I speak with a lot of military people and the vast majority of those who are getting dirty and dusty taking the fight to the world's evil are millennials, and I'd say they are very wonderful men and women. Like every young military service member, the current millennials (as are most employed people) are lead by a progressively older group of people that span most the living generations, and the military is a great example of how awesome birds, with awesome feathers, flock together.

Millenials will make great advances and will also screw some things up, just like the generations before them. Millenials have grown up with more information at the tip of their fingers because of previous generations. "Greatest" generation is relative.

While true, the majority of these young shits seem far more emotionally fragile (relationships), desensitized (to violence or the general wretchedness of man), self-absorbed, entitled, and lack focus.

At the risk of sounding like a liberal, I think other generations can take credit for those who fit that description. Some of us worked very hard to strike a balance.

I've criticized Millenials quite a bit; maybe I should refrain from that. or I should be more specific. I have a low opinion of Millenial hipsters, youtube "stars" and social justice advocates. the rest are alright, I guess.

They're the result of the change in teaching. People thought that hurting a child's ego or breaking their will did more damage than good. This is when spanking your child basically became a crime, and everyone started getting trophies just for participating. We're no longer hurting children's feelings, but we're raising children who grow up feeling entitled.

It always cracks me up to hear people bitch and whine about the character of a generation THEY RAISED!

Our DNA isn't changing. Everything you dislike about this generation is a consequence of a society YOUR generation cultivated.

If you think they're entitled, that's because gen X allowed them to walk all over them as kids and as young adults.

What we should be talking about is the apathetic parenting of generation X. You allow TV to raise kids, and then act shocked when their values do not match up with yours. You have kids so accustomed to isolation that there is a shocking amount of video game addicted chronic masterbators with no interest in women. You allow them to put themselves into massive debt and peddle them off to universities and never even discuss with them college plans and career goals, leading to loads of kids with a bad degree, lots of debt, and no earning power. Gen X parents love to take the 'just let them make their own mistakes' style, which is just horseshit. IT's just laziness. Pure laziness. People would rather make more money to buy more stuff than spend time with their kids. A generation of parents who would capitulate to a spoiled brat because it was easier than correcting their behavior.

No generation before gen X pawned off more of their parenting on others, and now you guys just never stop bitching about the results. If you're going to wring your hands about that entire generation as a collective, why don't you look at your own generation collectively as well and maybe climb a few floors down off of that ivory tower?

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In Re: Boomers broke it!
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I feel it's always a mixed bag.

The new generations always want to leave an impact, make a change, but they always throw a lot of babies out with the bathwater.

The guy could have just nailed himself to a cross and saved me the time and effort of reading that self aggrandizing nonsense.

Let me sum it up for those who don't have the time:

Baby boomers are responsible for everything bad. Generation X is responsible for everything good.

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i've worked for the same company for almost 34 years. when i first started, i know i was pretty forceful in giving my thoughts & opinions on how things should be done. now i just come to work, keep my ****in head down and give them 8 quality hours. hopefully, i can go home and not get called back out.

times change, the company changes, so i either change or move on somewhere else. i'd rather change, for now.

i've watched the younger people get hired...most are talented as hell. some are pretty forceful in giving their thought & opinions on how things should be done. full circle, i guess.

in time, the younger become the older and maybe become a little more open minded. it's up to them.

as far as bonuses...idgaf. just pay me what's in the contract and i'm good.
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The ways some teach astounds me. Sometimes, kids need to hear no. Sometimes, their feelings need to be hurt. Its ok.

It is one of the reasons why everyone get so damn offended by the simplest/stupidest things. Free speech is dead.

we are starting to hire millenials in teaching.Most are doing ok. But a few don't understand why they don't get perks, benefits, bonuses. It is just not something that happens in education. You do get evaluated. A lot. When kids don't listen, they can understand. It takes time, discipline, work. Some don't do that.

Then when a kid tells them to F off-they cry, and want to quit.

I work in a tough building. I have seen more young people quit in the last 3 years then I ever have. They are blowing through vacation time and can't figure out why it is gone. Some just are not cut out for teaching.

My wife works in a heavy millennial office environment. She's a director in her 40's with a 28 year old VP as a boss. Her performance feedback goes like not being active enough on the interoffice social media platform, not giving enough publicly viewed kudos to people on the interoffice social media platform, and not participating in enough company encouraged after work social events (ie getting wasted and ****ing each other). It definitely seems to have shifted to an office culture perception (it's a lot of fun to work here, right? RIGHT?!) from a results driven work environment that our generation is used to. Fortunately we don't have kids so we can talk as much shit as we want.