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When The Millennials Come Marching In

I found this video about my generation and thought it was interesting. Its almost 13 minutes long, but if you were born between 1980 & somewhere around 1995 then this video is talking about you. Take some time to watch it and the Join the Conversation with your thoughts…I’m posting mine below the video player:

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  • First of all, I don’t think you can clump and entire generation into one description. A lot has to be factored in such as upbringing, influences, education, etc…
  • On the part of the video where the business man goes off on Mr. Rogers, I totally disagree! First of all, every person is unique and special. God has made everyone different and there is no need to conform to one mold, so by saying Mr. Rogers caused all of this by telling kids they were special is a little far fetched to me! I do however believe we are a generation that does not do something because we are told to do it, we have learned to question versus to blindly comply. The problem is, many from the generation before us did not have the answers to our questions, therefore in many ways we did not comply where they apparently did, without asking questions.
  • Instead of trying to pass the blame on a decent man like Mr. Rogers, we can easily start with the parents. I am in this generation and I have some of these traits, but not a lot of them because my parents taught me differently. Parents play the largest influential role in a child’s life, so we should start there. We can blame the government, after all, they are the very source of teaching people to rely on them versus to work hard and rely on themselves. Yes many in this generation are looking for a free pass, but that wasn’t taught by Mr. R – How about our education system? We were influenced by our teachers for longer time spans than when we sat in front of the tv watching Mr. R’s program. Finally, we can look at other media outlets just as much as we can Mr. R – After all it is commercials that teach us we need something, even when we don’t and we need it now, and if you can’t afford it, go put it on a credit card.
  • Personally, I think it is ridiculous for business to even pander to people like this. Honestly, I would love to work in an atmosphere like what was shown in many of the video scenes, but by pandering to the people who are self absorbed, you are only making it worst, thus the very reason why many of my generation has the attitude and the arrogance that they have and display, they’ve been pandered to versus being taught, disciplined, and honestly roughed up a bit.

Join the Conversation: What are your thoughts on the Millennial generation? Was the video accurate or not?

Comments

  2. @KB – Blaming him allows them to ignore what has probably caused the Millennials to turn out the way many of them have.

  3. GIve me a break! I agree you can’t clump all of us together in one description. Yes, much of that which was said is the truth. And it’s embarassing!
    And I am upset at the Mr. Rodgers comment. That is not the reason people are the way they are. That’s a far reach. Mr. Rodgers was a good, kind, and decent person who loved God and wanted to be a positive influence. And as far as I am concerned he was. It’s parents and pop psycology who we should be pointing fingers at today.
    How many of the people they were talking about wanting handouts and free passes do you think were raised with spankings?

  4. dude.. its sad.. but the majority of our age bracket thinks like this. I mean some of the people I work with all they do is what they want to do when they want to do it. Sometimes i feel like I am such the minority of our generation. Because I have been working ever since i was 12. The one thing my parents taught me was I needed to work for whatever I wanted.

    As far as Mr Rogers. How the heck can they even bring him into this. I mean honestly. I barely remember what Mr Rogers said. I hightly doubt people are like “gee when I was 4 and watched Mr R. he said I was special. Man he was right” Its just craziness. What it comes down to is this…these parents stopped being parents at somepoint and wanted to be their kids friend.

    Thanks for the great post. (i think this is the longest comment Ive ever posted…LOL) OH and the Barney article. That is just INSANE.

  5. First of all, don’t touch Mr. Rogers! 🙂

    Honestly, I have been truly fascinated by studying this generation. I’m only a few years older than them but I feel the difference in the perspective. However, I have not experienced the extremes that this story indicates.

    I manage a staff of millennials, but I have had a good experience working with them. They are more tech savvy, their social networks are more complex, and they do seem to have a better perspective on balancing work and personal life. An interesting side note: I’ve discovered is that they don’t seem to mind having a female boss. They tend to be the most responsive to my leadership of all the generations that I work with.

    I would say that there probably are plenty of examples of millennials that are way too catered to, but so far I’ve had good experience working with this generation.