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

Preface

We are both psychologists in our 30s, born smack in the middle of our generation, Generation X. Yes, we were that generation that drove you crazy before Generation Y came along. We sat eagerly watching as MTV was born with the premier of the Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” and created our first computer program with a ball bouncing across the computer screens of our Apple II’s. We excelled at QBert and Pacman on Atari. We embraced rubber bracelets, side ponytails, and fluorescent-colored clothing, and constantly said “as if,” “gag me with a spoon,” “totally tubular,” and “jammin” just like our Gen-X peers. We too grew up thinking our generation was the best, and felt that our parents and grandparents, the Boomers and Veterans, ...