[cmjqol]

>likely continuing for another ~15 years

It's not that simple, I doubt the boomers working at Google now are the one creating problems and preventing the company from moving forward.

When you see how much stuff they did for ahead of their time ( Big Table , Piper etc...) and now the same tech is being ported to the cloud.

My point here is to say that it's a mentality issue rather than an age issue. If the companies you are working did not invest to transform you and to make you adequate toward current society , you are going to slow down your company otherwise you'll be just fine.

>I’m also tired of all of this inexact labeling of “generations”

The age group are identified page 3.

I personally consider this labelling accurate , but as you mentioned it "boomers" are okay to label others but not to be labelled themselves.

[opportune]

Tech is a bit of an exceptional situation since it’s extremely dynamic and growing, plus there are a lot of youngish people in the upper echelons. I’m thinking more of older, more established industries, which are what the vast majority of people work in.

That’s not what I meant regarding the age. I mean that the same labels are often applied to different age groups; there are multiple definitions. And also, the labels convey a kind of cultural significance that I think distracts from the more important differences. It’s easy to say that “Millenials deserve everything they get because they’re lazy and entitled”, not so easy to say “Young people deserve everything they get because they’re lazy and entitled.”

[gowld]

Old people and young people disrespecting each other is a popular pastime since the dawn of history.