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

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• 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.

• Rohan please!
  They allready get treated like the gods they aren't, they are lazy and useless, lack discipline and don't need a lawyer untill they get fired for all of the above.

  It's about time we tell em the truth.

  They SUCK big time in about everything!

  War for talent (to be) is over. Let the war for motivated workers begin.

  Not motivated during your first month(s)? Bye bye!
  I'm not they're mother!!!

• Oh, old people.

• The answer is simple and quite effective when I supervise. If you get the work done when it needs to be done then I don't care what you do. But if I'm working twice as hard, not taking lunch because you're too busy worrying about fantasy baseball, then there's the door. Goodbye.

• 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.

• It sounds like you folks have a pattern of hiring the wrong people, setting them up for failure, then when you have to have uncomfortable conversations, you blame everyone but yourselves. No wonder you're angry and frustrated.

• 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.

• It's cute that "frank" talks about how useless my generation is when "already", "until", and "they're" are all spelled/misused incorrectly.

  I'm not defending every Millennial, but I've worked since I was sixteen to support myself, and some of us know the value of working hard. When was the last time any of you worked a 24-hour shift? Or even an 18-hour one? Yeah...didn't think so.

• 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.

• I actually refer to them as " Gen-E" because they are the entitlement generation. Cannot wait for reality to set in....