Most Millennials Would Throw Work Friends Under the Bus for a Promotion

The article implies that Baby Boomers are more virtuous, however I&#x27;d contend that those same people wouldn&#x27;t have been so virtuous when they were 18-24.<p>Loyalty from the 18-24 age-group is difficult to come by, regardless of which generation they belong to.<p>Now, the article fails to mention <i>who</i> the subjects of the study were betraying -- their Millennial peers, or non-Millennial ones? I would hazard to guess that most Millennials would happily betray their Boomer co-workers, perhaps even gleefully (schadenfreude?) -- <i>and vice versa</i>.<p>The question is open to interpretation even more -- Millennials count potentially <i>everybody</i> as a &quot;workplace friend&quot; (due to a far larger pool of competition), whereas Baby Boomers generally have only themselves as workplace friends.

From the article:<p><i>First, job-hopping millennials proved disloyal to employers, and now apparently they’re also disloyal to each other.</i><p>I would say, first employers proved disloyal to their employees . . .<p>The rest is just a rational response to a changing work environment and culture.

News flash: people early in their business careers make different tradeoffs than people late in their careers.

Not untrue, but it&#x27;s important to note that in many cases &#x27;workplace friend&#x27; is basically &#x27;someone they made me sit near that I feel share some interests&#x27;. Not exactly someone you&#x27;d invite to your birthday party.

The question can be interpreted in many ways. I could think that a friend who is making me choose between them and a promotion is not a friend worth having.