Dan Speerin's Twixters vs. 60 Minutes' Millennials

[95briannanicole]

i hell no, they did not diss mr. rogers

[jamespatricklee]

Jobs? The Military is always hiring.......Just saying. Great Job great benefits and lots of travel. I did it for 20 years. Started when I was 18 and retired at 38. Now working another job.

[shakedownstreet48]

This is so true these people are such assholes i wqant to kick the crap out of most of them.

[rhoads83j]

What's that Ronald McDonald motherfucker doing interrupting my 60 minutes?

[agentwoofy]

Our generation doesn't know the value of hard work? Try working a fucking job that only pays minimum wage! you know what you get after 6 months of working a minimum wage job gets you? You get to eat, pay rent, pay car insurance, pay for gas to get to work, and then... YOUR FUCKING BROKE! So, exactly what is the new generation supposed to do? The only option I see is going to school to find a career that 1) you enjoy 2) pays what your worth FYI minimum wage = $400/wk take home.

[jack0lantern665]

my first hour teacher saw this 60 minutes BS and now he hates our class. he sais we are a bunch of lazy, stuck up, pampas narcissists.

im glad to know im not the only one mad about this old guy

[PrinceG28]

This sounds like updated slavery !!!

[dynamicmaxwell120]

The 60 minute was all marketing and no real research was done. Use real experts like Neil Howe and the research done by the Pew Research Center. The Gen Y Guy has it all wrong too, because most millennials hate to be called Gen Y.

[charlesdarwin321]

I've spent the last year living at home with no job and car, meditating, watching movies, and reading. Going back to school soon.

Now the question is, would I have been better off working a shitty job and being miserable to make a small amount of money which would go to student loans anyways, or seek a personal fulfillment and understanding which will last me a life time?

[booker80]

i have worked 10 yrs in a supermarket...and i don't know what its means to work hard that 60 minutes thing is bullshit

[stage51manager]

My uncle just told me, he feels sorry about my generation and I happen to agree with him. My generation is getting a "bail-out" from their parents and still "holding hands" My uncle is a boomer. My uncle said Your generation is so f*cked! What are you going to do when your alone at home, factories or even in the woods. Your generation you guys (us) we grade our own paper and give it an A not a C. My uncle just called my a Mediocre.

[stage51manager]

I was born in 85 and am no college graduate at all, I grew up with divorce parents. I grew up living with my mom and stepdads ( My mother was divorce again) and I would see my dad and stepmoms (again my dad was divorce again) once every week-ends. I now live with my dad now and I work Janitorial that all I know what to do (except writing on youtube LOL!) I've been doing that for 5 years. There people my age that have an college degree, live with mom&dad but don't work. My uncle just told me.....

[negresssongstress]

I am a Twixter, ( b.1984) and I enjoy some of my generation's qualities. We are NOT fucking dumb, we are fucking practical!! We don't care what older people think of us, and we don't necessarily accept their values. We don't have this blind faith that the System is going to be there forever to support us. We are cynical... which is good! Why work 12 hour days just for the "privilege" of living on your own? Money for it's own sake? I throw out YOUR "American Dream". There is no happiness there!!!

[cynicallytested]

@negresssongstress I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions of our generation, that we live at home or reject "hard work" because of laziness or apathy - you hit it on the head, it's about watching our parents buy into a system that later in life left them high and dry, it's also about crippling education costs which make it quite hard to start your own life. These systems and blueprints of life need to be reevaluated for our generation. 

[timfmr]

@cynicallytested Could nor agree more!!!!!!

[iunek1]

it's no wonder the suicide rate for millenials is so high. lol

[anbuladies]

Wow. its so encouraging to know they think of us a mindless, shallow brats who cant stand on their own two feet. well every past generation did this to the future. im pretty sure the baby boomers were thought of n the same way during youth.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@justlaxin22 The difference is older generations expected the abuse before entering the work place and applied anyway.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

Those are Gen Yers; most millenials are still in primary and secondary school.

[bestiality]

I see this anti-youth/generational conflict rhetoric as a way of deflecting attention from the fact that the economy has gone down the toilet and that leading a life where 9 hours of your day, 5 days a week is spent in a sterile environment is not really healthy let alone enjoyable.

But I think people should look into 'Generation X' in the early 1990s (also during an economic recession) and notice how similar the rhetoric being used to describe 'millennials' matches 'Gen X'

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@bestiality Doesn't match at all. Most GenXers had manual labor jobs as teenagers and kids. During the recession of the early 1990s i lost my job and got a job lifting heavy steel pipes for a company. Every other employee doing the same thing was a GenXer. Take several random surveys of early and Mid GenXers and apply the appropriate statistics in order to get a better idea of GenXer's common experiences. However, i have met a few hard working Gen Yers, but most of this video is accurate.

