When you think about it, the 'Snowflake Test' for millennial employees creates a win-win situation
Kyle Reyes gets to employ what he feels is ‘the cream of the crop’; meanwhile, bright youthful liberals who fail the test can celebrate the fact they aren’t trapped in his office, jamming their heads hard in the microwave each time their new boss treats them to a slice of home truths
Kyle Reyes’s “Snowflake Test” , designed to weed out “entitled” job applicants, has left many onlookers wildly furious at the Connecticut businessman’s jock-like swagger – but many others jubilant. Reyes’s questions, such as asking when you last cried and why, what your thoughts are on guns, privilege and the police, are (in his words) “a curveball”. There are no wrong answers, he says.
Still, I don’t think I’d recommend admitting your last hot tears were “20 minutes ago, in a fit of solace remembering that Sandy Hook made no impact on gun prohibition and I’ve just ran out of vegan seitan.” If I was a young American marketing graduate hoping for a job, I’d go with: “I cried last Thanksgiving thinking about all my freedom.” Short, succinct, moving. A pack of lies, yes, but Reyes says he’s a big fan of “hustle”.
Reyes chides that the only real “safe spaces” in this world are in your parents’ basement. He wants people in his firm who fit in with his ethos. Of course, by weeding out all the snowflakes, Reyes is merely creating a professional safe space for himself as a boss where his views are left conveniently unchallenged.
None of this intergenerational mudslinging is simple. But what is certain is that labelling members of the younger generations “snowflakes” – more fragile, more brattish and less industrious than their ancestors – is highly incendiary.
Nevertheless, there have – it is sometimes hard for us non-millennials to remember – always, always been snowflakes. We simply didn’t have the word to describe them. In the Nineties, media internships were full of weeping, workshy Fenellas who rolled their eyes if they weren’t writing headlines within two weeks of leaving uni, but couldn’t be trusted to feed a fax machine
The more I think about snowflakes in the workplace, the clearer it becomes that for most of us, our youth is defined by a grotesque lack of self-awareness. I remember clearly, aged 27, at my most snowish and flakey, vocalising loudly to colleagues how this was the hardest life period I’d ever worked through – blind to the fact the 40-somethings were shouldering six times the professional responsibilities as well as dying parents, bitter divorces and other drab drudgeries of post-youth life.
More crucially, young people have always erred on the side of rampantly idealistic, and have always been offended – nay, disgusted – by the generations who came before them. The all-encompassing term for this state, “snowflake”, has become deeply antagonistic and imbued with angry politics.
So, while I believe Reyes – a 30-something, oddly personable marketer – does genuinely feel strongly about the calibre of his future employees, I also think he knew that designing a “Snowflake Test” would be some of his own brand’s most valuable self-marketing to date.
I say Reyes is oddly personable because, gosh, this would be simpler if he was a Boss Hogg character running a used car empire in Alabama, clad in a Confederate flag waistcoat. He isn’t. He’s a chipper, engaging, quite rational-seeming public speaker.
And then there are his views on “hustling”, much repeated on his YouTube channel and Fox News interviews, which I would have to say I agree with. Reyes feels that one’s career trajectory is linked largely to one’s ability to “hustle” – I take that to mean faking it until you make it: chit-chatting and charming, sacrificing, schmoozing, taking sideways steps to gain experience and build contacts, plus an indomitable spirit to win out.
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And that is basically it right there. All he is doing is creating a safe space for himself while trying to bash others about them. I wonder if he is aware of the irony?
I personally couldn't care less about a person's political beliefs (until it begins to interfere with their work) as long as they do their job.
It's more about hiring people that they know will do the work. Not somebody who thinks they are owed the job. It's about the business. Not coddling the "participation trophy" generation.
I started to see the millennial bullshit before I retired. I don't know how many congressmen contacted my commander because these little clowns can't deal with the reality of the job.
So if a person doesn't agree with your politics they won't do the work? I work with plenty of people who I disagree with about a whole range of things, and they do the work just fine.
