Generation Slap

[Lester]

Generation Slap
They're naive, self-important, and perpetually plugged in. This is a call to arms against Millennials

http://www.radaronline.com/features/200 ... oomers.php

[The People's DJ]

Fuckin' dork. Don't they understand that all you have to do is "goggle" a name and something might just come up?

[Hoosier Daddy]

Great article!

I particularly liked:

Kevin is part of the generation born between 1982 and 2002—a Millennial, formerly known as Generation Y. They got renamed after whining too much. They're younger. They're healthier. They got to do anal in high school. They think updating a spreadsheet while simultaneously posting to a Twitter account about the latest gossip on perezhilton.com is an essential corporate skill. And, like Kevin, they're always doing stupid shit, but rarely getting called on it.

Good stuff. 'Specially the thing about doing anal in high school.

[AmpedNow]

Funny because I was actually gonna post this article...

As a Gen Xer, I do feel kind of slighted, because these Millies do seem to be babied a lot more than we were. I can't count how many times I was told, "Welcome to life. Deal with it." when I was growing up.

Now, when I stumble upon these teen blogs where they're coddling each other over hangnail troubles, I have to laugh. Our generation would have told each other to stfu before we chop your damn fingers off...



With that said, I've become fully integrated into Millie pop culture, esp about feeling the need to be "wired" all the time.

I love these generational hit pieces. I can't wait for the ones that will blame Gen X for all of society's ills...

[fearpeddler]

I love these generational hit pieces. I can't wait for the ones that will blame Gen X for all of society's ills...

We've gotta have a shot at fixing the problem first.....

[Big Media]

The article is dead on. We've often discussed the "entitlement" generation on this board. Those ass-hats who think everything should be handed to them on a silver platter. When I got my first job, I was given my brother's 84 Dodge Omni to drive around and I was damn happy to have it. These "entitlement" assholes get showroom Mustang GTs, Nissan xTeras, and the like.

Do a search of people on MySpace in the 18 to 26 bracket. I guarandamnteeyou that at least 85% of all profiles on MySpace are shit heads in this demo. Further, about 50% of those drive H3s, Range Rovers, etc. and live in 3/4 million dollar homes with their rich parents and Scruffy, the dog.


Enough!

[Hoosier Daddy]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/ ... tpop_story

I forgot how to imbed the video. Watch it. Priceless, and oh-so On Target.

From CBSnews.com

[Big Media]

Here's another damn article, which just pissed me off.

When will these ass hats get their reality slap?

http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/05/ ... workplace/

[AmpedNow]

Time to have a little fun here...

1. We’ll Hold Only Productive Meetings
Meetings are important, sometimes. A good meeting will pull everyone to the same page while motivating them to get the work done. It’s rare when that should take more than 30 minutes. Efficiency is the name of the game with Gen Y. We know that a drawn out meeting really means, “we have no idea what we’re doing,” and these time suckers actually halt productivity and stifle creativity, the qualities that they were supposed to encourage. As soon as Gen Y is running the show, watch wasted meeting time drop dramatically.

Yeah. Just expect everyone to know exactly what to and the goals of the company at all times. Yeah.

2. We’ll Shorten the Work Day
The work day is eight hours. Or so they say. A real work day for most of us, if you include the commute, lunch, breaks and maybe dinner, is at least 10 hours. But how many hours of the day are actually spent doing real work? I would guess about half. To truly balance work and life, you cannot mess around and waste time at the office. Gen Y knows this. We’re productivity machines; we will figure out how to get as much done in six to seven hours as the average boomer does with his eight.

Hey, if they can manage this, I'm all for it.

Until some wise guy figures out that they can now get six days work in five.

/wet blanket

3. We’ll Bring Back the Administrative Assistants
Back in the day, nearly everyone had a secretary. These days, you have to be a CEO or high level executive for a Fortune 500 company to have an assistant. Sure, this saves the company a ton, but Generation Y won’t stand for it much longer. We recognize the value of time. Two extra hours per day not filing papers and mailing checks adds up to over 500 extra hours per year that we can spend with family and friends. Even if it comes out of our own pocket, Gen Y will cough up the extra dough to get a part time or virtual assistant.

This, I must see...

