Were You Born After 1975?

What impact will your generation have on corporate work?
My recent blog posts about this issue:
http://tinyurl.com/2bg6dh
http://tinyurl.com/2zpu5h

Boston Globe article:
http://tinyurl.com/2ststd

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Millennials
• Narcissism
• Entitlement
• Corporate
• Leadership
• Gen
• Y
• tlg847

[ccarmean1968]

Well I am a 40 year old Gen X'er and I am still treated like a Wipper-snapper at work.

Word from the wise, if you are in an office and the copier jams, let someone else fix it, once you get pegged as the guy who can fix the copier, your credibility plummets. :)

Acutally, I think I live a pretty modest life, I probably have more in common with the WW2 Generation than the Boomers whoes motto is "Apre mois, Le Deluge!"

[tlg847]

Oh, hey, that's a great comment! I feel like I know you well. You guys hold the whole frakkin' thing together, doin' what has to be done in so many of these ill-designed organizations. Louis XV gave us the line, and we ran with it! Thanks for stoppin' by.

[malliegb]

We have been told all of our lives how special we are and how wonderful we are, and we were told that by Gen. X, so now that we all belive it, you all have to deal with it. And I do feel like I deserve an incredible career. I have an amazing education, and I am more productive than Gen X. This is life so all you old folks are just going to have to deal with it. I would also suggest changing your attitudes because we are the future. Jeans, massages, naps, bowling, all at work, welcome to 2008.

[tlg847]

First off, I'm a Boomer. Second, we've all been the future, so don't let it go to your head! If you're lucky enough to get old, you'll know what I mean. Third, I'd put my amazing education up against any I've seen in the forty years since I graduated from college. I think the changes your generation is bringing to the workplace are great. What's very important is not to confuse style with substance, something that's very easy for young people to do in our fashion-obsessed culture. Thanks!

[thehornypuppy]

i was born in 1989 and the fact that i drop out school and that now i am my Workforce xD Hahahaha can talk about that...i run my own bussiness....ain't that much but it will get bigger. I was never eager to make choices or anything...i just found myself doing so. Maybe people who hate rules or try to make themselves so obvious for the landscape to see them is because they feel the need to be watched...it's not something about being useful or rebelious or anything.

[tlg847]

Thanks. Good observations. Good luck with your business!

[durdy37]

i was born in 89. I feel the my generation hates the whole waiting your turn notion because many of our parents are boomers who after working at a company for many decades gets laid off. Seeing our parents slave for a coporation just to be fucked over in the end showed us that being slaves to debt and job is no way to live. Many people my age feel its more important to be happy than to be rich.

[Inutenma]

As a Y Gen, I find that it can be difficult to find motivation in a job. I'll be entering college this coming year and I strive to make myself better. However, I don't want to be stuck at a joyless job like my parents. Don't get me wrong. I would be grateful to have a job in this day and age. Money's pretty tight now. I just don't want to be working like a drone without having completed anything, just living to work, you know?

[Nadiallelel]

Most kids I know would say ' what is a turn?', or, if i said,' Define taking turns', they would maybe know what it is, but not why it is good to take turns. Actually , they said ' What's define?' : ) So it is cute for the teachers, but once they are grown it is even unsafe, like mixed language workers yelling 'hot' to each other in the kitchen. Time for repetitive spoken learning in a group.

[80sOGRE]

someone from the 1940s lookin at Gen X and Y would see little difference . I'm an Xer born in 72 and its a blessing to know how it feels to live in a more organic time before the videogame boom which ushered in the computer era. Gen Ys are not to blame for any of this. blame political correctness, technology, profits before humanity Etc. Xers struggled to be funtional parents, Ys struggle to be funtional adults. what will the children of Ys be like ? sounds like breaking point approaching

[CybernautZero]

@sinnersavedbygrace7

You fucking moron, suicide is not the direct product of narcissism. If you were a psychologist, i'd have you sacked from your job. Suicide is the direct product of being unable to cope anymore, and I have been pretty close to that edge, but not close enough to actually end my life. I know others that were as well, and luckily, they aren't dead either. You pathetic mess.

[CybernautZero]

@sinnersavedbygrace7

Not just that, we have to fix up their goddamn environmental mess as well. The create the problems and we are here to pick up the pieces and fix everything.

[CybernautZero]

@FONEternal

I am the same, I only want to work to sustain myself. Greed destroys. Money isn't the key to happiness.

[TheKilak]

Either shut up and retire, or learn how to turn a computer on.

[jmn120176]

Reading two of the top rated comments from Gen Y-ers tells me exactly why we're in the situation we're in, with a liberal in the white house pushing entitlement programs that will bankrupt this country. First, you have a 21 year old saying he and many of his friends would rather just be happy than worry about the complications of money, and then you have someone saying right off the bat that they can't find motivation in a job. Future unemployment sucklers paid for by you and me. God help us.

[alleygh0st]

Corporate means sucking on dicks, not efficiency and productivity.

From a '77er

[thisgame2]

i have lost more money than any of my friends that graduated could ever make, fortunes are created by visionarie dropouts, its those people that usually create jobs for trolls that like to stand in lines and follow rules, a sheep will never understand the wolf, if you cant take risks you will never reap big awards, fin