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Murdoughnut
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#millenialsintheworkplace
PorshuhCarerruh
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I'm not sure if you're just joking but you do know that millennials are more educated than the generation before them right? I don't get why this generation gets harped on the most.
Murdoughnut
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Because we, the generation before them, hire them. For all their education, they can't Google search for *.
PorshuhCarerruh
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First off, Google was created by millennials. Thanks to us you can do that now. Also, a simple google search would show you that Millennials are on track to be the most educated generation in US history but noooooo we're all entitled dummies. I can sit here all day long and list off statistics done on millennials showing how much we have actually contributed and also how we've inherited a terrible economy from the previous generation, followed by tuition rising 2x, which is why we can't afford/finish college anymore. Thanks though.
Murdoughnut
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Ease up buttercup. I'm just telling you the frustrations many of us have with working with and managing millenials. But the truth is, some are fantastic, and some (well educated ones!) couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag. Are there certain generalizable trends many of us have noticed and have written about? Yes. For example, despite having such tremendous technology backgrounds, millienials are shockingly lacking in resourcefulness. I have an excellent (well educated!) analyst who've I've had come to me more than once saying he couldn't find public data related to something, only for me to find it after less than 20 seconds of Google searching.
Interestingly, millenials also have a hard time accomplishing a task without very explicit instructions on how to complete it. Perhaps this is a function of modern higher education and our adherence to strict rubrics - not sure. Interesting, though.
Work on being the exception - that's what will elevate your career. I manage another millenial who bucks all the stereotypes, and I've given her more and more responsibilities accordingly.
Avgirl
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Grouping anyone together is dangerous. There are lazy people in many age groups, and so many of us have been so blessed to work with that. I have great coworkers of all ages. Same with horrible ones. Training needs to be a priority in any job.
PorshuhCarerruh
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Look I'm sorry, I'm not trying to come off as a dick head, I just get really frustrated when people tell me that I'm apart of the most entitled generation and I don't work hard for anything when in reality I've seen nothing but the hardest work from these guys and gals and yes, there's always going to be lazy people in any generation no matter what. But for some reason, we're under a magnifying glass all the time lately.
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Karnage
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Millennials generally being people who reached adulthood around the year 2000 (born around 1980-1984ish) did not create Google. According to Wikipedia both founders of Google were born in 1973. Most people in what's considered the millennial generation were not thinking about creating web search engines in 1996, I know I wasn't.
Hiboglossi
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Pretty much every generation gets harped on at the age our generation is at now. This article includes a list of articles published from 1968-2007, making the same complaints about previous generations that you often hear made about "millenials" nowadays- laziness, sense of entitlement, narcissism, etc: http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/05/me-generation-time/65054/
You are correct, and the grouping of people into society-wide generations is downright silly, in my opinion. The term "Millenial" (when referring to a generation as opposed to the term in Christian eschatology) was actually coined by the authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, who claim that society goes through four stages or turnings- High, Awakening, Unraveling, and Crisis, and that there are four generational archetypes, each with their own characteristics: Prophet, Nomad, Hero, and Artist, depending on which turning they were born in. It pretty much amounts to Astrology with an 80-year zodiac, which just goes to show how much truth there is to all the endless whining about millenials.
http://www.lifecourse.com/about/method/generational-archetypes.html
Strauss and Howe published their book about the four turnings in 1997, and claimed there was another "crisis" turning just around the corner. They said the last Crisis was the Great Depression and World War 2, and now claim that 9/11 and the Great Recession of 2008 prove their predictions were correct and we have entered another crisis. Ridiculous, in my opinion- not to trivialize 9/11, but it was nothing comparable to WW2, nor was the Great Recession even close to as bad as the Great Depression.
PositionAndHold
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Weeeelll actually Sergey and Larry were both born in '73. Both are considered Gen X'ers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
Zuckerberg=millennial. Sergey/Larry=Gen X.
Millennial's may be the most educated but they may be remembered as the first generation that did nothing with so much. Blame the economy on previous generations, sure. Make excuses or actually do some thing. Millennials were told go to college and it would be all good. That is a lie the baby boomers sold you. Not the Gen X'ers. Now they sit there with a fancy degree and no job. I personally know a Yale grad that is waiting tables. I'm sure it's not the only example. It's up to the millennials to educate the next generation. Tell them to find a vocation if collage doesn't suit you. I'm sorry the millennials were sold down the river on college degrees but that's what happened. There are plenty of lucrative, satisfying vocations that don't require a college degree.
gne in prog
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Would you say being considered separate of the most entitled generation is something you deserve?
BEEF SUPREME
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PorshuhCarerruh
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I'm actually proud of the generation I am apart of and I typically don't even like grouping myself into a category as such, but I will not sit here and say that "oh yeah we've been so fortunate" from the baby boomers leading us to believe that college is everything when it isn't. I can't tell you how many close friends I have who went to college to become doctors and lawyers who like
@PositionAndHold said, currently work at Denny's/Starbucks and most likely will remain that way for quite some time because their parents are broke and they can hardly afford rent and Sallie Mae interest rates of 13-16%.