Myth: Millennials have no sense of company loyalty

One factor is that the advent of the 401k in the US broke the contract a while ago. Retirement isn't bound to any one company anymore. This is the first generation to enter the workforce with bosses that never experienced what its like to have a pension. All of their seniors are free agents too, and this does have effects. Loyalty to the worthy manager, yes, but definitely not to the company as some sort of a long-term benefactor.

Myth: The world needs more articles in which Millenials are explained<p>Reality: Millenials have been lied to by virtually every authority figure for every single moment of their entire goddamn lives, and are slightly harder to bullshit than yesterday&#x27;s suckers and rubes

The concept of loyalty being a one-way thing is fundamentally flawed. If you&#x27;re &quot;loyal&quot; to someone or something that isn&#x27;t loyal back, it&#x27;s not loyalty, it&#x27;s stupidity. Loyalty requires reciprocation.<p>The reality here is that companies aren&#x27;t loyal to their employees. If a company isn&#x27;t loyal to you, you can&#x27;t be loyal to it. It&#x27;s that simple.

Loyalty to me seems like the prisoner&#x27;s dilemma. Sure, you both are better off to each other if you&#x27;re both loyal (ie I don&#x27;t look for other jobs, and you employ me for a long, long period of time), but you&#x27;re better off just NOT being loyal because the other party might not be as well.

Why shouldn&#x27;t they be? They had a hard time finding a job in the first place, and read nothing but stories of how companies are laying people off, starting at the bottom.<p>I&#x27;m on the border of GenX and Millennial (depending on where you look), and I would definitely say I feel no corporate loyalty. I worked for a large Fortune 50 retailer during the era of their first layoff, and I felt the blade whiz by me, knowing full well I could easily have been let go. Likewise, being a tech worker, I was in a cost-center and not a income earning group, meaning I was always subject to cost cutting and belt tightening. I felt like a number (even my network logon was a random string and not my name - admittedly for security, I get that), and why would a number feel loyalty to a megacorp?

All I saw was a bunch of arrows that made no sense. If you&#x27;re going to put big attractive attention grabbing images in your article they should probably explain the point &#x27;cause they&#x27;re pulling all my attention from the text and making me spend bring capitol on deciphering them instead of just reading.

<i>Treating Millennials with respect and professional kindness will endear them to stay by your side and be less likely to jump ship at the drop of a dime.</i><p>How is this specific to any generation? Is the implication that there is a case where it is okay not to treat people with professional kindness and respect? I don&#x27;t know who coined the phrase &quot;people quit managers, not companies&quot; but it has been around for quite some time.

<i>True, Millennials are perhaps less enamored with big corporate structure and traditional career trajectories ... The reality is that Millennials aren’t married to the corporations they work for</i><p>So how is it &quot;busted&quot;? You just admitted it was all true.