![]() ![]() What made one a great fit for some people made it a hellish nightmare for others. ![]() I have worked in many different companies in many different business units (including Human Capital Management, go figure) and they varied greatly in approach and environment. It could be your industry or business unit. Your workplace might be very good at bringing about the kinds of behavior you are seeing. To echo the video (if you keep watching he moves beyond "stereotypes" and discusses solutions) if you can manage to engage them and provide for their unique work needs, they can be outstanding contributors. So next time you see a headline with "Millennial", replace the word with whatever make-shift name your decade of friends were unknowingly born into and consider whether that's a reasonable thing to be stereotyping about 80 Million individual human beings. True generations as they're defined don't actually exist. Anyone can desire a relaxed work environment like a "Millennial" or to work somewhere for higher pay instead of better perks, like a "Boomer". At the core, "generations" are just marketing fluff to try to sell more product, or headlines, or to scapegoat. Every generation can learn something from every other generation. You can't reasonably call any generation lazy or entitled. There are lazy people from every generation, there are also brilliant game-changers. If you had to walk 100 miles to get a burger, you might just stop at McDonalds on the way even if it took a couple extra miles. Some people who can't afford houses afford other luxuries. Millennials have expert-recognized unique struggles due to cost of living, cost of education, wage gap, and once in a lifetime recession (just as they hit the job market). If you blame the youth for lost profits, you need to evaluate how in touch you are with the current market. Business will change, not because youth feel entitled and self-involved, but because the internet afforded an openness and ease of information that literally changed economics. ![]() You might feel like you're solving something but you're not. Blaming any generation for the difficulties (or changes) inflicted on your generation is like chewing bubblegum because you're hungry. It will be slower than some people wish for (to the dismay of some), but it will undoubtedly happen (to the dismay of others). Some are better, some are worse, but there's still a difference and that's ok. People who grew up with the internet use it differently than those who didn't. I've seen 60 year olds act as gossipy as 18 year olds, and 20 year olds show the selflessness of a 40 year old, to define them by anything other then their individual skills is as ignorant as saying you hate Mexican Food because you don't like the taste of Taco Bell. Having managed both ends of the age-spectrum I have my gripes against every generation, but what that really says is that classifying anyone as a product of their generation is short-sighted. Relevant copypasta Maybe it's just me but there seems to be an increasing number of news aimed at "millennial scapegoating" where companies blame or devalue the perspective of today's youth. As much as people prefer things to be that simple, they aren't. Humans don't just suddenly become lazy or anything else. This central banking / non-free market free-market capitalism thing is not gonna last that much longer on the trajectory it's on. I think a lot of people are starting to question the value of civilization. So Boomers had it good, Gen X had a booming economy when they came of age, but now the worker is completely marginalized and we are told it's inevitable. ![]() It used to be true before globalization, when the US was the provider for the entire world and Europe was in shambles and eastern countries hadn't developed yet. Now this whole deal can work fine if people feel they're at least getting something out of it-ownership, pleasure, comfort, a sense of control and autonomy etc. The problem is it's becoming obvious that we're all working more than we need to-more than technology and abundance seems to indicate-and it's really just slavery to pay off debt created by our imaginary currency system, and the only outcome is we make a handful of people obscenely rich. ![]()
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