Currently contracting in a PM role in a workshop. Small group- step down from my previous roles but being a niche market my charge out rate is very high.
They have put on a round of apprentices and I have just found myself getting shorter and shorter with them.
I don’t think it’s the grump old man in me and I don’t think it’s a case of “this generation etc etc” as I have worked with kids their age elsewhere without butting heads.
All I can think of is that they are being told they’re amazing by others and I have to consistently remind them to pull their head in as I have wrenches older than they are.
It’s frustrating me to the point I can’t have them on my projects.
We have older apprentices who will do tasks in one fashion one day and completely different the next – zero consistency and constantly asking the same questions in a different way over and over even once they have the answer and shown the task.
Part of me thinks this is a stalling tactic to get someone else to do the task for them while they watch.
I don’t want to use the old “back in my day” but if I took too long to do things or if I did something incorrectly I took it very personally.
Anyone else find themselves getting more and more frustrated?
Maybe it is an age thing…