Coca-Cola just launch a human resources initiative that kills voice mail. That's right, Coca-Cola employees will no longer be able to use voice mail. The reason is because it's just so darn time consuming, and frankly, nobody of any real efficiency uses it anyway. I personally think it's a great idea. I never use my own voice mail anyway. Text me, or I will just call when I see I missed your call. It's also a sign of the Millennial Generation, all 83 million strong, slowly starting to take over the American workplace. These are young adults, the oldest around 31 now, who were raised on technology, the internet, and a multi-tasking mentality. This generation's first representative to Congress was recently elected (she's a Republican, by the way), and they are now making Hyundai commercials with toys from the 1980s because, well, they are the demographic buying those kind of cars now. In twenty years those same toys will be doing Cadillac commercials.
Anyway, the death of voice mail at Coca-Cola is just another victory of Millennials Rising. In time, they will crowd out those pesky Baby Boomers, one of the most polarizing and privileged generations ever. (They are the ones leading grid-locks in Congress. They are also the ones born into the most economically advantageous period ever, when well paying union jobs were available for just a high school diploma, America had no competition because WWII made all of Europe and Asia bombed out, and you could go to college for virtually nothing if you so desired. Ironically, most Boomers see to forget this when they scold jobless, debt-loaded, Twitter-fingering Millenials for being "narcissistic") And P.S. Jean M. Twenge, you are an idiot.
So check your voice mail one last time, Boomers. You're irrelevancy is fast approaching, and Coca-Cola is helping to make it happen.
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