The Southern View

The referenced article is a few years old but is still timely.  I believe it may have been posted here before and I apologize if I have reposted it.

The reason I thought of the article is a rather funny situation that happened to me last week.   As stated, I was in training all week and one night I decided to visit a gym near the place I was staying at during training.

I went into the free weight room where I found a bunch of Generation Y'ers attempting to bench press weights which appeared to weigh as much as a small economy car.

One person slammed his weights down and went over to a friend of his and yelled "Look at my arms!  I spent four hours yesterday shredding them on the bench press!!"

For some reason this amused me and sent my vivid imagination off on a free fall for several hours.

I could not help wonder what this person did that allowed him to "shred his arms" for four hours
and what type of job did he think he would hold in the future?

I can just see this large young man shoved into a suit (lets call him Zane),  his boss comes in
yelling for him.

Boss: ZANE!  ZANE!  I have a job for you!

Zane (leaping up to attention): YES SIR!

Boss:  Ok, this is going to be difficult...I need you to..

Zane:  Yes?

Boss:  I need you to BENCH PRESS THAT COPIER 10 TIMES AND SHRED YOUR ARMS!!!!

Zane:  I've been training for this my entire life boss!

Later that night I noticed some other Generation Y'ers that had large baggy pants, gold chains, and even gold teeth!  I was informed that the gold teeth are called 'crunk teeth' and are removable.

Anyway, my imagination went into overdrive imagining how these young men would fit into corporate america as Managers...

I imagine they would walk into work wearing nice blue suits with huge oversize pants that have the waistband around their knees.   They would have to hold up their pants up with one hand while holding a briefcase in the other.

Office Administrator:  Oh sir...sir!

Gen Y Manager:  Yo!  What you need?

Office Administrator:  Your 1:00 meeting is in conference room A and I just got word from your mechanic that your 30 inch rims on your new company car have been installed!

Gen Y Manager:  Thank You!   Are my new crunks in from the dentist?

Now I don't mean to insult anyone reading this post, I actually find it interesting
that the upcoming generation is not motivated by money and that is not a bad thing.
It will be interesting to see if corporate America is going to be able to accomodate this upcoming workforce or will the upcoming workforce have to change to suit corporate America?

Addendum - Ha!   Someone emailed me suggesting that the next generation of workers
will be telecommuting from their parents basement!