Hey you kids - get off my lawn!! An observation on Gen-Ys in the workplace

[rz]

SDGuy wrote:
[quote=rz]
...With the 20-somethings, the standard dress...for the women it's too-tight or too-short outfits...

yeah, so what's the problem with that?!!??
Yeah, it's great for looking at. But it's not so great when you have very important customers in the building, and they see that. Doesn't exactly leave a good impression.

[kap]

rz wrote:
[quote=SDGuy]
[quote=rz]
...With the 20-somethings, the standard dress...for the women it's too-tight or too-short outfits...

yeah, so what's the problem with that?!!??
Yeah, it's great for looking at. But it's not so great when you have very important customers in the building, and they see that. Doesn't exactly leave a good impression.
But did you land the deal?

[cbelt3]

Well, you can either enable them (what do you THINK the solution is ?) or disable them (Just call me with any question).

Personally I think any Gen Y-er who doesn't know how to google for stuff is not ready for the modern workplace. I'm from pre-google.... pre-Internet. Heck.. I used punched cards. I even have some 78 records....

I can remember flailing around trying to find a solution to a problem, and my boss finally taking pity on me and saying "you should have asked for help." In 1978.

But then again my job involves answering this kind of question. Daily. From people of all age ranges.

[mattkime]

The UnDoug wrote:
It's an interesting difference, though. Both are right--just in different ways.

I understand how you can take the 20 something's statement as demonstrating a lack of personal accountability, but we're looking at it through eyes clouded by our own life's experiences.

I've no doubt that most of our parents' generations were saying the same thing.


Or am I just being too touchy-feely, and simply enabling the very behavior I am trying to convince myself may not be there?

If you don't see the problem, you're part of it!

[deckeda]

"Good day, Puss Cake"

Walt Kowalski

[binky]

On the topic of not being able to google a question or not willing to be bothered to do so, there's a snarky site for that:

http://lmgtfy.com/

"Let me google that for you" -- you type in your question (for instance, "Walgreen's locations"), and it will supply you with a link. You send that link to the offending person (the person who would rather ask you and have you google the answer rather than doing it themselves), and it will take them to a page where an animation plays where the search term gets typed into the google search page, and the hits show up. I sent it to a sister in law who repeatedly would call and ask questions that could easily googled ("What time does xxx restaurant open?", "What is the address of xxx?", and so on).

[Ombligo]

^^^^

I am so going to use that with my students.

[deckeda]

I don't recommend you take any students to a XXX restaurant.

[the_poochies]

binky wrote:
On the topic of not being able to google a question or not willing to be bothered to do so, there's a snarky site for that:

http://lmgtfy.com/

"Let me google that for you"

I want to send the sizeble numbers of callers to my office who ring me up all day with the most mundane questions that can be better answered online. I've even responded to such callers by saying "let me Google that for you." I've found that I receive these calls from people in all age groups and that older less Internet-literate folks are the ones who call me with such questions.

As for the Gen-Y workers, make sure you give them one of these...