How do you feel when someone younger tells what to do? Not trying to be mean but for me it’s like taking advice from a kid with special needs.
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MaryJanine · 61-69, F
First of all, comparing someone with "special needs" people when it comes to taking advice/orders from a younger person is insulting, mean, and cruel. A person with special needs can't help themselves for being the way they are. Most of these individuals that I heard about are that way because of a lack of oxygen or some other difficulty during the birth process. Many of them bother no one intentionally and are sweet and loving.
That said - to the question of "someone younger telling you what to do". Depending on where you work and what you do, there will/may be times in your work life when you have to take instructions or orders from someone several years your junior. I know it happens. I have had several who were twenty years or better my junior, and when they gave me an order, it was my job to carry it out - that is, I wanted to keep getting a paycheck.
The work force is getting younger all the time. My not-quite-22-year-old nephew was just promoted to store manager at the same store both he and his 50-year-old mother works as a cashier. That means he has a set of keys, a 40-hour work week, and a badge proclaiming his title. It also means his mother needs to take orders from her own son when both are at work.
This doesn't seem fair to you, but this is the way the world is going and we have to accept certain things that we don't particularly care for.
That said - to the question of "someone younger telling you what to do". Depending on where you work and what you do, there will/may be times in your work life when you have to take instructions or orders from someone several years your junior. I know it happens. I have had several who were twenty years or better my junior, and when they gave me an order, it was my job to carry it out - that is, I wanted to keep getting a paycheck.
The work force is getting younger all the time. My not-quite-22-year-old nephew was just promoted to store manager at the same store both he and his 50-year-old mother works as a cashier. That means he has a set of keys, a 40-hour work week, and a badge proclaiming his title. It also means his mother needs to take orders from her own son when both are at work.
This doesn't seem fair to you, but this is the way the world is going and we have to accept certain things that we don't particularly care for.