Analysis Of Millennials In The Work Place By Simon Sinek

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Millennials in the Work Place is a controversial subject, in the transcript for the video “Millennials in the Work Place” by Simon Sinek, (last published or updated January 4th) he gives his opinion on the matter at hand. In the video Simon Sinek goes along the lines by saying that millennials are not at fault for not being able to assimilate to the work environment because of the way they were brought up. I personally agree with Simon Sinek’s argument of why millennials cannot adjust. Sinek starts his argument with using negative words to describe millennials but then goes on to back that up with saying why they ended up like this, he then follows up with the four reasons on why he thinks a whole generation ended up like this. The four reasons …show more content…

But he still sticks to the fact that it is not their fault, they were ‘dealt a bad hand’. Then compares our phones and technology to an addiction like alcohol or gambling because they share a same trait, the person always has to come back to it. The technology addiction would be that adolescences turn to it when they are at high stress and this is a sort of relief like alcohol could be to an alcoholic. Sinek then brings in his own statistics “We know, the science is clear, we know that people who spend more time on Facebook suffer higher rates of depression than people who spend less time on Facebook”. (Sinek, 2017) he’s trying to make his point that this addiction to cellphones and such has the same effects as alcoholism or something of that …show more content…

For example, when Sinek says in one of his examples that parents would complain to the school for their child to get better grades but the child didn’t actually earn it, I compared that to my school life. There are people who have their parents get them grades they do not deserve because they can’t deal with what they earned, this would then lead to the teacher not wanting to raise mine or my classmates grade if we deserved it because the teacher would think we didn’t deserve it because we are then thrown into the same hole with the same kid who had their parents complain. The teacher would think that I’m asking for a regrade because I don’t like what I got not because I re did it and made the corrections it needed, it just ruins the whole

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