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Why be such a prude? I can definitely tell who never served in the military by the way they act in the locker room. Most of us do not look like an underwear model. One day (sooner than you think) you too will be old. Would you want someone judging your looks? You need to man up and be more considerate of others.

Great Macallan interview!!

I’m a Gen Xer. I loathe team meeting and what makes matters worse is some of my managers are Gen Xers and their meetings are boring, lack focus and goal. I’m a mid level manager and I give direction and provide tools and say, “get to work.” And yes I don’t care about my colleagues weekends.

That’s because Xers are results oriented

Gen X here. I forgot boomers and millennials need a pat on the back and a participation ribbon for everything they do.

As a Gen Xer this pissed me off. I was going to leave a scathing comment. Then I thought... f__k it, it's lunch time.

🎯 Key points for quick navigation: 00:00:00 *📚 Introduction to Workplace Trends* - Presenter introduces themselves and the focus on workplace and marketplace trends. - Strategies for effective communication and selling across different generations. - Importance of making a strong first impression. 00:01:08 *🕰️ Generational Perspectives in the Workforce* - Discussion of generational views and expectations within the workplace. - Insight into how Boomers and Millennials view themselves and the future. - The role of different generations in shaping current workplace dynamics. 00:02:50 *🤝 Adapting Leadership Styles* - Shift in leadership dynamics and the need for leaders to support employees. - Challenges with employee turnover and strategies to improve retention. - The evolving role of Gen X, especially women, in financial decision-making. 00:03:52 *💼 Building a Supportive Workplace Culture* - Importance of fostering a supportive environment to enhance retention and morale. - Examples of organizations with high morale and strong culture. - Leadership's role in setting goals and fostering team success. Made with HARPA AI

Children are attention seekers. Adults work on their own and don't need participation medals

When I first got into the workforce. I don't remember meetings that weren't useful. If everyone needed to know, they told you. Then back to work. I think Gen X is a lot like our grandparents. We be came the get it done generation. Just hold a kind of open meeting, and at the end of the day, people can just wonder how Gen X got out of work on time.

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Gen Xer here. Do you have any freaking ideal how much time is wasted in *rah *rah meetings blowing smoke up everyone's backside to try to motivate the team? I don't care. Give me the assignment, tell me the resources I have and the expectation and I'll get it done. I don't need nor do I want your motivation. The fact that I have a job means I'm doing well enough without the "feelings" that I'm valuable. It's a job, not a social club.

Yep.

Get a motorcycle and deliver bacon

I'm married to a genex husband and for a while I thought he was mean and abusive but now I understand more that he just tells it like it is..... here's a loof hands off isolates himself into his world of whatever his hobby is it's horrible to be around I was born 1965 but I was not left alone I am the youngest in my family at older brothers and sister and parents were buried stayed married and I had a twin so I'm very relational so what you're saying makes sense to me.

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The thing about GenX is that when our parents said “Adapt and overcome” and “Lead, follow, or get out of the way” and “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem” we listened and took them seriously. Remember those three phrases next time you’re wasting our time in a dragging, off topic meeting. Last hour-long staff meeting I was in included 5 minutes of useful information while I ignored the rest and got 55 minutes of work done. And everyone is constantly amazed at the sheer volume of work I do, its high quality,and its organization, and that the meetings that I run start on time, stay on focus, and end early. Yeah…I’m the problem…according to this Dogbert.

Gen X managers biggest problem is that they can't terminate millennials and gen-z in the work force because HR has essentially hamstrung their abilities to get rid of those who undermine the workplace. You can't just fire anyone for being a total fuck up or lazy ass anymore. You can't get rid of toxic employees who have no people skills and can't work with others. You can't get rid of people who consistently underperform, regardless of how many chances you give him/her. You can't fire anyone who is always clocking in late. These kind of toxic employees put strain on the ones who want to be there and want to work, and THEY'RE the ones who end up leaving to find greener pastures. Management now has to fill in those roles with people who have lousy work ethic or only do the bare minimum.

What a load of crap! This isn’t a generational issue; it’s the difference between leadership and management. A leader has a daily/weekly/monthly meeting (any could be an appropriate frequency depending on the job), expeditiously gets inputs, provides direction, resolves problems and dismisses everyone to get back to work, then engages in MBWA ( “management by walking around” ) to spot-check, keep current, praise and correct. A certain degree of social interaction will occur as a good leader gets to know their people one-on-one or in their work groups. A meeting is NOT the place to do this. Everyone hates meetings that drag or lose focus; everyone loves a little personal attention. A manager lingers in meetings attempting to micromanage processes they don’t understand because they never engage in MBWA; instead they spend their time bouncing from meeting to meeting engaging in whatever acronym-festooned attempt to legislate common sense processes the current management fad demands. I have seen good leaders and crap managers amongst people of every generation. This clown is just doing what his generation has done since before GenX ever had a chance to prove itself: dismissing GenX out of the gate. We got called “slackers” before that call could ever be legitimately made and people like this one have clung to that notion ever since, cherry-picking facts and data to support their prejudice. Boomers are having trouble with GenX leaders because they want to cling to power and their own ways. Millennials are having trouble because they’re impatient to be in charge. GenZs are generally still too young to truly have a clue. Roll the clock back and Boomers used to be where GenX is, looked down on by Silents as “hippies”. This isn’t a function of generational “traits” that are about as over-generalized as horoscopes and fortune cookie wisdom; this is a function of aging and succession. And this guy is the worst kind of business fad: a consultant, the majority of whom are parasites hired by managers to “fix” problems that are often the result of poor leadership. And fascinatingly a consultant never comes in and says that there isn’t a problem, or that the problem is the management that hired them - they want to get paid. But if you’ve been around as long as I have you will recognize the stink of what they’re peddling as a repackaging of an older idea from a generation prior. I’ve watched this B.S. play out in the military, business and academia. It’s all the same. Stop trying to manage from meetings and get out among your people. Keep meetings concise and focused.

