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Who cares about Gen Y?

Unix Pimp 27th Mar 2009

Tell them to get a job and stop loafing around the coffee shops acting so self-important. Why would a corporation want to hire a Gen Y'er? The boss would have to deal with the Gen Y'ers annoying helicopter parents who would complain that their precious darlings are not the CEO of the corporation after 2 weeks.

1) Email - too many corporations and government entities use email for these slackers to cause the end of email.

2) The day Facebook figures out how to make money, then maybe. It is not about web hits, it is about the bottom line. Acting hip and cool is not going to pay the server maintenance and Internet connectivity fees.

3) Where do you think this "cloud" exists? In a data center.

4) Fixed land lines are going no where. They will either fight back with competitive pricing or they will morph into high speed data lines. Maybe when the last Baby Boomer dies, then land lines might bite the dust.

5) A stupid portable phone PDA-like device replacing a PC? Dude if you believe that, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. BTW, what do you think people use do develop the software for your pocket gadgets? A PC.

6) Sure XML will solve all problems, cure cancer, end poverty and hunger, figure out how to travel faster than the speed of light, etc. XML is just another tool of "traditional data processing".

If this is the best of Gen Y, then the Baby Boomers and Gen X have nothing to fear, except when they get too old to work and have to rely on Gen Y to fund Social Security and Medicare.