It’s a millennial workforce now

Oh boy, this is going to be interesting.

The more interesting question is how this changes things politically?

Well, by the common definitions Millennials are now between the ages of 26-41 and Gen X is now 42-57. So yeah, those 2 groups make up the bulk of working adults. How is this news?

Paywalled

R4:

Millennials enter middle management!

Here is an interesting map, R3.

This is how student loan forgiveness will become an issue not about if but when.

Ermmm, hello? Did someone skip over us again? We do exist, you know?

The transfer of Millennials from who they were as youth to what they will be in middle-age is the great mystery of our time.

The baby boomers have retired.

Have they really, R11?

Back on the chain gang

It's a millennial world now, period.

Duh, really, OP? “At some point”?

Here’s something that is going to happen at no point: anyone thinking you’re a genius.

Versus what?

They didn’t plan on getting older

Good. I'll take Millennials over clueless, tech-challenged, completely out-of-touch Boomers any day.

Baby Boomers have not all retired. As a group they're notorious for assuming power early in life and never giving it up or making way for subsequent generations. They are the most selfish demographic in world history and they'll hang on to anything they have until forced to give it up. The world will be better when they're not just retired but finally dead.

A friend in academia (boomer) was interested in a new job but had to put off applying because it required a significant amount of paperwork as well as the usual curriculum vitae resume and he was busy with his current job. He wondered if he’d missed the deadline, but found out they were reposting the job because every single person who applied for it just sent their CV and ignored the other requirements. Though millennials are probably too young to be PhDs at this point…

Millennials are in their 30s right now. The oldest ones will turn 42 next year. Glance at a calendar once in a while.

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Good maybe now lot of companies will be properly managed. Boomers style of leadership is outdated and sometimes disorganized. Also boomers are tech challenged and I am hoping a more progressive work hours will be implemented in the future. Enough of the five days a week and forty hours work schedule.

[quote]Enough of the five days a week and forty hours work schedule.

Must be nice to only have to work 40 hours a week. Lots of salaried (no overtime) people in certain industries routinely work 10-12 hour days. Anything less than 50 hours a week is considered a short week. I'm not talking about those people who spend 6 hours a day doing nothing and then have to put in 4 hours of actual work to avoid getting fired. I'm talking work at an insane pace, lunch at the desk, still there at 9pm every fucking night.

I don't know why DL is obsessed by "the workforce " or "working". I find it boring AF, I have zero joy in working, and do it as rarely as I can. My joy is in spending money in antiques and nice stuff, not slaving for it.

R24 darn where do you work. It seems like you work in Amazon or some food processing factory. You must be doing hard labor.

Everyone just throws Gen X to the side, but in my org, we’re the ones doing the heavy lifting. I thought this article about Gen X in the workplace was good.

Our new Millennial overlords.

"How do you convert a PDF into a word document, again (for the thousandth time)?"

"We are doing lunch - at Outback Steakhouse."

Two things a millenial co-worker has never told me but my boomer boss has. And thank God for that.

How is this all happening so quickly?

I feel like it was just yesterday that the millennials were the little interns fetching coffees.

I was wondering why the bots were finally churning out negative Gen X posts everywhere. I thought we would be completely ignored, as has been the way since our inception.

I'm Goodfellas.

What happened to Generation X?

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.

As a Generation Jones person who has been treated snottily by some (not all) Millennials in the workforce - I welcome the advent of Gen Z in the workplace. I delight in these puppy bloodhounds nipping at their heels. As well, Millenials aren't as tech-savvy as they think they are - I've known a few who couldn't set up their work-from-home dual monitor stations and company IT had go to their homes to connect their work stations (2012-ish.)

The millennial may be the workforce but the Boomer is still sucking everything it can get. The boomer is very stock market and home price sensitive. I have been told by the boomer my whole life to Go out work hard and pay lots of taxes. The boomers are counting on you to keep them in what they deserve. Another 10 years and things might start to improve for the rest of us.

Gen X just never had the numbers.

When the last Boomer is dead the generations they birthed and cosseted will still find a way to blame them for their perceived failures. The irony is that Boomers gave their children a false sense of entitlement that the real world couldn’t provide when they became adults.

