Millennial's in the workplace

[FatAlan]

I believe that the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 in respect of offensive weapons / knives etc came about due to increase in stabbings during the ‘Teddy Boy’ era...some things never change. Agree, that smart phones are a major issue and must account for thousands of hours of lost productivity.

 

[Pete999]

In my humble opinion, I reckon most of the so called problem with many of the "younger Generation" is an !I want it now" problem.
There are some who aren't prepared to work towards a career in whatever discipline. they want the rewards without any effort on their part.
This is not true of all of the youngsters, I have worked with many apprentices/trainees who are keen to learn and willing to wait, it's the Minority that curse the Majority I'm afraid, a sad fact but sadly true.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I don’t know that it’s just the younger generation that has the ‘I want it now’ syndrome.
I think that syndrome has been around now for many years.
People don’t save up to buy things, they get stuff on HP, instant credit or use credit cards.

 

[GBDamo]

There are plenty of good young people eager to work an keen.

There was plenty of dossers whilst I trained and went to school in my generation, an seen plenty in the generation above an below me.

It's not a new thing that, just maybe more noticeable. Rose tinted glasses me thinks.

I disagree Rob,

These social media platforms have been designed to be addictive, as the video says, they trigger very well studied, documented and understood responses in the human brain to certain stimuli.

These Dopamine effects coupled with Classic Conditioning, Pavlov's Dog, and the understanding of human sexual drivers, Freud, have all been combined to create some of the most addictive and controlling mechanisms humanity has ever faced.

When applied at a young enough age this conditioning is almost impossible to break but even as adults are we are not immune, we all like the 'likes' and 'agrees' we get to posts, how do those affect your behaviour?

These effects have always been used, subconsciously, to program human behavior. The reward of praise for a good deed was often enough to make a child try to please again, we call it good parenting.

The problem is They know what they are doing to a largely uneducated and unaware public.

Facebook for instance has the ability to make access to their platform, if not impossible, unusable for under 13s. It chooses not to do this as they know the earlier the programming starts the more effective it is.

As Aristotle said "give me a child until he is seven and I'll show you the man"

None of this is new, what is new is the widespread and, in my opinion, nefarious uses that it is being put to namely profit and social control.

I think that this is thankfully becoming apparent to more and more people.

Ten years ago I'd have a 95% "you're mad" response to such ramblings, today most people at least see the potential for nefariousness.

 

[littlespark]

Last century, the generation above mine bought a daily sport every day for a mild ---- fix. A different type of addiction. They smoked a pack of cigs a day and had a pint or two on the way home, driving.

I would rather my girls be addicted to their phones than cigarettes.

 

[rapparee]

'I am part of the most selfish generation in history and we should be ashamed of our legacy,' says Jeremy Paxman

As it's revealed today's young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents, JEREMY PAXMAN (pictured at Cambridge) says he is ashamed of the Baby-Boomers' legacy.

www.dailymail.co.uk

This thread, baby boomers complaining about the younger generation.


Baby boomers, the only generation to ever leave their kids with a poorer standard of living than themselves, since the Napoleonic Wars.

 

[Pete999]

'I am part of the most selfish generation in history and we should be ashamed of our legacy,' says Jeremy Paxman

As it's revealed today's young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents, JEREMY PAXMAN (pictured at Cambridge) says he is ashamed of the Baby-Boomers' legacy.

www.dailymail.co.uk

This thread, baby boomers complaining about the younger generation.


Baby boomers, the only generation to ever leave their kids with a poorer standard of living than themselves, since the Napoleonic Wars.

Don't suppose you thought that out very well mate, it was the "Baby Boomers parents" who eventually defeated Fascism to give the younger generation the freedom they have today, yes I am a Baby Boomer, and never had it as easy as youngsters today.

