Posted by
Brian Peters on Monday, July 30, 2007 9:36:11 PM
Today's little jaunt comes from a dinner conversation this past weekend with one of my family twentysomethings. After her little head bobs and half eaten breakfast, I said to my better half, don't try to give her advice, she doesn't like it when people tell her what to do.
I began thinking more of the mornings events as I worked on our yard. I recalled reading not so long ago about business and GenYers. The finding by professionals studying the GenYers in today's U.S. workplace discovered that GenYers react more to praise than they do instruction or fact based hard work reality gets the job done. It seems that GenY needs coddling more so than any other generation before it. Thank you California is all I can say. Dig up and grab at where the root of our social problems are coming from, California.
The ultra liberal mentality towards handling any problem, confronting any issue, allowing any sort of depravity to spread, it's just created monster after monster that is devouring any kind of law and order and/or conservative type valued societies. Sometimes it's hard to refute the Islamo Fascist claim of America's decedent society.
But back to GenY. Should you ever find yourself confronting a GenYer over a problem and trying to give that GenYer 'advice' that wasn't asked, even though you know, most likely from experience, think twice. Think of this, the GenYer is going to do what they want no matter what, often which conclusion someone has to bail them out of a dire predicament.
I think like this now.....I see a GenYer driving down a road I had just come from. I know that the bridge is out that crosses the big pond. I know that now trying to flag them down, tell them to turn around and not go that way is totally futile and often ends in very abrasive arguements that resolve nothing. I say this to GenY: "Have a nice swim".