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Adult supervision doens't necessarily mean grey hairs it means having common sense and Emotional Inteligence - look at the new MS CEO badly screwing up answering a softball q at an internal company meeting.

I bet after that MS share holders though damn we should have hired Mulally.

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What are you referencing, out of interest? Link?

The new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella when he said "women shouldn’t ask for raises, but should instead have “faith that the system will give you the right raise.”

Some on at his level should not make that sort of mistake evver.

Oh dear. I get what he was trying (I hope) to say, but that is such a horrible way to put it.

For reference - Netflix said it best in that masterpiece of an HR document - a pay rise should never come up as a topic, because you should already be paying your people close to the top of what the market thinks they are worth .

My experience in Canada was that "experience" was simply a euphemism for age.

I'm not complaining about genuine experience/wisdom/etc. I just think the correlation with age is a lot weaker than prevailing wisdom in the great white north, where age is almost seen as a requirement.

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