AZGrizFan wrote:clenz wrote:
That seems to apply to the private sector as from what I’ve observed.
What’s interesting is you can rewrite that entire thing as “management and leadership positions were handed to generating x employees that weren’t qualified. These people still hold those positions and millennials are less willing to accept status quo for the sake of status quo like older generations and are unhappy being lead by those who likely aren’t qualified to actually lead. Which then gets taken as being ungrateful about having to put in time to earn a promotion or pay.”
Which, interestingly, backs up almost all the SHRM/P research that’s been done over the last decade or so.
Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal, I realize, but that’s 100% what I ran into at the place I was previously at. The people, all in their 50s, in leadership and management positions were only there because they had been with the company for 15 years or more. They weren’t qualified to lead. They were horrific leaders. They were leading the company straight into shutting down branches and hemorrhaging money like crazy. Why? They were nothing other than service techs hired to be in house advisors to contractors hey could sell services too. They were nothing other than guys who were nothin more the glorified inside, or outside, salesmen. They had no leadership/management ability. They got jobs through attrition. Simply being good at a job doesn’t qualify one to lead that job/company.
What happens is millennials, like myself, see that and push back to initiate change that could help. More often than not that is seen as us being entitled and not “getting it”. Again, research is overwhelming that older generations are overwhelming one against change, especially when spurred from millennials.
There are for sure many shit millennials. No question. It’s just interesting to actually look
At the research on topics like this.
Perception is everything. In EVERY company in America, there’s a whole host of millennials who are just CERTAIN they’re better leaders than the people above them. Fucking know-it-alls who, if the idiots would just get out of the way, would have the company humming along in NO time, right? What is it about millennials that makes them just certain they know more about leadership and leading than anybody? As a late boomer who’s been in leadership positions for the past 28 years, it gets real old. And it’s RAMPANT.
This is somewhat true. An example:
The other night, I got involved in a conversation about clubfitting with a newbie on my staff and a kid who used to work for me, is a current season pass holder and member, and currently works at an off-course retailer. He's also a really good player with some potential to make money as a mini-tour pro or perhaps beyond.
Anyhoo, I gave my two cents about the importance of lie angle to my staff member and how it's under appreciated. Ended the conversation, didn't think twice about it. I knew where the 2nd kid worked but didn't realize he'd gone to seminars and classes on club fitting and following the tour as an equipment guy was a back up plan if a playing career didn't work out.
I go home and a short while later, he literally pulls up to my house and asks if we could talk. He was shaking with anger. His beef was that I made him look bad in front of someone he was working with and (reading between the lines) might be a potential customer for him. I had no clue he was that involved with club fitting, just figured he was a retail clerk who mostly sold balls, gloves, and tees.
I put on kid gloves, but had to break to him that we were at MY facility, that it was MY employee we were talking to, we are a direct competitor with his shop, he's never asked for permission to push sales at my course, and that IMO, the only person truly qualified to fit golf clubs is a PGA Professional ( I don't think he liked that)
None of this occurred to him. He simply felt he knew more about equipment and was entitled to sell shit at my course without asking.
To loop this back in, he's kind of like the boomers still feeling entitled to social security after they've ran up the debt for future generations.
