Working with Millenials can be a challenge... (video)
 

Amazing perspective on the Millennials topic.

Also as a parent this is pretty important.

This is a very smart perspective. You won't be disappointed.


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Interesting. Hopefully, none of them will see the video, because they'll all instantly say "it's not my fault. My parents did it. My parents or someone else needs to fix me."

all very good until # 4..
Corp's are not going to spend time or $ to rehab these clowns..
older folks will have a better shot..
folks screen for many things these days..
your name alone can get you in or don't bother calling..
and your attendance / graduation from @ Snowflake U can make it difficult also..

Rika

One afternoon in the pool hall...a millennial foursome, double dating. The ones not at the table...staring in their laps, texting.

Sad....

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Wow he hit every point I have been thinking but unable to verbalize. My 23 year old daughter has alot of these insecurities, and both she, and my wife, are completely addicted to cell phones, and will not go ANYWHERE, or any length of time without.

Somehow, I am somewhat of a loner, have a farmers work ethic, and don't like most technology, or social media. Too many times, I have gone to dinner with my wife and another couple only to have all of them ignore everyone but their phone.....go to a waiting room for any service, and look around, I will be the only one reading a magazine.

I understand why the initial reaction is that #4 is off and it isn't the company's job to help these kids unless you put it into the context of making them better employees. You run your company with the employees you have, not the employees you wish you had. So a manager needs to find ways to make them better employees for the company...

I am with you on that. I will say this, I will check my phone for text or email as soon as I sit down. If there's nothing important, that's it and I wouldn't look at it again for an hour or so and no Pelican (that's pretty dang important when I sit at home after 10pm).

I see people in their mid 40 doing it some even older are playing games on the phone while waiting.

He forgot to mention all of the good things that has come from this new technology.
Reliable mobile communication for most of the planet is a good thing.

Agreeable video but the one that resonated the most with me is about on-line dating. I did that for about 6 years after my divorce.
It's really just a numbers game. Once you understand that you just crunch the numbers until one bites.
Lots of dates & fun but it lead to nothing lasting... And most of the time there was a bad to awful ending.
Finally I turned my back on it about 6 years ago, I survived but it wasn't easy.

The on-line world is hard to ignore. Imagine going off line for 6 to 12 months. :(

It's not hard...everyone should take a hiatus on occasion imo. Maybe it's time for another for me....

PPOT roars in approval :)....

Agreed!
Some decent points made and well articulated overall. We have this same challenge in our work environment.

Met my current gf of two years on tinder :)

This gal met her date on Tinder too:
Man accused of dissolving Tinder date’s body in acid - NY Daily News

So?

Nobody has ever been drugged kidnapped and killed from meeting someone at a bar?

I would so not want to manage this generation. At a holiday gathering a young relative was grousing about her boss. The problem? It's getting cold now, so she has to spend 5-10 minutes warming up her car and scraping her windshield before work, and she told her boss she was going to be 10 minutes late due to that. Every day. All winter. He explained it was her responsibility to be at work on time, regardless of the weather, traffic, etc. just like everyone else. "I don't control the weather!" she told me. "Bad weather is everyone's problem, and we're all expected to deal with it - why should you get a pass?" "You sound like him! You're impossible!" and walks off in a huff.

The kicker to me is that she drives at all. She works literally one block away from her apt - she could walk to work in 3 mintutes, 2 if she put her phone away. During really bad weather, she's refused to dig her car out and co-workers who live in other towns have swung by to give her a lift on their way in!

Aunt was on about how her daughter is having trouble getting started as a vet.
So she's fully graduated veterinarian, but the existing vet places expected her to pay her way in the clinic.. And it's so unfair because she can't be expected to have that much money, and the banks won't lend her anything buy equipment for her own place either. and bla blabla bla bla bla.
And going abroad does not interest her either cause of boyfriend, and no she can't do farm vet work either because she did not specialize in that kind of vet work.

Fine, i get it, you are special, you had the best grades in the Vet uni..
But that don't mean people will start kissing your ass and offer you whatever you think you should get.


I walked away mid conversation, she is the typical example of a millennial mum.
Her kid is super and special and any kind of critique or comment she doesn't like and she f'ing bites yer nose off. Especially after a liberal dose of Vino. and if the daughter is within earshot they gang up on you.

And whenever anything comes up involving me, she'll be the first to put me down as 'well yeah, but you did not even graduate high school, you can't expect that you'll be able to be too successful"

Well she got that wrong, i make more then she does, i make more then her hubbie does

Huh? While you seemed to endorse Tinder, I simply pointed out that not everyone has such a good experience. In fact, very many do not. The noted is far from an isolated case. It is just a bit more interesting due to how the body was disposed of.

A bar is really not a good place for a young woman to look for a mate either. A wise person has some sort of screening system where they actually know the person (or at least they are friends of friends) IMHO.

I'm confused about what he said on that subject. I'm not a millennial, but my family will gladly pass around stories of my late mother going on about how I was some sort of super-baby. I'm not surprised that parents think their kids are special - but why did they start expecting other people to believe it?

My mom died when I was five and I was raised by my grandparents; they had the opposite attitude. The school wanted me moved to a gifted program and they nixed that and didn't want to hear any talk about me being special; to them, I was just a kid, meaning I was good for running errands and doing yard work until I was old enough to get a job. :)

Bull Shnitt.
A lot of what this guy says makes sense, especially about the effects of social media, but I object to painting an entire generation with this brush. Some handle the new world better than others.
We currently employ 4 millennials who are fantastic employees. In one case the young man is extraordinary. While we have primarily generation Ys on the payroll, the millennials have been no more - and in some cases much less - of a problem than the Ys. The only people we have ever had in the company who where content to work as unpaid interns were millennials. I don't believe millennials are any better or worse than any other generation was at their age. Where we have problems are the Ys, who have a few years under their belt and think they know more than senior management.

Many/most people are dipschmidts. When they are young, they are usually MUCH worse. As they age, experience tempers some issues. The Millennial generation does appear to be a bit worse than others, and I do believe that's due to crappy parenting. Fortunately, not all parents suck.

Here's an interesting article about working too hard.

BBC - Capital - Why you shouldn’t work at full capacity


Just a few excerpts from the article.

This has been my experience as well, but aren't millennials part of Gen Y?
I have two millennials on my team who are wonderful employees to work with and if they continue on their path, will be even better than they are now. Ironically, the pain in the ass in the group is a Gen-Xer the same age as me that fits the description to a "T" of the whiney/needy/special millennials we often complain about. Come to think of it, the ROI on the couple boomers we have on board leave a lot to be desired as well...

Working with Millenials can be a challenge video
 

I started watching this last night and could not put it down. Fascinating stuff.

I get the impression people really love working there .. like one big extended family.