[bestiality]

@chroniclerofthe70s Not sure what youre talking about. You lifted steel pipes? Congratulations. How blue-collar of you. I'm talking about media representations and, more specifically, how the notion of 'generations' and associated buzz words is a narrative that shifts blame away from economic issues and refocuses it on the 'character of the younger generation'. Frankly, your 'personal experience' is worthless; how can you generalize umpteen million people into a set of personality traits?

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@bestiality I know people from all walks of life who live all over the United States who are themselves supervisors and bosses. I and hundreds of other kids from my town had manual jobs as kids. My relatives and their friends who lived all over the US back in the 70s also worked manual jobs. I myself have supervised many millenials who come from different parts of the US.

You take repeated randomized samples of millenials from across the US and study their attributes, that's how.

[arcticvulcano]

I got a problem with the B-Roll footage at 2:34 and 3:17 (it's part of the original 60 minute segment). They taped a couple of random officer worksers (one of whom looks over 30, if I might add) and innocently walking and laughing college students while the narration describes them as praise hounds and "coddle virus" victims. If I were one of the the women at 3:14, I'd be pretty unhappy to be associated with that voice over. Of course, it's taped at a public place, so what can you do?

[Zuwie2]

The problem with 60 minutes - they skipped over an entire generation - the Gen-Xers. Beatles and Justin Bieber both suck. Nirvana 4ever!

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@Zuwie2 Your right, they often confuse millenials with Gen-Yers. Nirvana was very popular with young and mid-GenXers.

[kitari69]

is messed up enough so that we cannot gain financial independence at 25, but some people out there call themselves twixters when they're actually lazies who give us a bad name. How about we figure out a way to show separation between us and them?

[kitari69]

My view on it: Its a real social phenomenon (both good and bad) caused by economic and and work related problems. To top it off you get those of whom WERE babied all their life piggy backing and parasiting off of the social phenomenon who give the older generations reasons to call us lazy while some of us bust our butts at the grocery store paying off $20k+ in loans. Its great that we have time now to stop and think about our work before we dedicate our lives to it and its sad that our economy->

[kitari69]

I have to say neither 60 min nor the rebuttal to the episode was well made. 60 min just took a issue of society and oversimplified it, the rebuttal while it made some points, did it as shrewdly if not more than 60 mins. Sorry but you're burning your bridges. If you really wanted to change peoples views you wouldn't do that.

[missnavarro87]

Leave Mr. Rogers out of this! I'm also wondering what we were supposed to watch growing up to give up more of a dose of reality. For some reason, Law & Order wasn't my cup of tea, so sorry for not being interested in sex, crimes and guns at the age of six.

I take offense to the 60 minutes segment of this video because I suppose I don't surround myself with the lazy bunch of my generation so I have no idea who they're talking about.

[bucksin06]

they dont understand logic of if i can do less and get more done thats what im going to do. When they grew up free time meant you were lazy. Now it is almost every day you have some down time. They dont want to accept the change...eventually they wont have a choice.

[bucksin06]

The older generation considers "our" generation to be lazy because of technology. These days, we can get just as much work done by doing less and they dont understand that. Our generation is the one that gets to inherit the small debt that the older wise generation put on us...

[Lefaid]

You could make a decent argument against 60 minutes but your response says nothing at all. You put in 1 second clips about how stupid it is but do not spend anytime to explain yourself. Its funny because both sides are proving each others points with how badly they made their arguments.

[MadlockNJ]

How wonderful a reality check the economic downturn has been. Bosses today LIVE for millienials who insist upon rescheduling their work responsibilities around their yoga class. It's a great way to identify targets for the next round of headcount reductions. They can then explain to mom (and grandma) why they're moving back home AGAIN when HR informs them of what useless lumps, wholly incapable of coping with failure or situations when achievement requires more than just showing up.

[tinkerbell093950]

The whole fucking video is complete bullshit. AT LEAST admit that there ARE quite a few exceptions to our generation. That one short-haired bitch REALLY pissed me off and pissed a lot of people I know off when she insulted our generation SO MUCH SO that she said we can't even eat with a knife and fork without properly learning how to do so. The majority of this video is complete crap. Sure, there are some bums in our generation, but there's people like that in EVERY generation! FUCK OFF 60 MIN!

[xxmortimerxx]

Let me rant for a bit...I'm telling you parenting has become to fucking liberal. I hate hardcore liberals.

Your kids throw a tantrum, try to talk to them. Haha fuck no.

Health care for the elderly, the underaged, and the mentally disabled is GREAT. But universal health care, for the 25 y/o jobless guy at the beach and living on unemployment, FUCK that.

