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How Gen Y Should Talk To Old People At Work
jfruh writes "A lot of ink has been spilled explaining to Boomers and Gen Xers how they can best manage, motivate, and retain talented members of the Millenial generation on the job. But it's a two-way street, and those born in the '80s and later could also use a lesson on how to best communicate with older co-workers, who after all will determine their promotion and pay raises for the foreseeable future. Advice includes: make actual phone calls, mirror the level of formality your co-workers use in e-mails, and for Pete's sake don't ask them things like 'R U going?' in a non-texting medium."
Keep a level tone, don't use slang they won't understand and nod and smile when they say something racist or conservative.
Look, in case you puerile dorks haven't yet figured this out - In the corporate world, the world in which I work(so I know a few things), perception is very important, especially because chances are your boss is an older geezer than you are who was raised properly with manners.
When you get hired, you embrace the corporate culture. I know that sounds a lot for you social-retards to handle, as you're the ones playing music loudly on your phone in public and performing other obnoxious habits. Chances are, you think the real world is like the movie The Social Network and your parents didn't instill any discipline in you and let you do whatever the fuck you wanted to do in public. You were the kid whose parents let him run around the restaurant and randomly kick other diners in the shins, and then your yuppie-asshole dad explained it all away by telling angry partrons some dumb shit like, "he's just exploring."
If somebody has Anime on their desktop or plays Pokemon without shame, it means that chances are they are one of those compulsively nose-wiping snots I described above. I am a millenial, albeit an older one, but I understand those things because I was properly raised. When I was a kid, anybody who was playing with action figures in the fifth grade was laughed at, because by then cool kids like me were listening to Kriss-Kross and going to dances with girls. Get with it, kids.
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