The Gen-Xers I have run into refuse to learn. I have tried like heck to mentor them, but they fall back to their (generally bad) college instructions.
Those of us in IT learned discipline — in our work, not in a classroom. We understood many production concepts: reliability, extensibility, modularity, insulated, “bullet-proof.”
The Xers came when they had PCs and thus thought if they wrote a little application for Jane and Joan they were a developer. They didn’t (and don’t) understand the idea that things will change and you need to accommodate future changes. They don’t understand the underlying theories that make systems work and how those theories apply.
They think “well, it does what was requested” without understanding the milieu it operates in.
And yes, I understood all of those when I was in my 30s. Because I learned the fundamentals from those who knew them. I knew I did not know.
Gen X doesn’t even have a clue it is clueless.
Right, right...let’s all fall for the liberal inter-generational warfare. Divide and conquer - isn’t that a leftist strategy?
This article was written by a whiny lib who interviews whiny libs. Of course it is accurate and truthful and applies to every member of an entire generation.
This article is just as stupid as the articles blaming other generations for this mess.
Can’t we just face it: people across all generations like free stuff and believe lying politicians as if magic were real.
I second the motion.
Cheers!
Amen... and my i add two more that were drummed into me real quick. 1)don't start anything friday you don't want to have to spend the whole weekend babysitting or fixing
2)write it/do it right the first time, cause it's your name on it if goes bad on Christmas-Eve/Morning/etc and has to be fixed
**Gen X doesn’t even have a clue it is clueless.**
There is something in the World that proves that wrong. Look at any picture or comparison of the US Military before the Gen X’ers joined and after. I have seen pictures and heard stories about the Army in the 1970’s and it was almost a joke. During the Reagan years when the young Gen X’ers started to join it became the most professional military in history. I am starting to worry about some of these new 18 year olds but for no other reason the Generation X can be proud of what the military has become.