Posted by andsoitis 2 days ago
"Science moves forward one funeral at a time" - Max Planck
You're holding the statistics wrong - the chart you're looking at is upside-down.
You can teach things to an unexperienced person, but you cannot unteach an experienced person. What experience an older person has greatly varies, and this experience could be very useful or useless, depending on what the person has done in life.
Unfortunately there is one experience/wisdom which almost all people learn with age, and that is being a knave. Just as our bodies and our minds generally deteriorate with age, so does the soul and the moral fibre - unfortunately. People seem to think that they have to fight the younger generations with deceit and manipulation. And employers aren't too keen to deal with such persons.
But things might also be changing. The people aging right now are of a higher quality than the current generation of old.
Also, many times your best employees will be old people. But they're harder to find.
Not really sure where this fortune cookie came from, but in the age of faked resumes, credentials, and AI interview assistants (personally seen this, they’re not even good liars lol), I think we can agree that we’re at best equivalent in degeneracy.
What are your favorite old people deceits?
The ai interview assistant crutch is hilarious because people using it think interviewers can’t tell. It really shows when they are bad speakers. If you train the skill of speaking you’d be much better at getting away with it. Maybe to the point you wouldn’t need it, but that’s their call.
The other side of this is old people desperately hanging onto jobs because they can't afford to retire. So slots are not opening up for young people.
The elite post covid have placed the average worker firmly under their boot. They apply more pressure each day.
Waaaaahhhhhhhh