>Scarlett — I hate the job search. I’m with you in spirit.

>Rhea — I hate Thanksgiving dinner.

>Col — Maybe we should kill the boomers with their own blackberries??! Despite lackluster stock performance and poor shareholder value, they’re not retiring soon enough. Bastards.

>Neil — HR people are the *worst* interviewers. They somehow feel that they have magical, intuitive powers. They feel that their opinions are more important than facts. HR people shouldn’t be allowed to hire for themselves. I might blog about this, actually.

* Tell each generation exactly what they want to hear in your interview.
* If you get the job, ignore all of that and behave exactly as you describe in your clarification above.

The baby boomers won’t care because you’ll amaze them by actually working, and the Gen Xs… Well, they’re right to worry, you’re going to get one of their jobs

actually, i think we can all get along if the boomers as a whole weren’t such slaves to convention. i find that many boomers over-value experience and tradition. in a world where the old tricks don’t work anymore, and we now know that those traditions were bogus, who needs the old dog and his old tricks?

30 years of old-school command and control management experience is not necessarily more valuable than 10 years of cross-functional, high-tech collaboration and influencing skills. it’s a new world.