I hate working here. My millennial perspective

I'm a millennial and I have a very high sense of entitlement. I've never had to work for anything so why should I start now? My mom and dad told me I was the best at everything I did and I received participation metals. When I had problems in college I had my mommy and daddy called the professors to change my grades and fix my problems. I have no abilities and talents or experience and I'm amazed that Lily hired me. Now that I'm here I'm going to fuck shit up. I'm not the only one here. We are an army of millennial's here to take over the shitty company.

 

welcome to Lilly! We are so happy you are here!

 

your company blows.
leave now. it would be the smart move.
and, stay away from all public traded companies, because they don't care about their employees, only their shareholders.

 

Waghhh look at the snowflake baby boomer here hahaha you’re pathetic. Don’t you wish you had more earning potential left in your sad life? #MAGA

 

As a millenial working in LRL, here are my observations regarding the older folks who hate us:

*Entitled. If I’m “collaborating” on a project with an older employee of equal rank, they won’t do any grunt work or take time to organize. I’m supposed to, as if its a form of tribute to their experience and tenure. If I gently apply pressure to share the load, they complain to my boss that I’m “prickly.” If I don’t work overtime to fix their screw ups or lack of caring, the blame buck stops with me because I’m “new”.

*Extreme intolerance to learning new skills. I’ve learned the hard way that if an older Lilly-ite wants to sit-in on my project and learn how I do it, they need to be spoon-fed and hand-held every step of the way. They won’t take their own time to practice, they only practice during our training and it shows. I’m suddenly now on call for them, when they make mistakes that I clearly highlighted as potential missteps during our training. If I don’t drop what I’m doing the second their Comic Sans fonted email hits my box, they message my manager. If it takes longer than a day to get back — you know, because I’m working a 12h day to get my project ahead and on time on a strict deadline — then they spread rumors that I’m unreliable or flakey. I’ve tried to train 4 older Lilly folks since I started working here. They treat me like I’m taking their orders and McDonalds and when they finally show enough skill to work solo, they end up going back to a previous method that is inefficient but familiar. A complete waste of time — no respect at all for my time, and they have the gall to tarnish my reputation.

*Lazy as hell. Seriously, you older folks need to stop projecting your own faults onto us. All the older folks in my department take 1h lunches. They leave early 2-3 days a week because “kids.” They are leading only one project and it had very modest expectations. Then they have the gall to side-eye me when I come in at 9:30am... you know, since I worked 14h the day before, into the wee hours of the morning, to finish a critical assignment of theirs that was handed off to me last minute because they didn’t want to do it. You’re in at 8am because you’re already up... you took your kids to school. I’m not in at 9:30 because I’m lazy, it’s because you dropped the ball on a critical task and your slack was picked up.

*Favortism. My older boss never pushes too hard on any of the older folks in my group. Apparently work assignments are optional for older folks but not millenials. I’m getting micro-managed because I’m not making enough progress on 2 of my 6 projects I’m leading (remember you older Lilly folks are leading one each and you work effectively 5 hour days). My projects are behind because I have to do YOUR work, and my boss won’t push you too hard because you’ll go up the ladder and just complain to his boss. Again, everyone is your Burger King cashier here, even your boss.

Look in the mirror, older Lilly folks. Some of you are the best, most professional people I know. The other 60% of you need to read up about “projection” and understand that your hatred towards millenials applies more to your generation than mine. I don’t want soccer fields or emoji stories. I want my work week to come down from 60+ to 45h. Do your damn jobs — you wouldn’t have to worry about VERPING if you worked as hard as you think you do. It’s not millenials — it’s boomers projecting their own entitlement.

 

Well done. The original poster was correct only in the sense that it was a broad generalization, which is a flawed analysis. The other insight here is that the Lilly Culture has ruined what was a once proud generation. As a card carrying member of Gen X, I saw it happening all around me, and proudly left before I was stripped of any dignity. We were once an optimistic and hard-working crew, but time has passed us by. If you think about it, we were the last generation to see Man walk on the moon, and drink Tang. Now, we sit back and watch the young build mansions, drive BMWs, and go on cruises, all the while pissing and moaning about organic food nonsense and LGBT rights, while inheriting massive amounts of assets. As the old Chinese curse states, "may you live in interesting times."

 

I don’t at all doubt it. To the boomers and Gen Xers who have served as valuable mentors and sanity checkers for this overworked millenial, thank you x1,000. You have been through the ringer regarding cultural decay and you have likely seen talents — your own and those in others — grossly unappreciated. I look up to you and you’re the reason I haven’t yet fled to a startup biotech. I was never spoon-fed anything. First in my family with a college degree, paid my way through college delivering pizzas and doing work-study internships, had to build my connections on my own since my parents were blue-collar workers. I only made it into this well-paying job through years of hard work and upbuilding of a diverse skillset. I actually did what many boomers delude themselves into believing what THEY did.

To the boomers and Gen Xers who view all millenials as emoji-addicted snowflakes... go ahead and gossip and try to get me in trouble. When was the last time something from one of your slide decks made it into a townhall meeting? There’s a reason the company wants millenials: we are actually thankful that we have a good job in the boomer-ruined economy. No comment regarding the boomer-led effort to kill pensions... you do it to yourselves, and we only need to be your whipping boys/girls for a few years longer. Btw thanks for ruining the pension on your way out, you petty pricks.

 

Speechless. Entitled, self righteous millennials who want credit and promotions with as little effort as possible. Hate to tell you but this is the real world and no longer does everyone get a Blue ribbon for participating and promotions will not be granted to those who cry and whine for better grades, ooops, promotions.

This is Eli Lilly young, silly millennial.... the sooner you learn the only way to move ahead at Eli Lilly and Company is by perfecting your image by insincerely managing upward and learning the art of kissing ass and taking credit for others work. Image is everything here so start smiling at everyone, perfect your ass kissing and fellatio skill sets, and learn how to take credit for everything good and deny at all account things that go wrong. I have witnessed you millennials first hand and have no doubt you will be able to carry out these recommendations.

Good luck in the piranha pool called Eli Lilly and Company where image and personality are king!

 

Bravo to both of you. I’m a gen X who got the F out due to behaviors like you mentioned. Lazy, entitled pricks in positions of power who didn’t do anything except stuff their head up someone’s butt. Boomers are responsible for the VERP and yet so many of them stuck around because...why give up the gravy train. I’m glad you both found some of the good ones though. I did as well, but was sorry to see them go.

 

OMG! You can’t make this sh*t up!! So true!!!!

 

A millennial fixed your errors. Spelling and grammar must not be important for hard work.

 

glad millenials can do something. Spelling is very important aspect of ones job. Very glad you can do this very very well.

 

Your humility & highly-valued transferable skills will serve you well at your next career move to Arby's around the corner from LCC, darling.

 

Welcome aboard, millennial. You have come to the right place. Our progressive culture will form and shape you into one of Lilly's finest senior leaders. While you are here, make sure you take full advantage of our soccer field, bar/grill, and other luxury amenities. One of leadership's favorite past times is sitting back and giving the old white folks the boot. So pull up a chair and enjoy the show.

 

A beautifully dumbed down explanation for the older generation. All you’re missing are the emojis they just realized were there.

 

Is there an emoji for my privileged comfort alpaca, Blowflake? Drop whatever you're doing and tell me now. I'm a Sillenial.

 

My physician prescribed comfort weasel Dave tells me I should seize the popcorn. I'm a Lillenial.

 

I'm a gender-fluid non-cis white neohispano-crasian. Where is my safety room?