God, I hate millenials.

Always questioning authority experience.  Fuck them all.  I’ve dealt with two of them today already.

Note that I had originally typed “authority”, meaning it in the older sense of “I know what I’m talking about” as opposed to the modern sense of “Because I’m your boss/superior and I said so”, so I changed it to “experience” before I published because that’s what I mean.*  When you’ve been there and done that and got the T-shirt, upstarts coming at you arguing that they know better than you, when in fact you DO know better than they do, don’t sit well.  I’m not looking for obsequious “What were things like when you were starting in this business, Grandfather?” BS, I’m just looking for some respect for the fact that maybe I’ve been around longer that they have and my opinions on the subject at hand may have merit.

Bottom line, I’m not ready to set 25 years of Alpha Leader experience aside for some kid who didn’t even know what our product was three months ago when we hired him.  Fuck that noise.  I’ll do that when I retire, not before.  Note that I’m also not arguing that none of the young kid’s arguments ever have any chance of being meritorious, because sometimes they do — but in the two cases I’ve run up against so far today, they did not.

The world is going to hell in a handcart, and look who is going to be running it after I retire.  Jesus wept.

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* FWIW, I have never had much respect for people who came off all “YOU WILL RESPEK MY AUTHORITAH!”, and I don’t intend to be one of them myself.