Posted on 12/22/2016 7:25:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Huh? 99% of all correspondence is done via email.
My kids have a good work ethic, so they tend to hang out with others their age with similar ethics.
So, in my experience, the Millennial are hard working, smart, and cynical. I hear a lot of bitching about student debt. But the general group I see are very hard working in the police, first responded and (gasp) the artist crowd.
Just like every other generation, there are generalities involved.
Jumping is to some degree rational.
My father joined US Steel in the 1960’s expecting to be with them until retirement. When they eliminated his job in 1980 he was like a deer in the headlights. Absolutely stunned as to how his loyalty could be discarded in this manner.
Today’s generation has learned better. Employers have no loyalty to you, so don’t have any towards them.
My Millenial kids are hard workers.
One is a nurse in an E.R. The other is a high-school teacher. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and works in a charter school which does not provide her with cushy union work schedules.
Both complain constantly about lazy Millenial friends.
Does that mean all millennials, or some millennials? Doesn’t say, so the headline and article are useless.
Back in 1993(oir 1994) I was on the Oprah Winfrey show and what was the topic? BABY BOOMERS vs. BABY BUSTERS. Every generation goes through the same angst. Oprah took the entire audience to see the movie, REALITY BITES which addessed the idea that the Baby Buster (Generation X) were a bunch of lazy slackers. Didn’t turn out that way, did it?
I don’t disagree that it is dependent on the person not the age, I disagree with the relativism of the concept that millenials are workaholics more so than non-millenials. I’ve seen the the young, middle age and older chat-a-holics make rounds, going office to office, cube to cube and complain about all the hours they work to whoever will listen. Like many others, they sometimes take longer lunches than they should, run errands, leave early or call in sick for weak reasons.
Excellent post!
Things are getting better.
Excellent post!
Things are getting better.
Stopped reading right there...
People take their cue from the BOSS.
Sounds like the BOSS isn't doing his/her job either.
Good comments.
It’s easy to pick a fight here by saying, “Baby Boomers ruined this country because all them behave in the following way ...”
You get jumped on pretty quick by people who have (literally) tens of millions of counter-examples of fine, upstanding Baby Boomers.
It’s the same with the Millennials. It’s just bad journalism (is there really any other kind?) to paint with a broad brush and say that Millennials are either a) Hard-working or b) Lazy. Individuals are individuals. I try not to judge a generation all in one go.
Same here.
Both complain constantly about lazy Millenial friends.
Same here.
I see many millennials engaged in constant, almost restless activity, but they are inefficient and unfocused enough that they accomplish little. It is anecdotal, but it’s something I see at work and with my oldest. Because they are constantly “doing stuff” they truly believe they are working hard, but they waste so much time that they don’t actually complete tasks efficiently.
Being a job jumper is perfectly sensible. Gone are the days when family business type employers and employees expected to be treated with mutual respect. Employers, especially corporations run by faceless men these days treat employees like disposable commodities. Treachery is rewarded, loyal employees are gullible fools who are taken for granted, denied promotions and payrises that are given to newcomers to tempt them to join the company, whereas existing employees are used until it becomes expedient to drop them like a burning sack of s**t.
There are workers and lazy butts in every generation.
The “Greatest Generation”’s problem, imo, was not raising the Baby Boomers to be adults. So the BB raised Gen X to be a bit more self indulgent... which in turn made the millennials kind of stuck on themselves.
But the entire human condition is selfish. So we cannot blame anyone but ourselves.
People don’t typically have the same job security as they did years ago, and technology is changing at a rapid rate. Millennials sometimes get a bad rap, but a lot of them seem to be ignorant and naive in the ways of the world due to our poor education system.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD: “My old man was a workaholic....if you mentioned work, he got loaded.”
There are good and bad in every generation.
Winter Wyman is a good company.
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