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What's the Millenial Question?
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I, for one, have encountered this "conundrum" in the workplace and, honestly, I think it comes down to 20-something syndrome, which has little to do with any "special" generational parenting. There's no generational momentum behind the combination of lack of experience and entitlement. That shit is eternal.
"This job sucks."
"Yeah, that's why we gave it to you."
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I've read that because the Internet just gives you everything you need whenever you want it, this generation has had it so easy that they expect life to follow suit. Everything will come to them. It's especially bad with non immigrant Caucasians
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My grandparents fought in WWII and survived the depression. My parents and their contemporaries wanted to make life easier for their kids, and did stuff for them instead of teaching them the right level of personal responsibility. Growing up, I never really had many material wants, so I didn't have a summer job or anything. My sister did, because she wanted to keep up with the kids from the nearby richer suburb.
I work with kids in the K-6th age now, and some of them are just awful. At least when it comes to kids being accountable for their own behavior. It varies from school to school, but at this one, whenever some kids act out, their parents immediately take the child's side instead of trying to correct their behavior. I had one dad chuckle when I described all of the ridiculous and inappropriate stuff his daughter did.
I was born in 1985 and fall into the millennial boat. I don't know about this whole phone addiction model, but I look to some of the big macroeconomic questions. We grew up in the Clinton years and the rapid expansion of the use of the internet and proliferation of cell phones. And we were constantly being told we were special. And that we just had to go to school, because that's how you get a good job. The financial crisis was one year after I graduated college. My school groomed me for academia, which I lost interest in, and left without many job skills. I think there's a big disconnect between how we prepare people for adulthood and what's actually expected of people in the workplace. We need to revamp our educational system.
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I also think Sinek is right that the quarterly/annual approach used by corporations isn't healthy for neither the corporations nor their employees.
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I busted my ass to get through college and worked several thankless job for the last decade to be where I am (house, two cars, and hopefully next month out of debt on everything but house). But I just had a new rep start for me who spends most of their day on social media or screwing around, then had their parents call me when I wrote them up for not hitting their sales quota. No joke. I actually had to spend time last week to explain to this guys father that I cannot talk about what happened since he is not an employee and was cussed out because of it.
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Last year I was interviewing for a NOC manager job for a small telecom and even though I aced the first few interviews. The owner tried to stump me by asking questions about computing from before I was born. Luckily I had just that week repaired an Apple ][+ and previously I had worked on a Token Ring network. I still did not get the job, but he said he was impressed that a millennial would know that...screw that, I am part of the Oregon Trail Generation.
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80-99: Millenial
60-79: Gen X
40-59: Baby Boomer
20-39: Greatest Generation
Even though the 20 year snap-shots are arbitrary (there will be overlap at the boundaries), there are definitely broad trends among cohorts that exhibit differences between "Generations". If people are interested, I would recommend the work by Jean Twenge (Generation Me is a decent book, for example). She compares everything from ASVAB tests in the 40s and 90s to a wide variety of psychological questionairres.
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