4. We’ll Redefine Retirement
Retirement is dead. It’s dead for a number of reasons, including the issues with social security and middle class America’s inability to save any money. But Gen Y will figure out how to save money to retire–we’re already demanding 401K’s and excellent benefits. However, we will re-invent retirement by taking multiple mini retirements instead of calling it quits a few years before its time to croak. Maybe in our late twenties we’ll take a few months just to travel the world. Then, as we approach parenthood and our kids grow up, we’ll take a year off to enjoy time with our family. Then we’ll return to work, refreshed and ready to go. When we hit 65, it will be the new 45 and we’ll have a solid 15 to 20 years left before we take our final, very brief, mini retirement.

It's great that they are taking saving money far more seriously than us Xers did. But the Boomers had the original idea of redefining retirement. They are just modifying it.

5. We’ll Find Real Mentors
Gen Y is obsessed with career development. We understand the importance of great mentors and we seek them out. The problem is that many older workers weren’t effectively mentored and they don’t always know how to mentor Gen Y. When it’s Gen Y’s turn to be senior mentors, we’ll know how. As we seek mentors now we’ll learn what works and what doesn’t. And from the time we enter the workforce until the time we’re senior employees, the smartest Gen Yers will figure out how to mentor up. We will teach our older co-workers about new technologies and the power of online communities, and they will respond kindly by guiding us through the insane office politics that exist everywhere.

Geez. First, out parents accuse us of being a bunch of apathetic slackers. And now the Y'ers are accusing us of being too stupid to teach any skills and values to them.

Lovely.

X'ers get the shaft again.

6. We’ll Restore Respect to the HR Department
Ten years ago, human resources got no respect. Today, companies are just beginning to see the importance. Gen Y recognizes that people make the company successful. Maybe it’s not tangible and maybe it’s not easy to see the direct ROI on keeping people happy, but happy people create successful organizations. All you need to do is take a look at Google, the company that’s quickly taking over the world, to see that happy people are successful people and successful people make a lot of money for themselves, and for the company. HR is not a cost center, its vital to the bottom line.

I agree here.

7. We’ll Promote Based on Emotional Intelligence
For some reason, companies assume that when you pay your dues and you know the business, you can be a manager. They’re wrong. The truth is that seniority does not make a good manager. People skills make a good manager. By the time Gen Y is running the world, we will be smart enough to promote people to managers because they can manage, not because they’ve worked for ten years. For managers, personal work must come a distant second to developing employees both personally and professionally. If you can’t help others, you don’t deserve a promotion to manager and you will be left behind.

Again, I agree with this approach. Seniority is often abused.

But good luck with changing the way things are.

8. We’ll Continue to Value What Our Parents Have to Offer
Sure, Gen Xers can laugh about it now, but Gen Yers respect our parents, and our parents are interested in every part of our lives, even when we’re 30. Don’t be surprised to see Gen Y employees giving their parents a tour of the office and calling up mom and dad for a little advice on their lunch break. It’s not about being babied or refusing to grow up, it’s about a level of mutual respect that Gen Y has for our parents and our parents have for us. My mother is coming to visit in a couple weeks, and guess what our plan for the day is? A tour of the office and a couple hours of work for each of us before we go out and do the tourist thing.

Oh, gee. Again, Gen X doesn't respect their elders or care about anything.

IMO, helicopter parents do their children a disservice. But, this topic deserves its own thread.

9. We’ll Enjoy Higher Starting Salaries
Sure, Gen Y is interested in volunteering, putting a halt to global warming and all that other good stuff, but we’re not our idealist parents. We watched our parents get laid off and we know that companies look out for themselves, so we do the same. Gen Yers will gladly accept a higher starting salary than promises of raises and promotions that we may never see. Additionally, all we have to do is go to Payscale.com or some other site to find out what the average starting salary is. Then we will ask for more, and we’ll probably get it, because we know we can get it elsewhere if your company won’t give it to us.

Isn't the internets great? Whether it's buying a new car, or knowing how much to ask for at a new job, the internets are there to tell us.

10. We’ll Re-invent the Performance Review
Semi-annual or annual performance reviews do not work. Gen Y wants constant feedback. If we’re only at a company for two years, we cannot wait for our one year review to find out how we’re doing. Gen Y will invent the on-the-spot performance review. The smartest companies will train their managers in giving frequent feedback, and the companies that don’t will get a quick reality check when their Gen Y employees demand them. Spot reviews lead to consistent improvement, and consistent improvement is what truly matters to Generation Y.

