Another meeting that could have been an email? Well, I guess you just can't wait for all that AI to develop and put you on the unemployment line where you can have all day meetings about how you aren't getting anything done.

Being part of Gen X, we were shouted at by Boomer bosses and taught to get on with it. There were no safe spaces, no hurt feelings reports. HR was either non-existent or was there for hiring and firing paperwork. It was sink or swim, so most of us swum and we got stronger. I'm glad to be a part of a generation that got to work and just got on with it. To be fair though, we didn't have to deal with the social media mess in the same way that younger ones have to today. It is tough for them on that front.

Gen X doesn't do TEAM. We do just fine without it.

This is bullshit

Gen X born in 1970, I found the perfect job for me. I do cybersecurity for the Fed, work from home with very little contact with anyone. If they offered me a 50% increase in pay to return to the office, I would decline it.

Gen-X, Greatest Gen and Silents got along so well because we all hard hard economic times as a common thread in our experiance. We Gen-X had it the best of these cohorts, but we realated to them. God bless them for being pragmatic, relisiant, hard working and level headed. Wish we had a time machine to bring them back.

1. There's nothing wrong with not living for your job, and nobody has a right to make that decision for anybody else. 2. Maybe if pensions were still a thing, and wars for oil wasn't, we'd be more supportive of Baby Boomers that feel attention-starved.

Got it- like always, I need to change my behavior to make you happy

The only problem with the workplaces he described is all the wasted cycles by generations not focused on getting sh*t done. GenX is in the right here.

I Was only there too work for the money not making friends!! Hate in the morning how do you feel!? Are my foreman a doctor!?😢😢 WTF

We are so screwed 😢

Wow, that's funny. Gen X people talking about surviving the Apocalypse while they are the ones that will cause it. As gen-x/gen-y I can see into both worlds. Gen X knows * all about soft skills, their world already is a barren wasteland with no prospect or ever being anything else. Emotions are bad, caring about anyone is bad, life is to be lived in order to achieve goals set by someone somewhere without ever questioning the direction. Useless for anybody but themselves.

If the company would spend money on raises rather than hiring goons like this to show up and say common sense crap, all the generations would be happy because they would be PAID!

15 years ago took an Intergenerational Workplace class. There were five tables with 10 seats around each. The instructor started by having all the Millennials raise their hands. They were dispersed throughout the room on 4 of the 5 tables. Boomers and older were equally dispersed on the same tables. Every GenXer in the class was around the one table in the back with the least lighting. The instructor pointed out that in every class GenXers sit at that table. She said the personality of GenX was that they can't get along with anybody and that they won't either. She was a GenX. Then when GenXers took over the company in 2016, everyone of us Boomers retired early. GenXers are arrogant, unteachable, and have zero clue how to lead and no concept of the bottom line or even what products the company sells. And they lie like it's a competition to who can lie the most. The absolute worst generation in history and they're killing business, government, military, education, destroying everything they touch. Disgusting. Oh, and by the way, that GenX woman instructor was fired by GenXers for telling the truth about GenXers in those classes.

Nope. Dude is wrong. Work is not a social hub. Work is a place of productivity. Companies have not had any loyalty towards employees since forever... Don't expect it to start now. Non-"X" generations need to adapt quickly and "figure it out," or get cut out. If necessary, start hiring Gen-X, exclusively, and strategically cutting out the least productive of the other generations. If the company decides to do something nice, let it be pizza, burgers or tacos/burritos for lunch, and not a stupid "party," that will cut into productivity.

It is not gen X fault, if other gens are less intelligent.

Not how it works. First thing is to walk the floor, check in on the team. How are you doing? Everything good? How was your weekend. Then around Thursday we hold a stand up, quick, 30 minute at most meeting to coordinate and share information. This lets me communicate priorities and provide top cover.

Categorize people and divide them , we should all be sick of this bs

Gross generalisation.

as a gen x'er, we didn't care what anybody had to say about us then, and we still dont care now.

