Millennial employees
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So, I've made a point of defending millennials and saying they're not that bad and us old fogies need to stop complaining about how young folks are so terrible and all.
My new hire. Masters degree in engineering. Three months in, he shows up at 11.30 when I'm not in the office, and leaves at 4.30. Doesn't listen, starts playing with his phone right in the middle of people attempting to train him, clearly doesn't give a shit.
I had a word with him about it last week, two days later he quit, giving me essentially 4 days notice, as he's been offered a defense contractor job in the mid-West. He asked for 10% pay-raise for him to stay. Er, no. I wish him "all the best in his future endeavors" (management speak for FOAD).
Sheesh.
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Was he a 1981 millenial or a 1996 millenial? Quite the range. I'm barely a millenial but considering my friend in high school got a typerwriter as a graduation gift and I didn't have a cell phone until senior year of college, I don't like being lumped in with people who can't remember the world without high speed internet (or internet at all, for that matter). Anyway.....at the minimum he should've given you two weeks out of respect. At least if you get a call as a reference you know what to say.
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@89th said in Millennial employees:
Was he a 1981 millenial or a 1996 millenial? Quite the range. I'm barely a millenial but considering my friend in high school got a typerwriter as a graduation gift and I didn't have a cell phone until senior year of college, I don't like being lumped in with people who can't remember the world without high speed internet (or internet at all, for that matter). Anyway.....at the minimum he should've given you two weeks out of respect. At least if you get a call as a reference you know what to say.
Yeah, he's a 1996 millennial.
I don't really count people born in 1981 as millennials. Maybe there should be a different word for them, other than the obvious ones which I am too polite to use here.
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@Horace said in Millennial employees:
89th is gen x at heart.
I always found it quite funny that Billy Idol is actually a boomer.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Millennial employees:
@Horace said in Millennial employees:
89th is gen x at heart.
I always found it quite funny that Billy Idol is actually a boomer.
Interesting to listen to him look back on his career. Turns out, all those celebrities you knew from way back when, were always actual people struggling to do actual things as best as they could.
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The lazy fucker still hasn't made it in and it's 1:15. I was going to send him home today, as I don't want to have to drive all the way in tomorrow with the traffic just to pick up his laptop and badge.
God, what I'd give for his new employer to phone up asking for a reference
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Millennial employees:
The lazy fucker still hasn't made it in and it's 1:15. I was going to send him home today, as I don't want to have to drive all the way in tomorrow with the traffic just to pick up his laptop and badge.
God, what I'd give for his new employer to phone up asking for a reference
This might make you feel better, although I can't vouch for the generational identity of the subject of this letter:
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Millennial employees:
This might make you feel better, although I can't vouch for the generational identity of the subject of this letter:
Too soon