Most kids born 1982-2000 ARE lazy. I know, I'm part of that age bracket. I've seen it at every school I've been. Rich neighborhood and poor.

[lordblazer]

@xxmortimerxx

you do realize if you have universal healthcare then employers are more relunctant to hire workers because they won't have to support their insurance plans. In fact employers already took this stance by hiring a bunch of temps. Basically the US has a real demographics problem that selfish individuals such as yourself can't look outside of their self-conceited world and so you obstruct progress.

[xxmortimerxx]

@lordblazer

First off, I agree with you. I HATE the idea of Universal Health care. So the comment you wrote to me has to be a mistake. I worke too hard to be paying for some dead beat's health care.

Here's MY comment from 1 YEAR AGO: " Health care for the elderly, the underaged, and the mentally disabled is GREAT. But universal health care, for the 25 y/o jobless guy at the beach and living on unemployment, F that."

[xxmortimerxx]

@xxmortimerxx to correct myself. I don't hate ALL forms of Universal Health care. Read my comments carefully to get specifics as this topic is no longer worth my time.

[lordblazer]

@xxmortimerxx

that 25 yr old jobless guy deserves healthcare too. Sorry to say, but if we leave someone behind we can't call ourselves a society.... What if he has a rare genetic disorder where his blood doesn't properly clot? are jobless youth worthless people? In a time when the youth are the last hired, and first fired you have this attitude. The US deserves to be a third world shit hole if the majority have the attitude you have, and share in your ideology.

[xxmortimerxx]

@lordblazer What a troll. You're arguing for both sides of the coin. Yesterday you were against universal health care. Today you're for it. Guess what? I DO NOT BELIEVE IN UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE.

Unless you're elderly, handicapped or served our country.

Lol. I don't even know why you comment. Ur obviously jobless because u have time to write a ton of posts.

If you were like me this country would be solid. I got a house, Job, I pay taxes too. Stop talking about stuff you are clueless about.

[xxmortimerxx]

@xxmortimerxx obviously there is a healthy in between where some universal health care is beneficial. However, i know too many friends right now that are doing yoga and going to the beach and milking their unemployment benefits. Thats a shame for those who are unemployed and truly looking for work. And its an annoyance on those like me who are working to keep our homes and pay our mortgages.

Since LardBlazer is either a troll or really really dumb he's gonna be block :)

[lordblazer]

@xxmortimerxx ro health care dude.. If there is universal healthcare employers are less reluctant to hire. IF you re-read if you should've pointed out the paradox in that sentence. Anyway dude not trolling I am for universal healthcare.

[lordblazer]

@xxmortimerxx

rather than deserve it will be bound to happen if they share your views as a majority.

[xxmortimerxx]

I just needed to vent. I was born in this generation but my parents raised me like their parents raised them. If I was rude I got caned. Straighten my ass up real good real quick.

CONGRATS to all you guys/gals out there that are my age and proving this 60mins segment wrong.

But the reason this segment exist, is because there is a lot of truth to this.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@xxmortimerxx  60 minutes is referring to Gen Y as millenials. Congratulations if you were raised like the typical Gen Xer who expects to achieve some level of success after years of hard work, talent, and lots of luck. Most of the Gen Yers i know have grand goals they want to achieve in an instant and have the moxy to expect it.

[xxmortimerxx]

@chroniclerofthe70s Yes I AM a Gen Y that was raised like a Gen Xer. I've actually achieved both.

1.) I've worked very hard in my life since I was 5.

But...

2.) I've also achieved great success at a young age. I graduated school when I was 20 y/o and bought my house when I was 21. And this was during the boom so I paid a pretty penny. I have my own biz but I also work for a global fortune 100.

I believe in balance. Take the best from Gen X and Gen Y...and previous gens too.

[xxmortimerxx]

I would definitely say there are a lot of things about the way Gen Y was raised that I feel is soft. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. Just my opinion.

[xxmortimerxx]

Its just my opinion. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. Again, I am a Gen Y myself and I did grow up in that soft environment where everything is ok, and it was alright to be mediocre. I think its a bit too passive but whatever. There are a lot of Gen Y success stories so you definitely have a very good point.

I've done more than ok for myself, and the Gen Y in me wants the best I can get as soon as possible. The Gen X in me is the reality gauge and has kept balanced.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@xxmortimerxx Yes, in fact I've met a few Gen-Yers who's parents raised them with traditional values and who know have good jobs.

Unfortunately, most of the Gen Yers I know take a relatively indifferent attitude when it comes to entry level jobs. Most Gen Yers have never had to deal with hard manual labor and abusive bosses. Therefore, most Gen Yers don't appreciate the jobs they have. Most Gen Xers appreciate whatever job they can get; it's about taking care of our families.

