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October 14, 2016 at 2:20 PM in reply to: Cutting The Cord– Considering Switching to Sling TV #802294
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Participant[quote=flu]At my new employer, I work with a lot of millennials.
And the ones that I work with are pretty bright people. A lot of them are pretty financially astute too. I learned a lot of about Robo-financial advisers from some of them.
A lot of them are doing just fine financially. What’s amazing is a lot of these millennials are driven to run their own thing. A lot of these guys I work with are engineers during the normal hours and have a their own business they run off hours. A group of guys own a successful auto shop, another guy runs a marketing company, and there’s a few folks that run a media transcoding company.
Most of them, even the ones that are just POE (plain old engineers) , have bought homes. Some more than one. Some already own free and clear in North County.
I think the concern of our younger generation being doomed is overblown. They’ll be fine, or at least a good portion of them. The rest, well personal choices maybe not so fine, but that’s no different from any other generation.
I think the pattern I’ve seen with most of the more successful ones are all the same… Reasonable education, strong work ethics, and good money management skills instilled from their parents and a no-excuses why I can’t do something.
I guess what type of career you have will also bias you in the type of milenials you see.[/quote]
Sounds like you and BG don’t work together.
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]
That is nice to hear that employers are offering that now. Do they allow you to take your baby to work??
This was never the case during my working years. I was unaware of any laws compelling employers to do this so am unsure why they are offering nursing rooms. If I’ve overlooked any new state/Federal employment laws regarding offering employees a place to nurse, please post a link here.[/quote]
No of course they don’t allow you to take your baby to work unless you work at a daycare or they have a daycare facility on site for staff. I did bring my baby to work after he was born to show off though.
https://www.dol.gov/whd/nursingmothers/
Here is the dol website which requires employers to have a place for mothers to pump. This being said, today’s employers have different incentives above and beyond labor requirements; especially if they want to attract the brightest and best millennials. I’m sure some of these work environments have been well documented in movies.
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]
There are sofas in the outer portion of many restrooms which can be used for nursing. And there is always one’s vehicle or a spare room if they are at a house party OR (gasp) leaving the baby with a sitter for a couple of hours with bottle(s) of pumped milk.[/quote]Sounds horrible and primitive. Every employer I have worked for has a private (locked) nursing room where new mothers can pump in their own privacy. Doesn’t sound like a place where most “best and brightest” would want to work…unless of course the vehicle is a Bentley. I heard those can be rather comfy.
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]
Actually millenial/yamashi, we didn’t need college degrees to do our jobs and do them well. Few of us had one. Today, a 4-year bachelor degree is the new “high school diploma,” evidenced by most of the millenials’ inability to express themselves on paper clearly and succinctly . . . . even after graduating with a Bachelor’s … or Master’s degree :=0[/quote]
So basically your definition of brightest and best includes people with no college degree…this explains so much.
Also means that if workers in this government agency don’t need a college degree, and if based on your logic, a BA is = to a HS diploma. Then these people that supposedly work at the place for only “the brightest and best” pretty much have a middle school education. Probably not a good place to be using to judge a whole generation.
Also writing is a thing of the past, you can snapchat and draw emoticons now. As they say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Participant[quote=njtosd]
Yes, the world is a better place due to the Boomers and almost every generation before them and probably will improve (overall) with every generation after them. There are always advantages and disadvantages to technology. For example, it makes me sad to see groups of kids all sitting with each other staring into their phones. I think people socialize less in groups than they used to, and I think that is a shame.
[/quote]Agreed, this is a pet peeve of mine and our family rule includes no phones at the dinner table, especially when we are out spending money on an expensive meal.
[quote=njtosd]
I might agree with you in general you seem inclined to throw out the baby boomer with the bathwater. ( Ok – I just thought of that but I like it. ) [/quote]Hey I’m not throwing out all boomers…especially my parents. I created this topic because I saw an article about boomers, and because I noticed in previous posts there were many negative opinions about millennials (esp. from BG). I also wanted to see where each generation stood on debatable topics – especially with the upcoming elections and with our existing boomer candidates.
[quote=njtosd] you seem a little ingenuous. Your opinions about scaredy make me think that you don’t question your own prejudices – he is probably the most even handed and witty person on this board.[/quote]
That may be the case because I’m trying to spur dialogue. Regarding scaredy, his proof regarding Millennials and our belief in “gender fluidity” seemed lacking and I called him out on it. I don’t mind debating, but am very fact oriented and a poll is only as good as its source…just ask Trump. Regarding his belief that we should get taxed $10K on what we do to our own bodies doesn’t seem very even handed to me.
Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
If you’re in business, change with the times before your customer base evaporates. [/quote]
Good idea, especially with the advent of social media. It doesn’t take much for someone to give a bad Yelp review or to share a tweet.
