" Some millennials and Zoomers will think you ’re mad at them if you habituate flow at the end of sentences in emails . "
Recently on Reddit,u/biishep1230shared theirexperienceworking with a new coworker, writing, “Today I was training a new person at work who just transferred to a team that I lead, and she was shocked that I had worked for the company for 25 years and exclaimed, ‘I’m only 25 years old!’ I gave her a pro tip that that might not be the best thing to point out. Everyone had a good laugh.”
" I prompt everyone that I converted a PowerPoint to PDF without ask anyone on the team ( all younger than me ) for help . I cease the day with the Gen X tell , ' Now , go have fun , just do n’t get hurt . ' "
1.“My boss is 20 years younger than me, and theyoungestperson on our team is 35 years younger than me. I have to say, I’m so glad I get to work with this younger generation before I leave the workforce. As an always LGBTQ ally, I still remember rolling my eyes at the cis/trans/pronouns conversation for a hot minute, then realizing I was beingthatkind of older person. Yuck.”
2.“The topic of the Y2K bug came up. My team wasn’t even born.”
— u / cspinelive
3.“I have a newish thirtysomething on my team, and he has asked about my experience, and not in an ass-kissing way. It’s such a shame that people today don’t receive the training we did. I feel it is my responsibility to pass on what I know.”
" He has submit many time that he appreciates the redundant prison term I expend with him to get him up to f number . I think he is sincere , and I have to admit it feels good to be appreciated . "
— u / AlexVlahos
4.“Management isn’t anything like it was in the ’80s, when we were young and wouldn’t have dreamed of expecting the kind of fairness demanded now. I’m not ripping on gens Y and Z. Just saying it would have been nice to be able to expect respect when we were baby workers. We didn’t get it.”
5.“My boss is a millennial and doesn’t grasp that I don’t know how to use Excel as if it’s my second language, the way she does. First of all, my job never required using Excel before. When I went to high school, we had two Macintosh computers that you had to sign up for, hoping the other 3,000 students didn’t need to use them at the same time.”
" 2nd , if she want me to be practiced , do n’t sign me up for an Excel course and wait a yr to assign me a project , then wonder why I do n’t recall how to use it and get frustrated . "
— u / Various - General-8610
6.“We have a Gen Z administrative assistant for a team of Gen X cops who work Internet Crimes Against Children (among other things). For a while, she was in a near-perpetual state of shock between the cases we work and just us in general. Seeing her wander around with a VHS tape trying to figure out what it is was one of the most hilarious things that has happened at work.”
" She ’s on board now and loves us . We get her to perfect her eyeroll , say ' whatever ' with the right modulation , and become very liberal with the middle finger . We may have been a spot too successful with the Gen X rebirth therapy . "
— u / Experiment_262
7.“Some millennials and Zoomers will think you’re mad at them if you use periods at the end of sentences in emails.”
8.“This is not true of most of the under-30 crowd; I’ve worked with plenty of great kids. However, in the last eight years, I’ve had to train several young adults who just cannot take direction without assuming you’re trying to change them on some fundamental level.”
" I ’ve been in supervisory and education positions for 25 years and had never heard someone tell me , ' I do n’t like doing it that way of life , ' and when I tell them they have to , they incriminate me of try out to make them do thingsmyway .
" It ain’tmyway , nestling , it ’s the fashion it ’s done here , it ’s the way I was also taught to do it . It ’s as if they have no conception that work is n’t free time and that they ’re a part of a squad ( or what being part of a team even have in mind ) . It blow my nous , and I still have n’t work out out a fashion to train these kids . They often terminate up feeling suppress and out of stead and end up pass on or just getting sack for not learning how to do work . "
— u / TheReal8symbols
9.“I’m in a supervisory role with mostly millennials on my team, and I’m here to tell you that it has been a learning process. Let me say that I’m not a person who thinks millennials or even Gen Z sucks; quite the opposite. I love that they have priorities that differ from my own; it keeps some of my quasi-boomer tendencies in check. That being said, I have had to continue to change my expectations drastically from what was expected of me on my way up.”
" I ’ve tried so many unlike ways to get and keep people hire , from sharing gross to pay clock time off , and have been met with dashing hopes along the way . We as a generation have been accused of make a gumption of entitlement in our nipper because we overcompensate for our loose - compass bringing up by being helicopter parent who never lose a tiddler ’s activity , and that may be a fair assessment .
" A balance has to be found through the tried - and - true method acting of trial and mistake , smasher and gutter orb , to put it in Lebowski terms . Regardless , I feel that I have had to temper certain expectation . The point is , I love my squad , and they work their shtup off , but it ’s a challenge to maintain the get-up-and-go and pull of generational expectations .
" I will say I have benefited greatly in my own personal life by adapting to their expectations , and I sincerely feel that they ’ve realise a little more perceptiveness for how I approach things in the process . There is no black and white-hot in management , IMO , just ever - alter values of hoar . "
— u / PhotonWranglers
10.“My favorite team I ever managed was nearly all millennials. I realized how lucky I was to have managed them when I ended up at a large company and temporarily managed a group with an average age of 50-plus (this was in the mid-2000s). I’m still friends with a couple of the millennials all these years later. We had a great team environment where we all helped one another and had a lot of fun in the process. Never felt that with the older group I managed later.”
