What to do when I am treated badly by juniors?
They are all 20s and early 30s and I am 50s and we don't share common interests, I have no problem with that. But, I am basically invisible to them EXCEPT when they need help.
Brush up the rez, find another job (that is, if you can in this job climate and at your age).
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Its typical these days. Most employers treat their old guard like crap (Even if with decades of a great track record) and are looking as soon as possible to cut those more "expensive" old timers, so its no surprise the younger employers treat them like crap too. Discrimination is alive and well in the workplace.
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Start listening to trap music
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Sounds like everyone could do a bit of reading on generational diversity; there's conscious and unconscious bias out there. Best you can do is to read some books on the topic on how to better relate. There's a lot of stereotype's of both older and younger generations out there that certainly add to the drama and make for a potential disconnect from assumptions. Try to rise above the noise and I'm sure things will work out for you. Best of luck!
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I am the oldest in my training class. The next closest in age is 52..otherwise, 20-30ish. I am older than or the same age as most of their parents. I have no clue about gaming conversations and music. They can’t relate to my world either. Nothing new. We have all been there. I just tell them that this is there world of work now...I am sliding into retirement in a few years. Best of success to them.
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Don't waste time worrying about it. I just chuckle to myself and think ha I can retire in 3 years and you have 30 . . .
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When they need something fixed, be invisible like you are to them most days. Tell them you're busy or something else.
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Maybe it's different in your field, but I am the "old" one in my department. I started at the company 3 years ago after 20 years running my own comms consulting business. Everyone is at least 10 years younger, most at least 20 years. But what I hear most is their curiosity (and mild envy) about all the things I have been able to do in my career over 40 years, all the countries I've lived, jobs I've done, skills they struggle with they think are effortless to me. I'm the "sage" I guess. What I mostly hear is that they don't think they will ever get to do the things I did and they feel stuck and frustrated. But then again, I am not shy about sharing details of my life, my past, my adventures. People get to know me pretty quick because I am an open book. I am interested in them, and I am interesting to them. I get a lot of requests for advice!
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I'm in my mid-30s and work in a place that is mostly 50+. Most of them have a wealth of experience to learn from. We are not going to socialize outside work, but they're good colleagues.
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Go to work for pay and not to socialize. You'll never fit in. Keep your head down. Be cordial and approachable, Concentrate on saving money and working on personal goals such that you can make the earliest exit at your convenience. Don't let others railroad you are out before you are ready. But if management decides they no longer want you you'll be better prepared. I went through feeling like the oldest one at meetings and I think its just part of finishing out your working life.
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In a similar boat. It makes for long days. It's especially frustrating to be publicly lectured on how something works when you were the one that designed it in the first place. Honestly don't know which is worse - being treated like I'm invisible or like I'm illiterate. I can understand why you can't build a personal social relation with them. They're either single and mostly interested in hitting clubs, or new parents, with all that entails. There's just a social/cultural divide there. Which is understandable. But the problem is it carries over into the job relationship as well.
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How about bad/poor treatment by OLDER employees?? I have experience with that one. What did I do? I quietly observed how I was treated and eventually left to a different unit and branch of my workplace. They don’t bother me anymore.
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I work at a college, and I am over 60. Long ago I realized I had nothing in common with the students. They never knew a time without the internet and a microwave. They never played a record. Most of my life events are things in the history books to them. Before the college, it was not an age thing. Just some co-workers are terrible people. Over time I just kind of gave up making friends at work. I hope to retire shortly, and I don't think I will miss a single person there.
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Keep upgrading with technology and improving your knowledge, so you can perform your job well, and people can respect you and/or look up to you. Just ignore the youngsters who are into showing off their newest caddies that just arrive to the market, pics, food, places in their most expensive cell phones and how many media places they join, and talking modern slangs. You can learn that too to understand what they are talking about, but act like a mature person, not a yappy showing-off teenager. Everybody grows up through stages. Someday, these youngsters will grow older, and they will feel/experience the same as the "elders" now. LOL. Who cares? I don't feel bad or sad at all when I see the youngsters at my workplace to talk about their stuff. I'm an introvert, so I just mind my own business. Actually, I don't want people come to me to bother me too much. As long as I do my job (and I'm good and mine), and they (young or old) do theirs and don't leave so much slacks to me, I'm happy. Remember this is work. That is life.
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The young person may know "less" than you in many areas and disrespect you for being older at the same time. Rather than complain or argue back, it is important to know that since there are more of them and it can give them political leverage. But rather, one way to find security in the job is to find an ally in higher management who can see positive qualities in you that a new young worker may not.
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