How snowflake millennials are INFURIATING their senior colleagues

[the game]

This is an interesting read and I believe millennials will do well to read it and take what it says to heart. The work place is a place to work. Not socialize or screw around. I've highlighted a couple of passages in the article.

The millennial generation are not to blame for their entitled and self-aggrandising behaviour – that’s the fault of their parents and upbringing.

What the millennials can do, however, is to adapt their behaviour and modify their instincts to get on and progress in the workplace.

So, Generation Y, I present you with some immediate suggestions and improvements you can make, starting today.

Know your place!

You may have been captain of the rugby team at school, a pretty big deal with your university’s social committee; your parents may be oozing with pride for you, but, millennials, when you join a firm in a graduate position you are bottom of the pile.

Get used to it or get out.

You’ll rise through the ranks in due course, but do not enter the work environment thinking or behaving like you are still a BNOC. You need to start over and prove yourself from scratch.

Sorry, it’s not all about you.

Shake it off

How many of the top tier of business men and women – even your own firm’s CEO – swan in to the first meeting of the day with their takeaway designer coffee or healthy green shake they’ve just picked up to power-up their morning? None.

These props add no cachet and mean nothing to non-millennials – they just think you’re a fairly tedious poseur.

Stop messing about!

Fancy pranking your colleague and filming it for your Instagram or Snapchat story? Sounds fun, right? Yes, it does. If only someone was paying you to do that. Thing is, there aren’t. They are paying you to work.

Do not succumb to using the workplace to fuel the amusement of your social media followers with unprofessional antics.

Crossing the line

Office ‘banter’ is not a human right.

One employer recently shared with me the tale that one of their graduate intake had given some feedback during their end of year appraisal that they’d like to improve the office banter. The employer admitted that this person’s card was then marked.

Camaraderie in an office is healthy – it helps bond a team – but this is not an extended stag do, or a night out with ‘the girls’. Keep the banter dial turned down to low. Or to off: off is an option, too.

Deadlines: mother’s not here to help now

As obvious as this sounds, millennial minions, if your line manager gives you a task to complete by a certain date you must complete it by that date.

This isn’t school where you can go running to a parent to write in to explain how much stress you are under to buy you some more time. This is grown-up life now.

Grow up and apply yourself.

Don't take this as negative feedback for millennials. Take it as a learning experience.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...G-seniors.html

[Snuke]

Anyone who starts their advice with "know your place" doesn't know their place.

[Deleted]

Projecting much?

[Deleted]

"Know your place" lmao.

[Deleted]

You're right.

The Daily Mail is a learning experience.

[alexw]

This is an interesting read and I believe millennials will do well to read it and take what it says to heart. The work place is a place to work. Not socialize or screw around. I've highlighted a couple of passages in the article.



Don't take this as negative feedback for millennials. Take it as a learning experience.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...G-seniors.html

Lol. The daily mail which is read pretty much exclusively by the over 65's. Its also basically right-wing reactionary trash. So no its not an interesting read. Its nowhere even close to it.

[Rukh]

Kids these days, amirite

[cubby]

I have a friend who owns a small marketing company and she is continually baffled by the entitled nature of fresh college graduates. While I think some of the phrasing could be rearranged, the point isn't entirely invalid.

[Swalload]

What is this? Rofl

I'm usually one to jump on the bandwagon of hatred of millenials but this article is shit lol. It's so generalizing and it's like the writer has no idea how different a workplace can be from one industry to the other. This is so close minded I don't know why it made its way on MMOC... oh wait

[cubby]

Lol. The daily mail which is read pretty much exclusively by the over 65's. Its also basically right-wing reactionary trash. So no its not an interesting read. Its nowhere even close to it.

I agree with the sourcing, took me a minute to shake it off, but the point . . . .

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All of those things sound sensible to me.
Can anyone tell me how a greenhorn can suddenly perform and provide as much as seasoned veterans in the same company?

[Dougie Cooper]

Speaking as a millennial who works in an office full of millennials, including a good portion of the management team, my own personal experience tells me that we're some of the hardest working people out there. We don't want hand-outs, we just want to be treated well and compensated fairly for the work we're doing. Again though, just from my experience. I'm sure there are lazy millennials out there.

Really tired of people bashing this generation though. It's all a bunch of broad generalizations and "old man yelling at clouds" because many of us want to change the status quo and be treated like, I dunno, human beings with respect and dignity.

Also going to echo the "lol Dailymail" sentiment.

[cubby]

Kids these days, amirite

Lol, then there is this. Which is what I think the older generation always says about the younger.

[Snorkles]

Sounds like someone is jealous that a 20 something has enough self worth to not be a pushover.

[JohnBrown1917]

lol generalizing

[CostinR]

Know your place indeed.

People wonder why millennials have no respect for the older generations, maybe it's because we millennials keep getting told suck it up like this.

[Deleted]

"We don't want to be treated like crap" suddenly turns into "self-entitled millenials", good god, old people.

[Mayhem]

Lol, then there is this. Which is what I think the older generation always says about the younger.

Well yeah, kind of hard the other way around. ^^

[Fencers]

So 60-70 year old's are upset with 30 year old's.

What a crazy world we live in, right?

[Dougie Cooper]

So 60-70 year old's are upset with 30 year old's.

What a crazy world we live in, right?

Every older generation has hated younger generations since the beginning of time, it's true. That doesn't mean it's not irritating as all hell and that we should just lie down and take it.