I have spent the better part of my career returning companies to sanity after boomers ruined them.
A lot of boomers who think they are all that, arent. A lot of bosses that think they are great are actually terrible.
A large percentage of people are bad at areas outside of a few specific skills - and this is across all jobs and age cohorts.
There are a billion reasons for this. The young today act as immature as you did at their age, but at their age you had the backstop of family, most gen z'rs have come from broken homes and if they cant pay their own rent, they cant crash at their parents to help them back on their feet. Millenials and Zs were both raised by broken AF generations - Gen X and Silents who were tortured by Boomers into Apathy and overzealous emotionalism, respectively.
On top of that, the businesses were turned into sociopathic vampires by those self same boomers, with some help by silents and gen-x's.
Do some comparisons of the world from 40+ years ago and now.
In the 70s, you could work at mcdonalds 40 to 60 hours a week and put yourself through college and go out for some reasonable fun.
Now, McDonalds wont give you more than 20 hours so they dont have to care about benefits, but also wont work with you to have three jobs just to afford a room in someone's house.
If you get in at a major company that isnt fast food, you have asshole bosses who dont give you a task to complete and resources to make you effective, they give you a robotic process and care more that you are 3 seconds slower than your coworker than the fact that you exist and have a brain that needs to be trained.
Time was, youd suffer in your 20s, learn the hard knocks, even learn from some minor failures all as part of being mentored. By your 30s, you had grown, were effective, and beginning to climb in your career.
Now, you get constantly berated. If you fail at a robotic process - even if you have a better process or even think you have a better process - you are punished for speaking out.
The war children 'just magically had it' and everyone else has sucked since. No ownership of what you let happen to the world, the business climate, the economy. Just rose colored glasses that ignore the fact that you were handed a golden platter and not only squandered it for yourselves, but let your governments fuck it for generations to come.
Boomers netted all of the rewards, though. They bought houses when they were 6 grotes and a handshake, then gleefully sold them to their kids for 750,000 and 12% while telling those same kids that they were trash because they couldnt afford things after paying 2500/month. 'Maybe buy fewer starbucks, man.'
While I did pick the low hanging fruit, I opine that there's more than inflation, here. There's systemic erosion of buying power, systemic transferring of useful jobs overseas, systemic globalization, systemic erosion of education, systemic destruction of family units, systemic undervalue of labor. ALL of this while boomers were - and are - in charge and telling everyone that they are trash and that they were going to make things better.
Best honest response. There are are an uncountable (to me) companies that are run successfully. Thats not to say they could not be run more efficient and profitable, but they are sound. Generally these type of companies do not seek consulting other than for expansion or marketing. I agree that there are many large corporations that are sinking or already underwater. I see this directly with some of the MFG’s we represent. From my view, most of the issues I see at these MFG’s are mis-management. They bring in 30 somthing’s who are out to change the world and re-invent the wheel on long term strategy and create market disturbance that trickles down to the consumer resulting in brand negativity for the consumer. From my prospective in the mid-level market between MFG and consumer who is using this product for their enterpise, I encounter a large amount of small to mid size successful companies. It seems to me that the ability to follow and shift evolving needs of the consumer (stitching together real world business needs) while the MFG flounder in board meetings to catch up in the market is where the winners are.
Sorry for the long answer, the short answer are business’s who get to the point and provide product and services reliably at a fair price that consumers want, on time and go a bit out of their way to make sure the consumer is satisfied with follow up customer support.
Those 30 yo managers are the symtom part of my argument. They are poison because they werent taught in their 20s, so now they are needing to learn from real failure that hurts a business.
Ill accept that im not hired on until theres problems, but ive seen a lot of smaller companies with the same disease.
I have spent the better part of my career returning companies to sanity after boomers ruined them.
A lot of boomers who think they are all that, arent. A lot of bosses that think they are great are actually terrible.
A large percentage of people are bad at areas outside of a few specific skills - and this is across all jobs and age cohorts.
There are a billion reasons for this. The young today act as immature as you did at their age, but at their age you had the backstop of family, most gen z'rs have come from broken homes and if they cant pay their own rent, they cant crash at their parents to help them back on their feet. Millenials and Zs were both raised by broken AF generations - Gen X and Silents who were tortured by Boomers into Apathy and overzealous emotionalism, respectively.
On top of that, the businesses were turned into sociopathic vampires by those self same boomers, with some help by silents and gen-x's.
Do some comparisons of the world from 40+ years ago and now.
In the 70s, you could work at mcdonalds 40 to 60 hours a week and put yourself through college and go out for some reasonable fun.
Now, McDonalds wont give you more than 20 hours so they dont have to care about benefits, but also wont work with you to have three jobs just to afford a room in someone's house.
If you get in at a major company that isnt fast food, you have asshole bosses who dont give you a task to complete and resources to make you effective, they give you a robotic process and care more that you are 3 seconds slower than your coworker than the fact that you exist and have a brain that needs to be trained.
Time was, youd suffer in your 20s, learn the hard knocks, even learn from some minor failures all as part of being mentored. By your 30s, you had grown, were effective, and beginning to climb in your career.
Now, you get constantly berated. If you fail at a robotic process - even if you have a better process or even think you have a better process - you are punished for speaking out.
The war children 'just magically had it' and everyone else has sucked since. No ownership of what you let happen to the world, the business climate, the economy. Just rose colored glasses that ignore the fact that you were handed a golden platter and not only squandered it for yourselves, but let your governments fuck it for generations to come.
This entire comment is about inflation. A bit unfair to lay it all on boomers.
Boomers netted all of the rewards, though. They bought houses when they were 6 grotes and a handshake, then gleefully sold them to their kids for 750,000 and 12% while telling those same kids that they were trash because they couldnt afford things after paying 2500/month. 'Maybe buy fewer starbucks, man.'
While I did pick the low hanging fruit, I opine that there's more than inflation, here. There's systemic erosion of buying power, systemic transferring of useful jobs overseas, systemic globalization, systemic erosion of education, systemic destruction of family units, systemic undervalue of labor. ALL of this while boomers were - and are - in charge and telling everyone that they are trash and that they were going to make things better.
Now go consult for some companies that are not dumpster fires or PE pump and dumps and get back with us.
Honest question: which companies would those be?
Best honest response. There are are an uncountable (to me) companies that are run successfully. Thats not to say they could not be run more efficient and profitable, but they are sound. Generally these type of companies do not seek consulting other than for expansion or marketing. I agree that there are many large corporations that are sinking or already underwater. I see this directly with some of the MFG’s we represent. From my view, most of the issues I see at these MFG’s are mis-management. They bring in 30 somthing’s who are out to change the world and re-invent the wheel on long term strategy and create market disturbance that trickles down to the consumer resulting in brand negativity for the consumer. From my prospective in the mid-level market between MFG and consumer who is using this product for their enterpise, I encounter a large amount of small to mid size successful companies. It seems to me that the ability to follow and shift evolving needs of the consumer (stitching together real world business needs) while the MFG flounder in board meetings to catch up in the market is where the winners are. Sorry for the long answer, the short answer are business’s who get to the point and provide product and services reliably at a fair price that consumers want, on time and go a bit out of their way to make sure the consumer is satisfied with follow up customer support.
Those 30 yo managers are the symtom part of my argument. They are poison because they werent taught in their 20s, so now they are needing to learn from real failure that hurts a business.
Ill accept that im not hired on until theres problems, but ive seen a lot of smaller companies with the same disease.