Gen X stymied by baby boomers hanging on to jobs

Cleveland Dot Com ^ | Saturday, September 17, 2011, 11:06 PM | clevelanddotcom

[the invisib1e hand]

NEW YORK -- In Tiffany Spaulding's 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry, she has worked for three companies, two of which no longer exist, and relocated to four states.

Now 39 and living in Brookfield, Conn., she hasn't had a promotion in five years and says she sees no chance to advance, stuck behind a wall of baby boomers. She would quit and turn her hobby of jewelry design into a business, she says, if not for the home and school loans that eat up half her salary.

Spaulding, according to a new report, is a typical member of the relatively small group called Generation X, 46 million Americans born between 1965 and 1978: They're ambitious, squeezed by debt and frustrated by people who aren't retiring on schedule. More than a third hope to leave their jobs in three years, a survey of more than 1,100 members of Generation X by the Center for Work-Life Policy found.

[eyedigress]

I appreciate the pass. Lets call this “extra work”. :^)

[central_va]

Thank you for serving during WWII. God bless all you guys.

[Eaker]

Okay, I get it.

You post something retarded and I point out that is is retarded so the problem must be me?

You have a tough road to hoe using that kind of logic.

[Free Vulcan]

Is the analogy really that hard? I feel like I’m working with a liberal who refuses to see the tree in front of their face. This isn’t that complex of a topic.

Not saying the older generation is less competent than me in every case. I am saying that a fair number of them overestimate their competence. Some are quite competent but refuse to see their limitations, or refuse to adapt to an every changing world, and try to compensate with control and bureaucratic games.

Or deflection, or distraction, as you are trying to do now. Ad hominems? Really?

There is one rule in this world: keep up or you won’t have a job tomorrow.

[Eaker]

grey_whiskers, this is what you get for showing a chicken a card trick.

When the trick is complete it is still a pecker head.

[grey_whiskers]

Wisdom means knowing that just because something is a fad, or new, doesn't mean it's an improvement; nor does it mean it's perfect.

The world isn't a zero-sum game, but then, businesses don't have infinite resources. It is a harder thing than you realize to create sustainable growth and not outgrow your supply chain, logistics, support, infrastructure, or cash.

I'd love to see you as a manager, as Dogbert's Management Consultants would have bankrupted you by the end of your first email.

But I guess from your love of jargon and "experience-by-proxy" dropping (like age dropping, except that you hint that you've TALKED to people with REAL LIVE EXPERIENCE^TM instead of famous names), that you're more the creative type.

Cheers!

[Eaker]

My correcting your English when you are trying to point out how smart you are is quite appropriate.

You talk about keeping up but are still too stupid to use spell check to hide your lack of competence in the English language is very funny.

I’d hire you just because you make me laugh but I have enough jesters and clowns to deal with as it is.

[eyedigress]

How’s it going Eaker

[Free Vulcan]

Well I guess if you think my effort to help you find your ass with both hands is retarded, well give me retard for $500 Alex.

So remember guys like you when I worked in the commodities markets in Chicago 15+ years ago. The rest of us moved on, you guys are still doing the same mid-level thing training flunkies and playing God.

[Free Vulcan]

Correcting English is for librarians. Most of us skilled in math and science don’t have the time to correct for every little comma and past participle in a simple conversation. If I’m in a business or political meeting I could care less about minor details like that.

[eyedigress]

Oh my. What a dangerous subject. I’ll take pork-bellies for 500

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[Eaker]

Going great!

Got a little rain at the zoo yesterday with my grandson and it is good.

And you?

[Free Vulcan]

Uh no, try day trading index options. For over 15 years. Although pork bellies are in reality a great deal harder because it’s a ridiculously think market that I wouldn’t dare trade anywhere but on the floor. I’ve been trading since I was 18. Any time you want to balls up and put your money on the line and go for it.

[eyedigress]

Not to shabby a high of 78 and mostly cloudy. The jet is fixing to push it right on us. I mowed on Thursday and the yard looks good.

[Free Vulcan]

Thin market.

[triumphant values]

well, whatever the reason, they're the lamest bunch of snot-nosed crybabies and bad-seeds that's come down the pike in a long time.

Really? It was GenXers that ripped the morals out of this country and turned it on its head in the 1960s and 70s?

What college campi did the GenXers take over by force in the 90s. SDS, Weather Underground, Black Panthers all GenXers?

The fact is the United Stats hadn't seen a societal upheaval on the level of what the Baby Boomers perpetrated since the Civil War.

[eyedigress]

I’ll ask you about that. Say I’ve 10 grand to push around, would it go anywhere.....

[grey_whiskers]

I find Troll Vulcan’s posts interesting.

First he says he’s talked to mechanics who repaired cars for a living who couldn’t keep up; when you implied that was too low a level, he then changed gears and claims to have worked on trading in Chicago; and the latest post has him claiming to be versed in math and science.

If he were good enough in math & science to have lasted as a commodities trader, he’d have been set for life and not reduced to talking about how his generation will eat the boomers’ lunch.

Incidentally — if he was at the trading floor 15 years ago, he’s hardly a spring chicken any more: and by his talk, still not a manager.

And yet he makes fun of you for supervising kiddies.

g_w

[Free Vulcan]

Until new technology comes along and makes your supply chain obsolete.

There is only one rule in this world right now: keep up or you don’t have a job tomorrow.