Reply to: baby boomers

[shaunbhoy]

Characteristics of Baby Boomer workers

Values

Individual choice
Community involvement
Prosperity
Ownership
Self-actualizing
Health and wellness
Attributes

Adaptive
Goal-oriented
Focus on individual choices and freedom
Adaptive to a diverse workplace
Positive attitude
Work styles

Confidence in tasks
Emphasize team-building
Seek collaborative, group decision making
Avoid conflict


Just for a bit of balance. If Paxman and the rest of his Metropolitan Elite wish to feel guilty about their contribution to society then so be it.
But he doesn't speak on MY behalf, nor for most of my peers.
Sanctimonious twat!!

[PurpleGorilla]

Here's a rave from the boomer grave for the mauve monkey.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-history.html

[SueEllen]

Here's a rave from the boomer grave for the mauve monkey.

Can you get another hobby?

Gardening is more healthy than dragging up old threads.

[bogeyman]

What? People going around blowing up babies?

It's disgusting

[Rantor]

I thought baby boomers were until 1957

1964 - after that you are generation x I believe until sometime in the eighties;

[Lucy]

50s

Could be right at the end of the baby boom...

I thought baby boomers were until 1957

[Churchill]

So you were born in the 1960s ?

Hatched, he's a lizard.

[Lucy]

Nope.

10 years too late.

Close though.

So you were born in the 1960s ?

[Rantor]

We didn't need plumbers when we shat out of our windows onto the street. Now - notwithstanding those who are good at DIY - we can't do without them. Plumbers that is. It's one of the biggest industries in the world.

Exactly and what good has it done us! I for one am sick of this nanny state interfering with my defecatory habits and would welcome a return to arse-oot-the-windae sanitary solutions.

THe prospect has really cheered me up this afternoon - must be years since I laid a log from an upper storey!

[expat]

What will this mean to IT contractors? A generation that understands computers will take-over instead of one that preferred quill pens and paper. Things can only get better? Right?

Wrong.

Quill pens were Shakespeare's medium, and they worked for him.

We preferred pencils and coding sheets. With these tools, our generation made the programs that made possible a Moon landing, computerised banking, and Air Traffic Control. Some of them are still in use.

Things can get worse than that. They have.

[expat]

The last generation that was not brought up with a mobile stuck to their heads, and with no idea about computers except that which an old-dog can grasp, is slowly releasing the reigns of power and leaving the show to the rest of us.

Reins.

Expat, in Am I the Only One Left of the Generation That Could Spell? mode.

[Lucy]

Are you a baby boomer Walter ?

[Paddy]

We didn't need plumbers when we shat out of our windows onto the street. Now - notwithstanding those who are good at DIY - we can't do without them. Plumbers that is. It's one of the biggest industries in the world.

Same thing for electricity - we didn't need a sparks when we used candles for light and a fireplace for warmth.

And telecomms - we didn't need BT engineers when we lit fecking great bonfires on top of hills.

So where am I going with this? Fuck knows. Any ideas?

We don't need teleport engineers because it hasn't been invented yet.

[wendigo100]

We didn't need plumbers when we shat out of our windows onto the street. Now - notwithstanding those who are good at DIY - we can't do without them. Plumbers that is. It's one of the biggest industries in the world.

Same thing for electricity - we didn't need a sparks when we used candles for light and a fireplace for warmth.

And telecomms - we didn't need BT engineers when we lit fecking great bonfires on top of hills.

So where am I going with this? Fuck knows. Any ideas?

[SallyAnne]

There'll always be thick, lazy, incompetent civil servants, so we'll always be in demand.

No worries here