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    Millenials on millenials

    Saw this article on new york post and found it interesting. It was written by someone who has taken a good hard look at her generation. She makes some really good points on how to improve the millenial generation's outlook on society.

    Millennials are the worst. I should know — I am one.

    At 26, I’m stuck in the middle of the world’s most maligned, mocked and discussed age group. And I hate it. Imagine being forever lumped into a smug pack of narcissists who don’t just ignore the past, but openly abhor anyone and everything that came before them.

    “My boomer co-workers get paid more and they have no clue what Reddit is!” drones the millennial victim as the tiny violin plays. Meanwhile, baby boomers gave us, um, computers, and our major contributions to society are emojis and TV recaps.

    2016 hasn’t exactly been a banner year for the Lousiest Generation.

    First there was Talia Jane, the dopey, 25-year-old Yelp employee who was rightly fired for whining about her low salary on social media. Next came the 27-year-old Mic writer who told his boss he was taking time off for a funeral when he was actually building a tree house.

    And then entered the Sandernistas, Bernie Sanders obsessives who preached reform and inclusion by berating their closest friends and family for daring to think differently. (One post on the “Bernie or Bust” Facebook group reads, “I don’t want to be friends with you if you support Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.”)

    This is what happens when parents slap their toddler’s headshot on a birthday cake.

    Recently, a comment from a colleague hit me like a stray selfie-stick. She said, “In some ways I love being a millennial, because it’s so much easier to be better than the rest of our generation. Because they suck.” It was jarring to hear the truth so plainly stated. But she’s right. We suck. We really suck.

    Like a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, I must admit that I’m powerless to my biological age. Nonetheless I fight back every day against the traits that have come to define Gen Y: entitlement, dependency, nonstop complaining, laziness, Kardashians.

    People like me are called “old souls,” or “26-going-on-76.” We’re chided by our peers for silly things such as enjoying adulthood, commuting to a physical office and not being enamored with Brooklyn. Contentment has turned us into lepers. Or worse: functioning human beings.

    My millennial friends want me to be hopelessly nostalgic for the ’90s, obsessing over which “Saved by the Bell” character I’m most like, while ironically purchasing Dunkaroos and Snapchatting my vacant expressions for 43 pals to ignore. Or flying home for the weekend to recover from office burnout by getting some shut-eye in my pristine childhood bedroom. Thanks, but I’ll pass.

    This is my number one rule: Do whatever millennials don’t. Definite no-nos include quitting a job or relationship the moment my mood drops from ecstatic to merely content; expecting the world to kowtow to my every childish whim; and assuming that I am always the most fascinating person in the room, hell, the zip code.

    Millennials are obsessed with their brand. They co-opted the term from Apple and Xerox to be — like so many other things — all about them. “What’s your brand?,” millennial employers ask. The trouble is that a young person’s brand rarely extends beyond a screen: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube. When you meet them, they’re never quite as witty, attractive or entrepreneurial as they seem on Facebook. They’re fiction authors, spinning elaborate yarns about their fabulous lives: “The Great Cathy” or “Asher in the Rye.”

    But the truth is more like “A Tale of Two Cindys.” She’s the life of the party online, dull as dishwater in person.

    Last year, sitting at a bar in Hell’s Kitchen, a 29-year-old friend asked, “How do you just start talking to somebody you don’t know?” The best answer I could muster was, “I’m interested in other people. I like to ask them questions about themselves.” Simple, right?

    Not when your mind has been warped to believe you’re automatically deserving of others’ attention like the pope in Vatican City.

    Perhaps their messiah complex is a result of being coddled, petted and worshiped like toy poodles from infancy all the way to college. Pundits love to cite soccer participation trophies as the downfall of Western civilization — but it gets even worse.

    Last week, Hastings High School in Westchester, NY, handed out 87 commendations at its Senior Awards Ceremony. The graduation class size? 141 teens. A Reason Foundation survey found 58 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds think their own generation is entitled. Huh. Why could that be?

