☆ENGLISH ONLY☆コミュのDoes age Matter at work?

I want your own personal biased opinion... Not an outlook on what's right or wrong.

Does age matter to you in a work place?

If your supervisor or boss was younger than you by a huge gap or slight one, would it bother you?

Or does it depend on their capability to you?

In the Military this is a very common thing. There will be people who are 35 years old, being told what to do by someone who is 20 years old. Intelligence and College degree's doesn't have everything to do with it. Simply Joining at a younger age can give a chance to reach a higher rank than someone who joined at an older age. Also, Some jobs in the military, it's easier to reach a higher rank than others.

For me personally, It doesn't bother me a whole lot... But, Sometimes I still think, who is this child telling me what to do?

What about you?

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[2] mixiユーザー 06月23日 08:58

I'm a hiring manager at 35 years of age.

To backfill the job-opening in my team, I've been interviewing several candidates ranging from 30 to 45. I try not to care about the age as long as he or she is found potential enough to do our job.

However, the oldest candidate at 45 years has more experences than I did (he is unemployed so far), and I thought he would think, sooner or later, why he is working under that child who is 10 years younger than he... So I didn't let him go further.

I understand that hiring a person who has the skill we all in my team (inclusive of me) are lack of is very helpful to my team. I did that way, but it didn't work at all as expected...

I have three direct reports at this moment, and all are a bit older than me. It works well as they joined my team to look for something new they had not experienced before.

So... for me, to hire a new one, it depends on how much they are experienced, what they are expecting from the position I manage.

[4] mixiユーザー 06月23日 09:10

Well, it depends... If it an office job or something related. I wouldn't mind if my boss is younger if he or she is well prepare and know what he or she is doing.

But if it is a physical job. such as construction or even a professional sport. I believe that old people don't give as much as a young lad would give to that job

[5] mixiユーザー 06月23日 10:29

> Does age matter to you in a work place?

No. Their capability is the only thing that matters to me. For example, I work with people in their 50s, 40s, and 20s - and my manager is (I think) younger than me. Changes nothing either way.

たけぞう
> I thought he would think, sooner or later, why he is working under that child who is 10 years younger than he

I don't know about cultural customs, but I personally would simply discuss it with the person in question, and then making the decision. After all, what you think he would think is most likely not what he really would think...

[6] mixiユーザー 06月23日 15:44

Age doesn't matter to me at all. I work in a team of engineers whose ages range from the early 20s (fresh out of college) to the late 40s with varying skills and experiences. As far as I can tell, there is no relationship between age and skills at all. A 23-year-old new hire is more skilled than another teammate who's in her mid to late 40s. I am 40, and I know the chief architect (38 years old) beats me hands-down.

[7] mixiユーザー 06月23日 16:04

When I hang around someone long enough, my mental image of an age number floating over their head disappears. So, I forget their age and just enjoy their company. That's what it's like at school or work or anywhere, unless I can visibly see that they are much much older/younger(their appearance is a constant reminder for me).

Especially with my work managers, who are all at least 7 years older, but act much younger than me most of the time

[8] mixiユーザー 06月23日 16:07

in the world of art and design, i see a lot of younger people being hired because they have new skill, but also the older ones for their finesse and brilliant execution achieved only by years of experience. sometimes you see the older ones not listening to the younger bosses, but most of them like learning new techniques anyways so they welcome talented young grasshoppers as peers and as bosses. well, as long as there's respect going both ways.

[10] mixiユーザー 06月23日 21:18

My belief;
When age, races, or gender matter at work,
the company's profit would eventualy fall, after 100 years. maybe.
Discrimination of any kind starts from the insecurity of those who discriminates.

[11] mixiユーザー 06月23日 21:55

When I was working out of Japan I was discriminated by nationality.
In Japan I am discriminated by age when I do job hunting.
I finally find the co. who wouldn't care so much about age. ( I believe so far.)
25 years old guy is teaching me (40+) some work to do now as I am taking over his position.

My opinion is all it depends on the Co. and person.
Personally I wouldn't mind unless they mind.

[12] mixiユーザー 06月23日 22:13

Age doesn't matter at all to work, my company is especially NO

I think only Japan style company keep that manner, It's ridicurous

[14] mixiユーザー 06月24日 00:16

I know only a little about military things. So, in more general terms, Japanese language has a saying to the effect that aging of people is more significant than anything. This is a realization of an idea of evaluating higher the rich and varied experices of old persons, which give them a well-balanced worldview. In a sense we humans know everything at birth about this world, but it shold somehow be ignited and activated to bring about the spritual life of the person. This will lead to the old-fashioned nature-nurture controversy, but the important thing to realize is that we humans acquire a language as a native tongue in a a very short period to express so a enriched description of the surrounding world. The fact of the acquisition of this rather short period is remarkable, but much more important this is that we humans need to have a kind of shower of language, though it is poor in quality. I would like to add that words of languge embodies varied sorts of worldview, which however are hard to come by, in which occasion the enriched experience may help us recognize the rather compressed but simple notions of significance.

[15] mixiユーザー 06月24日 01:09

Does it matter? Or should it matter?

The important thing at work is your performance.

Whether you are 50 or 20, if your performance is good, that is all that should matter.

But some companies and work places care a lot about your age. I have been in some places where my colleagues were over 40 years older than me (seriously) and it was no problem working together. In other places, a ten year age difference has been enough to be a problem.

In Japan I can imagine that it could be a problem. This is a country where age and seniority means a lot.

[16] mixiユーザー 06月24日 03:49

A side note... there are some companies in the U.S. that take age into account for certain asepcts of work. For instance, the huge software company in Redmond, WA, gives window offices to employees with more seniority. :) It's something similar where I work, too.

So I should take a step back and admit that age does matter to an extent. :)

[18] mixiユーザー 06月25日 04:03

Of course it matters, I have missed out on more jobs just becuase I was young more than because I am still a student.

[19] mixiユーザー 06月25日 05:03

I used to think age didn't matter.
But as I getting older, I mind young person tells me what to do and
correct my way of work with rude attitude.