Why Gen-X is Awesome for the Workplace

[@bentmercer]

genx, don't need supervision, management, praise, etc, we are self sufficient

[@johnpauljones9310]

Just pay us, mf'er.

[@carlosgunz85]

Thank you!

[@SnuggleBear1970]

As a GenX, I work better by myself 😊

[@KathrineJKozachok]

I thought it was just me.

[@PMV67]

Me to everyone else gets in the way 😎

[@PMV67]

I cant get my 21year old to cut the grass 😂

[@johnpauljones9310]

GenX workers: Just give us the goddamn objective, then GTFO our way and leave how we achieve it to us.

[@anitadavenport3265]

OMG!!! That literally defines us to a tee 💯 EDIT: I get infuriated when a person tries to micromanage me or try to hold my hand on a task. GEN X 1977

[@edstar83]

That's me. Now I don't feel so unique. Born 76. Gen X in the house!

[@mom2kn]

Yes!!!! This explains my work style so clearly. Luckily where I currently work I have this option (only because I don't have micromanagers in my department).

[@julzhunt7790]

Exactly. Glad I’m not the only one👍🏼😁

[@x_mau9355]

Preach! Gen X 1977

[@spookey8937]

"Two words" self- sufficiency!

[@hatinmn]

Gen Xer here (1967). We have a large of entrepreneurs because the Boomers would not give us a chance. We gave them the finger & started our own companies. And I hate group projects!

[@johnpauljones9310]

Group project: 1 person does all the work and everyone else leeches the grade. Yeah, screw group projects.

[@Stefan-]

@@johnpauljones9310 Yeah and all these meetings where nothing really happens.

[@kimberlyeley5816]

Amen!!!

[@tanyamonk1280]

I'm a gen X'er, Born 74. I've worked since I was 14, my work ethic is top notch, my patience is top notch. I can problem solve like there's no tomorrow and able to tackle multiple tasks at the same time, while getting my tasks done timely. I get asked all the time how I do it and so effortlessly. All I can say is, I know what needs to get done and I do it. I don't sit there and whine about it, I just do it and miraculously, it gets done. I don't get upset when others don't get stuff done, that's on them, not me.but it does irritate me when I'm working and co workers (at any past jobs) just stand around waiting for their time to go home,playing on their phones, complaining to me about how hard their job is while I'm actually working. Don't be surprised if I tell you to go somewhere else so I can get my work done. I ain't got no time for that! :)

[@lakeishabridgeman1103]

Me too! Born in 74 and had my first summer job at 14 ❤

[@monsterhobbies]

I'm born the same year as you. The Grooviest year in human history.

[@mikeg3439]

Watching videos of people describing Gen X makes me realize another odd thing about us: we really know and understand exactly what our generation was and how to describe it. There are exceptions in experience, for example I can't speak to what it was like growing up black in Gen X, probably being the biggest one, and perhaps just behind that, what it was like growing up part of the LGBTQ community. I do, however, remember that we had black friends and if anyone messed with them, they had to face us too, without question. And that there was always at least a couple kids who were LGBTQ, and for the most part, no one cared much.

[@Stefan-]

As a child of the early 70´s i think you were more than spot on ! It was like you were talking about my actual childhood.

[@lizard928]

What I love about being a GenX is that were independent thinkers and hard workers. We could figures things out in the workplace but we also brought to the table ideas that could make a project better or time saving and if we didn't have answer we would do research. We were definitely into different genre's and open to other cultures so we can learn more and incorporate into world.

[@MicahScottPnD]

Omg, im seriously tearing up over here. Everything you're saying lines up so well with my experience. I just feels so damn good to hear a long-time unspoken thing said out loud. It feels so validating, like "maybe all that strangeness, growing up the wsy we did, has a real value to it". Ok, leave me alone now while I go shed some long-awaited tears of joy

[@nicksvisiontohear]

We Gen Xers in Australia grew up on a music Genre called Pub Rock, it was a style of music played by bands in pubs in the 80's.

