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Can you imagine being confused how to do something on your first job out of college, and someone writes an article about it in The Wall Street Journal?

jaygreco 3y ago
My thought exactly. This article might as well only exist so older folks can pop it open and feel smug and superior about something dumb.
- constantcrying 3y ago
  The article argues that the pandemic is to blame and that it is not about decreasing quality of young people.
- pydry 3y ago
  It reads more like typical investor entitlement syndrome. The WSJ opinion pages are often a laundry list of gripes against the government that investor demands that are not being met.
  - tapoxi 3y ago
    The WSJ is a Murdoch rag. It's just slightly classier than Fox News.
- blitzar 3y ago
  Of course that assumes that they all knew exactly how to do everything day one on the job. The kind of people that will feel smug and superior probably like to tell themselves these lies are true, but after 20 years on the job most of them still need the junior on the team to show them how these new fangled computermibobs work every few days.
smodo 3y ago
Yeah it’s a nice variation on ‘todays kids don’t want to work anymore.’ In this episode it turns out they’re too stupid! This place is going to hell in a hand basket I tell you! In my day we learned to use a slide rule and that got me through 50 years of not using slide rules. Kids these days.
- b33j0r 3y ago
  “I was burnt out, and earned every penny of my savings and social security and [getting to grandparents here] pensions!” You kids are just lazy socialists who think 15-20 years of economic insecurity is worse than when we burnt out. (General Patton tries to slap the young man with a case of nerves to “get back on the battlefield”—but his subdermal MEMS insulin pump is performing an OTA update, and he needs to check whether his granddaughter posted on instagram. Personalized to the geriatric General’s situation, adrenaline is released from the implant, and he is able to slap the young man who wrote that exact code).

jaygreco 3y ago

My thought exactly. This article might as well only exist so older folks can pop it open and feel smug and superior about something dumb.

constantcrying 3y ago
The article argues that the pandemic is to blame and that it is not about decreasing quality of young people.
pydry 3y ago
It reads more like typical investor entitlement syndrome. The WSJ opinion pages are often a laundry list of gripes against the government that investor demands that are not being met.
- tapoxi 3y ago
  The WSJ is a Murdoch rag. It's just slightly classier than Fox News.
blitzar 3y ago
Of course that assumes that they all knew exactly how to do everything day one on the job. The kind of people that will feel smug and superior probably like to tell themselves these lies are true, but after 20 years on the job most of them still need the junior on the team to show them how these new fangled computermibobs work every few days.

smodo 3y ago

Yeah it’s a nice variation on ‘todays kids don’t want to work anymore.’ In this episode it turns out they’re too stupid! This place is going to hell in a hand basket I tell you! In my day we learned to use a slide rule and that got me through 50 years of not using slide rules. Kids these days.

b33j0r 3y ago
“I was burnt out, and earned every penny of my savings and social security and [getting to grandparents here] pensions!” You kids are just lazy socialists who think 15-20 years of economic insecurity is worse than when we burnt out. (General Patton tries to slap the young man with a case of nerves to “get back on the battlefield”—but his subdermal MEMS insulin pump is performing an OTA update, and he needs to check whether his granddaughter posted on instagram. Personalized to the geriatric General’s situation, adrenaline is released from the implant, and he is able to slap the young man who wrote that exact code).