Millennials in the Workplace: A Hilarious Video on How to Work with The Worst Generation

But there is no time before 10am. Perhaps there’s a shared fantasy among “corporate” people of such a construct.

Notice that the narrator mentions that the “mysterious dead zone” doesn’t begin until 4am. Apparently corporate-type bureaucrats who waste their time in meetings all day never stay up “late” even though, as most people who actually CREATE THINGS well know, avoiding the nonsense that is the “official workday” is an excellent way to accomplish original work.

Oh, old people.

I can identify with this so strongly. I employ “Millenials.” Everything in this video is true. The worst thing is when they’re screwing up continuously and I have to have “words” with them. All I want to do is say “This is no good. You can’t go on like this, something has to change. What guarantees can you give me that it won’t happen again,” etc. But they immediately freak out and accuse me of “yelling” at them, even though I’m just using my normal speaking voice and am in no way raising it. They don’t seem to understand that “yelling” has a dictionary definition. Anyone who speaks to them in a non-congratulatory tone is “yelling.” It’s at this point that it gets into their head that they’re the victim of an abusive boss, and they quit (but of course expect me to write them a glowing reference). In my 20 years of hiring I have never encountered such a pathetic generation of deluded, namby-pamby, self absorbed babies.

They are the result of an educational philosophy which says “inflate their self esteem at all costs. Tell them they’re great simply by virtue of them having been born. Let them believe that whatever they do, it’s fantastic because THEY did it. Praise their failings. Exaggerate their qualities (or fabricate them if none). Give them a trophy for taking part. ” On top of this, they have been raised in a “diva” culture in which celebrity is everything, and they’re surrounded by trash “reality TV” which makes them think that absolutely anyone can be a celebrity regardless of their lack of talent, skill or achievements.

I constantly have to baby them, and they have no sense of initiative and a complete ignorance of the most basic concepts. Most of them can’t even spell any more. It terrifies me to imagine how their kids are going to turn out. I truly hope that someone intervenes.

I see both sides but have had more difficulty finding good hires these days than ever before. The celebrity comment above and the participation medal comment are both painfully real realities. Coaching a millennial is nearly impossible, it requires the navigation of feelings and empathy that almost dilutes the reason for the discussion beyond its worth.
The biggest challenge is termination, no responsibility is ever taken and no accountability either. It has gone from: “no one gets a free lunch” to “everyone gets a participation medal” I learned the most from my failures – taking them out of the equation has created a huge potential mess here.

In my experience, it’s not a generational thing. The young workers who are new to the professional workplace–whatever their generation–are usually poor employees, which is mostly down to experience. They haven’t had much yet in the way of real accountability or deadlines that have consequences, they don’t really know how to organize their time yet, and they haven’t had to deal with the “office politics” of handling different personalities and worrying about how things look (e.g. not talking too much, being away from the desk at certain times, etc.) It’s why I’ve never liked hiring people right out of college; you don’t just have to train them in their particular job, you have to train them in HAVING a job PERIOD. I have to admit, though, I was the same way back when I started out. After a couple years of taking lumps for it in the workplace, your Milennials will fall into compliance, just like countless employees did before them. Doesn’t do you any good NOW, but there it is.

This is beyond stupid… The Boomers (even Generation X) walked into the best economy this country has ever known.

Least we forget the Millenials were born into 9/11, two wars and the greatest economic decline since the Great Depression, wake up. This is sad.

Tell the kids who had their arms and legs blown of in this ‘War of Terror’ who are saddled with record student debt they’re lazy.

You guys have had it great, you need to recognize it’s a different ballgame with different rules for Millenials, they did exactly what society told them to do in order to succeed. And there will be consequences to such a betrayal.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/old-economy-steve-is-a-new-meme-that-will-enrage-all-millenn?s=mobile

Whether you agree with the videos suggestion or not. The fact is that this generation is lazy and out of touch with reality when it comes to the work place. If there were no truth to it we wouldn’t be talking about it!

They also love to say words like “fuck” and “pussy” etc in mixed generation meetings. Their total lack of nuance – their smug tackiness (and I don’t mean their tattoos and full frontal boobage) – is unreal. I blush on their behalf. Or I used to. Now I just stare at them with pained mirth.

This is stupid because every generation hates the one that follows them. I hate my parent’s generation and I hate people younger than me. Everyone sucks.

