Complaints About Anemic Millennials

In today’s world we classify everything, even generations. I belong to the Baby Boomers, my daughters are called X-Generation, and the adolescent youths of today are known as Millennials. I wrote research papers about the mixture of these generations in the workplace and in online education. To summarize, Millennials were raised by their “helicopter parents” of the X-Generation, are newcomers to the workplace and are independent techno-savvy, entitlement freaks, who are apparently good networkers that live in their own isolated cubical world.

Well, this is what I think about that! We are required to make an initial post and then two responses on the discussion board each week in every class that I’ve been in since enrolling at Kaplan University. It seems to me that in order to be “politically correct” you must paraphrase three important elements into your responses. This is their procedure. Firstly, procrastinate until around Monday to browse the posts, don’t want higher education to interfere with your weekend activities, which have already been made, don’t actually read the entire post, just scan it for key words. Then respond to a few with interlaced phrases of 1- I agree with you. 2- You are right about (insert keyword (s) here) 3- Then the all famous exclamation of “GOOD JOB!” Then they pat themselves on the back thinking that they have fulfilled the requirements for that unit and go ask mom for a twenty dollar reward because they have done such a great job at school.

I ask you, Is this some politically correct all purpose response absorbed throughout their lives from their parents and teachers during the previous twelve years of education? Has it come to this completely useless, nonproductive input from a majority of them? How about they consume some of those forbidden carbohydrates and red meat to raise their thought processors (CPU in Millennial terminology) to slightly higher clock speed or perhaps isolate them and force them to think about something else besides getting to a higher level on the video game that they are incessantly playing? This is one of my pet peeves; I can’t complain about it in public on the discussion boards, but I feel free to do so on my own blog.

Excuse me as I rant and vent cranky, old guy frustrations into the Internet. I will be back on topic with the next post, sometime later this week. Oh, by the way that's probably a Baby Boomer trait, also very unproductive.