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I am the second youngest person in my department. Apparently, I am the only person who can spell and I am constantly correcting the SOPs written by those nice, older folk in management.
Then again, I guess I can make a generalization based on my experiences at my job---why is it that I work with people who have used computers for over twenty years as working professionals yet I still have to help them with every minor thing? Please, non-millennials, I am constantly encountering these deficiencies routinely with older people. LEARN HOW TO USE A COMPUTER.
See, anyone can make generalized complaints!
Who is "older" and doesn't know how to use a computer? I'm in my fifties and have been using a computer for email, word processing and statistical analysis since college. Or maybe you're talking about the men in their 50's and up who didn't think they needed to learn how to touch type (not being women who might end up in the "secretarial pool"?).
I work with a woman who is 56 years old. She comes to work looking like she rolled around the driveway first, hair all over the place, smelling like ****. She brings her drama to work with her, doesn't get her work done on time and is a draining force in the office. I'd HAPPILY take a tattooed, pierced millennial over this woman.
Clearly the woman has some challenges/issues, this has nothing to do with age
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For the models and fashion houses, its probably a new marketing strategy. Its no big secret that the Baby-boomers are aging, are the largest population, are well-established, and retail wants to give them images they can relate to. Its smart.
Its also smart for young business people who don't want to let their youth hold them back from achieving what heights they can young in life.
This all depends on both being able to pull the look off, otherwise, the strategy to appear more mature could backfire.
They are not attempting to look older. They are experimenting with different hair colors. This has been going on since the 1970s, when Manic Panic began selling colors such as "Aubergine" and "Cyclamen".
Personal choice - I was a natural redhead in my younger days and am now mostly blond/white and have never dyed my hair. It suits me fine. If folks want to dye their hair I do think grey would be less offensive than pink or green or blue which is pretty commonplace in my area. It's temporary anyway - but they (millennials) should keep in mind that while they may LOOK more mature - it doesn't necessarily make them so.
I'm old enough to remember young people going through their stages - goth, hippie, all that "stuff" of the 60's and 70's with mod clothes and makeup - and it was expression and trying on stages of who you wanted to be. I guess it's still going on. It doesn't mean a whole lot now - didn't then either. Live and let live, years from now it won't mean anything!!!! It's still the inside of a person that counts the most.
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I am the second youngest person in my department. Apparently, I am the only person who can spell and I am constantly correcting the SOPs written by those nice, older folk in management.
Or maybe you're talking about the men in their 50's and up who didn't think they needed to learn how to touch type (not being women who might end up in the "secretarial pool"?).
