This is one of my pet peeves about work. I dont like it when somebody younger than me has more seniority or is in a position to tell me what to do. At work there's a guy who just turned 21 and is an assistant manager. I know if I ever butt heads with him theres gonna be trouble cause that reason alone would make me say something that would be rude.

I have no problem with it if the person is capable and worthy of the position, and actually knows how to do the job. I don't like it at all when some kiss-ass gets a supervisory job and I'm the one to end up training that person. Usually I find suttle ways to let them know that they don't know shit from shinola, and even though they're getting the supervisor pay, I'm the senior tech and they'd be wise to follow my lead.

Get used to it. The older you get, the younger your co-workers and superiors will become.

Yeah, it would be hard to find a boss older than me. I make a good facilitator. I do not have the requisite college degree to be in management positions, so I have often worked for supervisors who were younger and inexperienced. The smart ones respected that my experience was valuable and asked for input. Even now my younger female boss and I work in partnership more than a strict heirarchy.

It is akin to the military where you have some young newly commissioned lieutenant who outranks the old seargent with experience. Smart ones rely on the NCO input. Arrogant ones eventually have to answer to their superior officer why things are so fucked up.

Generally no. As long as they can do the job and didn't have a hard on because I'm the old one. Hasn't been an issue up to now.

The older I got and the longer I worked the younger my bosses got. No, it never botherd me at all. We never had problems. But I had a friend who was hired for a great job at Adidas and then never actually began it because it bothered her so much that the boss would be younger than she.
I think my friend was nuts for this. She never even gave it a chance. Instead she took a much lower paying dead end job where she would be younger than her boss.
I could see where there could be a problem so maybe I was lucky but it always worked out okay for me.

If they are competent then it should not matter but I know what you mean.

Does that mean you're an improper liberal?