Generational Differences: Millenials vs. Everone Else

[Wife of Bath]

This thread will admittedly cater to the Americans, but of course all are welcome to join.

Do you have strong opinions about Millenials? What attributes would you use to describe the Millennials in your life? In the event that you have Millenials in the workplace, how would you describe their contribution?

For the purpose of this discussion, Millenials are defined as the generation born after 1982 and before the year 2000.

Ugh: the poll name should be 'with which generation do you identify'. I'm tired.

 

[Saint Peter]

Punks!

 

[butters]

This thread will admittedly cater to the Anericans, but of course all are welcome to join.

Do you have strong opinions about Millenials? What attributes would you use to describe the Millennials in your life? In the event that you have Millenials in the workplace, how would you describe their contribution?

For the purpose of this discussion, Millenials are defined as the generation born after 1980 and before the year 2000.

i'd say they're pretty much as any generation before them

some are very switched on and cool/smart
some are happy and a peasure to be around even if they're not so bright
some are woe-is-me types
some are out and out arseholes

i'm glad to say most are way more inclusive of diversity in all walks of life than their counterparts from a few generations back, more aware of the rights of people/animals/conservation/the planet and the bullshit of politics

and they ALL pretty much think they know everything, invented everything, and will save the world (if they're not the 'the world is entirely doomed already' ones) - just like all of us before them.

 

[Real_American17]

i'm glad to say most are way more inclusive of diversity in all walks of life than their counterparts from a few generations back

Claiming that it is a strength is false.

more aware of the rights of people/animals/conservation/the planet and the bullshit of politics

They are the most ignorant of politics and rights.

They are nothing but violent thugs that think their feelings are the most important thing.

They should all be executed. Well... maybe have a trial or something since I am technically a Millennial too. But 99% of them should be burned to death.

They have taken the worst of previous generations with no redeeming qualities.

 

[butters]

Claiming that it is a strength is false.

They are the most ignorant of politics and rights.

They are nothing but violent thugs that think their feelings are the most important thing.

They should all be executed. Well... maybe have a trial or something since I am technically a Millennial too. But 99% of them should be burned to death.

They have taken the worst of previous generations with no redeeming qualities.

certainly seems to fit you

but then i covered you in my post under 'arseholes'

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's a bell curve, but they are, by all indications, one of the least educated groups of people when it comes to history and science.

Furthermore, I think this is a purposeful outcome from the Governmental-Educational Complex to deny a firm intellectual foundation that would allow resistance to social-justice engineering.

 

[RobDownSouth]

It's a bell curve, but they are, by all indications, one of the least educated groups of people when it comes to history and science.

Furthermore, I think this is a purposeful outcome from the Governmental-Educational Complex to deny a firm intellectual foundation that would allow resistance to social-justice engineering.

Yes, yes, Chief, we all know you never pass a chance to mount your soapbox and yell

EDUCATION BAD!

 

[pointless]

man, people born in '43 and '44 must be a real bunch of assholes.

 

[richard_daily]

This thread will admittedly cater to the Americans, but of course all are welcome to join.

Do you have strong opinions about Millenials? What attributes would you use to describe the Millennials in your life? In the event that you have Millenials in the workplace, how would you describe their contribution?

For the purpose of this discussion, Millenials are defined as the generation born after 1982 and before the year 2000.

Ugh: the poll name should be 'with which generation do you identify'. I'm tired.

As a whole, I find them lacking their own style, typically self-centered, and quite vapid.

There are exceptions to this, but I think I honestly think the internet broke them.

 

[pete]

gen x should be broken up - an almost 20 year span can create huge differences between the earlier and later births.

as regards millennials, some of them have really impressed me with their creativity and fresh viewpoints.
but a great many of them are very disappointing: they're very entitled, haughty and petulant. many of them lack a solid work ethic, put themselves above their employer.

 

[pointless]

generations as a rule generally last two decades. and of course there are people born on the cusp one way or the other, but the dates are just rough guesses anyway.

and the millennial one is actually kinda fucked because they felt the need to shoehorn it into the turn of the century just because.

 

[RobDownSouth]

man, people born in '43 and '44 must be a real bunch of assholes.

Since all the real Muricans were overseas fightin' the Hun, the '43 and '44 were mostly Bastards.

 

[nerfhearder]

They're like every generation before them and like every one that will come afterwards.

 

[Porkwarrior]

Millenials can....

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gpllOYQ-gr8/hqdefault.jpg


Too many reasons to list in only 500 words, but in a nutshell, mostly because of this shit.

http://youtu.be/ptvTVAE5Wx8

 

[pointless]

yep. fucking millennials and their love of shitty beef stew.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Too many reasons to list in only 500 words, but in a nutshell, mostly because of this shit.

http://youtu.be/ptvTVAE5Wx8

LOL that's good shit....


But hipster douche bag isn't a millennial thing.

 

[Porkwarrior]

yep. fucking millennials and their love of shitty beef stew.

Goes well with PBR. And microgreen garnished mac & cheese. Only organically grown free range farm to table mac & cheese mind you.

 

[nerfhearder]

Goes well with PBR. And microgreen garnished mac & cheese. Only organically grown free range farm to table mac & cheese mind you.

You don't get to bitch about anyone or anything if you drink Pabst. It's made from unfiltered water from the nearest sewage treatment plant. True story.

 

[y=mx+b]

Millenials

Over privileged.
Under qualified.

 

[Saint Peter]

Over privileged.
Under qualified.

This.

 

[Wings]

Oy. What a bunch of old fuddy-duddies.

Who do you think raised the millennials?

If you don't like how they act you have no one to blame but yourself.

 

[Paul_Chance]

I like the millennials that I know personally. I find them to be bright, inquisitive, and very diverse. Some of them seem to have led sheltered lives - but that is true of any generation, there are always some folks who win the birth lottery.

My coworkers and clients out of that generation seem to have an inherent grasp of technology lacking in the older generations (and since I work in the tech industry that's a big plus) and to a fault they're overachievers.

As neighbors and friends they seem to be good folks, though I live in a working class neighborhood and they represent a solid cross-section - a carpenter and his wife, a teacher, a USMC vet now working for UPS and his wife, an insurance broker, and a wonderful young couple struggling to start careers in music production.

I see the stereotypes on TV and portrayed in the media, but I've never met anyone who from the millennial generation who matched the stereotype.

 

[doctor_insanus]

Why are we singling out Millennials?

Every one of those generations was shit.

They've inherited the world we've left them.

 

[Real_American17]

...

One more troll for the oven...

*IGNORED*

 

[pointless]

Oy. What a bunch of old fuddy-duddies.

Who do you think raised the millennials?

If you don't like how they act you have no one to blame but yourself.

well, i can blame society.

and consumer capitalism.

and you can't blame me for those.