And they have no one to blame but themselves & their peers. They treated their own kids like this and expect something different from their peers kids. Really? Sorry – you wanted to parent differently that your mother & father. Congrats. Look what you accomplished! Enjoy!

You know, all people complaining about “Millennials”: just don’t hire them. You know there are tons of experienced people with skills and a great work ethic out of work out there who need jobs. Have you looked at the unemployment rates lately? Lots of great workers in need of jobs out there.
Ah yes, but they cost more than youngsters being propped up by their parents because they actually need a salary they can support themselves and their families on, and benefits. You get what you pay for.

And, before you blame an entire generation on spoiled middle class white kids, maybe you should revise your hiring process. Last time I checked there were such things are trial periods and in most States you could fire people at will, so you can still do that if your younger hires are not good fits. Hire minorities, test your candidates on site, whatever works.

For the record, I’m much older than so-called Millennials, and I’ve worked with some of them, they’re not all these lazy-ass entitled unskilled caricatures (also for the person above blindly stating that Gen. X. walked into one of the best economy etc. check your facts, please). Yes, there is a (mostly white) visible population of kids who can’t write a memo or an email, who don’t know how to do research or even read something longer than a paragraph, who can’t show up on time to work, who cry if they don’t get praised for meeting a deadline, don’t know how to dress professionally or don’t know how to answer the phone.
And there are the others. Just hire the others.

I know so many “millenials” that have worked
extremely hard to get where they are, maybe that’s
just a coincidence? People focus on the negative
all the time.
That said, the past generation invented
helicopter parenting so as far as the bad eggs, that’s on them.
Maybe some get huffy when you straightened them out but perhaps that’s
a great time to use those decade of experience to help them a bit. It didnt take me
long. Last time I checked, having to straighten someone out, be it an out of line coworker or employee,isn’t pleasant. Age makes no difference.

Some quick facts:

I am a Millennial. I am 24 years old. I graduated high school in 2008 when the stock market crashed. I went to college for 5 years, earned two degrees, and worked throughout the entire time. I am paying my own student loans. I got a job using my degree because I fought for and won an internship during which I performed well enough for them to hire me after graduation. After working there for 6 months, they decided I was someone in whom they wanted to invest their time and money; they offered to pay for my graduate schooling.

Likewise, I recently married another millennial who is 25 years old. He went to a technical school, got a job and proceeded to advance within his company to a managerial position. He wakes up every morning at 4:30.

And no, we don’t have children because we don’t have the resources to provide for them. We also aren’t “propped up” by our parents.

See, the problem with stereotypes is that they are rarely accurate. If you believe an entire generation is comprised of nothing but useless, entitled people, then you are an ignorant, ageist, detriment to our society.

This video is offensive to me, personally, because you group me in with people who are nothing like myself or the many others my age who work hard for everything they’ve earned. I understand the video is in jest, but these comments are atrocious.

First, Why do you think millennials are the way they are? Maybe you didn’t do the best job raising a workforce exactly like yours.? Just a thought. No worries though, you did graduate them in to a horrible economy and started them further behind than any generation in American History. But your right, millennials wanting the same job opportunities you had thanks to your parents and perhaps wanting their work to mean something… that’s the problem.

Get a clue!

Wait, so we’re not the worst generation? Finally! Score one for Gen X!

@Millennials are people too – So you’re the other side of the Millennial coin? A grade-grubbing, success-obsessed, corporate yuppie monster? Congratulations – that’s much worse.

I’m a late stage Boomer (born late 50s/early 60s), and the experiences of people my age are nothing like your classic Boomer. I graduated college into a recession. Hit another recession in the early 90s. And got clobbered by the Crash of 2008. People my age lost jobs, savings and houses, and we don’t have much time to make up what we lost.

Which is just a way of saying that the video was kind of funny, that there are some truths in stereotypes, but by and large, reducing people to generational cliches is pretty silly, and that just about anybody born after 1957 or so has experienced a lot of economic turmoil. In fact most Americans have, excluding a narrow slice who experienced the post-war economic boom.

We really are all in this together.

