35-year-old millennial engineer claims that older employees are making their work impossible

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'I can't keep it to myself anymore': 35-year-old millennial engineer claims that older employees are making their work "impossible"

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This employee is speaking out about the ages of their fellow workers and the ways it affects their workplace capacity. It's sparking some interesting conversations!

Talking about age in the workplace is a tricky topic, and this person is bold for even bringing it up.

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Engineers scoffing at their colleagues.

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Old worker and middle-age worker unite on construction site to work together.

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!