re: Millenials are the worst generation of human beings ever.

quote:

---

I think this country is screwed once we have an entire workplace of "special" workers we can not criticize and have to coddle.

---

Yeah, because millenials are the first generation to get "offended" in the work place. Millenials were in primary school when political correctness took over the workplace. Guess who's fault that was? Some blame goes to the boomers, but most of that actually goes to Gen-X.

quote:

---

This generation has put out a number of entrepreneurs and millionaires unlike any before it. Boomers are the ones who screwed this country, millennials are going to have to save

---

I have not researched the issue in any depth but I find it hard to believe millenials have put out that many more "millionaires" per capita than any other generation before it.

All generations have their problems, but I view the typical member of each generation as:

The millenial generation is quite new and this could change but all i see from them is:

That $34,000/year job is not good enough for me. I have a college degree and a lot of debt so I need to be paid at least $48,000 even though I have no job experience and I do not know my arse from a hole in the ground in this profession. Also, you must tell me I am awesome and my work is great 4 times per day or I am just going to quit and go live in my mom's basement (who I view as one of the people destroying the world so she owes that to me anyway).

Yes, gen-xers have their issues but the typical gen-xer was willing to start at the bottom and work their way to the top. The typical millenial demands to start with the stars and if they do not they might as well live in mom's basement until they do.

quote:

---

You're being over dramatic. I have employees ranging from 34-60 and it's already this way.

---

I have only hired 4 secretaries in my 11 year career. I currently do not have one because it simply is not worth the trouble. My experience with those secretaries were as follows:

My first secretary was in her mid 50s. I use Breevy to compose basic correspondence and pleadings. For a standard letter to a client, opposing counsel, etc you type one word and it generates the needed document and prompts you for client specific information. She refused to use it because she could not grasp the concept. She would type letters from scratch and it would take her half an hour to an hour to type something that should have taken 5 minutes. The letters were almost always wrong because she would make up the letters as she went along because she would not bother to look at the forms I spent a career compiling. So not only would she take 6 times as much time generating documents, she was doing them wrong and I was staying in the office after hours doing the work she should have been doing because she refused to use my very simple system because she thought she would not "get it."

My second secretary was in her early 40s. She was a paralegal for a number of years when I decided to hire her and basically she was right and the world was wrong. A paperless system was stupid. My forms were stupid. Basically everything that was not done the precise way she had done it her entire career was stupid. She refused to scan anything because paper files was where it was at. She lasted 8 weeks.

My third secretary was in her early 30s and actually was not bad. She just brought a lot of baggage to work and on her last day her boyfriend came into the office and basically made her quit because they both needed to be unemployed I suppose. She actually did everything I asked of her and followed my system precisely. It took her no time either because frankly my system is not exactly unique.

My fourth secretary made me realize I was better off truly solo. She was 23. She was never on time. Within an hour of showing up late, she was out the door and on her way to Starbucks to get an iced coffee. When she returned it was Facebook, YouTube, and Pinterest until lunch. She might have done 30 minutes of actual work between the time she stumbled in at 10:30 and went to lunch at noon. She was given a one hour lunch and would almost always walk in at 2:00, sometimes later. She would do some scanning and compose basic correspondence until 3:30 where she would then finish off the remainder of the work day on Facebook, YouTube, and Pinterest.

On days when I was in the office she answered the phones religiously. When I was out of the office, the back up offsite receptionist took the vast majority of the messages because she could not be bothered with answering phones.

I actually got to the point to where I restricted internet access on her computer and she confronted me immediately about her inability to "enjoy her job." One day when I was in court, she was caught on the computers of another firm sharing the building getting her facebook fix. I was going to fire her before she quit. She quit because work "was no fun."

So I guess you are right, every generation has its problems.

I'm sorry the one Facebook obsessed millenial you hired didn't work out, but secretary jobs don't exactly attract the cream of the crop. That's why the others didn't work out either. You're hiring shitty people.

I'm just not sure what your point is. The educated millenial population is working more for less than prior generations. The same degrees 20 years ago got you a better job.

quote:

---

I'm sorry the one Facebook obsessed millenial you hired didn't work out, but secretary jobs don't exactly attract the cream of the crop. That's why the others didn't work out either. You're hiring shitty people.

---

I am not sure who you can hire that will perform simple tasks then. The job I need done is not complicated. Type "corclient" (or whatever) and get the information from the client's file for the letter.

I tried hiring someone with no experience and that worked out okay except for the baby daddy drama because she was willing to learn. I tried hiring the established paralegal and that was a disaster because she knew everything and I was an idiot for not wanting to change my system to hers. I tried hiring someone with no experience who was also young thinking I could train someone and eventually have a good well paid employee and well.......... no.

The third secretary would probably still be with me without the baby daddy drama if it were up to me. She was a hard worker.

If I ever feel the need for a secretary again maybe I should let someone else do the hiring.

quote:

---

They invented the drug culture, hippy culture, and continued the draft dodging culture from previous generations.

---

Don't forget about the abortion and gay culture starting up at that time. Thing is, everything mentioned by you and I were considered leftist movements in the day.
.

quote:

---

Todays young folk would NOT have survived back 30 years ago.... FACT

---

Ohhhh shite.

quote:

---

You people are delusional.

---

Good summary of the thread on both sides.