11.“I’ve noticed that any level of directness is often perceived as a personal attack and the height of aggression. No, I’m just not bullshitting you, out of basic human respect.”
— atomic number 92 / Up2Eleven
12.“At 50, I’m at the very top tier of old farts in my workplace. We’re mostly hiring Gen Z now. They are almost universally respectful, but my line of work strongly preselects for respect regarding seniority and rank. I hope to be viewed as a mentor, father figure, or at least an uncle figure. It seems as if I am.”
— uranium / testingground171
13.“I’m a 47-year-old lawyer. Been practicing for 20 years. Solo attorney the entire time. I have two employees, both in their late 20s. The difference between us is sometimes minimal and sometimes huge. My 20 years of experience over them is a huge factor, but we’re ultimately into the same things, watch the same shows, and listen to the same music. The biggest difference is literally my 20 years of experience. I’ve been there and done that. They haven’t. Things I take for granted are new to them. Once I realized that, it made me a better boss, teacher, and mentor.”
14.“Got 30 undergrads who are constantly rotating because undergrads tend to graduate, even today. I know all of the language, all of the memes, all of the Discord, all of the Twitch, all of the culture. I am immersed in it and completely empowered to constantly embarrass my Gen Z/Alpha children because I know all of the things they know, and it makes them very upset.”
— u / hibbledyhey
15.“I work with all millennials, and I can honestly say that they are a pleasure to work with! Kind, empathetic, and I get ~90% of their references without feeling old. I just grew up playing different video games and listening to different music. Maybe it’s just a matter of maturity. It doesn’t matter what generation you are — the ones who are 19 to 25 will never fail to mention how young they are until they start feeling old themselves! Those 26 and up start getting much more humble and relatable.”
— u / dotnetgirl
16.“As a Gen X’er in a management position, I unfortunately feel like I have to train my parents in the digital world and also Gen Z’ers regarding office politics, workplace socializing, and just basically everything, including using a freaking printer. I have no kids, but boomer parents are like teenagers who are lazy or angry about technology and the way the world works right now.”
17.“My boss is an elder millennial and loves having me on his team because he can point me in a direction, and I just go do the thing that needs doing, while everyone else needs some level of hand-holding and babysitting.”
" They keep trying to put me into direction , but I have zero desire . I ’m totally nerveless with where I am and with what I do . The big joke is that since I ’m Gen X , I ’m happy operate a job where I ’m push aside — just as long as they do n’t ignore me when it comes to my pay .
" I ’ve been with my caller for 23 years , and that seniority boast a quite a little of young kinfolk ' judgement . It also blows their minds that I ’m NOT in direction and do n’t need to be — because that ’s what they ’ve been secern they ’re speculate to do in society to be successful in life ; otherwise , they ’re failing . I love check that little part of their mind light up when I enjoin them it ’s perfectly all right to be well-off where you ’re at and not have to climb the corporate ladder if you do n’t desire to . No one will like what your work title was when you ’re dead . "
— u / PrincessBuzzkill
18.“I have coworkers born in 1995 — the year I bought my current Jeep. They love riding around in it because it’s an ‘antique’ to them. I have to remind them that I was an adult when I bought it.”
— atomic number 92 / supershinythings
19.“We have a few Gen Z’ers on the team, and we drop random pop culture facts like Will Smith used to be a rapper and Mark Wahlberg used to be Marky Mark. It blows their young minds. And when one of them started, she would talk about her mom a lot; then one day she said, ‘I can’t believe my mom is almost 50. That’s so old.’ We told her maybe next time, we’ll invite her mom out instead of her for beer.”
" I get it , but it ’s a bounderish affair to go on about within earshot of other older coworkers unless you ’ve give some sort of resonance and cognise that everyone can take a prank .
" Generally , I just wind my eyes , but in 20 years , they ’ll be yell bloody murder when the Gen Alphas get in and make the same remark . "
— u / LittleMoonBoot
21.“To be honest, it’s exhausting watching them take on more work than they can handle, hoard the work until the last minute, and then ask for last-minute help. I get the unfinished work and wonder what they’ve been doing all this time besides bemoaning how much work they have. Rinse and repeat. As a manager, I actually try to help them with time management and pacing, but other managers just let them fall on their faces and help them pick up the pieces like a helicopter parent, to the detriment of the entire team.”
— u / ArtisticBrilliant491
22.“I have four teams rolling up to me, consisting of Gen X, millennials, and Gen Z, or whatever they call the young people entering the workforce over the last five years or so. I don’t think of them as ‘generation anything,’ and frankly, I don’t care and don’t want to know how old any of them are. I only care that they do their jobs in reasonable and responsible ways and demonstrate growth so that I have the data I need to pay them more and promote them.”
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