So basically we need to coddle and baby them… got it. I’m only hiring Gen X from now on.

I've sat through some of these IMPROVEMENT LECTURES forced on us by upper management. Typically, there is one or two points that make sense, the rest is just filling up the 50 minutes of the lecture so they can justify their paycheck. In this little clip, he tells us what the problem is: 2 of the 3 generations can't communicate properly. He's got to ask the Boomers and the Mills 4 times what the problem is before they start talking, which turns into whining about the boss. Gen-X doesn't have time to ask you the same question 4 times to get an answer, especially when the answer won't be useful. How do you know it won't be useful?? Because if it was useful, Gen-X wouldn't have to ask 4 times to get it.

“Work or get fired.” Mic drop.

Why be such a prude? I can definitely tell who never served in the military by the way they act in the locker room. Most of us do not look like an underwear model. One day (sooner than you think) you too will be old. Would you want someone judging your looks? You need to man up and be more considerate of others.

Great Macallan interview!!

I’m a Gen Xer. I loathe team meeting and what makes matters worse is some of my managers are Gen Xers and their meetings are boring, lack focus and goal. I’m a mid level manager and I give direction and provide tools and say, “get to work.” And yes I don’t care about my colleagues weekends.

That’s because Xers are results oriented

Gen X here. I forgot boomers and millennials need a pat on the back and a participation ribbon for everything they do.

As a Gen Xer this pissed me off. I was going to leave a scathing comment. Then I thought... f__k it, it's lunch time.

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Children are attention seekers. Adults work on their own and don't need participation medals

When I first got into the workforce. I don't remember meetings that weren't useful. If everyone needed to know, they told you. Then back to work. I think Gen X is a lot like our grandparents. We be came the get it done generation. Just hold a kind of open meeting, and at the end of the day, people can just wonder how Gen X got out of work on time.

That was dunb

Gen Xer here. Do you have any freaking ideal how much time is wasted in *rah *rah meetings blowing smoke up everyone's backside to try to motivate the team? I don't care. Give me the assignment, tell me the resources I have and the expectation and I'll get it done. I don't need nor do I want your motivation. The fact that I have a job means I'm doing well enough without the "feelings" that I'm valuable. It's a job, not a social club.

Yep.

Get a motorcycle and deliver bacon

I'm married to a genex husband and for a while I thought he was mean and abusive but now I understand more that he just tells it like it is..... here's a loof hands off isolates himself into his world of whatever his hobby is it's horrible to be around I was born 1965 but I was not left alone I am the youngest in my family at older brothers and sister and parents were buried stayed married and I had a twin so I'm very relational so what you're saying makes sense to me.

😅😅😅

Thank you for sharing your interview with Ed Bridgman, worth more than the price of Gold! Love the bumper music.

The thing about GenX is that when our parents said “Adapt and overcome” and “Lead, follow, or get out of the way” and “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem” we listened and took them seriously. Remember those three phrases next time you’re wasting our time in a dragging, off topic meeting. Last hour-long staff meeting I was in included 5 minutes of useful information while I ignored the rest and got 55 minutes of work done. And everyone is constantly amazed at the sheer volume of work I do, its high quality,and its organization, and that the meetings that I run start on time, stay on focus, and end early. Yeah…I’m the problem…according to this Dogbert.

Gen X managers biggest problem is that they can't terminate millennials and gen-z in the work force because HR has essentially hamstrung their abilities to get rid of those who undermine the workplace. You can't just fire anyone for being a total fuck up or lazy ass anymore. You can't get rid of toxic employees who have no people skills and can't work with others. You can't get rid of people who consistently underperform, regardless of how many chances you give him/her. You can't fire anyone who is always clocking in late. These kind of toxic employees put strain on the ones who want to be there and want to work, and THEY'RE the ones who end up leaving to find greener pastures. Management now has to fill in those roles with people who have lousy work ethic or only do the bare minimum.

