盤點加拿大90后的顯著特征

       Think back. When today's older workers were in their 20s, they might have taken a break on the job to call friends and make after-work plans. In those earlier eras, companies discouraged non-business-related calls, and someone who made personal calls all day risked being fired. It was impossible to envision the constant back-and-forth texting that defines interactions among young people today.

　　讓我們回顧一下過去。今天年齡較大的勞動者在他們二十幾歲的時候，或許也會暫停手中的工作去給朋友打電話，或者是計劃下班以后的事情。在那個時代，公司反對撥打跟工作無關的電話，整天打私人電話的人可能會被炒魷魚。不停地收發(fā)短信已經成為如今的年輕人的主要交往方式，但在當時卻是無法想象的。

　　However, now that these older workers are managers, they're being advised by consultants to accept the changed dynamics, so long as young employees are doing good work and meeting deadlines.

　　而當這些年齡更大的勞動者如今成為管理人員，顧問公司建議他們，只要年輕雇員工作做得不錯、能按時完成，就得接受這種變化了的情況。

　　Educators are also being asked by parents, students and educational strategists to reconsider their rules. In past generations, students got in trouble for passing notes in class. Now students are adept at texting with their phones still in their pockets, says 40-year-old Mr. Gallagher, the vice principal, "and they're able to communicate with someone one floor down and three rows over. Students are just fundamentally different today. They will take suspensions rather than give up their phones."

　　教育從業(yè)者也面對著家長、學生和教育策略人士的呼吁，希望他們重新考慮相關規(guī)定。文首40歲的副校長加拉格爾說，在過去幾代人中，學生在課堂上傳紙條會遇到麻煩。而現(xiàn)在，學生把手機放在衣服口袋里就可以熟練地發(fā)短信，而且他們還能夠跟樓下隔三排的某個人交流。今天的學生已經具有根本上的不同。他們會暫時停止下來，但不會放棄自己的手機。

        It may feel like a strange new world, but Mr. Gallagher's wife, Holly, is among those who say it's time for educators and employers to embrace it. As a human-resources manager, she believes that as the generation now aged 15 to 24 enters the work force, managers must adjust to the new ways they socialize and communicate.

　　這看上去好像是一個奇異的新世界，但包括加拉格爾的妻子霍莉在內的一些人認為，教育界人士和雇主該接受這種情況了。身為人力資源經理的霍莉說，隨著現(xiàn)在年齡在15到24歲之間的這一代人參加工作，管理人員必須適應他們新的交往、交流方式。