On Nov 15, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Joseph Selbie wrote: > Robert wrote: > > Design managers beware. :) > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/08/60minutes/main3475200. > >> From the article: > > "Some of them are the greatest generation. They're more > hardworking. They > have these tools to get things done," she explains. "They are > enormously > clever and resourceful. Some of the others are absolutely > incorrigible. It's > their way or the highway. The rest of us are old, redundant, should be > retired. How dare we come in, anyone over 30. Not only can't be > trusted, > can't be counted upon to be, sort of, coherent." > > Does anyone have first hand experience of this? Or is this an > exaggeration > for the sake of getting attention. I have had the positive experience > mentioned in the article but I've not had the negative kind of > experience > mentioned above, but my experience is limited. I curious what > others have > experienced.
This article, like most news stories, is slanted to their target market: high income older news watchers. "They have climbed Mount Everest. They've been down to Machu Picchu to help excavate it. But they've never punched a time clock. They have no idea what it's like to actually be in an office at nine o'clock, with people handing them work." uh huh. sorry, a lot of them got jobs as soon as they turned 14 to save for an 1980's toyota or to help their single mom put food on the table. As is typical with what passes for "news" these days, this is fluff hype to make their old rich viewers feel superior. In other words, total crap. I think it is far more industry oriented: In IXD, hard working diligent brainiacs. In Finance, spoiled frat a**wipes. They're not any different from us genX-ers. jd - - Jeffrey D. Gimzek | Senior User Experience Designer http://www.glassdoor.com ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