[@julzhunt7790]

Aussie music ROCKS. Either play live and entertain or get booed off stage. 😆❤️🇦🇺😊 Just look at the great Meatloaf debacle of 2011🤣

[@mollyesther1]

We’re the Goonies generation, and Goonies never say die!

[@istvanpraha]

Thank you for keeping it positive and not bashing younger people! I am a young X and feel like my main benefit right now is helping people navigate the inflation and cost of living crisis going on. My younger coworkers remember 2008 but didn't follow the news yet. I explain using various data points that the current way stuff is may not be permanent, and give them hope. I try to get my older managers to give more flexibility and raises, their idea of what good salaries are are low/dated

[@Schwerpunkt]

Well, other than listening to the most awesome playlist while I work, it has to be the ability to independently work and problem solve. Seems my Millennial colleagues require somebody to resolve things for them before they can pass hurdles.

[@margiecook6879]

My kids are millennials. I'm in my late fifties so I'm GenX. But, my kids are self sufficient. I taught them right.

[@RachelLWolfe]

My millenial colleagues are the same way. Technically I'm their boss, and my boss would love it if I micromanaged them, but I don't have it in me. They cannot problem solve on their own, and I end up having to either intervene to avoid a crisis or listen to them ask me for the hundredth time to tell them what to do, or how to handle a situation, which gives me less time to get my own crap done. Days like that I lock myself in my office, and make them pretend I'm not there.

[@Washougalite1]

​@@margiecook6879 My oldest 2 are millennials, but the oldest is a GenX crossover, born in 84

[@margiecook6879]

@@Washougalite1 My oldest was born in 1988. My youngest was born in 1991. I raised them the way I was raised. Even though they're technically millennials, they sure do act like me. They even raise their kids how I raised them. The main thing that I have taken from all of this, it's not so much when you're born, that makes you GenX. It's got more to do with who raised you.

[@Badhigh22]

We are the real MVPs! Period!

[@charlottegreek1962]

As a Gen-Xer I have a work hard at work and play harder while not a work approach to work and life balance, as do state this from time to time while at work.I think that can say hey work hard but also remember to take time to have some fun as well.

[@createallow3126]

I appreciate you highlighting the inclusivity factor. I've played that roll at every job. Bridging the gab between all the groups is a good thing.

[@dianecampbell9228]

At 55 I am now addicted to the rap music of Tom MacDonald.., tunes America, Names, and one of my fav SNOWFLAKES , and In God we trust. But I am a listener of classic rock, metal, I love Motown & a bunch of the oldies..... And don't tell anyone....... But I'll also listen to classical music with smile on my face!

[@johnsmith-xw4ez]

I'm a young Gen X, September 1972.

[@katherinewelling6026]

Problem solving because I was on my own after school and it was up to me and my neighbourhood friends to figure it out. I also appreciated the trust my parents had in me. My Boomer execs certainly give me this, but the couple of Millennial bosses I worked for absolutely did not.

[@DaveMiller2]

We don't need meetings, micromanagement, or praise. Tell us what needs to be done and get out of our way. If we need something we'll come find you. Leave us alone.

[@billyhawk2845]

I'm a gen x born 1978 miss the 1980s

[@margiecook6879]

I'm in my late 50's, and we absolutely rock!! These kids now a days, are spoiled rotten. They need trigger warnings and safe places. We have, sort of, a sick sense of humor, and some common sense. That's what these kids are lacking. Real talk.

[@thomasjohnson9623]

Late 50s makes you a boomer, depending on how late.. not being mean ftr..

[@margiecook6879]

@@thomasjohnson9623 1960-1980 are genx. I was born in 1969. My mother was born in 1951. They are the Boomer generation.

[@830jps]

I'm Gen X. Outside was inside for me, barefoot in the fields

[@k.stacey7389]

Don’t need to go through all those reasons. The main reason is that we show up, don’t somehow imagine the company we work for exists to support and comfort us, and do our work.

