..Remember when the millennial's told you..

Do your best, always. Still, the reality is that the days of staying in one position for 20 years, earning steady raises, and feeling protected from RIF conversations are gone.

For those who are hurting, it makes sense. You invested a lot of yourself. But it’s also a moment to reflect, especially when younger generations have often been labeled as less committed or less invested. When they were just more optimized. You should have been learning from them.

This is the reality of 2026. Nothing work related is special about any of us.

My heart goes out to those who are out of work. There is something here for all of us to learn.

#Layoffs #Learning #Millennials #RIF

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I’m glad other millennials chimed in. No millennial will tell you this lol we have been facing the same BS as the next generation under us. Maybe a boomer told you that lol

Hey broccoli-cut, some of your millennial coworkers are maybe like 10 years older than you. And absolutely none of them have lived through a time where you could have an entire career at one company.

Nothing has changed in decades. You are just livestock to be used up and thrown away when no longer useful. I have never had job security and started this game in 1986. Young people need to stop believing the BS that they are special you are not. Only difference now is they found a cheaper breed of livestock across the pond and oopsie aint so cheap as one thought but looks good on the books. Accounting and finance not real math all imaginary numbers

@OP as a millennial I don’t know ANY millennial saying this. lol.

As someone under 30 who has gone from GL23 to GL27 over the past eight years I can tell you that the only way for you to succeed is to move around. Because the pay raises are abysmal if you even want to make the same ammount you did last year relatively you need to change roles and renegotiate your wages.

Or just constantly be seeking new opportunities, connecting with people, and be apathetic to a corporation who is amoral, and you'll be just fine. UHG is a job. Never was a career. When are you going to wake up and realize that??

@a4 seems you are agreeing with me but also seems like you're trying to disagree?

It was well after the 1980s that older populations were telling younger populations not to job hop and how it would bite them in the @$$ eventually.

They also said AI would never be able to replace humans in the workplace.

Millennials are almost all under 40. Very few have worked 20 years in one corporate job.

This myth was debunked in the late 1980s when Jack Welch’s model became the envy

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