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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
This post was edited on 3/6/15 at 5:06 pm
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 5:14 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 5:16 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 5:22 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 5:34 pm to CaptainPanic
If Millennials want to lie to themselves and think that the average Millennial isn't a lazy, liberal pussy that is fine with me. Some are great but most are not.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 6:01 pm to CaptainPanic
We are more like the Greatest Generation than their shitty offspring were.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 6:12 pm to CaptainPanic
I always find it comforting that my generation (X) is the one never talked or complained about.
We can just sit back and watch the millennials and boomers fight to the death.
We can just sit back and watch the millennials and boomers fight to the death.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 6:26 pm to CaptainPanic
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Myth 5: Millennials will quit if their job doesn’t fulfill their passions.
Why is this a bad thing? You see a chance to improve your situation and life to pursue dreams, you take it. That's life
This post was edited on 3/6/15 at 6:27 pm
Posted on 3/6/15 at 6:40 pm to CaptainPanic
A millennial probably wrote that
Posted on 3/6/15 at 7:35 pm to CaptainPanic
Oh good this thread again. Just go get a job and your own place and quit trying to explain the stereotypes.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 7:45 pm to CaptainPanic
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Clichés About Millennials That Are Wrong
Swing and a huge fricking miss.
Everything they pose as myth is w/o a doubt true and anyone that has been in business management can prove it.
You lose cause it's just embarrassing when your generation has to scrape together articles defending your work ethic.
This post was edited on 3/6/15 at 7:46 pm
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