26-08-2019, 10:08 PM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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I don't think it's respect they're expecting Floydy it's obedience, somebody has to be in charge...
I was MD of a power electronics company for pretty much all of my working life. You hire people who will work with you.
Of course there are rules set out in a written employment contract. But good relationships are what makes it work.
26-08-2019, 10:18 PM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Obedience seems a bit harsh. I expect that of my dog.I was MD of a power electronics company for pretty much all of my working life. You hire people who will work with you.
Of course there are rules set out in a written employment contract. But good relationships are what makes it work.
26-08-2019, 10:47 PM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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You sound like a decent boss Besoeker, but most bosses fail to see things from the working man's perspective....They are arrogant, jumped up, power crazy megalomaniacs.....
Bosses who run their own business and make a success of it need employees to be on board with them. Engage with them.
Work with them.
26-08-2019, 10:52 PM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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You sound like a decent boss Besoeker, but most bosses fail to see things from the working man's perspective....They are arrogant, jumped up, power crazy megalomaniacs.....
26-08-2019, 11:23 PM
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Re: Ageism
Well, I am 75 and I don't think that I have offended anyone on this, or any other forum that I use...However when my dad was about my age (or just slightly less) my mum commented that a friend of theirs had just celebrated her 80th birthday. My dad replied - 'I wouldn't like to be 80'...My mum,quick as a flash, replied - 'you would if you were 79!'Fortunately I've inherited her sense of humour.
Dad passed away aged 83 (in 2000) and mum passed 7 years ago aged 94.
Malc.
26-08-2019, 11:54 PM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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You sound like a decent boss Besoeker, but most bosses fail to see things from the working man's perspective....They are arrogant, jumped up, power crazy megalomaniacs.....
I think that's big previously public companies like BT where they have old civil service, entitled employees. I worked for BT for ten years, it went downhill.
27-08-2019, 10:55 AM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by keezoy
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I'm 67 but I'm still dreaming of being a Rolling Stone. I think the young people of today are (mostly) bloody awesome. I don't want to be one of them..been there done that. I'm not jealous of them - just proud of them. I still go crazy beating the steering wheel when I'm listening to good music in the car. When I hear those comfortable, boring and entitled "senior citizens" in affluent first world countries - Australia well and truly included - whine endlessly about everything when they have very little to complain about. Whinge about how everything was better in "their day" but don't give a damn about anybody except themselves..I feel like saying But it's not your day now. You've had your day. It's theirs now...But I don't I just wait for the noise to pass. I, for one am happy the age I am. I don't feel "Old" and I feel lucky that I have what I have and that I've had what I did have.I know I'm never going to be a Rolling Stone. But I'm not too old to have my own little "play and giggle" blues band. And that's enough.
27-08-2019, 04:20 PM
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Re: Ageism
Originally Posted by Ray Cathode
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I think that's big previously public companies like BT where they have old civil service, entitled employees. I worked for BT for ten years, it went downhill.
But respect comes in very different forms....
You might respect a celebrity - singer or sportsman.
A hero, be it fireman, soldier or (dare I say it) Politician.
Your neighbour or friend.
Someone older than you.
A woman, if you're a bloke and a man if you're a woman ( LGBT etc. Let's not go there!)
And your wife....(not the same respect as you would give a random woman)...Not if you value your life and possessions anyway...
Just like 'Love' it comes in many different forms...
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