A job interview with a Millennial

Mike said:
It certainly is amazing how kids have changed since I was young. They seriously do not know how to have fun, play, etc. without a device. My wife and I are trying an experiment. We are a week into banning all idevices, computer use (except for strict school work). It appears to be working. My daughter is doing arts and crafts and my son is shooting hoops.

But I will say, the influencers around them don’t help the cause. Do you know, I can’t even pick up my kids at school without using a f’ing app? An app! What if I didn’t have a smart phone? It’s called Pik Up My Kid. The geniuses at the school thought it would make pick up more efficient. It doesn’t.

I also despise the “every kid gets a trophy”. My sons team gets walloped in the championship and they all get the same trophy? WTF? We need to teach kids how to win and lose gracefully.

Do you know that the schools fight against teaching spelling? They told my wife and I it’s an outdated skill. Seriously? WTF?

Ok, rant over. Time to yell at some kids to get off my WiFi.


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Hehehehe.

They need to bring back marbles, gigs (you guys call'e spinning tops), hand made waggons, push carts, slingshots, pogo sticks, yoyos, hula hoops, bean bags and jacks. Physical/active fun is all but a memory. Pokémon Go was the closest thing they had.
 
SuperDave said:
The worlds a tough place sometimes and in real life, trophies aren't handed out to everyone. How do we encourage our kids to work harder, improve, and stay competitive when they are told they're winners for coming in last place?
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The whole thing is misplaced. If they are going to get a trophy (other than for a top 3 placing) it must be for never quitting and trying the hardest possible and breaking their previous record. If you run in a race and come last but smash your personal best, that is commendable. The trophy, if there is one, should clearly say that...not for "participation", but for striving and being the best you can be.
 
Mechnutt said:
Having children is not for every one. I know plenty of good people who don't have kids and they would have been terrible parents.
I see plenty of terrible parents working in the Emergency Department and Urgent Care Clinic. So much child neglect and abuse, mental and physical! You guys don't know the half of it. I see it every day.
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Oh, some of us do. I have no doubt in what you say...
 
Mechnutt said:
Having children is not for every one. I know plenty of good people who don't have kids and they would have been terrible parents.
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True .......

I see plenty of terrible parents working in the Emergency Department and Urgent Care Clinic. So much child neglect and abuse, mental and physical! You guys don't know the half of it. I see it every day.
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I know more than 'the half of it' , I married a school teacher ..........
 
I raised my two girls, now 37 and 33 just like my mom and dad raised me. Respect, you get what you earn and hard work will pay off with an education. So far so good.

They tried that "every kid gets a trophy” when I was a kid and the "KIDS" buried it. Even the "first losers" thought it was ridiculous. they told the school, you earn it
 
We are about to start a new round of interviews to fill several positions here and this is more reality than parody.

We support Regulatory Publishing Software and process all kinds of document types to PDF with an XML backbone.

Everyone tells you on their resume that they are Experts in Microsoft Office. When we ask if they are familiar with Word Templates and the big answer is Yes, I used the one to write my Resume. But, that is not the correct answer as we are looking to see if they ever created or modified a Style or Heading, or can create a Table of Contents.

We usually interview between 20 and 40 candidates to choose just one because it takes about 6 months to learn enough to be able to support the software and peripherals.

I just sent this video to my boss and he just stopped over laughing out loud.
 
SCAudiophile said:
Sad but true and very predictive of the downfall of our society...LOL!

Remember gentlemen and ladies that are 40 and up, our future is in the hands of the Snapchat and Twitter generation;
be afraid,....be very afraid!
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Except that this is just dumb stereotype by grumpy, sarcastic old men.

In our biotech company there are many bright, hardworking millennials. I think the future of America is just fine.

I can't believe the stupid nonsense I have read on this thread. (And no, I'm not a millennial, I'm 56.)

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Having said that, the video was funny!
 
