The Y generation..

This post started as a joke, but what is written here makes good for a plethora of reasons! As in: why do we do something in a certain ‘logical way’. This can be in our life in general, or even business processess in your organisation! You can even attribute it to your parents, elders who are prompt in thier ‘suggestions’ about how they think you should study,live,eat,behave (insert those zillion behaviours that you think are right, but your folks dont!)  & you could also replace the word suggestion with different words according to their threat levels!

So whats the story?  
The story is of a beautiful princess who was trapped in a haunted castle.

Well, no it isn’t! I just wanted you to get out of the ‘rebel’ mode.

The (true) story is about a group of monkeys. Well dont stop reading, its interesting, you could probably use it in your appraisals too! Mad Monkeys – Destitute Princess, but yet interesting.

Here we go, its a story about a group of 10 monkeys locked in a room. This room has a ladder, some giant speakers, and in the centre of the room there is a small hook.
Every day at 10AM a machine lowers a huge bunch of bananas on to that hook.
As expected the monkeys at first stared at it, and then were quick to understand that if they move the ladder to the centre, they could get the banana treat! So they formed a team and fixed the ladder under the hook. As soon as the first monkey climbed the ladder, the speakers started playing loud thrash noise, water hose dropped from the ceiling and spray ice cold water on to them. The monkeys kept trying for a few days but the same annoying thing happened time and again. Eventually the monkeys stopped bothering about bananas and everything was normal.

After a few months, they removed one monkey from the original set and added another one. Lets call him the new joinee.

At 10am the entire episode began, the 9 monkeys were not bothered, but the 10th monkey, our friend new joinee was tempted. He dragged the ladder to the centre and tried climbing it. This time the ‘experienced monkeys’ ganged up and bashed him up. The new joinee tried this for a few days, but everytime the ‘learned oldies’ bashed him up, eventually it gave up on that thought too.

Then another monkey was changed from the original 9, he too met the same fate.. infact our friend the other new monkey chose to bash him up as well! This one was a quick learner and so he dropped the banana plans in a few weeks.

One by one more of the original lot were replaced, every new monkey was greeted/treated with the same bashing.

Soon all the original monkeys were replaced, ironically even then whenever a new monkey tried to climb the ladder the others would gang up and beat him. None of them were ever exposed to the ice cold water or the loud thrash music, but they knew that dragging the ladder would incur the seniors wrath.. even if it meant that they had now become the seniors.

This is how business processes are usually made, this is also what your folks reason as “experience”

Generation Y – looking out for answers!
Cheers!