That is what I am turning into. I cannot stand millenials. The generation that economists have labeled as ones that are fresh out of college. Or something close to it.
I sat through some workshops cum training a day or two in the past couple weeks to learn about ideas and techniques foreign to me. e.g. coding in JSON and building a web app to working with concepts like Human Centered Design.
I also got inundated with phrases like 'baselining, dashboarding, solutioning'.
It basically made me dash to board my bus as a solution to my jargonophobia.
These events involved working with or listening to this young breed of employees that have a sense of entitlement that they wear as a mark of honor. They get hired out of school to work in 'Strategy' and that they think makes them invincible as evidenced by their cocky demeanor. They do not exhibit the subtle niceties of please and thank you (not all of them but a lot of them) and seem to float in a world that they think will bend to their whims.
The Ivy League(rs) seem to exhibit a certain additional arrogance that one can smell from a mile. Maybe it is a silicon valley thing and children in Kansas that get jobs out of school and go to work in Tulsa, OK are different. But I have not been to Kansas or Oklahoma - yet.
It is ironic that a wet behind the ears person who was a student yesterday is helping guide strategy for a business that has been in existence for four decades and doing stellar without them.
Clearly the world is changing.
I sat through some workshops cum training a day or two in the past couple weeks to learn about ideas and techniques foreign to me. e.g. coding in JSON and building a web app to working with concepts like Human Centered Design.
I also got inundated with phrases like 'baselining, dashboarding, solutioning'.
It basically made me dash to board my bus as a solution to my jargonophobia.
These events involved working with or listening to this young breed of employees that have a sense of entitlement that they wear as a mark of honor. They get hired out of school to work in 'Strategy' and that they think makes them invincible as evidenced by their cocky demeanor. They do not exhibit the subtle niceties of please and thank you (not all of them but a lot of them) and seem to float in a world that they think will bend to their whims.
The Ivy League(rs) seem to exhibit a certain additional arrogance that one can smell from a mile. Maybe it is a silicon valley thing and children in Kansas that get jobs out of school and go to work in Tulsa, OK are different. But I have not been to Kansas or Oklahoma - yet.
It is ironic that a wet behind the ears person who was a student yesterday is helping guide strategy for a business that has been in existence for four decades and doing stellar without them.
Clearly the world is changing.
I think it's a global phenomenon, like global warming..hot air is everywhere.
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