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Clichés About Millennials That Are Wrong
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:04 pm
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:04 pm
quote:Forbes
Myth 1: Millennials have unrealistic career goals.
Fact: As it turns out, Millennials are just like everyone else in the workplace. They’re after financial and job security, first and foremost. And who can blame them? That’s a big part of why we work in the first place. So don’t expect your younger workers to make unrealistic requests of you and your company.
Myth 2: Millennials expect endless praise because they were raised in a culture of “everyone gets a trophy.”
Fact: Not only are Millennials not after endless praise, their #1 preference in a boss is the same as Boomers. Both want a fair boss who freely shares information. As it turns out, it’s Gen Xers who believe that everyone involved in a successful project should be rewarded, and members of this generation are in their early 30s-50s. Sounds like they are the ones misappropriating their inadequacies onto younger workers.
Myth 3: Millennials are so addicted to technology that they lack boundaries between their work and private lives.
Fact: This one is quite the opposite. Millennials are actually much less likely to blur the boundaries between their work and professional lives because they’ve been raised with technology. Hence, they’ve been bred on the nuances that older workers fail to understand. In fact, they are 4X more likely than Boomers to keep their work and personal lives separate when it comes to technology. It’s the old dogs that are having trouble learning new tricks.
Myth 4: Millennials are afraid to make decisions for themselves.
Fact: Millennials are no more likely than Generation X to seek group consensus when making decisions. They simply aren’t as timid about making decisions as everyone thinks they are. And, contrary to the mistaken assumption that Millennials have a tendency to buck authority, more than 50% of them trust their company’s leadership to make decisions that are sound.
Myth 5: Millennials will quit if their job doesn’t fulfill their passions.
Fact: When it comes to changing jobs, Millennials are actually just like everybody else. The #1 reason they leave is for money. And just like Boomers and Generation X, Millennials are 2X more likely to leave a job for money than they are because it fails to fulfill their passions.
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:06 pm to CaptainPanic
In before baby boomer butt hurt
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:06 pm to CaptainPanic
Three is true. All the rest = the typical BS older generations have said about younger generations since the beginning of time.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:11 pm to mattz1122
I disagree. The only reason that is even brought up because the majority of older generations refuse to learn and innovate with modern times. It's really sad and holding the rest back.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:11 pm to mattz1122
This would make more of an impression if it weren't posted by pansy arse, whiny, affirmation needing millenials.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:12 pm to bgtiger
sorry a millennial banged your wife
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:14 pm to CaptainPanic
With narcissistic demographic groups on either side of us, Gen Xers are the ones holding the country together.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:15 pm to CaptainPanic
1) It is useless to generalize about a generation, just deal with everybody as an individual.
2) Time magazine is just facking terrible.
2) Time magazine is just facking terrible.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:15 pm to bgtiger
There is a course at LSU that used his book for the entire curriculum. So if there's a problem with that you should talk to the people your age who run the schools.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:16 pm to CaptainPanic
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We trampled their rights, tanked the economy, and trashed the planet for our benefit - but expect them to foot the bill. Why we call them narcissist.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:17 pm to mattz1122
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the typical BS older generations have said about younger generations since the beginning of time.
This is how it will always be. Will never change.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:17 pm to CaptainPanic
There is probably a course on why white people are the devil, too.
Don't care.
Don't care.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:19 pm to CaptainPanic
There's an issue with having to be FB friends with all your coworkers, and the awkwardness that ensues when either you reject their request or your personal life from the past 10 years serves as fodder for gossip. The issues with social media is there's an expectation of a lack of privacy and space.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:21 pm to whit
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quote: the typical BS older generations have said about younger generations since the beginning of time. This is how it will always be. Will never change.
Ok well then let's look at the hard numbers. The amount of rights infringed. The debt. Entitlements given out by the baby boomers.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:22 pm to CaptainPanic
The rest are iffy but I'm sorry, #3 is SUPER true and it truly baffles me. I would fully expect their explanation to be correct but I swear to God, I'm continually stunned at how folks raised on tech seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that their online shite is public. It's like they are so comfortable with modern tech that they think that being on FB, Twitter or any of a myriad other social media is like playing in their backyard.
I mean frick. I don't know a soul my age who bought the bull shite about Snapchat being a safe way to send shite.