Lol, oh there is definitely some coddling going on here... And I always find that amusing coming from the boomer generation. We didn't raise ourselves, so really bashing us is just admitting you guys did a terrible job of parenting.
Comment removed for CoC violation [ph] And he thinks liberals are "snowflakes."
Oh? When did "oppressed white males" stop participating?
I didn't say anything about politics. That's something you keep bringing up.
I'm neither the "boomer generation" nor YOUR generation (thankfully). Care to try your third guess?
At any rate, you apparently haven't taken the time to stop and look around to realize why the older generations are "bashing" you (despite that you have been told MANY times).
Right.
When you mention "Oppression Olympics" the first thing that came to mind was "white males" who are no. 1 in claiming to be oppressed in this country if not the entire world. Everything's been tilted against them -- according to them, of course. I'm surprised you didn't know that.
Perpetual Whiner Generation?
Because that is the criteria the guy in the seed uses in his hiring decisions. Really that is kinda what this entire seed is about.
Nah, I don't really care.
The same thing older generations always whine about, and the same thing I will be whining about here in 30 years. Your complaining is nothing new, it has been ongoing since the dawn of humanity. Older generations will always complain about the world and people changing. It is what it is.
Lol, so it's all your parents fault eh?
How ....... "Millennial" of you.
Nope. The "millennial generation" was already used.
Well, that's the guy in the seed. It's not me.
See the mistake you are making is that I actually care about what "your generation" has to say. I just sit back and laugh as you all look around for your pacifiers. I have neither the time, patience or need to suffer such bull from a generation that has no concept of reality. And I'm not going to change how I do things because of it.
Because that is the criteria the guy in the seed uses in his hiring decisions. Really that is kinda what this entire seed is about.
Nah, I don't really care.
The same thing older generations always whine about, and the same thing I will be whining about here in 30 years. Your complaining is nothing new, it has been ongoing since the dawn of humanity. Older generations will always complain about the world and people changing. It is what it is.
My small town has an inordinate number of restaurants, bars and cafes for its size and they are all staffed millenials and post-millenials (mostly students as there's also a small state university here) who would be what our over-sensitive, fragile little rightwingers like call snowflakes (in order to make themselves feel better). They show up, work hard, live tightly-packed due to high-rent-low-availability housing and by doing so keep the service economy of this place moving. IOW, they are like pretty much every younger generation that's come and gone over history. But I understand why rightwingers need to have to find someone to punch down on. It's what inadequate personality types need to do in order to feel better about themselves.
No one is 'punching down' on the kids who work and/or go to school. The crybaby-snowflakes are the ones who are invading libraries, threatening teachers (see video), burning cars and trashcans, disrupting traffic and throwing rocks at police while still insisting upon a safe space with puppies, teddybears, crayons, coloring books and Play-doh. Those are the idiots who will never get it, never take personal responsibility but expect to be given a job as the next-in-line CEO.
I wonder if any of those clowns realize that getting arrested will be on their rap-sheet and just may interfere with their job search when someone looks at their CV and then for more information. You know, of course, that NOTHING is private anymore!
I always love it when rightwingers--yes, the same rightwingers who vote for politicians who regularly wreck our economy, put us into idiotic foreign military failures, moralize to us endlessly even as they're encouraging their a mistress to get an abortion*, blow the lid off our debt and generally take no responsibility whatsoever for the havoc they wreak on the country--lecture us on taking personal responsibility. It's as if they think they're invisible to us.
*see Rep. Tim Murphy for latest exemplar.
As in the 10 trillion dollars that was added to our debt between 2008 and 2016? That debt? And the hideous state of race relations today in our country? That sort of havoc? And those "bootstrap" speeches when for the past 9 months, it's been a freebie ride around the world to luxury resorts?
But it's all "right-wingers", right??? It's interesting the effects blinders can have.
IMO The farther from the center most people are the more they also seem to be further away from sanity.
Fortunately, I personally I dont put much credence in insane people.