Generational Call to Action ** This one is for Boomers and the older half of Gen X. You are the ones still in the chair. Director. Plant manager. Hiring manager. The person who can say no when the consultancy slides a stack of resumes across the table and calls it a talent shortage. Push back. Your kids and grandkids are walking into that market right now. Millennials who did the degree and still got benched. Gen Z sending applications into silence while the foreign student in the same class had an offer in junior year. They are not lazy. Remember every generation was called lazy when they used modern methods. They are competing against a pipeline that was built to go around them. It is time to fight back and subtle moves can make dramatic shifts. You watched the Boomer layoff. Loyalty did not save the desk. You watched Americans train their replacements and then get walked out. You know the script. Shortage. Best and brightest. Temporary. You don't deserve the job. None of it was temporary. So use the seat while you still have it. When the req opens, post it where Americans actually look. Ask HR where did you post this, let me see the req. When the body shop calls, ask for the American applicants they passed over. When somebody says we cannot find people, ask what the wage is and who got interviewed. When a manager only calls for people from his region thousands of miles away, that is not a skills gap. That is bias and it is illegal. Foreign labor is not a favor to your children. It is a wage decision dressed up as kindness. The person who benefits is not the kid trying to rent an apartment on a first engineering check. You do not need a speech. You need to hire one of them, refer one of them, and refuse the stack that skips them. They are entering the workforce on your watch. Do not hand the door to someone whose whole plan was to use it and leave. Meanwhile- GenZ - stop the hate if you expect the job interview. Nobody is hiring a hater for their team.

Boomers hate Americans, they think Americans are lazy. They love the propaganda of "the noble savage". They love hiring third worlders to prove "they aren't racist".