How Gen Y Should Talk To Old People At Work

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 2, 2013 @07:37AM from the back-in-my-day-MTV-played-videos dept.

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."

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Re:as loudly by xaxa · 2013-09-02 09:47 · Score: 5, Interesting

The hell do folks' personal gaming interest have to do with their professional life?
Once they put it on their work computer's desktop it gets noticed.
One of my colleagues has a screengrab from a film; a huge gun against someone's head. I didn't much like seeing that. I'm not going to complain about it, but I think it's a bit disrespectful and immature.
An anime/manga background isn't disrespectful (hopefully!), but think about what impression you want to give to colleagues beforehand. That's all.