‘To all the grumpy old men and women I’ve worked with, I salute you’

As seen on LinkedIn – thanks to Mark Chisholm for posting this. I feel seen.

One thing I notice in Linkedin posts is that everyone is ‘Very excited,’ or ‘Celebrating’ or ‘Looking forward to new challenges.’

Now, call me an old cynic, but the best people I’ve worked with were the marginally grumpy realists. You know the type. Deeply experienced, highly intelligent, a few grey hairs and a lazer like ability to see through shiny toothed corporate bullshit.

The kind of people that HR hate because their cynicism cuts through the cobblers and are quite happy to ignore the nonsense.

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