In my past experience, I used to work for an organisation where there were a few boomers.
I have sympathy for them, no one wants to work until 67, I get it, unless you lllllloooooouuuuurrrrrvvveee your work, but these boomers really made my life ultra challenging at work.
They don’t really work, they pretend and wayang.
If there was a task where you needed to accomplish 10 reports for example, Millenials/Zennials and even the latest gen will finish them as quickly and as accurately as possible, because we want extra time to relax or do other things.
These boomers will take the same task and stretch it out the whole 8 hours. I understand if they are slowly checking and making sure no mistakes are done, BUT, I’ve had most of them with the old school mentality to “look busy” most of the time to “look good” infront of the boss should they walk in, a few admitted this was the culture back in the 70’s and 80’s and most of them got retrenched anyway.. (geeeee I wonder why…)
It frustrated me to know end when I completed double or even triple the reports of these boomers, only for the boss to think I wasn’t doing anything yet praise these boomers.
BUT if I did exactly the same thing as these boomers doing the reports pretending to be productive for 8 hours, my boss would comment on me being “slow”….
And when I gave feedback, I was complaining…
You can say it’s playing the game smart on their part, but sales numbers don’t lie, I was always near the top, but these boomers sure as well weren’t even middle ground, most of them at the bottom rung…
For example: It was like I had served 50 customers in a restaurant, all no issue except 1 customer who was having a bad day and I got the brunt of it, whilst this boomer served only 5 the whole day, took their time and even made people wait a long time for their food, but no complaint for them… so % wise I had more chance of getting a complaint than them…
So I learnt that you just can’t win with boomers. Let them lazily and slowly work, we are the change that is overdue.
Some big organisations still have a huge % of these boomers, and it brings down the morale of the real and normal workers.
I don’t mind them working, but don’t put them in positions which are crucial or time sensitive.
Let them slowly do projects or other shit, I don’t care.
We even had one who was notoriously bad, but management kept him because he had “family issues”. Being kind to him made us all suffer.
Rant over.
Needless to say I quit that company (and its severely suffering) with constant failed recruitment drives.
Something bad has to happen for something good to happen i guess..
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