Mikado463 said:
as much as we all like to poke fun at 'millennials' the sad truth is it's their pathetic parents .............
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Kingrex said:
That's a pretty stiff jab at every member on this form. We are their parents. All except for me. I have raised two poodles and they both came out excellent. I never bothered trying to make a human. Too much money in trouble for the return.
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Given the nonsense spouted on this thread, this stiff jab was more than justified.
 
But perhaps you guys do have a point.

Perhaps biotech, and science in general, with more educated kids is an exception. I have heard stories from sources I trust where lazy kids sit on their phone all day, do nothing, and complain that they are not getting paid much.
 
Al M. said:
But perhaps you guys do have a point.

Perhaps biotech, and science in general, with more educated kids is an exception. I have heard stories from sources I trust where lazy kids sit on their phone all day, do nothing, and complain that they are not getting paid much.
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And that right there IS the other half.

I have met a few really sharp and ambitious Millenials, but I am scared to death of who will be taking care of me in my old age. They want to start at $100K a year and skate thru the day.
 
wisnon said:
It normally WORSE there. Often no limits are set by adults.
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I don't agree. In my experience, welfare families do not discipline their kids. These kids don't listen to their parents, are disrespectful and leave our exam rooms in shambles. In my 25 years working in the same emergency department, I have seen a generation of children who grew up on welfare go on to become criminals, poor parents and drug abusers, along with becoming parents at ages 13-18..

I have a family that abuses one of the Urgent Cares that I work in. They come in every week for something. The first time I saw the 3 kids and mom, one of the kids kept punching me in the back while the other kept trying to step on my feet. The 12 year old daughter was making semi sexual inappropriate comments while the mother just sat on her ass and did nothing. The kids also disrupt bother the patients in the waiting room. Unfortunately, this is all to common.

However, the kids from wealthy families definitely feel that they are entitled.

Bear in mind that these are just generalizations. There are some great parents on welfare and there are poor middle class and wealthy parents.
 
I relate a great deal of this to the internet, it has changed the landscape on how we learn, how we communicate and what we do and like anything life impacting there is collateral fallout - in this case it may be the world.


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just gonna come out and say it - i'm a millennial and well below the age of 30. would be great to see more of us in this hobby.
while i'm totally comfortable in social situations and events with "real people", i love having my face in a screen.

it's really what you make of it - for me, the fact that i can learn anything about anything with a few simple clicks is my joi de vivre so to speak. most of my friends have moved around since college so really my only means of talking to them is over text. to that end we text daily and while it's not the same as meeting up for some drinks and tunes, it doesnt really feel like they're not there. these are the blessings of technology and why i personally am glued to my devices.
 
It has been more than a decade, but when I was running an operating foundation (non-profit but no endowment, so we operated in many ways like a for profit company), we hired quite a few part time college students who worked up to 20 hours a week. I paid well above average ($10/hr in 1998) and so had many applicants for the positions. My trick to hiring was to have the students who were working for me, particularly those who had risen to the more supervisory positions (still part time) write the job descriptions, decide where to post the jobs (we didn't have Indeed or other on-line places then) and they chose the people to interview and interviewed and selected the candidates. I would meet the chosen people, but never rejected any of their choices. They would self monitor and if there was a problem, they were empowered to figure out and implement solutions. When we had an occasional problem employee, the other students would first intervene and that normally solved the problem. These were predominantly community college students from all ethnic groups, not the superstar scholars.

The students understood very clearly that these were plum jobs and worked hard and also creatively. When we were running behind on fulfilling orders, the students came to me with a plan to solve the problem without me asking. They figured out that if they worked on Saturdays when the office was normally closed, they could catch up within a couple of weeks. They arranged the shifts and who would be working, including who would supervise, not requiring me or or any of the full time staff to come in.

Maybe iphones and social media have changed everything for the worse.

Larry
 
Larry, twenty years ago, no internet (as we know it today) ........nuff said !
 
CPP said:
Heck the only kids I care about are my kids. Right now they are doing just fine, its the rest of the kids I worry about and its not in the music world, its the leadership throughout the world.
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if you 'worry' you in fact 'care' ...........
 
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