch of kids on certain teams, and them being kids means they\u2019re all flaky and terrible communicators and spam up our internal Teams channels with gifs as a means of communication as opposed to actual fucking words.<\/span><\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m trying to not be nearly as age-ist as I\u2019ve heard some of them be, they\u2019re rather pleasant and easy to chat with on a personal level, but when the temperature at work starts to rise from time to time, very few of them have the fortitude or tenacity to keep their shit together, and their bad habits tend to come out when things heat up.<\/span><\/p>\n But the biggest thing is though, like I said before, you can\u2019t push them without chasing them away.\u00a0 The turnover at my company in the three years that I\u2019ve been here has felt pretty absurd, and I feel like it\u2019s this downward spiral where young workers are hired, crumble under the pressure of real-world work, bolt after 6-8 months, creating a shitshow for the teams they abandoned; their backfills are also young workers, but entering a worse environment than their predecessors, crumble under the pressure and then bolt, and the cycle has been repeating itself, but with things continuously getting worse, rather than showing any signs of stabilization or recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n I get that the workplace in general is changing and loyalty and longevity mean dick and butt these days, and it\u2019s not necessarily age-related when it comes to people bouncing in short order, but it doesn\u2019t help the narrative and reputation that it is, when it\u2019s mostly the younger workers of the workforce, that are exorcising this right the most frequently.<\/span><\/p>\n Seeing as how this is a thing that more of a cultural shift as opposed to something that can be fixed, it\u2019s times like these where I wish I could just work for myself, but the reality is that I don\u2019t know what I\u2019d do for a living, let alone make ends meet and support my family.<\/span><\/p>\n If only I could get paid, generously, to brog about inane bullshit and the happenings in my life, that would be the ultimate dream come true.\u00a0 But since that\u2019ll never happen, it\u2019s remaining in the downward spiral vortex, and just simply holding onto my butt and hope one day improvements occur.\u00a0 At least I\u2019m not under the draconian thumb of my old boss, but frankly, it\u2019s not okay to constantly keep that comparison in my back pocket to justify other bad workplace behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I seldom feel as old whenever I stop and take a few steps back and look at my job, and ponder how many of the aggravations and gripes I have stem from the fact that my company hires a lot of younger people, as opposed to older professionals with actual work experience. 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