I agree with Splicer…unfortunately in the Federal Government there are all too many slackers that play on their phones all day instead of actually doing their jobs but then their friends hired them so it must be in the job description..hmm I missed that memo since i’m the earliest to work and the last to leave and working the whole time. 🙂

ttyl peeps

I completely agree with “Millenials are people, too.” Perhaps that is because I completely relate to his/her situation…but, then again, most millenials would…

I am also 24 and (for “D Riley” up there) white. I graduated in 2008, went to college for 5 years, and earned 3 degrees. During this time, I was full-time student who also worked 35-40 hours a week at a very demanding job. I am paying for all of my education on my own. I went on a dozen interviews where I came in second to someone in their 40’s who was less educated, but more experienced than I was (yes, I know this for a fact because word travels fast in my line of work). This is logical in some senses, but my generation has always been told that education was the key to our future: You can’t get a good job if you’re not highly educated. However, I quickly learned that my education is nothing compared to experience, which wouldn’t be a problem if I weren’t competing against people with 20+ years of experience on me. Thankfully, when a position finally opened up at the company that I was interning with, I was hired on. I arrive earlier and stay later than others who share my position and still take work home.

My significant other is in the same line of work, but we’re not married because we cannot afford to pay for a wedding. Thus, we do not have children because we are not married.

So, as “Millennials are people, too” previously stated, most stereotypes are based on assumptions, not facts. And if you are NOT a millennial, then you don’t really know the facts of our generation, and you’re just assuming things you have no experience with. Therefore, don’t assume that my age/generation makes me immoral, lazy, dumb, unqualified, self-obsessed, irresponsible, or entitled.

*too

Gen x with millennial perspective here and millennial shot it right

1) most work is busy work. I watch my My 50+ year old co workers die on the vine pushing paper for companies that don’t even hold a memorial.

2) you can work hard, save your money and just like that everything is gone

3) There is more to life than sitting in a cubicle for 30 years and calling it hard work

I am a ‘Baby Boomer -early one’ and retired. I am of the generation of hard workers who received fair compensation for an honest day’s work but the work ethic was one of staying till the job was done regardless of the hour. And please, I am not tooting my horn. Just stating that this generation had this as ‘our’ work ethic. Each generation has their own. The one thing that I remember late in my employment was a staff meeting held by our supervisor. It had to do with supervising and working with multi-generational employees. It was presented as a box with 4 quarters each one representing a 10 year ‘generation’. It defined the ‘work ethic’ of each generation, the Boomers, the X’s, the Y’s and quite honestly I don’t remember the 4th (my age I guess). At any rate, each group had several distinct descriptions such as how they work, their pay and advancement expectations, their job responsibility expectations, their training expectations, their benefit expectations and their retirement expectations. It was amazing how you could look around the room and say to yourself, that yes he is of that generation and she is of this generation etc. The thing about this was that it covered more that 40 years and you could see that the cycle seemed to repeat itself every 40 years. Yes things changed over the years but circumstances in the world tend to cause the cycle to repeat. My parents were of the great depression era and swore they would never be without again. So they worked hard and saved every penny and taught us to work hard and not waste. We became parents, worked hard in a better economy and didn’t hold as tight to what we made though we tended to stay in one place our whole careers. We lightened up on our kids, tried to teach a good work ethic but were more indulgent with our spending. Our kids have good educations, got good jobs and give their kids more than we ever we able to. Our kids travelled in the world though education groups as well, something we could never afford but are glad their horizons are more open. We bought a house that we planned to sell as part of our retirement. We had money in stocks as part of our retirement. We retired in 2006. It took 4 years to sell our home at 1/3 of its value and after we lost over a third of our retirement portfolio in another ‘depression. Our retirement is OK because we just make it work. It’s just not what we planned. Circumstances make us the workers we are as well as how we were raised and the advantages we had as we grew up and the life style our parents gave us that they hoped was better than theirs. The cycle begins again because hopefully we are coming out of a bad economy and more jobs will be available and the next hires will have seen that the ‘good times’ cannot not be assumed to last forever. Even these workers will change to fit with today’s circumstances. Just my opinion from over the years. My hat off to the supervisors who have to manage these multi-generations as well as the co-workers who have to find a way to work and get the job done whatever that job may be. We all learn from each other every day inside and outside the workplace.

