Businesses and markets evolve too quickly to keep you around – There’s no reason to keep people employed making film cameras, desktop PCs, floppy disks, etc. Can you imagine what would happen if workers with skills relevant in the 1980s had to be kept on the job? People in obsolete businesses need to be retrained or removed.
And this dude worked for IBM? I guess he worked with punch cards there. In IT if you don't bother to learn, yer dead, doesn't matter if you're 20, 40 or 100. So spare me the BS.
New hires, especially younger people, will have a better attitude than you – This might be painful to hear, but younger people are often more compliant and eager to please than older workers.
Ah yes, compliant and eager to please and when upper management blames THEM for the fuckups their hare-brained schemes caused, the younger, compliant and eager to please folks will kneel and take one for the team. One thing is to be young or even unexperienced, another thing is to be stupid.
Besides, wasn't the big complaint about "Millennials" that they had low tolerance for corporate indoctrination?, so which is it?
You don’t have the right relationship with technology – Younger workers are “digital natives” – they have a completely intimate relationship with technology, a relationship that managers often perceive (wrongly, in many cases) as being useful to business. You are a “digital immigrant.”
This dude must have worked as an HR critter.
[Hides under the nearest rock in case swift and wife read this]
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Ok Ok, this dude must have worked as Marketing drone
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