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I am not a Millennial having recently turned 40, so this is not about me. I work with people from multiple generations. If I have to go to one more meeting and hear one more person complain about "millennials" I may lose it.
Are these people perfect? No. Do they readily embrace things older people might be less familiar with? Yes. But so goes youth. Is ANY generation perfect? Oh heavens no. What slays me is that often the loudest complainers are those with kids in this age group! So apparently they had nothing to do with how they turned out.
Anyone else tired of the pointless bashing of younger people?
I am not a Millennial having recently turned 40, so this is not about me. I work with people from multiple generations. If I have to go to one more meeting and hear one more person complain about "millennials" I may lose it.
Are these people perfect? No. Do they readily embrace things older people might be less familiar with? Yes. But so goes youth. Is ANY generation perfect? Oh heavens no. What slays me is that often the loudest complainers are those with kids in this age group! So apparently they had nothing to do with how they turned out.
Anyone else tired of the pointless bashing of younger people?
I am not a Millennial having recently turned 40, so this is not about me. I work with people from multiple generations. If I have to go to one more meeting and hear one more person complain about "millennials" I may lose it.
Are these people perfect? No. Do they readily embrace things older people might be less familiar with? Yes. But so goes youth. Is ANY generation perfect? Oh heavens no. What slays me is that often the loudest complainers are those with kids in this age group! So apparently they had nothing to do with how they turned out.
Anyone else tired of the pointless bashing of younger people?
Great point re: bolded. These people should complain less about millenials and spend more time reflecting on how they apparently suck at parenting.
I don't see what makes millenials worse than any other generation -- as if baby boomers would have just said no to tech like smartphones LOL. Basically all criticism of millenials as a group comes off as projection/deflection.
We had a seminar about "generations in the workforce" which basically made huge generalizations about younger people. Many of my colleagues have been grumbling about this for weeks after because the seminar got them all stirred up. My assistant is 25 and is awesome-- hard working and smart. But I am starting to notice how people treat her and the comments they make because she is a "Millennial" so she couldn't possibly defy type. It is irritating.
I wish I could find the meme I came across a few weeks ago. It said something like "The next time you hear a Boomer bashing a millennial, remind them which generation covered up hardwood floors with ugly linoleum."
Personally, I've had it a lot more difficult immediately after entering the workforce than either my Boomer parents or Silent grandparents.
I'm 31. It took me four years after college to find my first professional track job. I work in IT. I'm a salaried exempt employee. I'm by no means high up the food chain, but hold a better title than anyone else in my immediate family, save one uncle and one aunt, and am doing better career wise than my other cousins, who are mostly Millennials with a few Xers.
I still don't own a home - largely because I am skittish about buying in the small town I live in with its economic prospects. I've been mostly single for the better part of a year and a half now. By 31, both of them had kids and had been homeowners.
I've lived in six different states since 2010 to get to where I am now. Three of those states were job-related moves - one was in the same general area, one was a personal move. Inflation adjusted, I probably make no more than my grandfather did at his peak. I've dealt with layoffs, been fired once from a low wage contracting job where the company closed a few months later, low wages (made under $11/hr for half of 2013), etc. It has been a very hard road. My dad was never unemployed for any length of time, though did take a big pay cut ten years ago.
The economy taking a nosedive in 2008 and not really recovering for years made it tough on a lot of Millennials.
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