There was a recent Fox Business segment discussing (arguing) this exact topic. Basically, it’s funny and clearly popular to criticize a generation that you don’t understand, but after the laughs it speaks more about your generations’ inability to adapt rather than our own faults:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/money-with-melissa-francis/index.html#http://video.foxnews.com/v/2849237531001/millennials-lacking-interpersonal-skills-street-smarts-to-get-a-job/?playlist_id=1671716501001

I work with and have worked with a lot of Millennials (I’m late 40s, an early Gen Xer) and rarely do I see the degree of laziness and self absorption that are described in these articles and videos. Yes, I’ve seen it but it’s the exception. Most of the ‘kids’ have been just as hard working as any of my more seasoned coworkers. In fact I’ve gotten pissed at how poorly many of them are paid for doing certain jobs, and jobs they’ve done very well. No, they aren’t entitled to 6 figures right from the start but on the other hand they shouldn’t be expected to earn crap pay JUST because they’re right out of college. And I’m talking minimum wage for managing complex accounts (no, not just flipping burgers). Some of them are being taken advantage of and no, that shouldn’t be considered o.k. just because of their age.

It also pisses me off when the generation that raised the millennials bitch and moan about them but don’t acknowledge that what they’re really saying is that they themselves have failed, as parents and as the adults who ran the world the millennials grew up in.

But with all that said – all people, regardless of age, need to realize that once they are adults they need to deal with the fact that life will not always be wine and roses, and to suck it up if they don’t get everything they want and how and when they want it.

I left the first comment on this post, a joking one as I didn’t realize there would be so much seriousness to come. So let me add my serious comment.

I’m a mid-Boomer, but the cohort I identify with most closely and spend the most time with is the Millennials. I work in the the tech startup world and not one person I’ve ever run into fits the stereotype. Every generation has its movers and shakers and its not-so-much. In the past, movers and shakers went into corporate jobs, myself included. Today, the Millennial movers and shakers I know reject that world (as I do now), instead creating new businesses or working freelance, leaving the not-so-ambitious to take the soul-destroying corporate jobs shown in the video. Of course there are still ambitious Millennials in the corporate world, but fewer than in previous generations – and as far as I’m concerned they may be ambitious but the best of their generation are elsewhere.

Hey, guess what? Not only are they the entitled generation, but they also can’t take a joke!

Look folks, EVERY generation gets ridiculed and now it’s your turn. As a group (and that means that not all of you are like this, okay?) you have some quirks … so did every other generation. There’s a reason people laugh at this. It’s because they’ve seen this behaviour and now someone else is letting them know that others have seen it too.

So, the millennials will one day be making fun of whatever stupid generalization comes next, and you’ll be laughing your asses off while they defend themselves. Blah blah blah. As the saying goes “stop taking yourself so seriously, nobody else does”.

And as for calling people old … if you’re in the workforce, you’re already one of us … you just don’t know it yet. My kids think that you’re ancient. At least we know that we’re old. Being old and pretending that you’re still young is what is really pathetic.

First of all, let’s deal with the issue of stereotypes. A stereotype is not MEANT to encompass everyone in the particular group about which it is speaking. It is merely meant to draw broad brushstrokes of information regarding characteristics of that particular group. So not only will not everyone not fit the stereotype; NO ONE will fit the stereotype.

Now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to offer my own perspective on this situation. Since placing oneself on a “side” of the fence seems to be necessary in this argument, I’ll briefly state my bio: I’m 33, and an adjunct professor of English at both a local community college and also its big sister – a highly-prestigious four-year research-university. I haven’t had an easy time of it – I’m still working on my PhD, and it’ll be several years before I complete it – and I have worked in both academia and “the real world” for many years (I got my first job at 16, and have been self-supporting since 18). I’ve been a manager, and I’ve also been an employee (and you, sir, Mr. Marxist – for pity’s sake, yours is not a new, nor is it an enlightened viewpoint). My parents were loving, supportive, “you’re-a-special-snowflake” parents who didn’t teach me much about work ethic, and definitely subscribed to the view that participation trophies were important. I’ve struggled with my lack of work ethic my entire life – one reason it’s taken me so long to get where I am – but I’m not blaming my parents. They raised me the best way they knew how, and they wanted me to have a better life, and think better of myself, than they did.

