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I’m a Millennial. I like avocados, UberEats, and my JUUL. When it comes to my work life, Ryan Howard from The Office explains it best, “So I want guidance. I want leadership. Lead me…when I’m in the mood to be led.” It’s a simple, yet complex life that allows me to dictate my future without knowing if I want Banana Pancakes or Chocolate Chip Waffles at brunch tomorrow. It’s invigorating and anxiety-riddled.
So, when a Deloitte survey came out and said that almost 50% of Millennials will leave their job within the next 2 years, I thought to myself, no shit.
Who knows what I’ll be doing in 2 years. Within two years I could pull a poor mans Shia LaBouf and go completely off the rails, or become the world’s next great social media influencer. Both, sound like a great life to me.
The article from The Wall Street Journal also includes this:
Surveyed millennials appear to want the best of both worlds—full-time stability with freelance flexibility. Within the workplace, flexible working practices continue to be important.
I want my work life to be more flexible than a Russian Gymnast. So, yes, I want to be able to stroll into work at 10 a.m. after an intense morning of Crossfit and espresso, and still be able to leave by 5 p.m. You want me to be happy, right?
Millennials are notorious for killing everything. Marriage, Appelbees, and cable have all been, “killed by millennials,” so where does it end? Why not kill long term job placement as well?
Everyone gets bored, but especially Millennials. I can’t sit still without aimlessly scrolling through Instagram or sending an aesthetically fitting snapchat while at Starbucks. Thats what happens when you get an iPhone at the age of 12.
So, if my job is boring, not flexible enough, or a better offer comes around, I’m going to peace out of that bitch and go somewhere else. The generation above me grinded in factories, plants, and warehouses so I could have this freedom, and now I’m taking advantage of it. Sue me. Life is short, and in a world full of grim atrocities, it is our civil duty to be happy.
Therefore, I am not at all surprised by these survey results. If anything, I’m shocked numbers went down from 2016 and didn’t shoot up. Freedom is a beautiful thing, and if you want to leave your job within 2 years, send it and don’t look back. .
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@ConesDeal
i hate working with all of my heart
So simple, yet such a profound statement. I cried it was so beautiful (read: I hate my job so much)
Wishing you had kept your old corner?
Too real.
After watching the generations before us get laid off after a bad quarter or two or just before they were to get a pension they worked 30 years for, you bet your ass we aren’t loyal to our employers. The only friends I know that intend to stay at their current company long term are both paid well and work for a company that promotes from within and hires from outside as a last resort. The others are just their to collect a paycheck and do their work well enough so their manager will say something good about them when they hop to another company. Companies pay millions of dollars for some 50 something year old to tell them how to better retain their millennial workers. Its simple, show some loyalty to your workers, pay a fair salary, and be a bit flexible and you’ll be able to keep your millennials.
100% this, companies decided loyalty to employees was too expensive when they got rid of pensions and now dont understand why employees aren’t blindly loyal anymore. As the first generation with no access to pensions (minus government workers) the best way to live a comfortable retirement is to make as much money as we can right now. We literally cant afford to be “loyal” and pass up the 10-20% increase from moving jobs since a our retirement is based on growth of investments over time. Passing on pay increases extends our working years or decrease quality of life after retirement. Somehow companies dont understand this, a director at the multibillion dollar company I recently left was talking about retention ratesamong millenials and made an offhand comment of “I guess they want more money or something”
It’s definitely rare these days but there are still non-government jobs out there that offer pensions, so don’t completely give up hope on those. The company I work for offers them even though this place is the definition of big corporation.
I love how these companies who do what ever it takes to make more money to survive, even fucking over their employee’s careers and pay, get offended when said employees use the exact same logic to survive and thrive. They do things for the bottom line and so should you without remorse. Because at the end of the day, we’re all gonna die, with the way things are going now, we’re all probably gonna die at the same time so while we’re still here being indentured servants to a system that doesn’t have feelings, get your mother fucking money and enjoy your time before it runs out lol
The worst is when the company president gives the whole spiel about how he sees the company as a family. Yet, they’ve laid people off without any notice or severance. Plus, some of those were people who’d been there for more than 10 years
Well said. I think the days of (mostly larger) companies giving any thought to their employees are gone. Most folks are just a number that can be replaced with another number. Numbers don’t show loyalty or commitment, so why should we. I was lucky enough to leave a corporate job for a small business a few years out of school and it changed my life. Yeah, work still sucks but at least I know my loyalty through the grind will be rewarded in the end
This is probably anecdotal evidence based on my 5 or so years in the corporate world, but it really seems like companies are increasingly hesitant to promote from within. You have to look externally to get a fair evaluation of what you’re worth. Also, regarding the consultants telling companies how to retain millennials, I feel like their solutions (ping pong tables, bring your dogs to work, lax dress code, etc) are all distractions from the fact that there are no longer pensions, company cars, things that used to be somewhat commonplace.
