Granted student could learn about SM on their own, but most dont. But it is irresponsible to blame them for not knowing how to use social media to…engage an audience, manage a brand, increase revenue, or “build a facebook page” as you put it.

As far as millenials’ entitlement, most of those people dont have a job or havent they told you. Chances are if they are not doing good they are not telling anyone especially not their professor.

To be clear, I wasn’t advocating employers start giving out iPhones, stop requiring our presence in the office and pay for our bottle service at the hottest clubs.

What I hoped to convey was that the workplace itself is changing, and employers - many of whom tell me they are frustrated by unmet expectations and often unable to retain young talent - might benefit from approaching this new generation of employees from a different perspective. Work doesn’t begin at 9 and end at 5. It doesn’t include an hour lunch. And many times, our managers are not only mentors, but friends.

New technology platforms have changed how we communicate and how we interact. They have also blurred the line between our personal and professional lives. Those companies that choose to ignore these huge societal changes will, in my opinion, feel the impact on their balance sheets.

Anyway, thanks for keeping the conversation going!

“Sickening”

Three more hours
Of accompanied solitude.

Drips of joy
Sting my eyes!

It sickens me
What a person has to do

To function in a material
World.

It sickens me
how much I need you.

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“Raw”

It is a disaster,
This rude place I call home.

Spontaneity is welcomed
Only by the innocent
Whom are not aware
Of the realities of cruelty in the world.

How can I have peace
When I know
That we have all failed?
It is not fair to fail
At something
you had no clue.

My towel is on the corner
Bloody,
Stained with dreams
That will not be fulfilled.
Drenched,
by the sweat of the people
That did not have a chance.

The innocent souls
Of yesterday.
And the unfiltered souls
Of tomorrow.

I cannot have a dream–
When I know the answer.

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This has never been shared anywhere. Actually, this is the first time I write it in a computer in general.

There are two
Movements
which we cannot
Control:
that of
Nature,
and that natural
Forward Motion
that Is men’s
Imagination.

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“My Living Testament to the UnBorn Society”

I belong to the planet and I pray for balance. My path is of awareness. We have a real chance of evolving into the future we all fear. We can do this by practicing open-mindedness and accepting the damages we currently adhere. There are other options on the table; it is up to us to consider them. It is up to us to move forward: Valiantly, competently, responsibly—and mostly importantly—lovingly. For our true concerns are to stay true to our families, communities, and fellow beings on the planet. Once we achieve this plane, our unborn societies will look back and thank us for creating a better, safer place to co-exist is peace.

BUT, my argument here is that you have the larger platform to reach people, I am not quite there yet. I am not saying that I cannot make a difference, but I do not have your status, platform, or economic comfort… So, I am in school, learning, trying to make my life better through education; not because the establishment or my parents told me, but because I know that education is the ultimate liberator and creator of happiness. Education will allow me to keep making the right choices to have a happier life. Moving on. I think that the problem is real, but we should be working on solutions. No one listens to a problem alone, no matter what generation they are from, they listen to problems with solutions attached to them. This is why I think about the solutions. The issues are real, we (GenX) know that the Internet, cell phones, and texting are not the most important thing in the world, but after years of lying, helicopter parents, and broken homes in general, who the hell wants to live in the real world anymore. We need big brains finding solutions and sharing it generously… The only problem with this is that there is no money in solving the world‘s problems. Who wants to solve the world problems when they know that the idea of monetary systems would disappear? It is a virus, humans are viruses. BUT we have hearts, and every hundred years or so we move forward a little towards the right place…

Can we be those persons? Are you willing to be that person? Probably not. Why? Because we have children, we have houses, we have bills, we have nice papers to write… it is a revolving cellar of puke that no one wants to clean.

My suggestion is to kill all of the damn “Boomers” that do not want to accept that they ruined the world and now they are trying to fix it by throwing money at the issues. I have said it before in your class, and I will say it again: These are socio-political issues that no one is willing to talk about and try to fix.

Again, kill the Boomers.

I share your idealism (which, ironically, is one of the reasons I left corporate America — my idealism made it difficult to work for organizations that wanted to continue doing things it viewed successful year after year). I think Millennials do have the chance to make the world and corporate world a better place. However, they won’t get there by taking shortcuts and demanding that the workplace changes to suit them before they’ve learned through hard work.

You’ve touched on a great topic with the disconnect between Millennials and those currently in charge (Boomers). There is a lot of animosity, based on fear. Perhaps Gen Xers will be more accommodating when they take over, but I still worry that Millennials want their cake before they’ve earned the right to eat it or learned how to bake it.

*But what if it can be better?

I agree that the dense narcissistic aura that today’s kids have seems to never run out, but we must go back and see what went wrong. Dick Meyer’s “Why We Hate Us: American Discontent in the New Millennium” does a fabulous job at explaining why we are where we are, and how we can fix it. I am not disagreeing with your points here, but we did not start this behavior. We are but a mere clone of our previous “free love, anything goes, peace in the world” ancestors. The only problem is that like the rest of the country—we are on steroids.

Yes, I had to learn the hard way, corporate America has its ways and if they are making money they assume that it is the “right way.” But what if it can better? What if we can have the cake and eat it too?

In my experience, it boiled down to the ridiculous pride that comes with being “a higher up.” Half of these people did not have half the knowledge or education than most under them had, but they were just there at the right place and at the right time. They worked based on formulas passed down to them decades before… And yes, they worked, for the most part.

Things will eventually change, perhaps our “higher ups” are just not quite willing to accept it yet.

Imagine how we would function with 1800’s ideals…

We are what we eat, right?