Art by: Laurie A. Conley
So yesterday I sent a request to someone in our office and he melted down because when I asked him to verify whether a return was in his work area he felt ( I think ) that my request was a statement of his incompetence. I just wanted to know if the box was in that area. If he had simply said it wasn’t in his area I would have emailed another department. No harm no foul. I must send out a half dozen of those searches a week and nobody ever cried and screeched in all caps that my ‘tone’ had driven them to distraction.
Anyway, I told my friend that evening that I am a writer. If I wanted to say he was stupid brain dead millennial who couldn’t find his ass with a GPS tracker, a team of well trained search dogs and a group of professional butt finders and that I knew that asking him to look from left to right was out of his skill set- I WOULD HAVE. I would have included pictures and maybe even a song from youtube as well:
When it comes to work related correspondence- I don’t adhere to ‘ show don’t tell ‘.
But here at my blog – you won’t have to guess at what I’m saying- I will spell it out word for word.
I don’t know that it’s a Millennial thing, or even a Gen-Z thing, as much as a man thing these days. I’ve seen so many men crashing out over what they perceive to be even the slightest challenge to their authority or position. I’m putting this on the ware between the genders, the “crisis of male loneliness,” Trump making it fashionable for men to act like two-year-olds, and just plain emotional dysregulation on the part of men who never learned to look beyond their own entitlement and position as boys.
*war between the genders, LOL
Ah! The nurture or environment question gets called!
I have to millennial aged sons that aren’t ” trumpified ” and they’re good guys.
My youngest son is a ” Girl Dad ” with a Supremely confident and outgoing daughter.
The thing is, if you live in a society that assumes your male children will simply ascend to their God given positions and that isn’t happening you better have a plan “b” that helps them prepare for the real world.
Being a decent human isn’t coded into our DNA.
It has to be taught through example
There is never a shortage of them. Generation is irrelevant. It just seems like there are more every year.
I think that the term millennial describes a mindset too. My sons and nieces are millennials and frankly they aren’t so- how should I put it…delicate and lacking in communication and life skills.