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!!
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Originally posted by zeitghostHere's a rave from the boomer grave for the mauve monkey.
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Originally posted by zeitghostHere's a rave from the boomer grave for the mauve monkey.
Gardening is more healthy than dragging up old threads.
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Originally posted by LucyI thought baby boomers were until 1957
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Originally posted by zeitghost50s
Could be right at the end of the baby boom...
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Originally posted by LucySo you were born in the 1960s ?
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Originally posted by zeitghostNope.
10 years too late.
Close though.
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Originally posted by wendigo100We 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.
THe prospect has really cheered me up this afternoon - must be years since I laid a log from an upper storey!
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Originally posted by WKnightWhat 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?
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.
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Originally posted by WKnightThe 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.
Expat, in Am I the Only One Left of the Generation That Could Spell? mode.
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Originally posted by wendigo100We 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?
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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?
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There'll always be thick, lazy, incompetent civil servants, so we'll always be in demand.
No worries here
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