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There are certain things you just can't really talk about out of politeness in the workplace, like age, gender, weight, whether or not someone has kids, etc. If you do, you could be pushing into someone else's workplace rights, or making them uncomfortable, and no one wants that to happen.
You're supposed to assume that everyone around you has the capacity to do a great job at their assigned role.
It's also not really an employee's place to judge their performance. That's up to their boss, actually.
And yet, you can still infer a lot about a person by their age. But is that judging someone based on looks… or is it a deeper insight into workplace culture, management, and employee relations?
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Engineers scoffing at their colleagues.
The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.
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I can't keep it to myself anymore... older generations simply cannot keep up with today's work expectations
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Old worker and middle-age worker unite on construction site to work together.
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This is an interesting perspective!
This person shared that they're 35, working at this big company, and also have the knowledge gained from running their own small business. That's the kind of person who would know about employee management, right?
I do wonder if their issue is exacerbated by the field they're in. Fields that are swiftly evolving, or which require constant, very fast-paced communication, certainly might leave behind older workers. For example, things happen at light speed these days. If you ignore your Slack channel for, say, 2 days during the work week, you will miss tons of stuff, and be totally behind on every meeting you attend.
Sometimes getting constant Slack messages and emails and texts really stresses me out, so I can't imagine what kind of a burden it places on someone who was born like, 65 or 70 years ago. Work probably moves like 5000% faster now than it did in the 1970s.
And yet, what else is there to do for the older workers except adapt and evolve? If you're still using snail mail instead of email, or email instead of Slack, you are going to get left in the dust. Millennials, Gen Z, and even Gen Alpha are going to be running circles around you.
However, there are certainly many fields where being older gives you far more expertise than the young folks have. That can be extremely valuable!
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People shared their own experiences, which were very intriguing as well
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This worker found that their coworkers are too stuck in their ways
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Good point!
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