Interesting read with data and studies to back-up the opinion.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/its-time-for-companies-to-end-the-obsession-with-millennials-and-hire-older-workers-with-skills-and-expertise-2018-09-21
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Millennial's are starting to hit 40 I know a few that have completed 20 years of military service. They really need to move onto the next generation.
@3wsl - you said it and aint that the truth, and they want to pay them $15 per hr too
WANTED: 22 year old systems analysis with 38 years experience.
I hope the company keeps sinking and Bain comes in as promised to clean up all the top heavy middle mgmt nonsense that's been killing our bottom line for years.
I want to see these millennial's working back at the Wendy's drive-thru where they belong.
Hooped ears and bushy beards are better at making Frosty's.
IBM has spent years destroying its core institutional knowledge and with it, its reputation and future.
When I walked out a couple of years ago I was the last remaining person with any expertise in a complex, sprawling product that they were still charging customers tens of millions of dollars annually to support. I was also proficient (thanks to 40+ years in the business) at getting (often appallingly badly written) bleeding edge open source to actually perform something useful. To be slightly immodest, I got stuff done that others couldn't do (or do in any reasonable timeframe) and yet... I felt I had a target on my back.
Where I now work most folk are well north of 60, razor sharp and packing a ton of experience. By contrast with the spreadsheet psycho's killing IBM, we are valued, very well rewarded and have an absolute ball. Its a different mindset and one that actually has a future by dealing with the world as it actually is rather than pandering to fashion and the latest management whim-du-jour.
Careless quotes like that of Mark Zuckerberg (in the article) are used by technically-challenged managers to justify fresh-blood (low cost) workers who they know will savor the flavor of a paycheck for longer, and will work weekends and nights "uncomplainingly" yet in a state of moral dilemma. IBM is a technical company and should be led by technically gifted managers in order to compete. There is no substitute for ability or experience.