The ‘evertbody gets a prize!, philosophy couldn’t be replicated in the workplace where forever and always very few people actually get the prize. What the Boomers are gulty of is providing an unrealistic world view to children who would grow up to find that being an adult is more challenging than they ever could have imagined.

R38 is on it!

But I still need help with my PDF's!

"Everybody gets a trophy!" didn't start with Gen X, that shit started with Millennials.

Not in my office (large federal government agency). We were last popular with Gen X (my generation). Tech and gig jobs lured millennials and Gen Z away.

People come to the feds for security and stability. Millennials and Gen Z can't sit still for more than 6 months at any job. We were never a match.

While we were spared from millenials' questioning everything and Gen Z's anger over everything, we are challenged in bringing in new employees. It's tough. We are finding most success in Flyoverlandia, which I am not sure is good or bad.

Good. Now, maybe the boomers will stop being blamed. We can blame the millennials.

We look like the silent generation compared to Gen Z. You should be begging us for forgiveness btw.

*chuckles nervously and sinks in chair*

I don't get the PDF thing. I don't know anyone who has trouble opening or converting them.

[quote] The baby boomers have retired.

Not as much as they should.

[quote]It’s a millennial workforce now

As well it should be.

Millennials, for all our many faults - restless, entitled, needy - aren’t, in the aggregate, short of a work ethic. I mean we were the only generation that actually fell for that “spend a year or two at an unpaid internship” bullshit.

And for all you Gen Xers scoffing at how our boomers parents warped us with endless participation trophies and telling us that we could be anything we wanted, it’s going to be a real treat watching you guys come up for excuses for Gen Z who were raised by you to believe they never have do to anything if they don’t feel like it and are entitled to go on long-term stress leave if they are worried about climate change or someone brings a peanut butter sandwich into the break room.

Independently wealthy & not in the work force anymore.

I worked seasonal at an Amazon warehouse. Mostly millennials. Lazy af but full of hotties I want to fuck

Not to astrology-bitch, but Millennials are the Capricorn stellium + Pluto Scorpio generation. Intense workers and hustlers, compared to their Zoomer Aquarius stellium + Pluto Sagittarius counterparts.

Participation trophies started with younger Gen-Xers - those of us born in the early/mid 70's.

R9 It’s so funny because Gen X was the only generation I ever knew about. That’s all I heard as a kid was Gen X, Gen X, Gen X. There are bands and songs and albums named Gen X.

Now, no one ever talks about Gen X. So strange.

Gen X is the Phil Donahue generation. They were the first generation to realize they were being abused by their parents. “Mommie Dearest” and Oprah and talk show TV basically opened the doors for people to talk about their problems openly.

I think that’s what set the tone for the next generations.

Those wishing for the quick demise of Boomers will soon become embittered -- while they're wishing away their own lives -- because Boomers will be alive and VOTING and spending their money for many years to come. In fact, some Millennials will be facing their own retirement before the last of the Boomers are gone. So get on with your lives and quit looking for shortcuts and excuses.

We’re fucked

Our old boomers are all retired now but the youngest boomers are still only 58 years old and will be around for a while. I think there is a difference between the old boomers and the younger boomers. the old boomers seem cooler but I am probably biased. The oldest boomers are 76 now.

Both my parents are Boomers. One (Dad) is 64 and 'retired', but effectively quit formally working in his mid-late 50s because he's an antisocial deadbeat who can't keep a job. The other (Mom) is still working fulltime in her early 60s, and thanks to my fuckup father and the sadistic pensions office/taxman probably will have to continue to work until she's 70 or over to keep them both housed. Neither are wealthy or have white-collar careers, and both came from humble beginnings, so it's lucky they've been frugal and saved and stayed out of addiction/debt, plus got a little inheritance from their parents (I will get no inheritance and probably no pension either, fuck knows how I'll live in middle-old age).

[quote]I mean we were the only generation that actually fell for that “spend a year or two at an unpaid internship” bullshit.

R49 displays his generation's characteristic lack of awareness of history prior to 1995, or anything not directly related to the limited experiences of Millennials alone. I'm Gen X and everyone I went to college with was expected to work at an unpaid internship as an undergrad. This was not a new thing in 1989, either.

