I am supposed to do the following:
Write a Java application (Client) program with a static method called generateEmployees( ) that returns a random list
It's a static method, so ... it does not need to be accessed within the context of an instantiated object. You can just, you know, call it from your public static void main(...) method. If the class that contains your main() method is named Employee, then...
Employee.generateEmployees();
would do the trick.