Now that I’ve established where I sit (or don’t, I suppose), my perspective: I teach a range of students, from still-in-high-school-17 to learning-new-skills-to-get-a-new-job-because-I-lost-everything-in-2008-55. I teach students with widely-varying skill sets, and widely-varying backgrounds – rich, poor, helicopter-parents, no-parents-because-drugs – I have them all in my Intro to Comp classes. Now, bearing in mind the comments I made about brushstrokes and stereotypes above, I will say this: the students I teach in the younger range of the demographic have many things in common, and none of them good. They are in school because they “have” to be there, not because they have any real desire for knowledge or education; they have a work ethic that leads many of them to fail my classes, for sheer lack of effort; they get upset when they don’t get the “A” to which they believe they were entitled (I have had actual conversations with actual students who said, “You should give me an A because I’m smart!”); they don’t understand that they are not special snowflakes, and that there are millions – MILLIONS – of other individuals who are as smart, talented, skilled, and creative as they are; they believe that because they are getting an “education” (and I use this term loosely), they deserve a job; they don’t start projects until the last minute (in fact, right now I have seven students – out of 24 – who have JUST emailed me to get approval for a topic for their research paper, the rough draft of which is due tomorrow, and is the final 25% of their semester grade); and through it all – and this is the most contemptible part – they continue to hold OTHER PEOPLE responsible for their failures. “My parents didn’t teach me this,” “My school told me to do this,” “The economy is terrible because of the Baby Boomers,” “We don’t have the same chances as everyone else.”

My parents went through bankruptcy when I was 12, in 1992, when all the military bases were closed down in California, sending the state into a repression. They worked hard, and built their businesses back up, only to watch them shut down again in 2008. They are in their 60s, and are wondering what they’ll do when it comes time for my mother’s forced retirement (at 65), as she is the primary breadwinner. Their socioeconomic status is no better than many new and young employees, and they have much less time to fix it.

I suppose my questions to all those bitchy younger generations are these: instead of complaining about it, why don’t you do something to fix it? Instead of sitting around, whining because no one recognizes what a special snowflake you are, why don’t you force them to recognize it? Instead of waiting for salaries to get better, why don’t you go prove you’re worth the higher salaries, and then do what I’ve done six times in the past – go into your boss’s office, point out everything you’ve done that is BEYOND expectations, and then ask for a raise? If you don’t like the society or the economy in which you find yourself, change it. If you don’t like what you’re doing, change it. Instead of blaming others, instead of waiting for things to get better, because the “Deserving Fairy” will come down and make them better, shut up and get to work.

And, seriously, if one of you points out that “you aren’t like that, because you’ve been doing it on your own since you were a wee lad, and you don’t want to be lumped in with all the others,” I refer you to my comments about stereotypes and brushstrokes. But if anyone has the temerity to say, “We didn’t create the mess, so why should we fix it?”, then get off the planet. Your type of insipid, flabby, uselessness is not wanted here.

Thanks.

“I’d like to offer my own perspective on this situation – ”

IT’S COMEDY YOU IDIOT. LEARN TO TAKE A JOKE.

I’m surrounded by them and they’re (on the whole, mind you) positively insufferable. THANK YOU FOR THIS.

Haha. Okay, don’t ask me for any more computer help. Can’t wait till you get fired because you can’t figure out how to format the slides on your power point presentation (again), or how to make changes and save the excel file I sent you in ‘Read-only’ mode (again).

I’m 27, a Millenial. And save for a select (and I mean very select) few, this is sadly entirely right. Especially when it comes to the younger Millenials born in the mid 90’s. I absolutely despise my generation and its because of so many bad eggs in our bunch that we can’t have nice things dammit! lol. But yes, there you go. Confirmation from a disgruntled Millenial, we do indeed suck a fat load. 🙁

@Bridget, thanks. 🙂

And for everyone else pointing out this was comedy – no sh*t. But it doesn’t change the fact that this is a pervasive issue (comedy has always pushed the boundaries of uncomfortable truths, listen to what John Cleese says about comedy), and one that is actually problematic for many, many individuals.

So, yeah, I know it’s comedy. But why shouldn’t that launch us into a serious conversation about what is being satirized? Are you afraid of intelligent discussion? Does comedy mean it’s not worth discussing? Perhaps you just don’t have anything valuable to add to the conversation, so you do what people in that situation always do – mock those who are looking at the situations that fed into the comedy, and try to address them.

I’d say you’re the idiot here, Scott.

Kate.
Best answer.
That is all.