The older boomers are def cooler than the younger Boomers or Generation Jones or whatever they're called. Hippies vs Wall Street Yuppies

I agree with R60 and the younger generation's ignorance of anything prior to 1995. How could they not be when they didn't experience it or they believe the self-congratulatory reminiscences of some Boomers that are 80% wishfulness. R61 comment is a perfect example. "Hippies vs Wall Street Yuppies" never existed. Hippies were a tiny fraction of older Boomers, and many older Boomers went straight from college to Wall Street. No generation is just one thing or the other.

I'm a 50-year-old Gen Xer. I still forget that millennials aren't the youngest generation in the workforce. Lol. Millennials can be 40+ which seems crazy to me. I think it's because I don't work with any Gen Z coworkers and never have (yet?).

My Boomer boss is 62, wealthy, and still insists on working even though he could retire tomorrow and live like a king. He's stuck in the 80s and completely out of date on EVERYTHING. Don't even get me started on his lack of tech skills, basic MS Word functions continue to elude him.

And then you have the Boomer women who are still hanging on, and also stuck in the 80s. Absolute cunts who think in order for a woman to be successful in a corporate environment she has to take on all the worst personality traits of men. Nightmares, every last one of them. I always feel like saying to them "the 80s are long over bitch, you can stop pretending you're Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl."

[quote]And for all you Gen Xers scoffing at how our boomers parents warped us with endless participation trophies and telling us that we could be anything we wanted,

Tons of Gen Xers also have Boomer parents, esp. those of us who are later Xers.

Boomers in particular come in many flavors and it's telling that the usual definition actually refers to the small set of upper middle class Boomers.

Broadly, you had one group that served in Vietnam, got married while still in their early 20s, were never hippies, settled down in blue collar jobs and are now the grandparents of adults.

You had another, smaller group, albeit the one that everyone focuses on, that were hippies and went to college in the 60s, were young singles in the 70s, yuppies in the 80s, helicopter parents in the 90s and in 2022 are the grandparents of toddlers.

For every Boomer who was a hippie and liberal, there were 1000 Boomers in small towns who did exactly what was expected of them and never participated in the culture of the 60s and 70s. The former group of Boomers are the ones that have always had the spotlight on them, but the latter group of Boomers are much, much more numerous in numbers.

Sorry, R60, I meant that millennials were the generation that was able to be convinced to work for free after we graduated from college as an audition for an entry-level paid position, but I get that you think no one has ever had is as bad as Gen X because you were the last generation of kids that it was socially acceptable to spank.

Don't apologize to R60, R67. He has his own preconceived notions and prejudices to work through. He is not needing an apology.

The generation vs. generation troll pattern is so tiresome. Do any of you ever take a break?

We need more millennial politicians.

I’m Gen X and sandwiched between a bunch of boomers and a bunch of Gen zs. Gen Zs in my org don’t really work well to deadlines but their work is good. The Boomers I work with are just taking up space simply for the healthcare. They have nothing left to give besides complaints about the younger employees. The handful of Gen Xers are trying to steer the ship and navigate the two factions. Can’t wait to retire in 7 years, I’m over it.

"Millennials, for all our many faults - restless, entitled, needy - aren’t, in the aggregate, short of a work ethic. I mean we were the only generation that actually fell for that “spend a year or two at an unpaid internship” bullshit."

R49, no, Millenials were actually the first generation to demand to be paid for internships (which is reasonable.) Unless you were interning with KPMG, PriceWaterhouse, etc., 95% of internships were unpaid for Boomers and Gen X.

I for one welcome our millennial overlords.

[quote] It’s a millennial workforce now

Obviously

I’m 53 and member of Gen X.

My boss is a Millenial. Progressive, fair-minded, and reasonable. Prefer working with and for Millenials than Boomers.

I think the Millennials will turn this country around for the better.

Wait’ll the next generation comes along in the workplace.

Think of all the safe spaces needed. The construction costs alone will be astronomical.

Think back to the era of no cell phones or internet - and all the ways people found to waste time at work. Lol.

[quote]I meant that millennials were the generation that was able to be convinced to work for free after we graduated from college as an audition for an entry-level paid position

That's just a rephrasing of your earlier statement, and it's still wrong.