What is your problem? No, I mean retired. Pension and everything. If I were merely unemployed, I would have said so.
Oh, absolutely. I just mean there is an incompatibility. Which demographic is to ‘blame’, if any, I’m sure is specific to the situation. But there IS a disconnect between many of them that is frustrating older workers.
Thanks for the languge lesson, but if I wanted to say ‘Woke’ I would have.
I wasn’t thinking about anything ‘woke’. More like personality problems, mental health, and fragile egos that can’t take criticism. Also a sense of entitlement, like one who wouldn’t take on a task that was her responsibility and important, because it conflicted with her desire to take a training class that had nothing to do with her job but was ‘personally rewarding’. My wife wound up doing her work for her, because it had to be done and that’s what conscientious people do.
She had two younger workers (late 20’s) who just constantly fought with each other, made snippy comments to each other in meetings, and bent anyone’s ear they could all the time about how horrible the other one was. They both wound up in different departments eventually, but it was endless headaches for my wife until they were gone. And I suspect their careers have been severely curtailed.
The person that was being groomed to take my wife’s job when she leaves has made it clear that the promotion would be too ‘stressful’ - after wasting six months of everyone’s time trying to train her. So my wife will be leaving without a replacement. Oh well.