{"id":2441,"date":"2010-10-11T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/bashing-millennials\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T15:41:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T20:41:25","slug":"bashing-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/bashing-millennials\/","title":{"rendered":"Bashing Millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/149\/do-something-in-defense-of-millennials.html?partner=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Fast Company has an entertaining article<\/a> written by a CEO of a company that employs almost all Millennials.\u00a0 The article is well worth the read, but let me give you a taste of it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lazy. Entitled.<\/strong> Fickle. Freighted with their own inscrutable agendas. These are the kinds of things people say about cats &#8212; and millennials. For today&#8217;s managers, the generation born after 1980 is a favorite punching bag.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not hard to see why, given that they&#8217;re the generation of Lindsay Lohan, <em>Jersey Shore<\/em>, and flip-flops as appropriate office footwear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been drawn in by these exact topics and I\u2019m an Xer.\u00a0 But further on in the article comes this dandy (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Millennials don&#8217;t have traditional boundaries or an old-fashioned sense of privacy. They live out loud, sharing details of their lives with thousands of other people. Of course there are the obvious risks to this &#8212; say, that unflattering, reputation-damaging photo that should have been deleted from Facebook &#8212; but while you shake your cane at them for indulging in TMI, I see their openness as a great opportunity. For instance, when our summer intern <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jimmyaungchen\">@jimmyaungchen<\/a> tweets and Facebooks about something he achieved at work, that&#8217;s free marketing for Do Something to the 1,500 people in his immediate network. <strong>I now ask job applicants how many Facebook friends and Twitter followers they have.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Excellent point.\u00a0 In fact, I just did some network checking of a sales candidate for one of our customers earlier today.\u00a0 I like that she asks the candidate directly.\u00a0 I prefer to check on my own and it is mainly LinkedIn that I peruse.\u00a0 Facebook is fine, but it is definitely closer to the social\/personal side in comparison to LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>An entertaining and informative article for sure.\u00a0 It is rare to find this combination so I strongly encourage you to read the entire thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Company has an entertaining article written by a CEO of a company that employs almost all Millennials.\u00a0 The article is well worth the read, but let me give you a taste of it: Lazy. Entitled. Fickle. Freighted with their own inscrutable agendas. These are the kinds of things people say about cats &#8212; and millennials. For today&#8217;s managers, the generation born after 1980 is a favorite punching bag. It&#8217;s not hard to see why, given that they&#8217;re the generation of Lindsay Lohan, Jersey Shore, and flip-flops as appropriate office footwear. I have been drawn in by these exact topics and I\u2019m an Xer.\u00a0 But further on in the article&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/10\/bashing-millennials\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,2],"tags":[72,655,1651,646,1650],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Dn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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