As for the rest, meh. #2 is sort of true from what I've seen and it even shows in their "fact" portion. The millennial concept of "fair" bears no resemblance whatsoever to my definition of fair. In millennial land, two people in the same week are late to work by an hour twice. Person A has literally NEVER had an issue prior and is a great producer. Person B is an average producer who has had many minor issues before.
In millennial land, both deserve the SAME punishment or negative consequences for the offense this week.
Now, just so you know I'm not playing Mr. Old man here, I could write a pretty compelling list of what the frick is wrong with my generation at work too. Too much of what I call "old man" thinking and attachment to "when I did X,Y or Z" shite.
I think BOTH groups have issues. I think young folks tend to think any old guy giving them advice is just being "typical old man" and fail to consider that, ya know, occasionally 20 years of experience is useful.
On the other hand, old guys typically confuse a lack of experience for stupidity.
Fact is, 25 year olds and 45 year olds possess the same intellects. Today's 25 year olds, I would hope, believe that over the next 20 years, they'll get wiser(note, I said wiser, not smarter). Meanwhile, 45 year olds need to remember that they had some good ideas when they were 25 and so do today's 25 year olds.
I mean frick. I don't know a soul my age who bought the bull shite about Snapchat being a safe way to send shite.
As for the rest, meh. #2 is sort of true from what I've seen and it even shows in their "fact" portion. The millennial concept of "fair" bears no resemblance whatsoever to my definition of fair. In millennial land, two people in the same week are late to work by an hour twice. Person A has literally NEVER had an issue prior and is a great producer. Person B is an average producer who has had many minor issues before.
In millennial land, both deserve the SAME punishment or negative consequences for the offense this week.
Now, just so you know I'm not playing Mr. Old man here, I could write a pretty compelling list of what the frick is wrong with my generation at work too. Too much of what I call "old man" thinking and attachment to "when I did X,Y or Z" shite.
I think BOTH groups have issues. I think young folks tend to think any old guy giving them advice is just being "typical old man" and fail to consider that, ya know, occasionally 20 years of experience is useful.
On the other hand, old guys typically confuse a lack of experience for stupidity.
Fact is, 25 year olds and 45 year olds possess the same intellects. Today's 25 year olds, I would hope, believe that over the next 20 years, they'll get wiser(note, I said wiser, not smarter). Meanwhile, 45 year olds need to remember that they had some good ideas when they were 25 and so do today's 25 year olds.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:23 pm to mattz1122
I guess I've just had the opposite experience with people and social media. From what I've noticed, the older generations are the ones who worry about things like that. Just taking it too seriously instead of a means of entertainment. Social media was actually great before it was accessible to older generations.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:25 pm to CaptainPanic
Social media in general was great before billions of people joined. The younger generation seems to take that shite more seriously.
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Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:30 pm to mattz1122
Someone needs to take something serious eventually. We can all live in la la hippie land passing the buck forever.
I know you are talking about social media, but it's still a valid statement.
Btw I find the older generations play the social media more serious. You ever look at the FB comments to local news cast stories and things of that nature. Of course you have the young idiots but there is also a hell of a lot more young people on social media. But I'd say a higher percentage of older people just doing it all wrong.
I know you are talking about social media, but it's still a valid statement.
Btw I find the older generations play the social media more serious. You ever look at the FB comments to local news cast stories and things of that nature. Of course you have the young idiots but there is also a hell of a lot more young people on social media. But I'd say a higher percentage of older people just doing it all wrong.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:31 pm to mattz1122
To be clear I don't mean the millennial passion for social media. Because it is definitely stronger there.
But the older generations take it too seriously in a sense of believing everything they read and applying events on social media to their lives and everyone around them. A lot of that has to do with the general stubbornness older people have about change and innovation.
It depresses me because "back in the day" everyone was filled with pride and looked forward to new, brighter horizons. Now it's just a gossipy blame game.
But the older generations take it too seriously in a sense of believing everything they read and applying events on social media to their lives and everyone around them. A lot of that has to do with the general stubbornness older people have about change and innovation.
It depresses me because "back in the day" everyone was filled with pride and looked forward to new, brighter horizons. Now it's just a gossipy blame game.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 5:32 pm to mattz1122
Love seeing people on here bitch about millennials and social media whenever they are posting on a social media site (tigerdroppings) that has 40 year olds that feel the need to tell everyone whose dick they sucked last night
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