“..but I’m finding that the older I get the more it seems today’s men and women in the 19-29 set are largely money-grubbing, self-absorbed, annoying little douchebags that have very little feeling for anyone beside themselves.”
I’m in my late 40’s and I have to agree with you. I definitely see it at my workplace.
In the last year, I’ve had to put a couple of these people in their place. It was done in a workplace appropriate manner and without much hoopla. I’m more than certain that it didn’t win me any friends - but so be it. The level of I, I, I, Me, Me, Me was so huge that these kids needed to be taken done a notch.
In the long run, I can’t say whether it did any good. Kids today (not all of them though) have been warped by the educational system as well as parents with low value systems.
I almost forgot to mention their mania for tattoos-maybe its just me but women with an armful of tattoos is a gigantic turn-off for me. BTW-I’m glad you said something unlike so many people today who just keep quiet and let these annoying people just run roughshod over them-well done!