Posted on 04/29/2009 7:02:38 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Looks like Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt sort of put his foot in his mouth -- or his pen as the case may be -- in an April 27 editorial where he as much as called America's older workers "lumbering" and less talented than "younger, nimbler" employees. In a nation that has one of its largest blocks of citizens in the "older" category, those over 40, it seems like Hiatt just insulted the largest number of Americans. Not the best way to sell newspapers, eh?
In his headlined "600,000 Bad Hires? Making Federal Jobs Cool Once Again," Hiatt seems to be urging The One to come to the rescue of the jobs market. Well, not real jobs, but government jobs, anyway.
Here is how he jabs workers over 40.
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
They shouldn’t talk about Eleanor Clift that way.
I’m lumbering like a brontosaurus and I have a feeling that the Obama youth brigades would love to send me the way of the dinosaur.
Given how narcissistic and self-absorbed most young people are today, I am surprised that any of them are actually employable in any position that requires one be subordinate to and respectful of any authority figure... especially one that doesn’t have the time or patience to constantly tell them how great they are.
Older workers BUILT THIS COUNTRY — the young ones, Obama’s supporters, are tearing it down. What a fool.
And not to mention that newspapers are subscribed to disproportionately by older folks...
Yet another Washington “journalist” who spends too much time in the office and has never been down here where the rubber meets the road AND PEOPLE ACTUALLY WORK.
We need to be in lock-step with our Community Organizer in Chief who represents the American Idol president. No more old fogies! /s
The author is just preparing the public for Obama’s euthanasia program.
Isn’t he going to be surprised when he discovers that he’s not going to be eternally young.
I guess he’s old enough to know better.
And what a meaningless statistic. There is no shortage of people wanting these jobs.
How many of them are actually competent to do them is an entirely different matter, however. That includes a large portion of those currently holding them or on-track to inherit them because they are "entitled" to them due to their pedigree, network or some other reason which should be irrelavant.
The best way to cut costs and improve performance would be to fill these jobs with older workers willing to forego social security. An entirely sensible plan to do just that is outlined here.
Speaks volumes.
wow! a whole ONE MONTH of job losses in the next four years will be available!! Party hats ON!
Younger, nimbler? But what about their brains, there seems to be a lack of that.
The bad headline aside, he makes some good points. He seems to be slamming the government bureaucracy. He points out how hard it is to actually land a job in the government (non-military), the apparent lack of upward mobility and the government's failure to better manage career development.
From the article:
“The government has no strategy for identifying the talent it will need. Its hiring process is a ghastly and, to most young people, incomprehensible swamp. It fails to invest in the development of the people it does hire. And it does not measure or reward managers for how well they deal with those who work for them. “There are tons of people excited,” Stier says, but as things stand “there is no way in hell the right people will get into government.”
There is actually one part of government that invests in its people and values them as a resource. “The military does things very differently and very smartly,” Stier says.”
I think he makes some very good points.
At my work, they can’t get anyone to fill the Saturday slots due to the fact we must also answer the phones(multi-lines). The young ones can’t do it. The ones that open leave the outside lights on all day and the ones that close usually forget to turn on the night lights and even leave the coffee pot turned on! It’s simple elementary task people not rocket science. (science pronounced by young people—sky-ence)
And old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
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