[@jeanetteraichel8299]

Spot on about the best generation, Gen X. We work hard, hate supervisors, grew up feral/semi feral, and lived through a tumultuous times in modern history. My mom worked part time evenings until i was maybe 8, but we still came home for lunch all by ourselves. No day care, no car seats, no seat belts, no helmets/knee pads. We could simply say we're going out to play and knew to come home at a certain time for dinner. One other sad fact is we are also mentally f-cked up because we had to grow up so fast and were neglected. We also knew if we were see to not be heard. Sadly, the adults never knew how much damage words can cause

[@JC-ds1jh]

Whenever we have a teambuilding thing at work I tend to want to just do it by myself and be independant of the rest of the team. Yup, I am a Gen-X and an INTJ LONER EXTREME

[@ediah5]

I totally agree! Everything you said, I too experienced.

[@marshazeldin2350]

I had undiagnosed discalculia and ADHD. Fun!!!! I still got my masters degree w 2.5 kids in the mix

[@lewieanderson6579]

Millennial focus doesn't exist without their damn phones and boomers can't help themselves but ruin stuff.

[@edstar83]

1:16 Don't remind me. We used to go on a lot of adventures exploring on our BMX. We rode by an abandoned warehouse noticed a broken window on the second floor so we thought it would be a good idea to climb a tree and enter the warehouse through the broken window. There was nothing in there, the office had been abandoned what seemed for decades with thick build up of dust. The warehouse area was completely empty except for rubbish. Anyway some nosy neighbour called the police(it was obvious we were just kids exploring) we couldn't escape since my little brother was sitting on the front steps minding our bikes and talking to the police. So we climbed back down the same way we got in and got arrested for trespassing in an abandoned warehouse let off with a warning after our parents came to pick us up.. First and only time getting arrested. Whatever.

[@darrinleischer6709]

We can think ahead and get things done the right way without approval.

[@Wednesdaywoe1975]

Loving all the "self-sufficiency " comments, because our parents left us to raise ourselves. God, that was fucked up.

[@tjj5337]

GEN X here and both my parents were home.. Dad knew how to provide properly

[@tjj5337]

YOU WERE BY YOURSELF!!!!! What did your dad do??

[@btetschner]

Thank you for the video.

[@JaredMerlin]

Hmm, should I start adding Gen X to my resume? Can't hurt, right?

[@Hackenberg]

"It is nice how you feel. Give me some hard numbers, kid. And work on your Excel skills."

[@hotmesshotline]

I feel this!

[@carlageorge8130]

I am gen x and you are 100 percent right

[@norwegianblue2017]

Today, when people try to blend different cultures into a new thing, they call that "cultural appropriation". Always thought that was an absurd concept. Isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery?

[@melodyseverything6999]

Yeah, back then getting along among different cultures was more natural and organic. I really do miss that era!

[@geoffreyharris5931]

Ok. We were not latch-keys as the mother was there while the father worked (as a professor at CSUS). However, the peers did play sports on their own, my brother and I had elaborate fantastic play and we did a lot of activities in the yard. I was into tree-climbing and hole-digging. Dad, my brother and I swam and went on hiking (and sometimes camping) trips. I compose using elements of classical, celtic, and rock, Have combined Scottish-Irish and hip-hop dancing so get that big about bringing together musical genres. Also, can get by in life setting one's own paths without going along with the crowd which is what the boomers tended to do. The mils and z's are fat whiny dependent softies. I respect the Silents as they were the last really dignified generation.

[@prussian1742]

Yeah there's like a good job board in break room. Praising coworkers efforts at work, I ignore it. Don't really care, so long as I know my client was happy that's all that's matter.

[@dananichols349]

One of the reasons Gen-X is awesome for the workplace is because we work hard and then expect to get raises because we demonstrate how much we're worth. Unlike younger generations who do the bare minimum but still expect to be paid top dollar for bottom effort.

[@richardcook5270]

71 genx

[@OutlawJJ80]

Well I know how to read a manual and a how to book learned things that way before the internet.

