My boss pointed us at an article this morning, about a topic near and dear to managers everywhere. Boomers are retiring, and for every 2 boomers leaving, 1.2 workers are entering the workforce. I know I've been watching a steady drum-beat of retirements the last few years.
In the article is this sentence:
My boss is a boomer, and our chief Unix admin is a boomer. That's it for Technical Services, so it doesn't apply as much to us as other groups. We're all GenX here, with one Millennial shared with Telecom who is moving on to something else soon. It's a bit different across the hall in ADMCS, but not a lot.
In the article is this sentence:
Statistically, Millennials are the most pluralistic, integrated, high-tech generation in American history—traits that make them ideally suited to our increasingly demanding, diverse and dispersed global workplace.I had to snort. Not 10 years ago you could replace the word "Millennials" with "GenX" and it would have been true. And before that the, "tweeners," the folk between GenX and the Boom, got the same treatment. And the boomers before them got it too. Each new generation is the most puralistic, integrated, high-tech generation in American history. Whatever the people being born right now get called will be the same and the Millennials will get to feel a bit fuddy duddy.
My boss is a boomer, and our chief Unix admin is a boomer. That's it for Technical Services, so it doesn't apply as much to us as other groups. We're all GenX here, with one Millennial shared with Telecom who is moving on to something else soon. It's a bit different across the hall in ADMCS, but not a lot.