[xxmortimerxx]

@chroniclerofthe70s Agreed. I think it has a lot to do with the individuals who decide to become grade school teachers too. (But that's a complex issue too long for YT comment haha).

I think its possible for a Gen Y to have a sensible job but still shoot for the stars. But they'll have to live and learn. I also think schools need to teach children real life finance...not just Econ. When I was 20 and got my house and started my biz I didn't know anything about mortgages or biz taxes+quarterlies

[rextony22]

the lazy generation lol.

[primeval003]

You know while the 60 minutes spot was extremely condescending and biased, the twixter response was equally juvenile. A few little "shut ups" from whoever that guy is was fairly pathetic. From a generation who grew up media savvy this was a D- for effort.

[TheGreatAlex2929]

don't be mad at the lady in pink.. her vag is dry and saggy and she hasn't got laid in over 12 years haha

[wh33lz4]

fuck 60 minutes. don't generalize my generation and try to tell people how me, and many others included, live our lives just because some pieces of shit out there make you think that you have the power to. Good shit twixters

[Byrdie808]

i guess me working overtime, weekends, holidays, and even injuring myself a few times on their constantly waxed floors WAS JUST SOMETHING I DREAMED UP ALL ON MY OWN!!!!! what a stupid old hag bag.

-1985 millenial

[Byrdie808]

actually we were born from 1980-1995 but thats not my issue, my issue is with the bitch in the pink who said we don't know anything about working hard??? so i guess me punching in a time clock every damn day at subway for 4 yrs was a figment of my fucking imagination! i guess when my boss asked me to stay late on my very 1st day on the fucking job was all in my head!

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@Byrdie808 You worked hard, what a joke, Most GenXers in my town worked in 103 degree weather under the sun with sand and thorns at our feet lifting 50 + pounds for 15 + hours, seven days a week, for almost three months during the summer. You wouldn't last a day.

[N3Wview]

@Byrdie808 I agree, yes...I have worked many jobs and have no real loyalty to a specific company, but I have WORKED...as a matter of fact since I was legally able as with most of my friends. The reason we might not take summer jobs lawn mowing, which I did, may have something to do with inflation. Of course its not worth it when an old woman thinks a couple bucks that could buy her a full take of gas "back in the day" is the value of lawncare TODAY. Most of us just know the value of work :)

[mickeymoo26]

They need to remember Millenials were born from 1982-2000 some of us are still in school im 14 brought up in an upper Middle class, family i have one brother and i get everything i want my mum and dad tell me i can do anything and I can, I will do anything to be sucessfull

[rjamesgoebel]

This does kind of piss me off... To all of you out there that are my age, there's nothing to do but prove all these old fogees wrong. 20 years from now, we need to put ourselves in a position where people are saying, thank god for this generation.

[lordblazer]

@rjamesgoebel

it'll be too late as the current people in power are doing their best to impoverish this country. Of course it could reverse itself if we have highly talented individuals within our generation that can get into seats of power. Until then the talent will stay in mid-level positions while the incompetents hold the seats of power. ITs like that anime Legends of Galactic Heroes. You should watch it all. quite riveting on how human civilization is.

[yatudlabiereicit]

hum well ... is it really hurting to hear all this shit come out of the mouth of people who knew and still believe in geocentrism. dumd coots

[AsSomedayItMayHappen]

Haha. I love 2:48! Thanks for the video =D

[starladustangel]

I really dislike that woman in the pink. She can come work my barely above minimum wage job where my boss thinks 3 dollars over minimum wage is fair compensation for my recently obtaining a Bachelors degree in an area where rent is 700-800 a month and tell me how I'm supposed to live on my own with 20k in student loans among other bills. I've had 12 interviews in the last 3 months but still don't have a living wage job. I work hard for nothing but then I must be lazy and spoiled. :p

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@starladustangel I have to say your generation really got the short end of it when it comes to minimum wage which is below the inflation rate for this point in time. I graduated from college during the recession of the early 90s and had to get a job lifting heavy steel pipes for a company. Every previous generation has gone through your realization, it's called life. A professor of mine said he had close to 100 interviews before he got a position close to his field. Good luck.

[kieronj]

i was born in 1984 and i can see that my generation is plain lazy. the crash is coming. but there are still some good things about my generation.

[esoteric77]

"shut up" LOL

[lizardtown]

Only the rich little brats don't know how to survive in the world and completely self absorbed, the middle class is not really 80-200 thousand dollars, it's 30-70 thousand a year, and a good amount, like me, aren't spoiled little shits, we worked in the summer, and during the year, work crap jobs still to pay rent, are lucky to get a full ride with fin aid to school. You think we're bad? Look at the 10-17 year olds running around now! Imagine them a decade from now....

