Comments on: Am I the proverbial 20-something? http://www.balladinplaine.com/am-i-the-proverbial-20-something/ Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:18:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: kelsey http://www.balladinplaine.com/am-i-the-proverbial-20-something/comment-page-1/#comment-2961 kelsey Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:12:14 +0000 http://www.balladinplaine.com/am-i-the-proverbial-20-something/#comment-2961 I'm a cuspy. On the cusp of Gen X and Gen Y. I'm very confused and as a result find a lot of people very annoying. I was a latchkey kid and yet my mother was also a helicopter parent. My brother can't make a decision without my mother. I find myself very confused most of the time. It's fascinating learning about the marketing breakdown within the generations while being in a classroom with 20 member of the 25 and under crowd. All the generations stereotypes do tend to be true. Within my class I find that issues like respect are very different demographically. The "gen y'res" believe that respect has to be earned. Gen x and up believe that respect is given and then up to you to maintain. The Y'ers believe that they can multi-task better then anyone (we'll forget that multi-tasking is a master of none trade) they will spend and entire class communicating with each other on facebook and then get very upset if someone calls them on their inappropriate behavior. My experience with these guys has shown me that they have a very different sense of entitlement then other generations within the class do. It's been fascinating, it might just be my class who knows! Just some of my observations. But yes companies shouldn't treat generations differently. At the end of the day most people want the same thing. I’m a cuspy. On the cusp of Gen X and Gen Y. I’m very confused and as a result find a lot of people very annoying. I was a latchkey kid and yet my mother was also a helicopter parent. My brother can’t make a decision without my mother. I find myself very confused most of the time.

It’s fascinating learning about the marketing breakdown within the generations while being in a classroom with 20 member of the 25 and under crowd. All the generations stereotypes do tend to be true. Within my class I find that issues like respect are very different demographically. The “gen y’res” believe that respect has to be earned. Gen x and up believe that respect is given and then up to you to maintain. The Y’ers believe that they can multi-task better then anyone (we’ll forget that multi-tasking is a master of none trade) they will spend and entire class communicating with each other on facebook and then get very upset if someone calls them on their inappropriate behavior. My experience with these guys has shown me that they have a very different sense of entitlement then other generations within the class do. It’s been fascinating, it might just be my class who knows! Just some of my observations.

But yes companies shouldn’t treat generations differently. At the end of the day most people want the same thing.

]]> By: KnittingBetty http://www.balladinplaine.com/am-i-the-proverbial-20-something/comment-page-1/#comment-2535 KnittingBetty Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:55:32 +0000 http://www.balladinplaine.com/am-i-the-proverbial-20-something/#comment-2535 I totally agree E. I've been reading these same articles and I think that they are too general, I don't think that entire generations (and really, their age ranges encompass more than a single generation) with the same characteristics. The media and marketing groups paint the same general characteristics with Baby Boomers, which as we know is a HUGE group of people who have different backgrounds, experience and knowledge, just like young people of today. I think that companies should spend less time trying to follow the advice of these supposed experts on how to retain young people as employees and spend some time getting to know employees as people. Different people have different needs and you have to know what they want or don't want in order to retain them, just because some people may be in the same age group does not mean they will think or behave the same. And there are going to be people who are lazy and don't want to work hard, no matter what generation it is. I totally agree E. I’ve been reading these same articles and I think that they are too general, I don’t think that entire generations (and really, their age ranges encompass more than a single generation) with the same characteristics. The media and marketing groups paint the same general characteristics with Baby Boomers, which as we know is a HUGE group of people who have different backgrounds, experience and knowledge, just like young people of today.

I think that companies should spend less time trying to follow the advice of these supposed experts on how to retain young people as employees and spend some time getting to know employees as people. Different people have different needs and you have to know what they want or don’t want in order to retain them, just because some people may be in the same age group does not mean they will think or behave the same.

And there are going to be people who are lazy and don’t want to work hard, no matter what generation it is.

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