Posted on 07/06/2016 8:19:15 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
The piece below was originally published at the advice column I run, Ask a Manager. After it was printed there, it went viral and turned into fodder for barbs about how young people today are overly coddled, immature, and entitled. Some commenters blamed college campuses for teaching students that anything they don't like can be solved with a petition for change--as if this generation was the first to have discovered protesting, and as if agitating for change is inherently a bad thing.
My belief, as the advice columnist who answered the original letter, is that this isn't about "young people today." It's not generational at all. It's just about being young and new to the work world. Most of us made plenty of mistakes when we first started work--I know I did. That's not to say that there's no entitlement in this letter. There's entitlement and naivete in generous quantities here. But it doesn't warrant condemning an entire generation or writing off this young person as someone who won't learn how to better navigate workplaces as he or she gets more experience.
Here's the letter that caused all the commotion, and my response.
(Excerpt) Read more at inc.com ...
So this person not only wants to ‘set the record straight’ that this is not about Millenials in particular, but they want to revive the issue and extend their 15 minutes of fame and notoriety. Most people have already moved on.
Depends on the workplace
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want!
Yes but being that these are interns, it’s most likely professional work and not some blue collar job.
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This story has been in circulation for at least the last seven days. I don’t recall where I first read it from.
I do recall hearing Rush Limbaugh talk about it on his show, again, sometime last week, before the Holiday Weekend. However, it’s a valuable lesson, so does no harm to repeat it or expound on it from a different perspective.
Right now, our corporate office is enjoying “Jeans Summer”. If our partner airlines come for meetings, conferences, etc, an email goes to advise all that VIPs are coming in and to return to normal business attire.
Millennials in the Workplace Training Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz0o9clVQu8
These kids will learn some major life lessons from this experience, if only they will absorb and apply those lessons going forward.
On the other hand, if they simply retreat to their safe spaces and bitch about what happened to them, how unfair it was, etc. then they will have learned nothing.
Heard it on Rush also. Bottom line: do what your employer says; don’t like it, find another job.
It wasn’t the complaining, it was the ‘organizing’ that they did. They formed a coalition to increase the threat to management...standard community organizing bullshit. I would not have even given them the polite meeting room firing. I would have had security guards drag them out and beat them in the parking lot, and wizz all over their boxes of personal belongings so they would take away an extra memory.
Sorry to reveal my psyche as a chick, but there is nothing more alluring than a ‘sharp dressed man’. Whether that be a military uniform or a bespoke suit. That’s the FIRST impression. Then the one in it gets greater scrutiny.
LMAO.
I applaud your advanced and enlightened modern management techniques. ;-)
Search is your friend. This is the third or fourth time this nothing burger has been posted
Poster’s link didn’t work, your link took me to an article about Russian spies. This is fast moving news!
Yes, I would have been happy all my life going to work in jean shorts and a tee shirt, but I was a manager in a professional field and had to dress accordingly. I did like to wear a nice suit to meetings though.
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