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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a gen-x manager, I find millennials draining. As someone upthread pointed out, it’s the need for positive feedback, picking and choosing projects based on whether it makes them feel fulfilled, and the inability to shut up and listen and learn that makes me crazy. Part of that is based on characteristics of my generation. - many of our parents were silent generation and we were a lot of latchkey kids. It was kind of ingrained that no one really cared what we thought and you just be quiet and get things done. I’m actually uncomfortable when people gush about my work, and I don’t need rewards - I figure if someone is unhappy they’ll let me know. My workplace is not there to make me feel validated as a human being. I don’t normally think about providing lots of positive feedback. I am very aware of being respectful of peoples’ time out of work and wanting people to have down time, but when it’s your turn to take the grunt work and spend actual time becoming good in what you do, you need to do it. [/quote]

That’s interesting, because my older managers regularly praise me (early 30s millennial) for being the hardest working person in our office and willing to take on any grunt task.  Frankly, they are too lazy to do it themselves and own that, which is kind of funny and refreshing. I don’t mind it because they have my back and award/promote me regularly. Just goes to show you that it’s pointless to generalize. [/quote]
Girl, I'm sure you're great. But I definitely praise my early 30s employees more than older employees, because I perceive they need it. I never lie, but I deliver praise in the way that people can best receive it. Younger people seem to need it to be more effusive. To me, it's not bad or good. It's different.

Also, to be clear, my older employees absolutely know that I think they are awesome. But I deliver their praise in 1-2 specific, detailed sentences. Beyond that, they get uncomfortable.[/quote]

Well, whatever works for you and your team. I would like to think I am not praised because my managers perceive that I “need” it more so than others solely because of my age, but I certainly could be wrong. How do you treat your even younger colleagues if you treat your early 30s employees like children?

I tend to find these threads annoying because it is obviously frustrating to be judged the way some people here do just for being a millennial. I’m 33, for crying out loud. I can’t help the label or when I was born. I am just as productive and worthwhile as any older member of society. [/quote]

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