Check this out: With Millennials/Gen-Y entering the workplace, managers are starting to feel the effects of over-involved Boomer parents. Like, say, after Johnny gets a not-so-glowing performance review, Johnny's mom calls his boss: "The best way to motivate Johnny is not through negative feedback!" reprimands Mom. That isn't going to fly in this company, you might say, but guess what, this is your new workforce (born between '79-2000). So you're going to have to learn deal with it.
This is a generation has has been advocated for since their moment of birth, has had no line drawn between parents and kids, and has no fear about questioning anything or anyone. What kinds of shocking behavior have you seen from this new crop of talent (or their parents)? Has your company -- or have you heard of companies that have -- found a creative way to deal with it? Or is restructuring their organization to harnass some of the positive qualities (collaboration, etc.)?
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September 6, 2007 at 4:00pm by Chris
Horrible and pathetic the way the 20 something Generation treat the Gen-Xer's and The Babyboomer's they definitely need an attitude adjustment!..I just can't believe there this rude when you deal with them in a restaurant! I swear I had to wait freaking 23 minutes for my meal and I just paid for the drink and left but that lady's attitude was ridiculous! I told her I didn't like that I had to wait that long for a meal.And then she said this "Whatever!" That crabby bitch!..Omg what is the world becoming there worse then my generation was I will tell you that! If we ever spoke the way she did! I would have been fired right on the spot!..But I can say that these young kids and adults are the spoiled rotten generation.Pathetic the way the parents raised these kids to adults! Shame on you parents!
September 10, 2007 at 4:56pm by PCP
I am a Boomer (childless, thank god) and I have to say the Boomers have created this Gen Y problem. They gave their kids everything they didn't have (or had to work for) and as a result I have wonderful, educated, upwardly mobile Boomer friends/colleagues with heroin-addicted kids, slacker kids and one with a 15-year old drug dealer kid in the most upscale neighborhood in our metropolitan city. How the heck can you be a drug dealer and not even have a drivers liense? Moving on ...
My favorite is the friend who goes up to the (expensive private) school every time her kid gets looked at crooked. She never works with the kid to deal with the problem ... she goes up there like a grizzly bear and takes it on herself. The teacher didn't praise her kid enough. The teacher didn't adore her kid enough. Or whatever.
Then the kid gets some goofball school assignment and my friend goes home and does it for her. I suppose the kid watches the mom and that counts or something. This is a brilliant 50-ish woman, an executive with a company everyone of you has patronized, and yet she doesn't even let the kid live her own life. She lives it for her. I am amazed at this stuff. My fellow boomers can complain all they want about Gen Y, but they are the Dr. Frankensteins (sp?) of that generation!!!
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