As hiring manager for small firm of GenX-ers 15 yrs ago, I observed they had similarly bad work habits and levels of immaturity at that age. Happens to most generations except the “Greatest” who went to war and won the future, my elders.
We went thru 6 kids at the front desk in 2 years: none could take a paper message properly b/c they grew up with voicemail nor knew how to greet an office visitor properly or politely. Even now when I call some offices they just put me thru to VM or ask if I want to email the person…why would I have chosen to call unless I didn’t have their eAddress? Fast fwd to the next Gen, the cycle repeats. Yes, I had a kid sass me for wanting him to help me put a presentation into the latest format; just as with the Gen X-er I challenged him to land the $100k client or account without me…the one that brings in the bacon that pays his salary and mine? The Gen X er got the point; the Millennial doesn’t realize his brains alone won’t land the new biz without the ingredients I bring to the table….even if the business owner is closer to his age than mine. I got where I am by mastering all the petty tasks leading up to the major decisions. It doesn’t make me a dinosaur to shed the low-return tasks so he can have a job and focus my attention on higher order things. Then I pointed out to him that I started programming in Basic in the late 70s and won a major computer award in the 80s, so that I actually knew more aps and languages than he does–and someday his current knowledge would be obsolete.
I now have more respect for my 85-ur-old mother who just got tired of learning new TV remote features and left her VCR clock blinking and presets to watch videos in old formats instead of upgrading from DVD to Blue Ray. At some point, you ask “what really makes my life better” and focus on meaningful things in life–like a good laughter from really pointed humor!

Oh, and can people please cut out the praise for the so-called “greatest generation”. There hasn’t been a generation since that hasn’t faced war, and to call those who fought in World War II the “greatest generation” because of that fact simply de-legitimizes the sacrifices of those who fought and died in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. Further, there was nothing great about them. Prosperity was available only to a select few white families, racism and misogynism were rampant, gays were murdered in the streets–this whole concept of the “great generation” and this constant mythical nostalgia of “the way things were” completely neglects the unendurable social stratification, which is what ultimately lead to the social revolution of the 60s.

I see this with my generation, the one that has just slid in after me AND the one before me. We are all brought up to believe that we are “special”. That hard work is for those other guys because our parents, with complete certainty, assured us that we are armed with great genius and tremendous talent.

When, exception being rare cases, it’s just not true. Yes, fine, I’ll pander to your fragile self esteem for a moment, everybody is special. Because we were told to insist upon our wonderfulness. So that idea of “special” represents the status quo. You are mediocre unless you are a genius and believe me, if you’re a genius, it is recognized and dealt with. It’s not this thing that you know that nobody else can figure out because they’re too “stupid” to “understand you”. If nobody recognizes your genius, the genius, and not the opinions of everybody around you, is the delusion.

You wonder why our generations can’t get our shit together? This assertion from birth that we are “special” and “different” from everybody else being told they are also “special” and “different” is the problem.

Sheer, unapologetic, and totally undeserved ego. That’s really all it is. Nothing is our fault. Everything is too hard. Our self esteem hurts. That’s not fair! You’re not supporting the actualization of my feeling-matrix. Whatever.. it’s all the same BS.

You guys are probably typing these complaints from work right now instead of getting me coffee.

hahaha

this is too funny and dead on.

I especially like all the comments from 20 somethings who think us “dinosaurs” don’t know how computers work.

Hey there kiddo… our PARENTS invented computers and we grew up with them too.

Your ability to use technology that was invented and delivered to you by US isn’t really all that impressive.

LOL

first… since this about generations I should point you to a well written book about american generations and how they are different from one another:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss_and_Howe

Secondly… lets discuss whats up with you non-genY people.

Boomers: YOU, my friends, are the most entitled, self-centered generation in recent american history. You were born in the utopian wonderland of post-war economic boom. No other generation in history was granted such wealth and potential as you. Yet, in your later adult years you are perplexed as to WHY the country is a such a shit-hole….why things aren’t like they were when you were kids. Guess what, its because you guys did nothing to continue the progressive agenda of your GI generation parents… your political absence (while you’re off chasing your jobs or your evangelical bible-group meetings) has allowed the powers at be to destroy the middle class. And you think it has something to do with other people’s values/morals…. sheesh.

