[skywhopper]

I'm not seeing anything surprising here. At many small companies, the employees will feel comfortable being frank with their CEO, especially if that CEO is around their age. It's definitely not surprising that a startup with an open office environment and a CEO who addresses the hundred 20-something-year-old employees directly in Q&A meetings would generate a culture where someone would directly tell the CEO that they believed he had been rude. (It's also poor journalism to present that entire anecdote solely from the CEO's POV--leaving the impression that the CEO was entirely in the right with how he answered the original question.)

My biggest takeaway is that Mic needs to rethink their policies and culture around paid time off, since that seems to be the main source of conflict described in this article.

And please, can we stop with the Millennials-are-terrible meme? 40-somethings always think 20-somethings are lazy, rude, and will never amount to anything. Dig into the NYT archives from the 1800s and you'll find articles with similar complaints about The Kids These Days. I'd like to see an article about that.

[EvenThisAcronym]

I am a Millennial and I think Millennials are terrible (and I am not excluding myself). With few exceptions, I have not met anyone from my demographic who is not spoiled by their parents, entitled and has not made poor financial and/or life decisions. Of course there are Millennials that exist outside this stereotype, but I think our reputation has mostly been earned, not fabricated.