I have to train millennials at my job and they all get offended when ever you tell them they did something wrong and correct them... even when I am kissing their *** with praise for having done it wrong but great job participating I'm so sorry I'm a bad teacher and you didn't understand after I told you 10 times in the last half hour how to do it but it's completely my fault and I'm sorry... will still result in the trainee freaking out and wanting to quit in a fit of rage and their feelings are completely shattered as well...
How do I reach these kids?
You do realize that the vast majority of this site's users are millennials, right?
Me being 35 could also be considered millennial.
I'm not sure if I follow your point however.
Yes you are a millennial. My point is that you're unnecessarily and wrongfully being derogatory against an entire group of people, including most of the patrons of this site, including yourself. In fact depending on the actual ages of the persons you're talking about, they very well probably wouldn't even be defined as millennials, but that's not really my point.
I was not being derogatory. I stated the fact of my work situation while asking for insight on how to be more successful at training a generation that has a unique school of thought that severely clashes with the workforce standard of performance.
Again, how do I reach these kids? (They are ages 15-26ish)
You're caring too much, it's not preschool it's a job they signed on for and they know they are expected to do it right... More importantly young people are tired of being patronized these days, kissing their *** for doing it wrong is usually more likely to make them pissy then calling them a dumb ***. They are also more likely to listen if look at them eye to eye rather than looking down on them. Treat them like adults, not children, if that makes them want to quit then maybe it's not the job for them anyways.
For example at my old job the other day time people always complained about how terrible it was working with the night staff because they were all "kids". Whenever I worked nights I never needed to ask any of them twice, they might *** a bit but they'd do it. I told them what I'd cover, what I needed them to cover, if anything on the side needed to get done, we'd fling profanity at each other and get the job done. The respect was mutual, I've always believed that if someone must demand respect they don't deserve it so I never asked for it and gave them mine and ended up with theirs in return.
Meanwhile the supposedly adult day staff had a guy who flat out refused to was a single dish in 2 years.