I'm not excusing the Gen Xers and they are raising the millennials to be even more distracted and self absorbed. These are just my observations. I also find that immigrants are less distracted than homegrown workers, perhaps because they were not raised with the same degree of technology, nor have they been as spoiled. However, I disagree that millennials are not different but I am older than you are, so I've observed more generations. I don't think that my generation was ever as mentally and emotionally young as the millennials that I see and hear.