 

[GBDamo]

'I am part of the most selfish generation in history and we should be ashamed of our legacy,' says Jeremy Paxman

As it's revealed today's young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents, JEREMY PAXMAN (pictured at Cambridge) says he is ashamed of the Baby-Boomers' legacy.

www.dailymail.co.uk

This thread, baby boomers complaining about the younger generation.


Baby boomers, the only generation to ever leave their kids with a poorer standard of living than themselves, since the Napoleonic Wars.

Whilst there is a lot of truth in that, I think

Don't suppose you thought that out very well mate, it was the "Baby Boomers parents" who eventually defeated Fascism to give the younger generation the freedom they have today, yes I am a Baby Boomer, and never had it as easy as youngsters today.

Every individual boomer has this 'four Yorkshire men' reminiscence of their childhood.

The stats prove, as a group, history will remember them as the guilded generation. Those that have taken the most and returned the least, pulled the ladder up after them and blamed everyone else for it.

Boomers earned more in work, inflation corrected, than any other age group in history.

They bought the cheapest houses and although there were short term interest rate pressures their debts were ultimately inflated away as wages kept pace with high inflation. By no means easy at times but if you stayed the distance the returns were astronomical.

Distribution of median and mean income and tax by age range and sex

These tables show the distribution of median and mean income and tax by age range and sex.

www.gov.uk

Boomers are earning more in retirement than those in aged 20-29, and the trend is widening, soon they'll be earning more in retirement than those in their 30s. This is primarily down to real wages falling in value since the early 1990s where private pensions have been contractually protected against inflationary pressures.

Big business has been driving down the cost of labour for decades by reducing wages, pensions and benefits. Who are the biggest shareholders?,,,,, yup pension funds.

All the while those aged 20-40 are trying to start families and buy houses.

People are buying houses later.
People are getting married later.
People are starting families later.

Legislation has been passed to force young people to start a pension to add more money into a dwindling pot, one which they will probably never see a return from.

The present is not rosey for today's young, the future looks bleak, retirement isn't going to happen for the vast majority.

Hey but if you want to complain about the mobile phones and trainer they buy, don't. Who do you think Apples biggest shareholders will be? Who do you think Addidas' biggest shareholder will be?

Quite what Boomers parents did or didn't do in the war, other than to make all the sacrifices, is of no baring in regards to the life of Riley they themselves have lived.

It's an emotive one but being in denial about the blessings Boomers have had solves nothing

 

[rapparee]

Don't suppose you thought that out very well mate, it was the "Baby Boomers parents" who eventually defeated Fascism to give the younger generation the freedom they have today, yes I am a Baby Boomer, and never had it as easy as youngsters today.

Exactly.

The Baby boomers parents. Aka the greatest generation. The baby boomers themselves ----ed about in the sixties. Summer of love and all that.

The baby boomers are riding on the coat-tails of their parents great achievements.

 

[Pete999]

Exactly.

The Baby boomers parents. Aka the greatest generation. The baby boomers themselves ****ed about in the sixties. Summer of love and all that.

The baby boomers are riding on the coat-tails of their parents great achievements.

May be true but they certainly had booger all to crow about leading up to the 60s, unlike some of todays examples, see I said some not all.

 

[Nigel]

I have two apprentices. Both started at the same time and have access to the same type of work and have worked with the same sparks.

Both are at other ends of the spectrum in terms of their development into the electrical world.

Any ‘millennial’ with issues it is completely down to their parenting and nothing else. Some youngsters have had to work for nothing and think that should continue into adulthood and the workplace.

Kids a are product of their parenting and thinfs are getting worse as we now see kids that parents were kids when they were born enter adulthood and have grown up with little discipline in their lives and been around parents that have never worked.

 

[telectrix]

May be true but they certainly had booger all to crow about leading up to the 60s, unlike some of todays examples, see I said some not all.

yep. meat rationing till c.1954. never knew what a banana was till i was 11. central heating was an overcoat on the bed. tin bath in kitchen on a Saturday. parents first, then kids by descending order of age. toilet bottom of yard. today's kids are really hard done to with only 1 iphone each.