I agree.
Geoff and his Subway have been around a while, and most of us SS regulars are justified in assuming the employee was young, because of previous posts.
I assumed it was a girl, because IMO girls are more likely to say 'partner' rather than 'boyfriend'. Most guys I know would just say 'girlfriend'.
-Ian
Yeah, probably fair enough. I work in internet marketing and I only meet people doing it who are at least twice my age, so I've sort of stopped thinking of the net as young person's place alone.
I grant that the generalisation is probably fair, I also noted that generalisations exist for a reason in my previous post.
What gets annoying is the reputation my generation has. Maybe it's from worrying about pigeon holing or maybe because it's generally true.
So fair enough, point taken, but I can equally assure you that you won't catch me taking jabs at older generations on here from now on. My points in the previous post were more to demonstrate that it's often pointless to claim one generation is more this or that than any other when it comes to character - especially not the claim that: "We were never like this/that".
I can guarantee that 2000 years ago older people were claiming the younger generations had no respect, were riding their chariots too quickly or were too noisy, etc... And the younger generations were blowing them off dismissively saying "You're past it, things have changed, our generation won't make the same mistakes you did" only to faithfully follow in their footsteps or near to them.
At the end of the day, not much changes - only the medium through which it propogates, the appearance or expression that the sentiments take. In the 60s the battleground was music, today it's facebook. So I personally avoid parroting prejudices across generations, if only because I like to at least feel original.
Fortunately the employer did the right thing in this situation by realising that whilst generalisations exist for a reason, it's often worth going beneath the surface before jumping to conclusions.
