I really enjoyed the quote that "they felt genuine pain". I was looking at some of the other quotes from various outlets and one kid said he was expecting shootings to be next. I mean, I know that's why I've outlawed sidewalk chalk in the DvlDog household. You never know when one of my little **** trophies are going to go from drawing pictures of the sun on our sidewalk to grabbing my XD45 and mowing down the noisy neighbors!
Damn and we just bought some sidewalk chalk at our house...may have to take it back or lock it up with the guns.
I was thinking about previous generations "safe zones". Here's a a safe zone for previous generations of the same age as these little delicate flowers.
Soooooo, I'm guessing you don't do a lot of work with big corporate America? Maybe I'm wrong. The reason I say that, and let me preface what I'm about to say with I'm in complete agreement with everything you just posted, but the reason why I asked that question was because it's being extended beyond college. Large corporations are actively changing the dynamics within the companies to cater to the millennial crowd. Everything from corporate office setups, to benefits, to grievance resolutions, to participation requirements in meetings. It's turned to the bizarre.
Very true. I work for a company that actively recruits millennials. It is bizarre indeed. I have two that report direct to me, very challenging to manage at times.
I'm not a millennial, but I'll take reduced expectations for meeting participation. I had someone suggest a meeting this week over something that had already been fully resolved in the email chain. The meeting request was the last message in the chain. Some people just like the sound of their own voice.
ooooooooh my goooood, they are ridiculous when it comes to collaboration. Wait to be told what to do, how to do it, and then walk around like rock stars when they get it done. Like, chill dude, you didn't cure cancer and had no original idea or thought. You basically boiled down to doing data entry for me. I've termed them the "Great Reiterators". The constant need for praise for doing the basic tenets of their job, and the one that drives me crazy most of all, their feeling of false empowerment. As in, not every idea you have is great, hell, not all of them should even be shared, and you better damn well respect the VP when he says this is way we're going to go. Their inability to recognize when the time for collaborative accomplishment and when it's time for individual achievement (foreign concept), I could go on and on.
I see nothing but hero status for each and everyone who was committed to serve. Possibly could see them in an elevated position and be readily recognizable, but the only think they wanted was to go home and their family be safe. This country had some very remarkable regular folks who did extraordinary service for the country