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This article should have started and ended here. Millennials are doing whatever they can to make their jobs look like their homes with all of the drinking, partying and drama. Then they advertise it as something cool that every company ought to be doing. I don't know how anybody sees this as a good thing.
The most telling part is the quote about "strong personal brands". Every millennial should consider their current job as a 2-3 year stepping stone to their next one.
I'm curious to know if anyone has any comments on how the Big-4 (google, facebook..) handles their employees 'millennial-ness'. I certainly feel like they must be more strict, but I can only speculate.
What I'm really interested in seeing is a workplace entirely run by Capricorns. I've never seen evidence that Millennials exist as a group at all. Is it a negative horoscope published once a decade?
So, yes, don't be surprised that they behave as a group.
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According to Wikipedia[1], Millennials are those born between 1980 and 2000. That would make a 16 year old barely a Millennial. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
It would make me a millenial as well and I'm 35. Seems like a strange unit when you have a range from 16 to 35, I don't have a lot in common with the average 18 year old any more.
"Hence there are office conversations held on Twitter, and the blurring of personal and professional boundaries, such as when Mr. Altchek broadcast his dental examination on Periscope, a live streaming video app."
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It would make me a millenial as well and I'm 35. Seems like a strange unit when you have a range from 16 to 35, I don't have a lot in common with the average 18 year old any more.
Yea, the 2 decade generational period seems a bit long considering the increased speed of development of the technological infrastructure cycle which results in vastly different experiences. A 35 year-old grew up with dial-up internet emerging, while a 16 year-old grew up and everyone had cellphones.
First PC though not first computer was 1Mhz with 640Kb RAM.
Generational shift is vast, Moores law has been kind!
The subtler things count more. The no tolerance policies are reflected in the SJW silence-everything philosophies. The overly-aggressive anti-bullying campaigns resulted in a "go to a teacher in the case of any conflict" approach and is reflected in millenials who demand to be policed — most prevalent in universities, but also found elsewhere. The restrictions and omnipresent supervision inspired by overly-intrusive laws and liability precedents. The mantras repeated to children from birth "it's OK to be different", "be yourself", "you can be anything you want to be" can be seen in the "personal brands" that millenials create — brands that they live in all parts of their lives, not just as a mask when they need to charm someone.
I'm not saying that all these things are regressions: older generations have as much bullshit to offer, but we're used to their bullshit. But millenials think that they're creating a culture that liberates them from their parents' bullshit, but their dogma is just as bad.
Tangential, but what exactly makes someone a millenial these days? I was almost expecting a newspaper run by 16 year olds with that title, but that's obviously not the case. Is anyone under thirty a millennial now?
According to Wikipedia[1], Millennials are those born between 1980 and 2000. That would make a 16 year old barely a Millennial. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
I'm not seeing anything surprising here. At many small companies, the employees will feel comfortable being frank with their CEO, especially if that CEO is around their age. It's definitely not surprising that a startup with an open office environment and a CEO who addresses the hundred 20-something-year-old employees directly in Q&A meetings would generate a culture where someone would directly tell the CEO that the…