Xers: you are the generation of complainers. You hate those self-righteous boomers/hippies and you hate the self-absorbed Yers/hipsters …. what exactly have you contributed other than shitty seattle alt rock? Ohhh, thats right… your generation comprises the majority of elected tea-party officials. And what are they good at? COMPLAINING.

Gen Y is young and maybe self absorbed and possibly bad employees. But, for myself being a older gen-yer (born 1980) and employed in NYC… I see alot of my younger generational cohorts having to sign up for unpaid internships or shitty $7 an hour freelance gigs in hopes to make a future in this vapid post-Reaganomics world. The system has failed and, if you read what Strauss and Howe posited in the 90s, the Y generation (like the GI generation before) are here to actually rebuild. We are the ones that are emboldened by our civic duties….

you all are one dimensional

These kids today, I tell ya …

Hello All,

I am a “millenial” and I thought the video was hilarious.

Just some facts…I am 33, with a master’s, I am paying about 33K in student loans, I have 2 kids, one with special needs, have been married for 10 years, and currently work for a Fortune 500 company in Web Marketing. I also do freelance writing and teach English classes for a local college. Sure, I have some millenial qualities…I’d like flex hours and would love to start work at 9:30 because of my young sons; I also like praise so I know if I am doing a good job or need improvement. But I am grateful for my job and that I can provide for my family. My parents taught me you will have nothing in life without hard work. If you want nice things, then go out and work for it. You want a new car? work. You want to go on vacation? Work. I watched my dad bust his ass so my sister and I could go to college. A part of my job deals with training new employees and guess what? The majority of them are over age 50! So, a 33 year old “whiny millennial” is training a 50+ age employee on how to use technology. One of my trainees did not know how to use find/replace on MS Word.

So, I’d have to say if you do not want “whiny millenials” in the work place, don’t hire them. Sharpen those interview skills. Hire people who are dedicated, who want to work hard, and want to be successful. They are out there.
I work with about 5 of them.

and then this……..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-enHH-r_FM

I wish I could say something in support of my generation, but that would be a lie. The fact is, my generation doesn’t bother to put in the work and expects to get rewarded anyway. Most of us expect the government or someone else to solve all of our problems and are shocked when it doesn’t work out on its own. Unfortunately, the millenials have earned every barb thrown our way.

“Your type of insipid, flabby, uselessness is not wanted here. ”

he he he

I am not a millennial, but I myself was totally unaware of time before 10 am!! he he ha ha I am more of a night person and as soon as my kids get a bit older I will thankfully take my night job back!

I’m 53 and I think my own generation are a bunch of gutless hypocrites.

Take a pill everyone, it’s parody. It’s based on real experiences, that’s why it resonates with so many people. But no one is saying every Millenial is like this.

I do see some serious issues with millenials though. They are so used to texting and e-mail that they are not strong at face to face communications. Some business issues require picking up the phone or speaking face to face.
They also tune out of meetings because they are preoccupied with their iPhones.

Growing up constantly attached to their parents by cell phone means they didn’t learn problem solving skills. When I grew up, Mommy wasn’t a phone call away 24/7. There were times when you needed to figure things out on your own.

As for dress, I see some serious issues there too. You can’t walk around with your pants falling down and expect to be taken seriously.

Anybody else think this video is def not original and certainly not funny?

Not because of poking a little fun on Yers, but just because its stupid.

In fact this video sucks so bad that it was probably made by Millenials.

I’m a millennial (26) recently promoted to manage a team that includes millennials and I can tell you this is spot in. Especially first segment (texting during meetings/not following clear basic directions and taking feedback personally), part about promotions and part about days off.

What makes this so sad is that even the comments are creepy. This generation is disrespectful and “special”. What is even worse they are raising children. Whose fault is it? Their parents. Not everything is a “good job”. No one is that “special”. The insults in the comments to the older generations just reinforce any stereotypes.

I only watched the first scene, but several millennials work in my workplace and none are like this. I work for an association that is demanding (in terms of asking for intelligence and work ethic) but hires well and treats its employees really well – most people really like to work here. The millennials are for the most part terrific people and employees, and behave professionally. I don’t think generations are as different as some people believe.

Just in case you missed English class, Jim McBride, “satire is great but” means that satire is not great. Best of luck in the future.

Now you millenials understand how Gen X felt when we were ridiculed. Don’t worry, it gets better.

