Category: Miscellaneous

21 Jul 2024 15:47

Joined:	20/04/2018
Level:	Gold
Points:	55757

Points:	5

We need to very careful in recollecting the good old days

Those who are now 60 plus have seen the rather tough times of the 1980s and beyond, when incomes were rather low. It was only after the year 2010 that managerial incomes grew in most manufacturing companies. In Chennai based companies, at the Managerial level, the total cost to the company just around exceeded the one hundred thousand per month.

Then the explosion happened. The salaries to the Senior Managerial classes -- those from the best NITs, the IITs and the IIMs and so on, grew manifold and the CTC of one crore plus is a reality now.

It is this class that is raring to grow. They are the Facebook, Instagram, Google and Microsoft generation(FIGM generation). Talk to them about the good old days of happiness, and they just do not connect. They do not like it

There are many senior citizens with similar stories. Feeding then with the "good old stories" does not add any value to them. We should possibly understand this reality and keep aloof. We could share such stories of happiness with other senior citizens but not with the current generation, now in their twenties or thirties.

Let us adjust to new realities. And just move on...

#781187

21 Jul 2024 16:57

Joined:	02/06/2009
Level:	Diamond
Points:	145594

Points:	5

That is true. Success stories of earlier days are not attractive any more to many of the present generation employees. They way those seniors worked those days is no longer an acceptable methodology for this new generation of people. Technology was not so developed those days. But there are many technological developments which gave the generation an edge with more ideas and ways. So it is of no use to waste the time senior citizens talking to younger generations about their experiences. Yes when we are in the company of our colleagues or same age group people, we can exchange mutual experiences so that we can have some useful exchange of information. Sometimes, when I and my wife sit together and talk about some experiences, my two sons say that they might have done that in an entirely different way and might have got better results.

drrao
always confident

#781189

21 Jul 2024 17:12

Joined:	04/05/2009
Level:	Gold
Points:	31372

Points:	3

It is true that the author brought a real factor by his posting. Whenever the elderly persons open their mouth with the words,' in our days...' youngsters start to say, 'will you stop your old stories?'. So the present generation do not care about the sufferings faced by the elders (especially by their own elders). However we, the 60 crossed people can share their views and success stories among them.

#781208

22 Jul 2024 20:38

Joined:	25/11/2014
Level:	Diamond
Points:	43292

Points:	4

Our good memories spent with our colleagues are indeed very joyful and sometimes recalling such pleasant memories offers us great pleasure. We wanted to discuss the same with our kids. However, such information is not at all thrilling to them. Our close relatives discourage us from telling us all the pleasant remembrances since they are of different worlds.
In those days, the technology was not advanced to that level, we were doing our jobs in the age-old system in a steel - plant. However, we enjoyed a lot sharing our experiences and other pleasant moments to make ourselves happy. Those happy moments make us cheerful again on meeting our old friends.

#781218

23 Jul 2024 14:41

Joined:	10/12/2016
Level:	Diamond
Points:	109183

Points:	2

When people narrate their experiences and old stories the new generation does not get fascinated with it. The reason is very simple that new generation is having a very different mind set and different attitude. It could be due to social media and digital world but it is there.

Knowledge is power.

We need to very careful in recollecting the good old days

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