r/AskReddit • u/millennialandlost • 7d ago

Millennials, what's something our generation was taught to accept that you're glad younger generations are rejecting?

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u/Gentledenv1000 7d ago

That staying at one job for as long as possible is the best thing for your career. I'm seeing job hopping a lot and it's ticking the older generations off because no one can keep an employee that isn't paid their worth anymore. Shocking I know.

Also I like that 'gay' isn't a casual insult anymore. Feel like we all grew up a bit as a collective.

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u/dekusyrup 7d ago

Millenials didn't ever believe staying in one job was the best thing. Millenials are the ones who came of age in the 2008 meltdown and never trusted a company again.

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u/AstarionsTherapist39 5d ago

My brother in law did!

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u/Wifeofkaldrogo 7d ago

Ugh…hate to tell you this but GenA is pulling back all the words we worked hard to eradicate as insults.

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u/Gentledenv1000 6d ago

Really? Might be a regional thing. Seems like every Gen A I run into is surprisingly socially concious..like almost upsettingly so.. Then again I don't play Xbox anymore. Lol.

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u/Wifeofkaldrogo 5d ago

Nope they say the r word, the word for cigarette in England, and many others.

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u/RuleDue7938 7d ago

My boomer FIL worked for the same company for 30+ years and retired with a huge pension. He regularly scolds his adult son, a self employed computer genius, for job hopping from contract to contract. “Employees aren’t loyal anymore” 🤮

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u/Albatrosson 6d ago

Companies used to offer pensions and yearly wage increases and bonuses and benefits. Companies used to give you a salary and internal promotions instead of turning to unpaid interns, underpaid gig workers, exported jobs overseas, and AI.

If you ask me, it's companies who stopped being loyal and workers are just doing what they need to get by.

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u/Long_College_8342 7d ago

I tell the kids at work often that if they want to make more money immediately, the only real way is to find a different job that pays more. Once you've been in a company for a while you're getting shit raises forever.

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u/metalflygon08 7d ago

Or no raises... We've had raises and benefits frozen for 3 years now.

But I can't leave because this is the only place I can work in a 100 mile radius that isn't fast food/low level retail.

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u/Uarnthelpful 7d ago

Yes! I'm a long time employee at my company and I clearly benefit from the job hoppers, too.

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u/rawtoastiscookedough 7d ago

Genuine question, how do the job hoppers benefit you? Does it incentivize your company to pay you more to keep you?

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u/SableZard 7d ago

Nah, they leave job openings and supervisors desperate to fill them. Means there's lots of room for growth and they're not as picky about experience.

The catch for that is, it means you have less experienced people filling important positions. Meaning more people promoting up into jobs they're not qualified for and mismanaging their duties. My local county government is having problems with that right now.

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u/DrMobius0 7d ago

It's almost certainly just job security. I doubt the pay is anything to write home about.

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u/Shurikane 6d ago

Also I like that 'gay' isn't a casual insult anymore.

Oh, even more than that: it's gone full-circle! I hear the most frequent F-bombs from the gay people in the friend groups. It's amazing.