LOL this video was hilarious, sadly I can relate to alot of these situations as a manager, I’ve been a manager since I was 26 (now 30) and I can honestly say I’ve seen these type of employees, haha but I’ve also seen non milennials suck just as bad! I think it’s how people are raised, if you don’t teach your kids to take accountability for their actions, they won’t take accountability for their work at their job.
I once was told by a young employee that was chronically late, never finished her job on time even with extra time given, and refused to try other ways to complete it that the only reason I am putting her on a performance plan was because I was jealous of her that she got married! LOL wow, nice way to take responsibility for the fact that you can’t do your job!! And so many more stories like this in management.

Fuck the Boomers. Useless old farts they are all and I’m a Millennial

Adam to Eve, sometime after creation:
“Cane and Able are worthless lazy bums!”

Middle aged Neaderthals sitting around a fire, 30,000 years ago:
“Grunt, ugga buggga mugga, hugga!!”
(translation: Kids today so useless! Can’t even skin Smilodon!”

I can’t believe idiots still fall for this tired shtick. Go fuck yourselves, Generation X, you flannel shirted fuckfaces. Oh, and Dazed and Confused SUCKS.

Good piece of comedy AND I agree with Andrew’s comment above: “What’s not funny are the commenters on here who honestly think we are all like this all the time.”

I’m 48 (Gen X) and work with millenials. I CHOOSE to work with them. I think they rock. They’re creative, industrious, fun, inspiring, positive – their role on the planet is one of change agents. Because “we’re going to do it in this generation, we HAVE to do it in this generation.” Don’t fight them, engage them.

I used to interview a lot of people for jobs as therapists. You would think that they might be more insightful and generous of spirit than the average job seeker, but no. I often found people who thought their intentions were the same as their productions. I used to say that if I could find a way to suss out people with entitlement feelings, I could make a million dollars. It is entitlement, not age, race, gender, national origin, religious beliefs, or amount or institution of learning (given that everyone I interviewed met minimum standards) that counts. I made some terrible mistakes, and I hired some wonderful people. I tried hard to figure out questions that would reveal entitlement, but the truly entitled feel entitled to lie, so it never worked very well.

This is just some HR humor, as a recruiter, I see this everyday in some form or the other. As mentioned above, it does not apply to all, I know some impressive kick ass mils and some not so much, as such with EVERY Generation. Smile and move on.

http://www.upworthy.com/the-best-response-for-when-anyone-calls-young-people-lazy-today?c=ufb1

You think Millennials are lazy? Just think what will happen when they breed? Our only hope is that having sex will be too much work for them to do.

I’m not a Millennial, but this video was painful to watch. It’s not funny, just mean.

Seriously, someone saying noodle instead of nine is your idea of a comedic way to illustrate that a whole generation doesn’t like mornings?

This video is so bad that I’m seriously considering this video may actually be making fun of people who make gross generalizations about a whole generation. If so, well played troll. Well played.

Jason, we boomers also fought a terrible war. Can you comprehend a draft? Let me explain it to you. By random lottery you are taken right out of high school and sent to the jungles of Vietnam. Anybody know why? Can you comprehend losing 60,000 men and women in a war no one knows why we’re fighting? Comprehend young black men being sent to war but not able to vote. Comprehend the national guard walking onto a collage campus and shooting down students. Well I here to tell ya that the greatest generation was not so great. They were narrow minded , greedy, self serving,paranoid, woman oppressing racists. Not to mention earth polluting litterbugs.
Our generation ended a war, brought down a president, stood up for equality for people of color and woman. It was legal for the men of “the greatest generation” to beat their wives . There were no women doctors, lawyers or CEOs, . These men fought against birth control and felt that a woman’s place was in the home. They were second class citizens. The notion of equal pay for equal work was outrageous to them.
We fought for artistic freedoms from censorship. Without us , your cable tv would be a lot different. If ” the greatest generation ” had their way there would be no Beatles , no Rolling Stones, no bob Dylan. You’d be listening g to Lawrence welk! No green day, no nine inch nails, no breaking bad.
The earth was a different place when I was growing up . Poison air, polluted lakes and rivers, trash and litter everywhere. Yeah, we made a big noise about that too.
I’m proud of my generation,we made the world a better place for all who have come after. Hope you appreciate it.