Building on my last post, I thought I would highlight a bit of commentary on the next generation up the food chain, Generation X, who are now in many cases, managers of those “dumb” Net Geners. One of the leading thinkers and authors in the area of generations in the workplace is a fellow nGenera colleague, Tammy Erickson, whom I had the pleasure of meeting, and hearing speak, at nGenera’s Talent 2.0 conference held in Toronto last week.

Tammy is in the process of completing what she creatively describes as a trilogy of “love letters” to three of the generations in the workplace right now – the Boomers, the X’ers and the Net Generation. In her most recent letter (read: book), Retire Retirement, Tammy explores the new paradigm of life beyond retirement and how “the last 30 years of your adult life are as important as the first 30.”

Next up, Tammy will be taking a look at Gen X’ers in the workplace and her recent post on Harvard’s Across the Ages blog provides a sneak peek of what may be to come – and from the X’ers’ perspective, Corporate America isn’t a very happy place to be (but hopefully this will change).

Tammy delves into the “10 Reasons Gen X’ers Are Unhappy at Work”, which are abbreviated below: Continue…