Take a leaf out of the book of experience

18-Mar-2009

In response to your article ‘Employers told to enlist Gen Y in fighting downturn’ (recruiter.co.uk): Oh please — Generation Y? Those that have never worked through a recession, never experienced a downturn, been cossetted by helicopter parents? And who want to look at what their employers can offer them rather than the other way round?

So Gen X do a good impression of rabbits in headlights and baby boomers apply ‘yesterday’s solutions’ do they? Have you never heard of age discrimination?

Perhaps if a few of ‘yesterday’s solutions’ had been applied in the investment banking sector, the army of Gen Y bankers, who played with our money like they were in some sort of casino dreaming up ‘terribly clever’ and ever more complex financial products, would have been shown up for what they really were.

Wake up and smell the coffee, Ms Reynolds — and grow up.

Tracey, aged 47 and running a successful business with yesterday’s solutions — because they work


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