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Youth Movement?
Wow. Who the hell are you? What qualifies you to make such statements?
I am fifty-one. I worked in a NOC for several years, before being released along with three others, all of us over fifty. During my tenure, the "youth" at this organization, constantly called in sick, came in late, left early , and essentially showed no respect to anyone. They were terrible at math and spelling, and are easily baffled by any vocabulary that goes beyond Adult Swim.
Here's the kicker. I am 5'11', 160 lbs. I take care of my body, and my mind, I read, study anything I can get my hands on, am open minded, and have tons of energy because I take care of myself.
Out of twenty-three "youths" in that organization, 18 are morbidly obese, they are sluggish and lazy.
None have any post K12 education and what they do know about I.T. is only applicable in their current environment, where they learned the "system", which is so unstable the network goes down daily. If they haven't been through a situation a dozen times, they don't know how to react.
I had never encountered an environment like that until I worked at that NOC. I do not allow that experience to sour me to all youth. It sounds to me like this author thinks he's been around, I was like that once, it was called "the arrogance of youth".
Posted by rick1960
24th Apr 2011