    The social awkwardness of 20-somethings is a problem caused by two enemies: Kanye-sized egos and smartphones. But in order to be a good networker — still the best way to secure a job — you need to stop filtering mediocre selfies with “valencia” on Instagram, look up from your device and string together a few words with strangers. Preferably, words about them.

    Too often, during a conversation, a young person’s eyes glaze over as they decide what scintillating tidbit about their brilliant selves to reveal next, be it the three days they didn’t leave their apartment, or how a study abroad experience in Portugal nine years ago shaped who they are today. News flash: Nobody cares.

    (Sorry, I just got a text from someone I’d rather be spending time with. Feel free to keep reading while I carry on a separate conversation with them.)

    The self-obsession doesn’t go down well at the office, either. Millennials make up the largest portion of the workforce. But employers are terrified of them — with good reason. They’re serial job hoppers. According to Gallup, in 2016, 21 percent of the commitment-phobes left their job after less than a year. Sixty percent are open to it. The “Where do you see yourself in five years?” question has never been more redundant, because the answer is almost definitely “Not here.”

    One friend of mine has tackled six different jobs in two years, which seems more stressful than just sticking with one less-than-perfect spot for a while. How long should any person stay in a gig? At least 18 months, according to most career experts. Think of it as binge-working.

    And once they do land their dream job as a hoverboard tester paid in wads of cash and sushi burritos? They want to work from their apartment. A US Chamber Foundation study said work-life balance drives the career choices of 75 percent of millennials. In my experience, however, the balance generally tilts toward wherever you can type pantsless.

    The situation looks bleak — but we can turn it around, millennials. Here’s how. Action item one: Stop blaming everybody. Don’t blame the big banks, don’t blame your mom, don’t blame the baby boomers, don’t blame your employer, your landlord, the economy, the Apple store, the media, the airlines, the weatherman, George R.R. Martin. By absolving ourselves of responsibility, we’ve become forever 8-year-olds, tattling on the world in hopes it will better our situation. It won’t. It will only make it crummier.

    Action item two: Stop being so insular. Many young people were shocked when Brexit won out in the UK, or when Donald Trump became the presumptive GOP presidential nominee. That’s because you’ve curated your social media accounts — where most of your interaction takes place — to be in total agreement with your opinions. But most of the world doesn’t think the way you do, which doesn’t make them bad, just different. Try empathy on for size. Befriend some dissenters. Grab a beer with them, listen to what they have to say. For once, don’t yell at them.

    Action item three: Stop waiting around for something big to happen. Getting a job is hard. Filling out a million online forms isn’t enough. Primping your LinkedIn and hoping your God-given greatness will finally be recognized by everybody else like your grandma always said it would will get you zip, zilch, zero. You need to leave your apartment, meet people, be assertive, interested, open. I’ve gotten full-time jobs by sitting at bars and dancing at wedding receptions.

    Fellow millennials, I want to like you. I really do. But you make it damn near impossible sometimes.
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    I'll go ahead and agree, it's pretty easy to look good. I show up to work on time and you'd think by my bosses reaction that I'd just cured AIDS.

    I apparently had some pretty terrible predecessors.
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    Protip for job hunting: Take a part time job while looking for something permanent. Its easier to find a job when YOU ALREADY HAVE ONE.

    Looking for a job while jobless, and being picky while doing it is a recipe for living at your parents house or on the street. Working at McDs or another fast food restaurant is not a bad deal while you look for something you actually want to do. It might take time, but hey, at least you have some money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaundiced View Post
    I'll go ahead and agree, it's pretty easy to look good. I show up to work on time and you'd think by my bosses reaction that I'd just cured AIDS.

    I apparently had some pretty terrible predecessors.
    Every generation has shit employees and people a part of said generation that have ego issues.

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    >Sees how the average working class boomer is.

    I think I'll stick to snapchat, WhatsApp, twitter, wasting my time on a video game forum and buying overpriced coffees in Starbucks.

