Millennials in the Workplace Training Video

Planning to hire Millennials in your office? This guide will teach you how to co-exist with this challenging new generation of workers.

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Featuring Steve Belanger, Julia Wiedeman, Darren Miller, Susan Casey, Shamikah Martinez, Greg Paul and Uzni Uzni

Written and Directed by Jared Neumark
Shot by Jason Beasley
Sound by Aymen Braek
Gaffer: Nick Massey
Edited by Darren Miller

[e.grogan]

When I was 12 y.o. my big brother got his first job. Naturally I wanted a job, too. So I asked my dad if I could work in his office. He thought about it and, being a Depression baby, he was thrilled I wanted to work. I worked in his office after school and everyday on vacations for 10 yrs until I finished college. I was taught how to answer the phone, how to work, how to get along with co-workers and how to do what the boss says without arguing.
My dad's been dead quite a few years now but one thing I really appreciate about him is letting me work in his office so I would know what work was like. I'll be 64 soon, and I kept on working until I got sick a few years ago but it stood me in good stead and I NEVER was without a job, not ever. Thanks, Dad, you gave me a huge gift that I"ll always appreciate. Work makes people a little better because you have to learn to put up with people you may not like. You learn alot of skills that way.

[billybobthornton]

I'm a millennial and appreciate the fact a lot of my fellow millennials are like this. Less competition! :-D

[BlueAngel]

"Gets to work 40 minutes late with their iced coffee"

That shit hit home.

[nonyabeeznuss]

I unironically watched one quit his job after 3 months because he applied for a higher position and lost to a guy eho'd put in 5 years of work. He literally couldnt understand why after 3 whole months and not even being past the training phase that he did not warrant the same promotion a 5 year veteran employee with a spotless record did.

[nafnaf]

"Fine I'll take the call myself", "thank you", "NAILED IT". Love it

[Nonamearisto]

50 millennials took a day off work just to downvote this video.

[okeedokee]

I'm a millennial and most of my colleagues are, as well. This video speaks truth. So many call in 'sick' so often yet they feel it's appropriate to complain about having no money on a daily basis. They'll also complain about the bosses (who are minimum double their age, if not triple) when they tell them to pick up the pace. It's labour work and the bosses work with us. A 20yr old male shouldn't be working half the pace of a 60yr old man and expect to hear nothing about it.

[YMS]

Calling others lazy when you can't even bother with proper lighting

[mrjoshua]

I used to be an assistant manager at a grocery store where I would routinely work 60 to 70 hour weeks and get called into work in the middle of the night all the time. I went in one morning at 2am to fix the deli department and by noon I finally needed a break. So I told the millennial who as working in the department and got there at 10 am, that I was going to finally take a break and get food. He threw a pan at the wall and yelled, "But I need to take my break! I've been here for 2 whole hours! I need to get off my feet because I'm hypoglycemic! This isn't fair!" I replied, "well I've been here for 10 hours already and haven't eaten this week yet, " He stomped his little baby feet and screamed in my face that the reason I was able to work these long hours was because I didn't have a rare blood disorder. I asked him why he didn't make me aware of this rare disorder when I hired him and he said nothing. (Because it was bullshit) So I told him to go to break and go rest weary legs. When he got back from his 15 minute break,  which always lasted 35 minutes, I fired him for excessive breaks and he started crying. He got caught shoplifting at that same store a couple of months later and told the cops it was my fault. When the cops had him in custody in my office I remarked to the officer, "don't be too hard on this lad, he can't be on his feet for more than 2 hours because of a rare blood disorder." We all laughed and I won.

[mordant]

If this is what baby boomers think of millenials, I wonder what the silent generation (Great Depression, WWII) thought of the baby boomers (Civil rights movement, sexual revolution).

[Ryan-pbis]

Anyone hiring employees like this, regardless of generation, should also be fired.

[RevRyan]

"These kids are so fucking coddled and can't do anything for themselves" - The people responsible for raising said kids and shaping the world in which they live

[Adammonroemusic]

If you think millennials are bad, just wait until generation Z hits...

[Angie.grace]

As embarrassed as I am of my generation, their lack of work ethic really helped me to stand out no matter what job I was in. So I guess I'm thankful to my peers for that XD

[locknesscs]

they forgot a 3rd scenario for taking off from work:
"i know i used all my vaca, but can i have the day off to go join a protest"?

[virtualbadass]

I always come back to see how this video is holding up. Apparently it’s holding up quite well.

[BLARGHALT]

The mystery I want to solve about is how all millennials, including myself, got up one morning and decided to bring back plaid shirts for absolutely no reason.

[perryhart]

I work in the swimming pool industry, hire many millenials each season. A few are decent workers (not much effort involved in sitting under an umbrella get paid well), some however, are so dumb they'll call in sick and then post pics of themselves at a theme park the same day on facebook. I'm not a computer nerd but I can log on to see what a wonderful time they had that day while I scrambled to cover their shift.

[billthompson]

I've never worked with a Millennial, but this argument goes back forever. The parents of the 60s were criticizing rock music and thought that Baby Boomer generation was horrible. Get off my lawn!

Same as it ever was. But Baby Boomers do deserve some blame, though.

The difference, today, is that if you got a useless degree in Women's Studies from Berkley in the 60s, you didn't graduate with $80K in debt and you could still get a high-paying job. A record number of graduates, today, are taking low-paying jobs. A record number are living with their parents at an older age (and now they can stay on Mom & Dad's health insurance through age 26).

And the other difference is the USA has not had an annual real GDP growth of 3% in 10 years, which is a record. These Millennials don't know what it's like to have 5-6% GDP like every other generation. Maybe they need to go into a safe place before reading what I'm about to state, but the Obama recovery is the worst recovery this country has had. Just a fact. We have a record number of people on Food Stamps. We have a record number of people not in the work force - 95 million. It's Jimmy Carter 2.0 but the Fed has kept the interest rates low (so nobody is making money from safe investments).

Finally, the Baby Boomers have brought in a record amount of cheap labor from India via H-1B visas. Less than half of the U.S. STEM graduates (science, technology, engineering, math) have a STEM job. The wages for STEM jobs have been flat since Bill Clinton! It's up about 1% since 2001! Yet people like Zuckerberg tell us we have a shortage of STEM labor and so we need to bring in MORE people from India, who get paid less than an American and send back billions to family in India, robbing the local economy of that consumer spending.

Baby Boomers didn't compete with PhDs from India who make 60-70% the salary.

[timg]

I interviewed a millennial a couple of months ago.HE BROUGHT HIS MOM TO THE INTERVIEW! He was 28. (3 weeks later he would be 29 and wanted his birthday off, despite the fact he hadn't even interviewed yet)