Y in the Workplace: Managing the ''Me First'' Generation

Chapter 6

I’m the Boss of Me: Work Ethic and Generation Y

“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.”

—Robert Frost

While writing this book in our local hipster Gen Y coffee shop we asked 24-year old Faith, who was recently hired at a large local corporation, to answer the question, “How do you like your new job?” Part of her response was as follows:

“Honestly? Don’t make me come in from 9 to 5 dressed in my parents’ uniforms of suits and pantyhose. Flexibility, creativity, talent, performance-driven, casual, and hip are the buzzwords of my generation; not stiff, obedient, rigid, and structured. What’s wrong with you people? We are electronically connected at all times, don’t worry. I’ll get ...