[quote=millennial]. . . Personally I enjoy sociology and this topic came up at work and read an article so threw it up there. . . [/quote]millenial/yamashi, do you know why your employer felt they had to hire a “consultant” (to bridge the “generation gap” among your coworkers?)?
I worked alongside WWII’s (or “Silents”) and even a few of the “Greatest Generation” throughout my “career” and none of my employers ever found it necessary to hire a “consultant” to help us all “get along” with one another, lol …. It was a given that the elder worker had the most seniority and therefore knew the most about the organization and the jobs within it (including where all the bones were buried). A newbie green boomer-worker did not argue with these people or tell them how to do their jobs more efficiently. Instead they cozied up to them in search of a “mentor” who might be able to pull a few strings to get them the next promotion.
Could it be that the self-righteous and self-indulgent millennials were intermittently disrespectful to their elders in your workplace and the elders were the ones who suggested the employer take action on this? I’m a bit puzzled as to why your employer would coddle a portion of their employees in this way. Perhaps they felt they had no choice because of millenials’ propensity to quit, leaving them high and dry in the middle of a project if they don’t get their way at work while their straggling boomer employees are short-timers dreaming of impending retirement.
For the life of me, non “team-players” were usually summarily let go in the past or at the very least, pigeonholed into a forever dead-end position, in hopes that they would eventually quit on their own (which rarely happened).
