Many organizations and leaders, continue to scratch their heads when it comes to the behavior of their Millennial employees. Perhaps the below (as well as Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4) can provide some needed context and/or common ground to effectively connect with this distinct generation.
You Might Be A Millennial If...
- Most of your friend’s names start with @ symbols.
- You worry about your Uber rider rating.
- You can’t remember the last time you let someone else took a photo of you. #Selfie
- You've considered gaming as a career.
- Instead of signing yearbooks, you just logged into Facebook.
- Balancing a checkbook is as lost on you as using punctuation in a text.
- You’ve only seen stamps in a museum.
- You’ve considered starting a part-time ironic t-shirt business.
- You know the true pronunciation of “gif.”
- You believe Hotmail and AOL email accounts only exist to bypass annoying sites that require an email.
- You were never kind to rewind a VHS.
- You’ve never watched your favorite TV show live.
- You used Pogs as a form of currency.
- You needed a light to game on your Game Boy in the dark.
- You think blowing into game cartridges to make them work is archaic.
- You never heard the signature start-up sound of the Internet.
- “Check my voicemail” has never been on your to-do list.
- You’ve always referred to your “cell phone” as just a “phone.”
- You owned multiple pairs of light-up shoes as a kid.
- 63% of your day is consumed by BuzzFeed quizzes.
- You're a craft-beer-lover that never intends to drink a Budweiser.
- You’re unable to fully appreciate the saying, “You sound like a broken record."
- Homebuying and preschool applications have crept into your daily conversations.
- Job hopping is as natural as using a mobile device to shop online.
- Photobombing is a knee-jerk reaction.
- You’ve been alive for all 89 albums of Now That’s What I Call Music!
- Your best friends in college where named Kazaa and Limewire.
- Your AIM chat was ever interrupted by someone yelling “get off the Internet, I need to use the phone!”
- Mr. Feeney provided many of your childhood life lessons.
- You now consider wine tasting as a wild weekend activity.
Question: What Millennial-isms would you add to this list?
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