That! but with a grain of salt. Unopenness and the self proclaimed belief in one's abiltities/thoughts/notions all based on "I'm older, I've been there" is the

That! but with a grain of salt. Unopenness and the self proclaimed belief in one's abiltities/thoughts/notions all based on "I'm older, I've been there" is the root of friction between young and older employees causing valuable loss of productivity in such homogenous groups. Even more important tho and less of a subjective statement, I think most jobs today are menial in that technology offers a lot and the humans powering those jobs are really only doing a lot of rote stuff that can easily be taught. In such an environment, is it a surprise to anybody that an employer would always wanted to dump seniority over a junior employee that costs less and is just as trainable? Also in jobs requiring more than just rote menial production from the employee, quality of the service given has been lowered to a very low baseline. With that again, experience is tossed out of the window and with it the costs that are associated paying for it.