[lizardtown]

One other thing to these baby boomers, we had to move back home because it's too fucking expensive to live alone now due to the current baby boomer ruling generations and their greed to keep the middle class in their place. I moved back home to afford living and continue going to school, so I don't have to drop out and work for $7 an hour and never get anywhere with my life! Safety diaper? Fuck you, who do you think will be whipping your ass in a decade? WE ARE! Thank God we can pull the plug..

[lordblazer]

@lizardtown

It really wasn't always a normal American value to move out on your own as a young adult. That's a recent development that came out of the baby boomer generation because of the postwar economy boom young adults could get a job that paid a living wage to allow them to live outside of their home. the benefits of living at home is good for the young adult and the family as there is another wage earner, and allows the young adult space to breath and get finances in order.

[joli882]

Um... I go into work at 5am and usually work split shifts. And work EVERY weekend. This is ridiculous. And Kuskut, as for the debt, thanks for building that up for us. Real nice. I don't see your generations doing much about that...

[insulator48]

Its funny that this guy can only argue with single syllable explicit words and has no real argument.Just goes to show he is not really willing to put forth the effort between video games to make his point

[MikeSkullman]

If you're trying to trash 60 minutes with this one. You need to try harder!

[heirloomtomatoella]

Feel like an animal on display at the zoo?

I was born in 1977. Reagan was the first pres I remember. I was told by my parents that I would go to college even if they had to scrub floors.

Well, they didn't. And I graduated into the worst economy since the great depression.

I could go on and on.

Hey Baby Boomers? YOU FUCKED US. Now go find some nice, overly priced second home in a gentrified retirement community paying poverty level wages and leave us alone to fix this shit. Nice video.

[ChineseKiwi]

lol, picked apart brilliantly but I hate to say, some parts of the actual real report = unfortunately true with some.

[stilte]

gpod

[rilohburgee]

hopefully the spawn of the generation hothoused in artificial will rebel hard against them goin full-on ozzie and harriet

[boywithshades]

our generation, and our cousin X's (my sibling) will eventually take over the culture and make it into our own... which will be shattered and reformed 4 generations or so after ours.

it will be a new day in america when the crazy boomers are too damn old.

the millennials will be the next hero generation to pull us out of a crisis and rebuild. we are our grandparents and great grandparents reborn... we are just waiting for our crisis.

[boywithshades]

you should read the book "the fourth turning" by neil howe and william strauss.

time is cyclical, and yes, this generation is different. but the next generation will be different, etc.

generations repeat and emulate certain archetypes...

but yeah, this is a bit of an immature documentary. i mean, our generation is growing up... our parents were not responsible and willing to work when they were 18 either.

the tide is turning, and it shall turn again. big fucking deal, get over it :)

[jasong19711]

In other words you have to treat them like the spoiled kids that they are!

Pitiful

[debthemango]

Visionary in the sense that they took everything X started and then turned it into a consumerist entitlement? Too bad they think it's all owed to them- that college debt will be a real wake up call. Oh and we (as in X) have it too :( I wish Y would stop acting like they are above the rest of the world and unite with X to get rid of the boomers. Then we can all telecommute from home and work on the beach. ;) This gave me hope that Y's aren't like they always seem.

[lordblazer]

@debthemango

more than likely you will see that Gen Y will produce the highest numbers of entrepreneurs this is in fact the case in many other countries, but in the US I dunno. I find that Gen Y as young adults are discouraged from being ambitious and I see vids like this saying we are being unrealistic. some old person pounced on me for saying i wanted to start my own company int he nearby future. Its a real possibility, and I am strong and intelligent enough to do it.

[debthemango]

@lordblazer - I had to refresh my memory on what I said, but now that I have how does any of your 3-comment essay respond in any way to my post? Cheers and good luck on the business!

[lordblazer]

@debthemango

others don't have that willpower, but I dunno because the individuals my age that I hang around with share the same vision and worldview that I have. Which goes to say if you know what you're doing, and plan accordingly, the possibilities are endless, but it starts with you, and it takes time and patience to be able to actualize your goals in life. with that being said I say the baby boomers are being unrealistic. they judge us based on a criteria that is no longer possible

[lordblazer]

@debthemango

1) get married young.

2)move out the house at 18.

these two things are simply just examples. its unrealistic now. Getting married young is a horrible idea especially if you haven't even lived life, and seeing that you can see the world a lot easier and cheaper. it isn't worth it. Moving out by 18 is starting to look more unrealistic as its very expensive to live on your own and decent paying jobs are unavailable at this age due to lack of experience.

[BazBake]

Millenials donate more time and money than the generations before them and don't settle.

