“Found One 26 Y.O. Crying Under Her Desk”: 31 Stories About Working With Gen Z And Millennials

A great example of proper management fostering a good working environment without the need for conflict. It really isn't that difficult if people are patient and willing to see the other side's point of view.

It's both hilarious and depressing that she doesn't know what a vhs is

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LOL "perfect her eye roll"

I was about her age too when I worked as a civilian in a police precinct. I worked youth services and was a bit overwhelmed but the officers I worked with were awesome until the jelly donut incident and they all got the middle finger. Glad she got comfortable with the job. As a newbie your coworkers and management can make all the difference in the world but sometimes we're not always that lucky.😅

...and before anyone knew what happened, she had all y'all wrapped around her little finger 😎

In my circle of friends there are quite a few who didn't and don't seem to do actual parenting. When their kids act out, they are the last to do sth about it. And they're offended if another adult tells their kid off. I reckon this has been going on for a while.

And sometimes "the way it's always been done" is stupid, ineffective and superceded by changes in tech, culture, economy... Or people just accepting "the way it's done" go for years working suboptimally and underperforming because they've been forced into unsuitable working practices by inflexible elders who've spent 25 years without revisiting their assumptions.

I hired a young woman to look after my mom for after her surgery. The day after I hire her and two days before the surgery, she announces - not asks - announces she'll be on vacation starting on the day of my mom's surgery and the next 3 days after - exactly for when I needed her the most! All she kept saying was, 'I have to do what's best for ME'. I swear to god, I never want to hear that phrase again.

As a person who was raised by boomers, I will admit that my generation over-corrected and gave their kids too many rights and too much freedom. Gen Z and Alpha do indeed tend to be stubborn and obnoxious and think that everything older people say, do, and think, is wrong.

I have a team of 20 and 30 yos....I'm an older millennial but I have found that any criticism even constructive is taken as a direct attack on their character. I hate to be that old fogey but it's worse with the younger ones. Maybe they change with experience but I don't remember encountering it until more recent years and I've had people who reported to me for more than 15 years. I'm hoping it's just I didn't notice it as much before.

I had a young guy who couldn’t do his job, and we gradually tried micromanaging more and more tightly (first making tasks more explicit, then timings more explicit, then asking for updates through the day to ensure he was doing as asked) but it barely had any improvement. Trying the opposite just meant his output collapsed, and his work never improved. But I manage people 20 years ago who had the same problem, it’s just there’s fewer places to hide in my industry nowadays if you’re hopeless.

One of my millennial reports called me aggressive for saying her name when I spoke to her.

Tough s**t if they come to visit Holland then…

Omg I was just informed that our bluntness (we r over 55) isn't always appreciated & seems like aggressive behavior. When a chick 22)verbally attacks me what did she think was going to happen? I'm going to tell u like it is & if it "hurts" her feeling oh well.. Borrow a spine?

I've found this with any age group. It's typically people who don't have much emotional regulation. I'm a millennial (34) and my dad is a boomer (67). I cannot be direct with him or else he will go into a meltdown screaming I am busting his balls. I regularly talk to gen x on the phone (bank call center worker) because they have this weird aversion to the internet. And if I'm direct with them, they just don't understand anything.

Your best is not always good enough. People need to stop saying that it is.

I had an 8 year old kid I was babysitting say "you're not my mom!" to me. :) I can't imagine those words actually coming out of a grown adult's mouth. I would have laughed too. The kid got sent to his room. Sounds like that millennial needs a time out.

"You have no idea what your Best is !! " I've had to tell very bright kids

I feel we're missing some context here. If not, those are just some man children

Years ago, I had a young employee say “you are not the boss of me.” I replied that yes, I am literally the boss of you and if you have an issue with that, you will not be able to continue in this role and company.

"I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago. I was there the day music was first committed to matter."

Millennials are the hipsters that went back to buying vinyls; they know how they work.

Yeah I'm sorry but this is in fact a lie we grew up with 8 track tapes. The idea MILLENIALS don't know what a 45 is, is downright BS

Or explaining how we had to connect to other computers back in 81 and 82....you know, before an actual 300 baud modem could be found at radio shack. -- hearing people talk of how they played an old MMORPG and I just mention LoD - Lands of Devastation. An ASCII dungeon crawler/RPG found on bulletin boards in the early 80s. Seriously, ASCII art was awesome back in the day.

*laughs in shellac*

Turns out Y2K is why all the McDonalds icecream machines don't work

Well, computers and people were around before you were born.

OK, now I feel old...

Could it be your team was the result of Y2K? Gotta do something while the world is ending.

I remember that night. My babysitter(I was 11 but she was mostly there for my younger brothers) freaked out just before midnight and put us in a closet because she was afraid of power surges. I just made my brother think it was a weird new game. Thank Goodness that excuse worked...... She was 17.

Working in higher ed, I have to completely disagree. These kids are helpless without their phones, they are obese, they don't know how to answer a phone or leave a voicemail, they can't remember their SS number or even their school ID, they constantly deflect and never accept that they are responsible for their actions... I could go on all day long.