Sorry, I won’t come to work because it’s winter

Your deeds are wonderful, Lord. Something like this I recently condemned at a conference on the theory of generations of X, Y, Z. It just so happened that all this generational hype passed me by. And so, when they started telling me that when managing teams you need to take into account their involvement in a particular letter of the Latin alphabet, I was a little puzzled (“swelling”, “surprised”, “frostbitten”, “fucked up”, “stunned”, etc. etc., depending on which generation you belong to).



It is difficult to deny the fact that each generation has its own heroes and ideals. Evgenia Shamis, CEO of Sherpa S Pro, founder and coordinator of RuGenerations, the Russian school of Generation Theory, introduced the following generational classification.


If you exaggerate, then each generation has a specific set of behavioral qualities. For example, people of generation “X” want to prove their uniqueness everywhere and always, “Y” means success, and “Z” cares about comfort, convenience and safety. They also require interesting and short “clips”, simplicity and speed of perception of everything and everything. It is no accident that they included voice messages in messengers, all kinds of bots, scripts, masks, neural networks and other attributes of digital automation of routine processes.

“OK,” I told myself, and went back to the office, but on the way I was overtaken by another hello from the generations of “X”, “Y”, “Z”. My friend posted on Facebook a correspondence with one of her employees. A person simply did not come to a well-paid job in the office. As an argument, insomnia and winter were listed.



In the comments to the post, absolutely wonderful stories were revealed from the lives of modern inhabitants of Class A offices.




Is it true that the world has changed, and now millenniums prevail in the labor market? When I watched this humorous video on YouTube (see below), it seemed to me that this is a great satirical hyperbole. But after all of the above, I am not surprised at anything.


For my part, I want to share my personal opinion "from under the snag" on a given topic. I do not pretend to the ultimate truth, in no way cast doubt on the generational theory, but still I think that the Maslow pyramid is still firmly based on it.

The needs for food, water and a roof over your head are relevant for generations "X", "Y", "Z". And no matter how we call each other, there is no escape from heat and food. This is to say that motivation, super motivation and other tools for influencing labor productivity have a limited resource. In my opinion, if the situations described above arise, it is worthwhile to radically resolve the issue, bypassing the stage of philosophical reflection on the topic of what should I do with this “Y”. There is a hypothesis - feel free to send to the "X".

What is your opinion? Can you share your experience of interaction between different generations? Is this really a real problem, or is it another fashionable hype thing sucked from a finger?