Yikes. Result of texting and?--Companies are firing Gen Z employees soon after hiring them.

[Emrys]

157. Just stepping in briefly here, then swiftly out again

I'll kick off by saying that twice under this one OP you've told Celerity to "get a clue". That's utterly disrespectful and totally counterproductive. If it's a recent patronizing habit of speech you've adopted, I suggest you might be better ditching it ASAP.

Part of "helping" any younger generation, as you say you want to, is surely to LISTEN TO THEM. Part of incorporating them into working environments will involve adapting ways of work, as has happened with earlier generations of workers, including your own. "Helping" needs to be directed at older generations as well, a number of whom here are evidently struggling to understand these new developments.

So a member of that younger generation has the temerity to pipe up about alienation - their own and others' of a similar age - and you dismiss her out of hand. Was her initial post outspoken? Yes. Good. The age imbalance in this forum has been obvious for many years, and whenever anyone posts a poll asking for age characteristics, it's always an eye-opener how old this forum's members skew. That's just an observation, not a complaint, but if you see it as a cause for concern, entrenching and posting reply after reply criticizing younger generations in generalized terms isn't going to help address it, especially if any of them see the worst sorts of personal responses aimed at Celerity above.

I'll add that I'm technically a Boomer, though not a typical one. My whole adult professional life has been spent remedying others' written errors. There was the crusty bully of an ex-navy chief petty officer some 20 years older than me in my first office job who knew a bit about electronics but was incapable of writing a well-formed and correctly spelled sentence - not an asset in a technical publications firm, but sorting out his fuck-ups gave me a living till I got fed up with it and vowed never to work in an office again because the environment sucked. How Millennial of me. I went freelance and worked from home instead.

Then there have been a large number of mainly academic writers. The worst writers I've ever worked with have been medical doctors, not just in the prose they turned out, but because the process of resolving things in their texts that were unclear and replying to emails seemed beneath them. The second-worst have been certain professors - I've boggled at the idea that some of these people have been grading and providing guidance on students' work.

Luckily, a large number of those I've worked with have been very clever, competent and delightful, otherwise I'd have jacked this line of work in in years ago. But they have all - the good, the bad and the incomprehensible - until the last decade or so (now that I'm decrepit) mostly been older than me.