Teach us, wise ones. We have epically failed you. Hark! the Failboat is coming for us now. We will keep listening to Nirvana and not care about you anymore.

Later.

[cgarison]

Funny... $hi+ hit the fan at the office today. The gen y'ers left because they had stuff to do. THe Gen X'ers postponed their evening plans, rolled up their sleves and made the problem go away in 4 hours of overtime.

Yea, Gen Y'ers get pissed when meetings run long or when we plan a group activity for fun and team building. That is fine. It is the work hard-play hard Gen Xers that make the squeeze plays that keeps the business running in a pinch.

[Lester]

That's my thing... let the little f*ckers "walk off"... once they're out of money, they'll be back. WTF?

[fearpeddler]

I'm still not sure who i despise more, Gen-Y or the Boomers.....

[herdgirl72]

The article is dead on. We've often discussed the "entitlement" generation on this board. Those ass-hats who think everything should be handed to them on a silver platter. When I got my first job, I was given my brother's 84 Dodge Omni to drive around and I was damn happy to have it. These "entitlement" assholes get showroom Mustang GTs, Nissan xTeras, and the like.

Do a search of people on MySpace in the 18 to 26 bracket. I guarandamnteeyou that at least 85% of all profiles on MySpace are shit heads in this demo. Further, about 50% of those drive H3s, Range Rovers, etc. and live in 3/4 million dollar homes with their rich parents and Scruffy, the dog.


Enough!

Get off my lawn...damn whippersnappers!!

[Big Media]

The article is dead on. We've often discussed the "entitlement" generation on this board. Those ass-hats who think everything should be handed to them on a silver platter. When I got my first job, I was given my brother's 84 Dodge Omni to drive around and I was damn happy to have it. These "entitlement" assholes get showroom Mustang GTs, Nissan xTeras, and the like.

Do a search of people on MySpace in the 18 to 26 bracket. I guarandamnteeyou that at least 85% of all profiles on MySpace are shit heads in this demo. Further, about 50% of those drive H3s, Range Rovers, etc. and live in 3/4 million dollar homes with their rich parents and Scruffy, the dog.


Enough!

Get off my lawn...damn whippersnappers!!

Yeah! And pull your damn pants up! Buy a belt!


Seriously, I wonder how many of these bitches have even started a lawn mower?

[Cameron]

Are any of these bastards old enough for Iraq yet?

Seems like the tree needs a ' prunin'.

[Big Media]

OMFG! You will not believe this one:

http://wtfurls.com/videos/305/unapologe ... girl-scout




Can't embed this one. Sorry.

[cgarison]

I'm still not sure who i despise more, Gen-Y or the Boomers.....

Boomers. The sold out our country and shipped the manufacturing and tech support jobs overseas.

What is sad. I have helped move departments at work off shore not because the company wants to. It is due to the fact that Gen Y'ers won't do the hard work of processing cash transactions in our department. As attrition naturally whittled 1 department down from 8 (18 months ago) to 3 in April 2008, the only option we had was to offshore the process because Gen Y'ers did not want to perform the work. In fact, it costs the company more money to outsource/off shore any of these tasks than perform the job in house.

When I talk to colleagues at other companies with similar departments (including my former co-workers at the Swastica HQ), they are having a hard time getting Y'ers to come to work for the slave wages that X'ers were paid to get their start in the business world. But, I am hoping to get a trip to AOL HQ in Dulles, VA this fall to find ways to cut costs and stream line the processes. This was a cost-cutting measure a few years ago. Now, it is survival with a lack people willing to fill entry level jobs.

[lastone]

WHERE THE F*** IS THE DRAFT WHEN WE NEED IT #@$#@ !!

[Big Media]

WHERE THE F*** IS THE DRAFT WHEN WE NEED IT #@$#@ !!

The parents of these assholes are 90% of the problem. Having said that, Mommy or Daddy would gladly go to Iraq if Junior gets drafted. Junior can't sleep until noon if he is trying to fight a war.

[Jay Nunley]

Every generation hates the next.

Gen Y is the culmination of a half century of douchebaggery, consumerism, and behemothic selfishness. I hate them at the celluar level.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Getting old sucks ass.