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Participant[quote=FlyerInHi]
Who gives a shit about that 74yo? It’s you kissing ass to power. No wonder you love Trump.If the guy can’t do online payment then he’s stupid.[/quote]
…ok I was wondering this whole time what BG was talking about. I never knew a Tax Assessor office existed, always paid my taxes online. Also what is this “check protector”? Does he guard the checks?
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]Actually, yamashi, I AM a retired county employee. And btw, we WERE “the best and the brightest!”
[/quote]Please define “best and the brightest!”. Do you mean the best and brightest in San Diego? When I say best and brightest I mean the top 10-20% of graduating college seniors from top tier schools (top 25). So this would mean the majority of the workplace was composed of top graduates from places like #1 Princeton (Source US News and World Report) all the way to #25 UCLA. As opposed to San Diego State #146 and UCSD #44. When I think of companies that recruit from this pool I think of Silicon Valley for Tech, larger biotech firms in SD, Big 4 accounting firms and large consulting firms. When I think of government I think of NASA, and the FBI. I never been to the county clerks office, but I never put them in that category.
Participant[quote=njtosd]
Yamashi – you are a bit behind the times: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/08/europe/vatican-pope-family/%5B/quote%5D
About time. Next on the agenda, premarital sex and birth control.
Participant[quote=njtosd][quote=yamashi][quote=scaredyclassic]
i better run this tat tax by some focus groups first.[/quote]Make sure you shake and slam your fist a lot while you’re doing it![/quote]
Yamashi – what does that mean?[/quote]
Hmmm…I guess you never watched that episode of the Office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight%27s_Speech#Reception
Anyways, you should look in the mirror at home, talk really loud, make demands like people are no longer allowed to get tattoos and slam and shake your fist. Oh and wave your hands around too …
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]No 74-year-old “slumlord” wants to bring his large checkbook into the Tax Assessor’s Office on April 10 with several checks stamped with a “check protector” totaling $68,274.42 and a list of parcel numbers, only to be assigned a clerk who will take 30 minutes to process the payments in front of him who is dressed like a hooker. I don’t understand how these gubment employees are getting away with this stuff …. :=0[/quote]
That’s what you get when you deal with government workers. Typically they don’t represent the brightest and best especially at places like that. Neither ones that work in retail, construction, fishing, and sanitation. There are a few like that movie Goodwill Hunting, but I would consider him to be an anomaly.
Participant[quote=bearishgurl]LOL, scaredy. What gets me is how millenials think they should dress for job interviews and work. I see millenials at superior court counters and tax collection counters (where they frequently interact with boomers and seniors) with extremely tight shirts on showing cleavage (every female article of clothing appears to stretch today, including jeans, lol). If we dressed like that at work, we would have been summarily sent home at 8:01 am to re-dress and the time we were gone applied to our vacation time on the books. These millenials more often than not do not wear hose with skirts and have their bare toes showing in sandals and flip-flop heels with stupid-looking fake jewels on them (straight out of the Dollar Store). Again, we would have been sent out to the store (on our vacation time) to buy pantyhose before beginning our shift if we showed up to work dressed like that and open-toed shoes were not allowed under any circumstances.
I’m so glad my youngest is a member of a Greek organization on her campus. She MUST have on dress pants or a skirt WITH a jacket at their once-weekly nightly meetings (regardless of weather – they can take the jacket off at the meeting). If she was dressed in bullet-riddled “skinny jeans” with a low-cut tank or bra-top left over from the gym that day, she will have to change for the meeting or be fined. No visible tattoos larger than a quarter are allowed nor would a heavily-tattooed female who was “rushing” for membership be picked up by most of these organizations. These young women are being prepared for the professional workforce and this is how ii should be.
Yeah, you’re right, scaredy. Schumer humor aside, some of today’s grossly overweight female millennial celebrities are colossal whiners … fat-shamed or not! If you weigh too much, you are unhealthy and should endeavor to lose weight ASAP. And um, YOU DON’T LOOK GOOD in those tight clothes you’re wearing! People don’t want to see you hanging out of your clothes so lose weight so you can wear them better! This also applies to males!
I find it UNBELIEVABLE how the portion of (mostly female) millennials dress who are at least 30 lbs overweight. Boomer women had pride. As such, we wouldn’t have been caught dead wearing tight clothes with a body like that. Even nine months pregnant, we covered up with dresses with strategically-placed pleats in them and dress skirts/pants with hidden panels which longer shirts hid. Never in a million years would we go out in public with half our pregnant stomach exposed under a short t-shirt and tight yoga pants worn low or a t-shirt stretched so tight over our stomachs that it showed everything that no one really wanted to see. NOR would would we ever nurse in public (that’s what restrooms are for)! It is RIDICULOUS the demands that many female millennials are making and the things they feel entitled to do at everyone else’s expense. They have no common decency or respect for others. For many in this group, it is all about them. Gross…[/quote]
Honestly BG I think you need to get out more. You cannot put a blanket stereotype of a generation based on a trip to the local tax collection counter. Trust me there are many millenials who know how to dress professional at job interviews and in a work setting.
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