“They’re asking for a lot of things that are, like, kooky.” That’s Bill Maher’s take on the current state of the Writers Guild strike after his opinions were voiced on the latest …
Rich coming from a guy who owes his entire career to writers. I hate this smug piece of shit
I see this all the time in the business world when it comes to succession planning. One's refusal to face mortality becomes a refusal to train one's replacement, and more importantly, neglecting documenting how one does one's job. I just left a job after just a year where I was being trained to take over a retiring boomer's job, but she'd documented nothing at all for about 20 years, and yet expected me to do things exactly the way she had done them, no deviation, no questions answered. It was highly stressful. I was just burned out.
I don't normally get involved in generational wars. Sorry, working class boomers reading this! No war but the class war! But those among your generational cohort who rose to management positions in the business world consistently display this pattern.
I see this all the time in the business world when it comes to succession planning. One's refusal to face mortality becomes a refusal to train one's replacement, and more importantly, neglecting documenting how one does one's job. I just left a job after just a year where I was being trained to take over a retiring boomer's job, but she'd documented nothing at all for about 20 years, and yet expected me to do things exactly the way she had done them, no deviation, no questions answered. It was highly stressful. I was just burned out.
I don't normally get involved in generational wars. Sorry, working class boomers reading this! No war but the class war! But those among your generational cohort who rose to management positions in the business world consistently display this pattern.
No war but class war. But as someone raised by shitty boomers, somethines you need to release a little generational anger, as a treat.