I love the millennials I've hired. Yes, they require a different style of feedback, but aside from that, they are astoundingly creative and they collaborate incredibly well. All that team building training managers used to get is not necessary with them. If you provide a good environment, they will come together and become a major force. I suppose, if they figure out how powerful that is, they may well join forces to eat me alive, but for now they are enjoying the company perks and my vocal recognition of their contributions (seriously, is it really that hard to appreciate someone? It is a good lesson, I think.)

The "greatest Generation" is shit.

This is the correct answer, though it doesn't give you a chance to bitch about something, other than worthless surveys/studies.

lol wut

Baby boomers were also the first video gamers. Without our cutting-edge efforts putting quarters into arcade games, younger generations wouldn't be enjoying their various gaming platforms today.

Amendment. Rain Man is awesome as well.

I seriously can't square this circle.

I'm technically a Boomer (born 1964, the last year) but hate being lumped in with them as I have never felt like had anything in common with the bulk of them. Same with Gen X.

It's funny about video games. I'm old enough to have pumped a ton of quarters in the early arcade machines (Frogger, Centipede, Astroids, Galaga) but mostly missed the home consoles so have never developed into much of a gamer.

I should note that I wasn't directly involved in Grenada or Panama, just to be completely transparent.

I'm one of the tailing edge boomers, so I feel like my experience was different than a lot of the leading edge people. The biggest difference in my opinion is that people my age always had a very crowded and competitive market for jobs and careers. We had a big population right in front of us that was always at the head of the line. You had to be scrappy to get jobs as a teenager and scholarships and that sort of thing.

Of course, the similarities between us and the leading edge people is that we all grew up with the impression that the world was 20 minutes from being nuked into oblivion. So we had that going for us.

http://voluntarysociety.org/conditio...livebirths.jpg

Yeah, I'm the same way. I loved board games as a kid and always thought that computers would revolutionize games and make them better. I was completely bought in on the arcade games when they first came out. But as the game consoles began developing, I completely lost interest. I think it's because the things I enjoyed about games started happening behind the scenes and I couldn't appreciate them.

Agreed with all of this.

I bet Boomer's parents thought they were a bunch of pussies too. The world changes, millennials will have a lot different rep when they hit their 40's I think.

Since we no longer get set-for-life pensions or the ability to stay at a company for our entire lives and retire, and are set with crippling student debt that outpaces every other debt, it's nice to have just something from time to time I imagine.

Angry man is angry...

Please get off the Internet they invented if they gave you nothing. You'd do well to remember that every generation has done great things, and the follow on generations make them even better.

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ROFL
right...just give me the paycheck. keep the letters.
and i never go to the company bbq, or any functions that happen on my own time.

company bbq...ROFL
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