Plant & Facilities Engineering

Don't under estimate the Gen-X crew. You'ld be surprised what they can accomplish.........especially when their hungry and thier bellys as well as their wallets (or daddy's wallets) are empty.

Hopefully the next generation will not get into the position of being job scared and worried that any new employee could replace them. In the past those who were job scared created as many problems on the floor as the sloved. Giving new employees just enough information to fail while documenting every little mistake so they can be fired at any time. Mistakes are how people learn but making mistake when trying to learn because information has been withheld is totally different.

Hopefully the next generation will not get into the position of being job scared and worried that any new employee could replace them.

That will always be there. one has to remember, everyone is expendable. And a job is not a entitlement. One see very little loyality on both sides. (But its still there)

With the transitions that occurred in management practices, globalization of labor, and the lack of national loyalty in the baby boomer generation, over the course of their tour, they have transitioned from the older generations concepts of company loayalties and long term job prospects to the current Gen X working environemnt of having 15 different employers over a lifetime (and this is increasing for the next generation). I believe Gen X is more adapted to the concept that their employment is transitional until the company gets its processes well established and can subcontract labor out to india or china to paint by the number. Growing up in the process of corporate globalization to obtain cheaper labor (frequently at the cost of reduced quality), they are accustomed to the environment. This is unlike the previous generation, which grew up thinking that a job was forever and they would receive regular salary increases based solely on time employed, so the baby boomer who began the process of globalizing job markets and down-sizing, corporate raiding of pensions, etc. in the late 70's and 80's were also surprised and subsequently scared of the job market changes they initiated as they began effecting them. This is acclimatization to the market at a young age is what you perceive as a lack of loyalty to the company, but really i think it is just the forelorn awareness that large corporations now only hold loyalties to their profits and the financial benefit of the executives. If you go into a job knowing full well the company may move all the labor to China or India as soon as the process kinks are worked out and work guidelines established, well you never establish any ties or loyalties. While a job is not an entitlement, we should also be mindful that neither is the opportunity to conduct business in the US.