[@melissamontiel7976]

Gen X here born in 1976

[@edstar83]

Same December.

[@detectivefiction3701]

August 1977 for me.

[@katrinamillings3651]

Honestly, it can be a disadvantage as well. I've been taking care of myself since I was 10. At work I'm not much of a team player. I'm more like just get out of my way and I'll do it myself.

[@stevencarithers574]

I was the one who always saw the absurdity of the world around me, and I would point it out and irritate everyone around me. If I pissed off adults, EVEN BETTER!...LOL.

[@seanrodgers1839]

You mean that some people need supervision in order to get work done? I can figure out any problem and figure out any technology, and organize different things into a single product.

[@earlleegrace3318]

Yep, us Gen X'ers think outside the dang box, man.

[@billmalone9949]

You completely missed a vital teamwork aspect. Growing up we freely helped those who needed it. Tommy knows how to stop bleeding, go get him. And Tommy would help, no questions. In the workplace, that carries over. If you get stuck somewhere, Xers are more than happy to show you how to get unstuck.

[@dgm2485]

Advice to employers: don't micromanage. We don't need it and we don't like it.

[@ericlarson7556]

To the other generations- it was crap from an alpha gen xer but you probably already know that if your past the age of 25. Just be good and take care of yourself and someone else if you figured out how to do it.

[@MaryDunford]

Care. And don't care. Yep. That about sums it up. 😂

[@princessnahema]

1984, technically a millennium but I'm genx

[@joeme]

Why didn't you pass it on to your kids?

[@jahmilseydou7381]

That looks like Indy in the background. You from Indianapolis? I was born and raised there, but when the opportunity raised itself for me to leave Indy, I joined the military and GTFO...😂😂

[@hotmesshotline]

It is! I love to live here and I love to travel away.

[@Pduarte79]

When we gonna see a Gen X version 2.0? Because, millennials and gen Z are basically boomers 2.0 and 3.0. We are the exception 😎.

[@norwegianblue2017]

I think Gen Z is going to be a different animal entirely. Growing up during COVID can't be a good thing.

[@Pduarte79]

@@norwegianblue2017 Millennials and Zs are basically boomers 2.0/3.0 me me me my precious mindset. Lol

[@anikadiamond007]

Two sides of the same coin.

[@Pduarte79]

@Scott Crawford Yes, we will. Will come a time, where is no gen Xer left, when the boomers die out, we will become the oldest gen.

[@Pduarte79]

@Scott Crawford We are the Macgyver gen, no one cared about us or gave any participation trophies or expect any good or great things from us. I meant, we are the quality over quantity gen, while is the otherwise with boomers, Zoomers and millennials. When we die out, Planet Earth will not have another gen like ours, that is a bit sad. 😅 Our gen deserves justice, Earth desperately needs a gen X 2.0 but with numbers that surpass the Boomers, Zoomers and Millennials, making the only one gen, with quality in quantity 😃. Silent gen was a bit similar to ours, sadly they gave birth to boomers, like we did with Zoomers. 😅 Both of the most spoiled, selfish, dumb and narcissistic gens that ever existed, aswell Millennials 😏.

[@jekyle1980]

Gen X is also the generation that makes up the bulk of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans… which has pros and cons.

[@Ryu_Shotokan]

Because we actually work lol and i work alone,no stupid people around me.

[@Pduarte79]

Boomers and millennials, I get the joke, that was a tipical Gen Xers sarcasm. Lol Millennials focus? Those 2 in the same, sentence, is a contradiction. Those 3, if we add "work". Boomers aren't builders, but destroyers of our hopes, dreams and future, if you play P5, they were our Kamoshidas and Madarames, and we must be their Phantom thieves of hearts, not their partner in crime. Bringing Boomers and Millennials together, like Palpatine did in the Prequels 🤔. I like that.