If you need a gold star for you doing your job,,,YOU ARE A PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN. I don't care about other people, what their wives names are or if they have one or kids.. Don't care, do your damn job and go about your life

Waaaahhhh! Needy fuckers!

Some advice…Talk less work more. It’s not a social club it’s a work environment.

I wasn't going to comment on this asinine video but since you feel you need to explain why my generation ruins corporate America... you asked for it. What you are describing is something the Baby Boomer generation needs for themselves and it was forced on Gen X'rs... like everything else in our childhoods. We don't do it because we don't need it. Our expectation for you, Millenials and Gen Zrs is that you show up and do the job we pay you to do. Need a hug for validation? Get one from your mom. Why should we invest our time in you, when you don't invest your time in your careers? You all move around every few years or quit because you don't like being treated like the adults you should be.

Gen Xr here -- f$%k being a part of, OR MANAGING, a "team" that needs its hand held. Better to be self employed.

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This is less of a generational issue than it is an American cultural issue, this fragility and neediness for external validation and constant acknowledgment. Go work in Germany or one of the Nordic countries, whose companies are known to provide generally higher quality products and services than American ones, and that also have higher employee satisfaction and retention. Their management style is exactly how Marston characterized GenX. People are self-motivated, pride themselves on thinking independently, are expected to do their jobs without hand-holding and constant affirmation, and expect that their performance is satisfactory unless informed otherwise. They work to live, they do not live to work, and they maintain very clear boundaries between the two. They do their work diligently and efficiently and go home when they're done. They find it inappropriate to try and make everything personal, and are creeped out and feel put on the spot by fellow employees assuming personal familiarity without an actual personal relationship. This American tactic of putting work in the context of being a "family", and being a "team" is a disingenuous manipulation tactic, one that cults employ heavily; it's nauseating, it erodes and blurs the boundaries of the work/life balance, and it impairs the efficiency and quality of a company.

GenXers creating chaos for the capitalists, working as intended.

Surprise! Its Gen X's fault. Smmfh.

Yea its an f ing job, we arent there to talk about how we feel about it. Just get er done and go home. Meetings are for boomers to argue and millenials to whine. Hate motivational speakers. Talk about a waste of money. And co workers pretend to be nice then use personal information agsinst you and or try and cause drama. Just have a zoom meeting or send an e mail. Id work from home forever and still get more done.

Boomers can spend 8 hrs in a meeting just to argue and nothing solved. Its called a state job.

More like babying and coddling. Have your assignment, the tools to do it. Do your dam job.

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The group that votes the most consistently blue has the lowest average iq in the nation. That’s not coincidence. 95 percent blue, 80 average iq.

Don't pay me 145 bucks an hour and ask me to sweep the floor and wipe shit down, after I finish the job in record time. I am Gen X and Gen Y and Z can do it, if they have not already left yet.

Gen X and we carry the load for everyone. The rest of you should grow tf up.

as a gen x, its not our fault all generations that came after are wusses

As a Gen-Zer, I respect the Gen-X work mentality. "I don't [necessarily] care about anybody; we just work together[, as work is what we're here for]" sounds pretty based to me 👍. My parents are Gen X, so maybe that's why 🤷‍♂

We are not only sandwiched between our parents and then our kids but have to tolerate this crap on the job. It's enough to drive us insane but I'm thankful I'm not alone in this. Gen X will still stand up to this lunacy cause we are stronger than both these generations combined. 😂❤

I'm an introvert, so I understand the Gen X boss. Professional boundaries and cutting back on nonsense meetings is helpful. People that get social needs met at work are a bigger issue than the people that want professional boundaries.

As a Gen-Xer, I always figured that if I was in a position of leadership, I'd want to be like either Optimus Prime or Hannibal from The A-Team.

I was gen X and a lot of my bosses were millennials. I said if my job makes you look bad. Let me know and we’ll figure it out. Other than that leave me alone unless you know a good joke

That's what happens when you leave your children at home alone....Boomers....they learn fierce independence and they expect everyone else to do their job without hand-holding.

As GenX, I'm not seeing a problem. Why is the team important in the first place? If you can do the job...

I like yo be left alone….tell me what the task is, when it needs to be done and the main contacts information in case I have a question….don’t drag me into pointless meetings and then ask me how far we are in the task that I was supposed to be working on when you already know how much time I am wasting in meetings…

Gen X had to figure things out, I suppose we think that if you don't know... you'll figure it out. I mean with Google, youtube, chat gpt, there's not much you can't figure out "before" you ask for help. As a Gen X parent, this is a constant in our house, when the kids need help with something, I first ask them what they have done or tried before helping them, and then I ask them to walk me through the steps or options they have tried, then once I see what they have attempted, I can better offer what else needs to be done or a direction that wasn't thought of. The same goes for employees, far too often companies are hiring employees, nowadays, who don't know what to do, they might have a degree, but they don't know anything, or how to problem solve... but they are great at asking for help, and by help, I mean they seem to be looking for is for someone else to do their job.

Gen-X is the quiet gen, we don't talk much about anything, and we mostly keep to ourselves.

once joined a job in 2003, where they tossed a nerf football to each person, and whoever caught it had to talk about their day and what they hope to accomplish in the workplace. Kind of strange, but that's team work I guess. Never was a team person, I just worked. ;) 1977

Gen X here. Tell me what the job is, then get the fuck outta the way!