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re: Working with millennials is exhausting
Posted on 8/21/25 at 11:18 am to T1gerNate
Posted on 8/21/25 at 11:18 am to T1gerNate
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Feel you bro. Gotta learn how to delegate but it’s hard when everybody below you feels like a dumbass and you don’t have a hand in hiring. Just put your head down and keep grinding working brother all you can do.
Luckily I have some smart people below me that I can delegate items to, but it is extremely difficult to teach people how to problem solve in high pressure, last minute type situations.
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Posted on 8/21/25 at 11:21 am to TygerLyfe
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I said something like, " dress decent and show up on time, and you've got 90% of em beat"
#metoo. I told mine to show up a touch early, every day, and do what you said you would do when you accepted the job, and you will be top 2%.
Corporate noticed her quickly and she is no longer a ChemE. She wrangles ChemE's.
PS: Her mother discussed proper workplace attire with her. I am wearing a "Honey Badger Takes What He Wants" T-shirt while typing this.
This post was edited on 8/21/25 at 11:24 am
Posted on 8/21/25 at 11:22 am to Defenseiskey
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Millennial men are the most productive employees at my company.
old manager told me the greatest way to motivate employees is to encourage them to buy a boat or to have more kids
Millennial men are in the kids faze of that motivation
Posted on 8/21/25 at 11:27 am to Meauxjeaux
Disrespectful.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 11:31 am to Meauxjeaux
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Meauxjeaux
Posted on 8/21/25 at 11:37 am to Klark Kent
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Klark Kent
Posted on 8/21/25 at 11:47 am to Joshjrn
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it would make a lot more sense for us to be a smaller generation, especially because our defining feature is bridging the digital/analog gap. Something like 1980-1990 would make sense to me.
Jesus fricking christ, people don't even know the meaning of "generation" anymore.
You can't have a 10 year generation. You can't even have a 15 year generation.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 11:56 am to Joshjrn
quote:The youngest Millenials are 29. They were almost in high school when smart phones came out. Well into it by the time they became ubiquitous.
Don’t buy into Boomer propaganda; we’re Millennials. With that said, considering the name of the fricking generation referred to the fact that we “came of age” around the turn of the millennium, it would make a lot more sense for us to be a smaller generation, especially because our defining feature is bridging the digital/analog gap. Something like 1980-1990 would make sense to me. Someone who grew up without internet being lumped in with someone who doesn’t remember a world without smartphones doesn’t make sense from a cultural perspective.
This post was edited on 8/21/25 at 11:58 am
Posted on 8/21/25 at 12:07 pm to member12
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And it's painful to realize that none of them are in their 20s
The youngest ones are 29 (pedantic I know).
Posted on 8/21/25 at 3:38 pm to 3nOut
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I’m 42 and I self identify as Gen X.
I'm 44 and identify as Gen X. Calling me a millennial is grounds to meet at Sonic.
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I guess you could say that we are the same generation but there is an ocean between a millennial born 1980-1984 and somebody born in the 90s.
Absolutely this. There is a huge difference between old millennials snd younger.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 4:14 pm to bigtiger440
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I’m 42 and I self identify as Gen X. Other than understanding technology, there is hardly anything tying me to Millennial over GX
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I totally agree with that, I was born in 1981, graduated high school in 1998 and was in my second year of college at the turn of the millennium. I didn't have my first cell phone until i was 22 or 23 years old. How did i grow up any different then GenX because i was born a few months late.
And to expound on that, when we were growing up (also born in '81) the cutoff for Gen X was 1983. It's only been in the last decade that they moved the cutoff for X/Millennials to 1980. I've always identified as Gen X.
I didn't have my first cell phone till I was 20.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 6:42 pm to The Boat
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Is this where people think Millennials are 25
Whatever they're called it's exhausting
Posted on 8/21/25 at 6:51 pm to Wally Sparks
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How old are your coworkers here?
It's a project where I have never met the owner and PM of the company that hired us.... I'm guessing they're in their 30's. PM maybe in his late 20's.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 7:10 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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s this where people think Millennials are 25
The fact that he hasn't responded to anything else tells me he for sure doesn't realize how old millennials are.
Naw, I had another joyful day with these goofballs.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 8:16 pm to Meauxjeaux
Yay
Posted on 8/22/25 at 7:58 am to Joshjrn
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Something like 1980-1990 would make sense to me. Someone who grew up without internet being lumped in with someone who doesn’t remember a world without smartphones doesn’t make sense from a cultural perspective
This is always my cutoff. Do you remember a world without internet?
Most call it xillennials or the Oregon Trail Generation.
Obviously everybody is their own individual and it’s just a dumb title but it usually used as a slur.
Case in point:
My sister was born in 79. Lived at home till she was 27, student loan debt for an English Lit degree she never used, chronically online, very heavy on “life” when it comes to work life balance, anime/disney adult, leftist in every sense, believes in microagressions etc.
I was born in 83 and left home at 19, graduated with no debt, probably more conservative/libertarian than my parents at this point, never went back home or asked them for any help, etc
She’s solidly Gen X but acts like a millennial in most ways.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 8:23 am to Harry Boutte
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Jesus fricking christ, people don't even know the meaning of "generation" anymore. You can't have a 10 year generation. You can't even have a 15 year generation.
If you’re using it as a generic “twenty year block of people coming of age and fricking together”, sure. Practically no one uses it in that context at this point, likely because delays in having children have stretched the dates to where they are irrelevant within that context. Practically everyone talking about “generations” at this point are using it as a shorthand for perceived characteristics.
But you knew that already.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 8:28 am to Gravitiger
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The youngest Millenials are 29. They were almost in high school when smart phones came out. Well into it by the time they became ubiquitous.
The iPhone was released in 2007. The youngest millennials were 11. They were 9ish when the “Crackberry” was all the rage.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 8:21 pm to Joshjrn
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If you’re using it as a generic “twenty year block of people coming of age and fricking together”, sure.
Because that's what it means. My generation is me, my siblings, and all my first cousins. To say I'm in a different generation than my siblings is just stupid.
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Practically no one uses it in that context at this point
Because they don't know the word they're looking for is "cohort".
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perceived characteristics.
aka over-generalizations. It's so tired.
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