Millennials want money, but not hard work

pioneer press ^ | 6-28-14 | Brett Graff

[TurboZamboni]

Amy McGraw doesn't want us to get the wrong impression of her daughter, Rebecca Leahy. The recent graduate of Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Fla., works hard -- really hard, in school, on her dance team and beyond. But after Leahy found a summer retail job at the mall, she told her new boss she wasn't available to work on Wednesdays. "It's a different mentality from when I was her age," McGraw said. "She has nothing scheduled on Wednesdays. She wanted time to go to the beach and shopping with her friends. I was wondering if that comes from a whole idea of entitlement." Yes, researchers would likely tell McGraw her daughter's generation is, in fact, entitled. (But they'd also probably point out that at least her kid has a job.) They're called millennials, and the oldest of them were born in the late 1980s. The age band, which includes the class of 2014, is marked by two opposing economic characteristics that have caused an eye-opening gap: They're highly materialistic and not necessarily willing to work for the money they need to buy the items they so greatly value, said Jean Twenge, author of "Generation Me" and a professor of psychology at San Diego State University. "This is a cultural change," Twenge said. "People hear me and think I'm complaining about young people. I'm not. This is what the young people are saying about themselves."

[familyop]

Some of them. Looks like some of them want to be on government-derived incomes or businesses protected from competition by government like their parents.

[Cloverfarm]

We don’t work on Sundays either, because we are farmers. So, you have my official permission to refuse to work on Sundays. All you have to do is do your chores and milk your cows. Hope that helps ;)

[Intolerant in NJ]

Local family members involved in produce shipping and packaging business - within the last week we heard:
Sectretary was told to order several computers - told the boss it had been done a month ago; when the computers didn't show up, he started checking last week - found she had never bothered to order them because she didn't think there would be enough money to pay for them....
Truck driver doing long-distance hauling of fresh produce when truck broke down - he simply walked away without notifying anyone - a few days later the abandoned truck was tracked down with all the produce spoiled...
Mexican worked showed up in the morning and informed boss that he would be working only two hours that day, then going home to watch Mexico play in the World Cup on TV that afternoon - didn't know if he'd be in the next day...
It's hard to find good help these days.....