The Millenial philosophy is simple: there is a baseline level of SUCK in this world and the rest of it depends on YOU.

Some call it naive, but it's only really naive if it doesn't work. Since it works, you sort of have to call it "visionary," now don't you?

[isolatee1970]

Further...Yes the corporate climate of the 80's/90's lowered job morale and a sense of contentment in the work place without a doubt. We must all find value in ourselves. But mill's find fault far too quickly w/their jobs and believe it's their job and right to fix it. If u feel that way then start your own company. Otherwise WORK and show some humility at work and quit being a bunch of feminized GIRLBOYS!!!!

[lordblazer]

@isolatee1970

I think that is what is going to happen. I am hoping more entrepreneurs emerge within Gen Y because of this attitude. All the tools are there you just have to utilize it.

[isolatee1970]

No....I meant the girl/boy with the gun. Saying you don't settle is a cop-out and an excuse for not working hard, being to work on time, not making personal calls on the clock, taking pride in your work, and not doing the least amount of work possible to get the job done. I have extensive experience in the work place dealing w/mill's and 90% are considerably less productive than 30+ yr olds. Vidgames, singlemoms, mtv, tv, no dodgeball, etc is responsible for the sense of entitlement from mill's.

[isolatee1970]

Not to mention. If these are our future world leaders then we're in big trouble..,. The two kids - Dorsy and Healy on 60min with the consulting firm - they scare me.

[kuskut]

I like the part where Ryan wants his boss to send his mother a letter - I would never have believed it if I didn't see it. They all want to rule the world by majoring in "basket weaving" at college.

These parents have really ruined these children. The fact that we have so many outlets [like YouTube] that indulges their narcissism does not help. I volunteer as a tennis coach in my spare time and I can't help but marvel at how little some of them know and how much they think of themselves.

[isolatee1970]

I'm a 38 yrold ops manager in charge of hiring. We just decided to test for 6mos not hiring anyone born after '79 because of so much trouble w/mill's. Like it or not 60min is dead on. The group making this vid thinks they're making a case for themselves but are actually supporting the point of 60min. I hate to say it but they're mostly kids raised by single moms who were never allowed to fail or taught to work hard-and the men are mostly girlboys. Case in point-the girl with the gun in the vid.

[cynicallytested]

Twixers is a satire of our generation. Our generation isn't lazy we've just learned from the mistakes of previous generations - why work hard for a company who doesn't care for you? The reality is there are other jobs out there for us and we are in a place where we actually have the power ourselves and can be happy at our workplace. Our generation doesn't settle. Also I assume you meant "the guy with the gun" - the whole gun reference is a joke about settling for a desk job.

[neonstride]

@cynicallytested In this job market, your generation will have to settle.

[lordblazer]

@neonstride

the non-innovative and uncreative will have to settle. Others will become entrepreneurs because looking at the current situation in 20 to 30 years from now. You either gonna be poor or a millionaire. Its a shitty truth, but this is the path the US and the world has chosen with neoliberal economic policies. The only thing to do is adapt to it, and better your life. Of course you talk about getting a job as the endgame. I might count you as one of those uncreative, but I doubt it.

[DroppedGT]

@cynicallytested actually even if 60 and over.. i mean 60 minutes had any truth in their reporting, that was PRE-2008 before the recession and unemployment. Now we have Millinnials and everyone else fighting to make a buck. People with 2-4 year degrees working part time or low wage labor jobs to pay bills.

[johnnycommando]

@cynicallytested Then, why is living at Mom and Dad's OK... "AND A SMART BUSINESS CHOICE" per the :60 Minutes Article. So, you do not make the mistake of the folks paying that mortgage? The "satire of our generation" is that your generation is a satire in full. Post 1980-ers are a waste of flesh if you do not have google or web access. AND "Settle" to mow my yard to earn your keep at your parents' home... I will give you the actual "power" – as in $5 to pump gas into my mower. Settling, sheesh!

[kuskut]

In my experience with some of these young people, I think that the obesity epidemic stems from the fact that exercise takes personal effort and that's simply not in their vocabulary.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate between male and female, but they are so self-absorbed that they don't have the time to realise it.

There is a US$9+ Trillion national debt that's waiting to be paid. It will be interesting to see what happens when the consequences of this are realised.

[CoolNASCARGuy]

@isolatee1970 I have to agree. The so-called 'satire' reinforced the 60 Minutes segement's point

When I first saw the segment, I thought it was going to be an Ad Hominem of Generation Y, but it was surprisingly accurate to my own experience with fellow 'millennials'. While I am a GenY-er, I am disappointed by the direction my generation is headed.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@isolatee1970 Back in the 70s, my friends and I would do yard work with hoe and rack garden tools for 10 bucks on Saturday mornings. We used the money to go to the movies, buy model kits, and snacks. As teenagers, we worked in fields doing hard manual labor for minimum wage. Many of my GenX friends and classmates appreciate any job we can get. A classmate of mine, a career military man, claimed Gen Y recruits often don't know how to change oil or locate

the oil filter on a military vehicle.