Someone once told me to learn the difference between good culture and good collateral when looking at the kinds of perks an employer offers. Ping pong tables, snacks, nap rooms, dogs, lax dress code, etc. are cool, but it’s all collateral. It doesn’t equal a good workplace. A place where you can grow as an employee, be treated fairly, and have a good work/life balance (whatever it looks like to you) is a place with a good culture. I used to work for a big PR firm that had great collateral, but had a terrible culture and they didn’t deliver where it counted (promotions, raises, opportunity). That culture vs. collateral advice has served me very well when job hunting.
2 things I care about in a job:
1. My paycheck
2. Opportunities to work-from-home/remote.
3. Is it going to look good on my resume
Honestly, that’s about it.
3 things*
4. No math is involved.
He didn’t say counting
Some people get all bent out of shape when you leave for a better job saying this generation has no sense of loyalty, but the pursuit of happiness was written right there in the Declaration of Independence. If a new job is the way to happiness, go for it.
Preach. I really can’t stand explaining to people who don’t get it the direct correlation between your job and happiness.
One thing no one ever thinks about or mentions, for whatever reason, is that technology has made it so much easier to apply to positions that you wouldn’t have been able to apply to, or even known about, 20+ years ago. Before, you would find out about an open position from someone or see their ad in the newspaper and would then have to mail your application or drop it off in person.
Now? I can hop on any job site and apply to a position 3,000 miles away. I can also then do a phone call or a video call for my first round interview. The barrier to entry for new jobs is so much lower now, why should we stick around jobs that we don’t like?
The downside to that is so many more people are applying to that job. You really need something to help you stick out these days.
Absolutely. Your chances to get a new job are better when you’re applying for more positions, even with more applicants, than for fewer positions with fewer applicants.
But I think your chances…*
I think Grandex could create a great new job by hiring someone to make an edit button.
Hi Grandex, I am now soliciting work for apps and you should def consider me because…I’m me lol
A lot of this is for basic survival too. People are basically punished for their loyalty. My raise didn’t even cover the cost of living increase at my last employer. Yet, I got a 50% raise changing jobs.
I was in this exact situation a few years ago. After I dropped my notice, one bonehead manager told my co-worker about my move “I guess it is all about the money with him”… you’re goddamn right it is all about the money! If you’re not a priest or working for some nonprofit, it is absolutely about the money.
I was at a work conference recently and sat through a “How to Handle Millennials in the Workplace” seminar, and it was extremely enlightening. I wish all companies required this guy to come give a talk.
The bottom line of it was that Millenials aren’t the lazy, irresponsible generation. We require stimulation (chill, perverts), we want to feel valued, and we want what our parent’s didn’t have, which is a healthy balance of home life and work life. Unlike any previous generation, we’re devoted to being happy. We work to make money to have enjoyment, not because work is our life. If that’s wrong, then I don’t want to be right.
It’s no coincidence that the generation that watched their parents have everything ripped away after slugging it out every day, staying loyal to their companies, having a mortgage, investing conventionally, etc, wants to watch out for #1 and not waste their life.
Stayed at my first job out of school for almost three years and I still regret not leaving earlier.
3 years isn’t so bad. As someone who stayed at their first job for over 5, it’s been helpful to have that on my resume because it helps push back on the “job hopper” stereotype that companies think of for Millennials.
Which really just enables more job-hopping/increasing salary.
Reading this while applying to other jobs as a fall back for if my promotion interview this afternoon falls through.
Let us know how it goes!
Got the promotion! Time to go drink my weight in alcohol in celebration this weekend.
I’m 24 and in Marketing. I have been a part of massive lay offs by two separate, huge corporations for the sake of appeasing greedy boomer shareholders. I have zero loyalty to companies anymore. Clearly, there isn’t any stability or loyalty to keeping hard working talent no matter how big the company – The recent one rhymes with Shime Shmagazine. However, with layoffs come severance and I’ve doubled my salary from my first position 2.5 years ago because I level up in position and salary each time. I just can’t stand that I’ve had to see it devastate great people, who put years into the companies and have families. There is no heart in business guys.