[@edstar83]

Boomers aren't destroyers the cultural marxist who did a good job of convincing millennials "boomers bad" and unleashed the clown world in the West are the destroyers of Western civilization.

[@Pduarte79]

@@edstar83 Ok Boomer or should say Mini Boomer. 🤭😏

[@edstar83]

@@Pduarte79 Your mom's a Boomer. I'm Gen X.

[@joeblow9374]

why does she think boomers didn't have both parents working??????

[@hotmesshotline]

I was speaking in generality about how households were structured. Some boomers had both parents working, but, as a societal trend, the husband worked and the wife didn't.

[@tjj5337]

Millennials are in there 30’s now…. I am GEN X and my mom was home…. Not ALL GEN X had both parents working! YOU PUT EVERYONE IN A BOX

[@hotmesshotline]

Or....I did a short video and couldn't cover all the scenarios for how each person spent their childhood.

[@te7406]

About half the Mom's worked at a formal job and the other half were housewives.

[@tjj5337]

We Don’t wear masks and cycling helmet like wimpy snowflakes

[@TheRealLarissa]

As aGen X I think all these gen x clips are dumb.

[@hotmesshotline]

Cool.

[@garretmiller6343]

Religion never failed yet, 🙂+ smiles for a couple of examples, oh well what ever nevermind!!!

[@THEEblindman]

First of all centre the camera, second try reading a history book, centuries of generations have had to deal with the exact same stuff your patting yourself on the back for. If you have to tell yourself and the world you "rock" then you sadly don't!

[@kevingray8624]

You’re. The proper grammatical use is you’re, not your, when contracting “you are.” Gen-X deserves a pat on the back for having to tolerate decades of the Boomers’ misspelling of this word, particularly when they’re (not their) trying to demonstrate their (not they’re) superior intellect.

[@THEEblindman]

@@kevingray8624 Really in a world packed with emoji's and Text message abbreviations and acronyms your only comeback is to mark my grammar out of ten. Plus you have no idea how old I might be. Both of which demonstrate my points that there is little substance in individuals who need to make public displays of self congratulatory reassurance, while claiming they are the only ones who face adversity. You want to grammar check a word try hubris

[@melodyseverything6999]

@@kevingray8624 - Oh my gosh, he's a Boomer AND a Karen!

[@tc539]

your not gen x. you are way to young. your good at copying others videos. but you are NOT gen x

[@hotmesshotline]

Well you're wrong. Depending on whose range you use, Gen Xers are born between 1965 - 1980. I definitely fit in there. Plus latchkey kid of divorced parents. Plus home at dark. Plus being thrown outside all day drinking from the water hose. Plus listening to Bon Jovi on vinyl in the record cabinet.

[@bigal3055]

It's not hard to find this lady's date of birth and age through her professional social media links. She is 100% Gen X, but is just blessed with looking much younger than she actually is.

[@matthewmichaels5522]

As kids we'd go fishing and hunting all weekend in the Snowy Mountains. Parents thought it was normal and encouraged it. Walk in, walk out. Only ate what we caught or shot. No such thing as iphones. Cigarettes and bourbon for moral. Parents didn't know about this. All at the age of 10. Now, these pussies can't be alone for 5 minutes without having some support mechanism on hand.

[@timfroehlich9200]

I worked at a very large corporation that offered a class on Generational Diversity and it was truly the best 8 HR class I've ever attended. It was taught by some dude with a doctorate degree and he explained the differences between all the generations going background my parents time the Depressionists I think they were called. I was born very late in a large family so despite being their child who should have been a baby Boomer I was raised totally Gen X. Anyway the out come if the class ended with the teacher saying this company will have some very great years coming up soon as the Gen Fees take control but unfortunately we are the smallest generation so it won't last long IF the can't figure out how to unbrainfart the milenials

[@atilax6452]

Recently, there have been a series of hit-pieces targeting Gen X, countering positive attribute claims. Strange. Why would that be?

[@tobiasb9645]

Here do this you got 5 days to do it 3 days later done still want to get paid for your expectation that is us.