It means it's sponsored by YouTube. It's the Official Comedy Channel of YouTube.

They finance content. I did something for them. But it sucked.

Unsanctioned Youtube comedy often contains unstable, volatile elements that can easily catch fire and explode.

Lives have been lost.

Millennials get a pretty bad rap. I'll admit, the worst of them are terrible, but most people are just people, regardless of generation, and people are mostly alright if you get to know then.

did she have the same last name as someone very high up?

Was she a sassy black woman?

SolRo,

No.

Nominal,

Scrawny white girl.

Again, I think our supervisor took a liking to her because she was around her daughter's age and reminded her of herself, somehow.

I think she mistook being psychotic for being "assertive".

A strong case could be made that approximately 90% of the type of work depicted in this video contributes absolutely nothing of value to humanity at large.

The types of things they were doing, that is the types of things I have to do, and those things are vital to certain 911 centers and hospitals. Research, conference calls, and accurate paperwork/reports help keep the world running!

Also, like everyone in my office behaves like the entitled idiots in this video. My work days are so incredibly stressful. I bought a book to help me with my kids, and it turns out it helps me with my co-workers :)

The book is called "How to talk so your kids will listen, and listen so your kids will talk" - I know everyone was dying to know!

I think it's definitely more of a response to youth that are unprepared for the workplace than it is a generational issue. People talking about "millennials" like it's a real thing come off sounding like old fogeys, anyway.

Well put, Jet, that's a clearer way of making the point that I was making.

Yes, Boomers had an easier time getting actual long-term jobs, no argument there.

Very few of the friends I have in that generation have even bothered applying for those, however. I have entire groups of friends all trying to make a career as artists, photographers, video game designers, fashion designers and animators. It is highly unlikely that most of them if not any of them will get this job not just because of stats, but because most have shown zero effort prior to applying to school for these things, and somehow magically expect a college degree in a highly competitive and self-motivated field to find them the way in to be the lead designer of the next JRPG they make fanart for.

Another one I know is clearly kinda awkward but obvious smart: obviously a very good coder and enjoys it, but is basically having daily tantrums because he feels he is destined for greater things than a 40 hour a week flexible schedule in an office that probably pays him quite well and is technically challenging for him. You know, the pain and suffering of having one of those Boomer jobs that don't exist.

Meanwhile, I do know several friends that age who are quietly progressing towards a career job, getting paid placements or actual jobs, understanding that they need a job that pays the bills, whether it's their dream job or not. Most of them, when asked in private, are all quietly admitting that there's something seriously broken about the expectations of most of their peers.

"Do what you love" is marketing bullshit invented by boomers (they did the opposite, of course) and it's dooming a lot of kids to shitty retail jobs because they're 24 and still think that they can be a fashion designer or a rock star despite having made zero concerted steps in that direction in their life.

This ranting brought to you by dealing with a friend who wanted to be in animation but couldn't be arsed to finish their portfolio to apply to get in at one of the more prestigious schools for it out there; once she was rejected, she decided she wanted to be a video game designer, despite zero technical or design inkling in the past. I'm sure that college money will be well spent...

See the problem there is you're friends with nothing but degree mill art school students.

I'm in my senior year of an engineering undergrad program. As we approach convocation, ~9/10 of my peers have jobs already (myself included), median starting salary somewhere north of 65k.

Like all generations, this one has its go-getters and its failures. People are just people. Human nature didn't magically change in the past 15 years.

Your unmotivated friends are doubly doomed, as the video game industry is making a major shift to indie development. Those who take advantage of the new low barrier of entry into publishing, create a game, and grind their own PR/marketing will find success. If you're lazy and just hoping to land a cubicle job modeling barrels and crates all day while the large corporate machine figures out all the important shit for you...you're incredibly screwed.

I feel really bad for people caught in that situation. They didn't gradated early enough to enjoy the traditional industry before it shrunk and fractured, but they graduated too late to grow up with all the new tools and lower barriers of entry.

Like film. Affordable, decent equipment and non-linear editing software wasn't available until well after I graduated. I would have gone nuts if I grew up with cheap digital HD cameras and Youtube, but instead was stuck with VHS camcorders and whatever time I could grab at the linear editing station from the lazy asshole running our local access station which would refuse to run most of our stuff thanks ot living in a conservative retirement town (no one was allowed to say "geez" because it sounded too much like "Jesus"). I bailed on freelance video editing years ago because you're competing in a saturated market of kids who've been doing it since they were 12 with After Effects demo reels by their mid teens, and they can all afford to under bid you to less than /hour in hopes of breaking in.

I imagine graphic designers have it even worse.