[johnnycommando]

@isolatee1970 AGREED! I'm a 44 Self-Employed Consultant (Art, 3D and video on computers). I saw this article YESTERDAY, and with some irony, I was SPAM-botted, TODAY by an employer. To "submit" my services to compete with 20-somethings (and, who likely live with their parents) for a gig. Screw that. I press-flesh, and phone-call tomorrow, with my relationships, so to get higher-yield pay. I feel bad for the client paying for the slacker they likely shall receive. Suck it Millennials!

[N3Wview]

@isolatee1970 hmmm, well there are multiple personal cases I could share, myself included, that show ppl born as Milinnials/Gen Y or whatever label, that were raised by single parents, who because of that, didn't have them around all the time. This leads to alot of time spent failing without someone else picking u up, no little league, getting a taste of the world b4 your out of grade school. I believe ppl tend to confuse stereotypes with facts that depend more on income.

[J5MARLON]

Being born in 1981, I think I fit both Mtv,X,and Y generations. My parents were born in 1958 making them both baby boomers, jones, and x as well.

I think the best way to define this generation are adults that find playing with video games OK and the adults that feel its child stuff.

You know the adults that played Ms. Pacman when it came out but grew out of games when the nintendo came out, yeah that is the generation I am not apart of. Not to be confuse for young ppl who dont like games

[printmusic]

I think that what's being lost the most in my generation is the earth. Every year we forget more and more about what our world used to be like. There are even studies that show how every few years, our standards become lower for what we consider pristine environmentally.

[printmusic]

It is at about age 7-12 where this takes place: Where our understanding of our environment is imprinted on us for the rest of our life. So that makes me wonder: How blue did the sky used to be? How many song birds have faded from our collective memories? I don't know you other Youtubers, but to me that's just scary.

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

I think they deffinatly take this out of porportion, but there is some truth to this

[GardinerC]

I'm 50, and I learned more about so-called millenial values by watching "Office Space" than that piece of shit 60 minutes aired.

[notthatbadtoday]

Fuck work and fuck 9 to 5

[cynicallytested]

Could you clear something up for us - it says you're 14 on your profile is this true? you strike us as older.

Also your comment "we should know... the popular trends in the world are ... it's really interesting". This is only valid if you take what 60 minutes is saying as fact. Which we do not. We're twenty somethings and we all know how to use knives and forks, work in an office and we don't see ourselves as items on ebay. This is the baby boomer press machine complaining once again.

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

Ya, actually I am fourteen..lol

I'm not saying I'm taking it as fact. What I'm saying is in each generation there's somthing that sets it apart from the rest. Look at Generation X. With the Millennials it happens to be the moder-day technology and the pros and cons that come from it. So when I say "modern day trends" I'm meaning the things that set us, as the millennials, since I am part of that generation too although I'm still in high school. Does that answer your question well?

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

oh ya, and if you caught it before, I'm a debate student, so coming on and giving the exact opposite view, with a backed up theory and evidence is actaully really enjoyable for me. WE've been trained to take the most one sided thing and turn it into an in depth argument.

[cynicallytested]

Well then the youtube comment section is the place for you! Thanks for your views. I think most of this stems more from the baby boomers neurotic ways of having everything be a mass societal epidemic. Just one more thing we need experts, seminars and pills for. 60 Minutes did the media's usual overhype and take out of context spin - and we end up with our generation being called "narcissistic praise hounds" - Bad news stories sometimes are just bad news stories.

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

You know, I think every generation is set apart by one bad quality, not saying that each generation posses this quality, but it is ver generalized for each one. THe millennial quality happens to be the "lazey praise hounds"I know of people that fit this mold, but tons of others that do not derserve that title for their generation.

[cynicallytested]

Ah but we got this handed down from us, even 60 mintues says it's the babyboomers and the trophies and mr rogers that ruined us. So if one believes that - then one has to believe the babyboomers too were praise hounds other wise they would have nothing to hand down. Therefore nothing has changed.

[printmusic]

The praise hound thing is a little odd, I agree: That's not what I really see as the defining quality of the millennial generation. I think what we'll be remembered as is the age of ultimate materialism and waste. The whole praise thing is kind of a critique of teenagers on the whole, but this age of "disposability" and cheap products has made those qualities show through much more than they did in the past.

[chroniclerofthe70s]

@PeanutbutterCrazy It isn't the Millenials fault the entire US school and Justice system cadered to their theoretical self esteem.

