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Why do older people feel threatened/intimidated by relatively younger staff in an company or organization?

Why keep a highly paid old timer around when you can pay a lot less to hire a fresh out of college kid for the same work?

They feel threatend by you.
 
What young people perceive as "threatened" is actually just annoyance at the self-importance and sense of entitlement that people new to the work force almost invariably have.
 
When younger staff comes, new tech come that young people are well versed in but older people have a hard to adapting to. They resent it b/c they felt everything was fine before and now they have to learn a whole lot of stuff. my guess anyways
 
Youngsters act like a know it all and are determined to push their ideas forward without any thought as to why some things are done or what the consequences are of their ideas.
 
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Youngsters act like a know it all and are determined to push their ideas forward without any thought as to why some things are done or what the consequences are of their ideas.
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If that asumption were true then every young person who was hired would of done the same and when those same people who instituated their ideas became old another young person would have done the same. So what's the point....
 
Originally posted by: Mwilding
annoyance at the self-importance and sense of entitlement that people new to the work force almost invariably have.
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i wish i could find a good example of it, though... o..wait..
 
Originally posted by: Platypus
Why keep a highly paid old timer around when you can pay a lot less to hire a fresh out of college kid for the same work?

They feel threatend by you.
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Hopefully if they were that much older, they would have developed their experience and skillset to the point that they could not be that easily replaced by someone fresh out of college.
 
Really older persons will always be threatened by younger persons because they will soon meet their demise. First, people don't live forever, Second the business ideas and ways we do business today is no where like the 1950s. So in other words new persons are always hired and preferend over the younger persons. Companies will recycle their employes with younger staff who will one day become old and be threatend and replaced by younger staff who are more higher thinking.
 
Because they're afraid of someone who god forbid knows more than them, and may actually earn the position instead of just being in the "good old boys" club (applies to some but not all).
 
Originally posted by: xtknight
Because they're afraid of someone who god forbid knows more than them, and may actually earn the position instead of just being in the "good old boys" club (applies to some but not all).
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Just two good old boys, never meanin' no harm....

LMAO
 
Originally posted by: Special K
Originally posted by: Platypus
Why keep a highly paid old timer around when you can pay a lot less to hire a fresh out of college kid for the same work?

They feel threatend by you.
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Hopefully if they were that much older, they would have developed their experience and skillset to the point that they could not be that easily replaced by someone fresh out of college.
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Yep, that's typically not the case in my experience.. older folks get set in their ways and don't seem to care about keeping their skillset sharp.
 
Do not think that you're a know-it-all because you graduated high school. Anyone with working experience will tell you that the majority of their learning in their line of work came from real job experience. Could this be your problem?
 
They don?t usually it?s usually a fake feeling that some young people get because they think they are better than they really are. Nothing beats real hands on experience. College smarts don?t go very far in the real world.
 
Vague generaliztions FTL!

Some of all that has been said is true! But there are way too many factors involved to generalize.


"I'm not intimidated by young people. I enjoy hearing their new(to them) ideas, so I can explain to them why they won't work"🙂
 
Originally posted by: TravisT
Do not think that you're a know-it-all because you graduated high school. Anyone with working experience will tell you that the majority of their learning in their line of work came from real job experience. Could this be your problem?
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Are you talking to me. No I graduated from college rect. I'm working on my Masters in IT. I'm gaining my job experience although it's not much (1 year so far). No, you must be talking to someone else.
 
Originally posted by: steppinthrax
Really older persons will always be threatened by younger persons because they will soon meet their demise. First, people don't live forever, Second the business ideas and ways we do business today is no where like the 1950s. So in other words new persons are always hired and preferend over the younger persons. Companies will recycle their employes with younger staff who will one day become old and be threatend and replaced by younger staff who are more higher thinking.
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Were you even a twinkle in your father's eye in the 50's? Just because the world has the internet and computers now does not change the fact that a 20 year professional career typically provides more applicable business experience than being able to send text messages with one hand while playing PS3 with your other hand and having a BA in cooking french fries.
 
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