What a load of crap! This isn’t a generational issue; it’s the difference between leadership and management. A leader has a daily/weekly/monthly meeting (any could be an appropriate frequency depending on the job), expeditiously gets inputs, provides direction, resolves problems and dismisses everyone to get back to work, then engages in MBWA ( “management by walking around” ) to spot-check, keep current, praise and correct. A certain degree of social interaction will occur as a good leader gets to know their people one-on-one or in their work groups. A meeting is NOT the place to do this. Everyone hates meetings that drag or lose focus; everyone loves a little personal attention. A manager lingers in meetings attempting to micromanage processes they don’t understand because they never engage in MBWA; instead they spend their time bouncing from meeting to meeting engaging in whatever acronym-festooned attempt to legislate common sense processes the current management fad demands. I have seen good leaders and crap managers amongst people of every generation. This clown is just doing what his generation has done since before GenX ever had a chance to prove itself: dismissing GenX out of the gate. We got called “slackers” before that call could ever be legitimately made and people like this one have clung to that notion ever since, cherry-picking facts and data to support their prejudice. Boomers are having trouble with GenX leaders because they want to cling to power and their own ways. Millennials are having trouble because they’re impatient to be in charge. GenZs are generally still too young to truly have a clue. Roll the clock back and Boomers used to be where GenX is, looked down on by Silents as “hippies”. This isn’t a function of generational “traits” that are about as over-generalized as horoscopes and fortune cookie wisdom; this is a function of aging and succession. And this guy is the worst kind of business fad: a consultant, the majority of whom are parasites hired by managers to “fix” problems that are often the result of poor leadership. And fascinatingly a consultant never comes in and says that there isn’t a problem, or that the problem is the management that hired them - they want to get paid. But if you’ve been around as long as I have you will recognize the stink of what they’re peddling as a repackaging of an older idea from a generation prior. I’ve watched this B.S. play out in the military, business and academia. It’s all the same. Stop trying to manage from meetings and get out among your people. Keep meetings concise and focused.

If you need a gold star for you doing your job,,,YOU ARE A PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN. I don't care about other people, what their wives names are or if they have one or kids.. Don't care, do your damn job and go about your life

Waaaahhhh! Needy fuckers!

Some advice…Talk less work more. It’s not a social club it’s a work environment.

I wasn't going to comment on this asinine video but since you feel you need to explain why my generation ruins corporate America... you asked for it. What you are describing is something the Baby Boomer generation needs for themselves and it was forced on Gen X'rs... like everything else in our childhoods. We don't do it because we don't need it. Our expectation for you, Millenials and Gen Zrs is that you show up and do the job we pay you to do. Need a hug for validation? Get one from your mom. Why should we invest our time in you, when you don't invest your time in your careers? You all move around every few years or quit because you don't like being treated like the adults you should be.

Gen Xr here -- f$%k being a part of, OR MANAGING, a "team" that needs its hand held. Better to be self employed.

Thank You

This is less of a generational issue than it is an American cultural issue, this fragility and neediness for external validation and constant acknowledgment. Go work in Germany or one of the Nordic countries, whose companies are known to provide generally higher quality products and services than American ones, and that also have higher employee satisfaction and retention. Their management style is exactly how Marston characterized GenX. People are self-motivated, pride themselves on thinking independently, are expected to do their jobs without hand-holding and constant affirmation, and expect that their performance is satisfactory unless informed otherwise. They work to live, they do not live to work, and they maintain very clear boundaries between the two. They do their work diligently and efficiently and go home when they're done. They find it inappropriate to try and make everything personal, and are creeped out and feel put on the spot by fellow employees assuming personal familiarity without an actual personal relationship. This American tactic of putting work in the context of being a "family", and being a "team" is a disingenuous manipulation tactic, one that cults employ heavily; it's nauseating, it erodes and blurs the boundaries of the work/life balance, and it impairs the efficiency and quality of a company.

GenXers creating chaos for the capitalists, working as intended.