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

I really liked this clip without the twixter additons. I think it helps to show us how our society is changing constantly, some times for the good and others for the bad, which is something we all need and should watch becasue we are all the ones who have thte destiney to control the future, so we should know what not only the popular trends in the world are, but the buissness ones are too. Itt's really interesting.

[kieronj]

so true

[Claireeedeee]

that definitely had the potential to be soooo much 'funnier'

[Claireeedeee]

i don't know about anyone else...but i definitely know how to eat

[aronevans]

Well that puts a new twist on the class system.

Lol great video :)

[kll510]

The real world is tough so get used to it you lazy bunch of whiners.

[kll510]

Hey Millennials, life is tough so get over it, and while you're at it get over yourselves too. It isn't all about you despite what you think. What a bunch of selfish whiney little pricks.

[boredcloud]

I don't see any reason to say that each successive generation would decrease in ability. I believe in evolution so I think each generation must actually be slightly better than the last, except in areas with substantial inbreeding.

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

I'm not sure that it would be a physical or even mental decrease, but maybe more in thought training, because for each generation you have the parents who want to teach their children something they did not get taught, and teach- and do not teach- habbits, so it's more in manerism decrease and just the way we're "training" our minds each generation. That doesn't make ay sense does it?

[boredcloud]

I don't see why that would lead to decrease. Parents teaching their children ideas, attitudes, culture etc. is natural and introduces the child into their society and teaches them how to behave

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

except for let's say in every generation each parent teaches their children 5 bad habits. We then take 300 million peopple in the U.S.

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

(I know all of those people don't have children but there are peopple out of the country, I just don't know global population)and multiply it by those 5 bad habits they taught their children. We then have 1500000000 bad habits added into society. Multiply that by your choice of generations and we have a numerous amount of- for lack of a better phrase- bad habits increaing generation to generation.

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

Then there are the parents that pass along 5 good habits insttead of bad. We then have the society splitting apart into two groups, much like the Time Machine, just in actions vs. The Time Machine's supior race theory.

[AmbientMusic]

Holy Sh*t!

[rudican]

minimum wage = minimum work

[rudican]

60 minutes, holyshit its like the o'riely factor spin zone.

[qball91899]

As an employer I can say that the 20's crowd that I am see are a bunch of selfish, overindugent, sissy, spoiled brats who fall to pieces when they recieve the least little bit of criticism. Sorry your parents suck at parenting. Guess they should have taught you that life can be tough.

[Turksemployee]

In my personal experience I expect the biggest reason why the 20's crowd aren't doing things the traditional way their parents did is because they saw their parents settling and having their hard earned work profiteered by their bosses but also have their bosses take credit for their contributions.

[Turksemployee]

Some may believe that people will only treat you like crap if you allow them to treat you like crap. 60% of America's wealth is owned by 1% of the country's population and I believe it is definitely a step in the right direction to see the wealth more evenly distributed to the hard worker bees and not just the egotistical head honcho who complains more than works.

[Turksemployee]

I feel both parties need to reflect on their actions and take responsibility. Bosses for abusing workers and workers for allowing bosses to treat them that way. No civility no service.

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

I have to agree and I'm part of the spoken of genereation. I feel that we have the majority of the gneration as spoken of in this clip and then we have the few who have held themselves up higher, who have the good, hard working standards, and these will be the leaders of ouur future and the rest will all fall down to them. Kind-of a social version of the "Time Machine" just more figurative than litteral. (Sorry about spelling by the way.)

[DJrobdee]

The people who put this 60 minutes report are a bunch of haters. They hate on our generation. We're left to fix all the problems that this old farts and geezers left behind and what do they do... put together a report that falsely attacks our character by showing a bunch of spoiled rich kids.

[PeanutbutterCrazy]

I'm with 60 minutes on this one...sorry

[zacksmovies]

Knife? Fork? I don't understand these things.. All my generation uses is a handfull of Jack in the Box sporks in there cellophane wrappers.

[AmbientMusic]

I had to learn to use three different types of knives, forks, spoons, etc. It's called proper table etiquette. I guess if you grow up with Mc Parents, this is what happens to 'culture'...right out the window.

[phowley13]

hahaha. those "experts" can lick my balls.

[antonina321]

hahahahahhaah!!!this made my day!

[LucYY]

Ha! ...Never trust anyone over 30 ..incoherent bastards.

[AmbientMusic]

The folks who invented that cleche "don't trust anyone over 30" are now in their 70's.

[trulybrown]

hilarious!!

[cynicallytested]

But out of curiousity, do you guys know how to eat with a knife and fork? Now that's journalism!

[lope1987]

thank you. that was utter bs.