Us poor millennials.1 We’re generation screwed—by school debt, the economy, in politics, and by our boomer, Gen X bosses. We have become a sort of inconvenient truth inside the working world.
Job-hoppers, narcissists, attention/trophy seekers, needy over-sharers, we’ve been called them all. Not a day goes by without another article in mainstream media overanalyzing us, trying to make sense of us, prescribing the perks to attract us, bewailing our rise to majority working demographic by 2020. A cottage industry exists explaining us to companies, consulting on how to deal with us, attract us, keep us, coax us every way, and so on.
Well, here we are. The time of reckoning is here. It’s time to set the record straight. ...
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