【职场点睛】对付年轻的上司
作者：Lucy Kellaway
2009-03-26 10:19
THE PROBLEM 问题
I have recently acquired a new boss who is 32. I am 20 years older and consider myself more experienced, better educated and more intelligent than him. He has hare-brained ideas and to my disgust all my colleagues are kowtowing to him. I fear I may already have alienated him by pointing out that some of his schemes won't fly. How can I manage this whippersnapper?
Manager, male, 51
我最近有了一个年仅32岁的新上司。我比他大20岁，而且自认为比他更有经验、教育背景更好，也更有才智。他的想法轻率浮躁，而且令我厌恶的是，我所有的同事都拍他马屁。我担心，由于我曾直言指出他的某些计划不会奏效，我可能已经和他疏远了。我如何对付这个自以为是的年轻人呢？
经理，男，51岁
THE ANSWER 回答
Before I tell you what I think of your problem, I should warn you that most readers under 40 (a few over 40) hold you in contempt. According to their e-mails, you are a ghastly old git in denial that someone better than you is now your boss.
回答你的问题之前，我应该提醒你，本报大多数40岁以下的读者（和少数超过40岁的读者）都很鄙视你。他们的电子邮件称，你是个可怕的老蠢货，不愿承认你现在的上司比你优秀。
Like most of older readers, I don't think you are a ghastly git at all. In fact, I can easily imagine feeling the same way myself.
和大多数年纪较大的读者一样，我一点儿也不认为你是个可怕的蠢货。事实上，我很容易想象自己产生同感。
Having someone 20 years younger as a boss is hard - it is the final confirmation that you are way over the hill, and it is quite reasonable that one should mind about that. In a politically correct office we are expected to be age-blind, but age remains a big part of where we feel we fit into a hierarchy and it is silly to pretend otherwise. What is happening to you will come to us all, and we will all have to learn to put up with it - but that doesn't make it pleasant.
有一个比自己年轻20岁的上司，这件事很是麻烦--这最终证明，你已经上年纪了，对此耿耿于怀也是合理的。在政治正确的办公室中，人们期望我们忽略年龄问题，但事实上，年龄问题仍是办公室里的一个重要因素，我们会根据它来论资排辈，确定自己的等级层次，而且，假装忽略这个问题是很蠢的。你目前遇到的问题，将会发生在我们所有人身上，而我们所有人都必须学会如何处理它--但这并不会让问题变得令人愉快。
I have recently acquired a new boss who is 32. I am 20 years older and consider myself more experienced, better educated and more intelligent than him. He has hare-brained ideas and to my disgust all my colleagues are kowtowing to him. I fear I may already have alienated him by pointing out that some of his schemes won't fly. How can I manage this whippersnapper?
Manager, male, 51
我最近有了一个年仅32岁的新上司。我比他大20岁，而且自认为比他更有经验、教育背景更好，也更有才智。他的想法轻率浮躁，而且令我厌恶的是，我所有的同事都拍他马屁。我担心，由于我曾直言指出他的某些计划不会奏效，我可能已经和他疏远了。我如何对付这个自以为是的年轻人呢？
经理，男，51岁
THE ANSWER 回答
Before I tell you what I think of your problem, I should warn you that most readers under 40 (a few over 40) hold you in contempt. According to their e-mails, you are a ghastly old git in denial that someone better than you is now your boss.
回答你的问题之前，我应该提醒你，本报大多数40岁以下的读者（和少数超过40岁的读者）都很鄙视你。他们的电子邮件称，你是个可怕的老蠢货，不愿承认你现在的上司比你优秀。
Like most of older readers, I don't think you are a ghastly git at all. In fact, I can easily imagine feeling the same way myself.
和大多数年纪较大的读者一样，我一点儿也不认为你是个可怕的蠢货。事实上，我很容易想象自己产生同感。
Having someone 20 years younger as a boss is hard - it is the final confirmation that you are way over the hill, and it is quite reasonable that one should mind about that. In a politically correct office we are expected to be age-blind, but age remains a big part of where we feel we fit into a hierarchy and it is silly to pretend otherwise. What is happening to you will come to us all, and we will all have to learn to put up with it - but that doesn't make it pleasant.
有一个比自己年轻20岁的上司，这件事很是麻烦--这最终证明，你已经上年纪了，对此耿耿于怀也是合理的。在政治正确的办公室中，人们期望我们忽略年龄问题，但事实上，年龄问题仍是办公室里的一个重要因素，我们会根据它来论资排辈，确定自己的等级层次，而且，假装忽略这个问题是很蠢的。你目前遇到的问题，将会发生在我们所有人身上，而我们所有人都必须学会如何处理它--但这并不会让问题变得令人愉快。
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