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    There are few topics that will make me read a dissertation on a gaming forum.

    "A millennial's opinion on millennials" isn't one of them.
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    "Millennials" for whatever aspects someone thinks they all have, are a product of their parents.
    “Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
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    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

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    Nice blog post about someone who doesn't even understand what she's talking about. A lot of "my friend" and "what I think" instead of anything actually concrete, like the actual problems millennials have.

    You know like the housing and job markets being a burning dumpster fire compared to our parents.

    While simultaneously being told that we're entitled and lazy by people who worked a summer job once and bought their first house with cash, i.e the same people who ruined said markets.

    In other words, she's a perfect example of the typical "buh buh millennials r so bad you guise" drone.

    Really slinging that bait out there today mayhem008, boss off work?

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    What a nice amount of stereotypes in this flamebait post.

    Whining about millennials is so overdone. Find something else to incessantly whine about.

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    The only time I want to see "millenials on millenials" is in the title to the latest armature porno I'm watching.

    Not some wanker elitist talking about how he's so much better than everyone else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phookah View Post
    Nice blog post about someone who doesn't even understand what she's talking about. A lot of "my friend" and "what I think" instead of anything actually concrete, like the actual problems millennials have.

    You know like the housing and job markets being a burning dumpster fire compared to our parents.

    While simultaneously being told that we're entitled and lazy by people who worked a summer job once and bought their first house with cash, i.e the same people who ruined said markets.

    In other words, she's a perfect example of the typical "buh buh millennials r so bad you guise" drone.

    Really slinging that bait out there today mayhem008, boss off work?
    lol if you are college educated, then the job market is not shit. Housing probably, but I blame NIMBYs on that.

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    [insert knee jerk wanking motion here]

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    I got about 5 paragraphs in and then realized I don't care.

    Another fucking whiny ass post from a millennial about millennials.

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    Le wrong generation will always be the worst fucking take. Anyone else notice it's always millenials moaning about millenials? Or the right but they always hate young people being different from them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phookah View Post
    Nice blog post about someone who doesn't even understand what she's talking about. A lot of "my friend" and "what I think" instead of anything actually concrete, like the actual problems millennials have.

    You know like the housing and job markets being a burning dumpster fire compared to our parents.

    While simultaneously being told that we're entitled and lazy by people who worked a summer job once and bought their first house with cash, i.e the same people who ruined said markets.

    In other words, she's a perfect example of the typical "buh buh millennials r so bad you guise" drone.

    Really slinging that bait out there today mayhem008, boss off work?
    At what point in American history did someone work a summer job once and buy a house in cash ? I'm genuinely curious.
    People working 2 jobs in the US (at least one part-time) - 7.8 Million (Roughly 4.9% of the workforce)

    People working 2 full-time jobs in the US - 360,000 (0.2% of the workforce)

    Average time worked weekly by the US Workforce - 34.5 hours

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    Generational generalizations sure are valid.

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    Think I might have damaged my eyes from rolling them so much, its like when Fox news trots out a black guy to say how terrible all black people are during a segment on police shootings. Look at all these childish generalisations I can make about millennials but its fine cause I'm a millennial too! I'm so much better though since I'm a super mature one who sympathises more with the older generations who gave us President Trump and Brexit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kapadons View Post
    At what point in American history did someone work a summer job once and buy a house in cash ? I'm genuinely curious.
    More like put themselves through college. Then again houses where I live cost less than a 4 year degree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Willias View Post
    I got about 5 paragraphs in and then realized I don't care.

    Another fucking whiny ass post from a millennial about millennials.
    Quoted for fucking truth. This chick sounds like she's dissing her own generation to earn brownie points from the previous ones.

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    I think this is more the group of people the author spends time with and less millennials are an abomination. I'm right in that generation, but my circle is nothing like they described here. The only ones I really take issue with are the genuine socialist/communist people who are complaining about the system, not working, and using my tax dollars to go to doctors visits I personally couldn't afford.

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