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Millennial eye rollers are grumbling

Dear Office-Politics, I have been asked to manage a few coworkers on an ongoing reporting project that is fairly low scale in the priority of our division. These coworkers are younger, newer, and still learning the ropes, and I’ve been at this company for seven years. Part of the problem is our ...

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