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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Why is it so terrible to have a different perspective on these things than you do? Moving through life believing that your thoughts and opinions aren't worth anyone caring about sounds quite sad. Something like one third of your life is spent working, and that a huge percentage of the one life you get to spend not feeling valued or fulfilled. And seriously what's wrong with positive feedback? A good manager should provide both. Your employees need to know what they are doing well just as much as what they are doing wrong.

A lot of the complaints I see about managing and working with millennials seems rooted in the idea that work should suck and millennials are difficult because they won't just accept that. [/quote]

Gen-Xer who couldn’t care less about positive feedback. It’s infantilizing. I know what I’m good at and I know when I’m doing good work. I don’t look to my job to feel valued or fulfilled, I just go there to get paid so I can enjoy real fulfillment in my free time.[/quote]

Do you manage people? If you manage people and have zero concept as to why positive feedback is critical for running a team, then you must be a pretty shitty boss.[/quote]

No, I’m only on the receiving end and I really don’t care about it.[/quote]

That’s nice. I asked my husband about whether he considers providing positive feedback a productive thing for his employees, as he’s managed people for years. He said “of course. It’s critical if they’re going to understand where they’re strong and where they need to improve, as well as for helping them develop their careers moving forward.”

Thank god you don’t manage people.[/quote]

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