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I believe this is much more a result of the misguided “self-esteem” movement which is taught in the schools and society at large. The “everyone gets a trophy” mentality despite the fact not everyone has earned it or put in the work to achieve it. Thus, kids have an incredibly inflated sense of their abilities and worth and futher have a complete entitlement mentality that they deserve whatever “trophy” they want in life just for being wonderful little them.

“The everyone gets a trophy mentality”.

I agree and the school system pushes it further. For example, schools push less than bright students to take honor and AP courses in high school. They don’t care that the kid can’t do that type of work.. the concept is that the school system looks “good” because the classes are diverse. Even in elementary and middle schools, the bright kids learn very quickly that hard work gets you very little. They learn to do “just a little bit more” to get an “A” rather than pushing themselves to their fullest potential. Even in gifted programs, the school will select applicants so the classes look “diverse” and “equal” (not only with races but boys vs girls). It is no wonder that kids think they are “so smart”.. they’ve been told that over and over.

This "all about me" attitude is hitting the work environment. The new generation of workers seem to come in with the idea that the business must make adjustments around their lives, rather than a worker coming in, knowing that the hours of business are such and such, lunch hour is this many minutes long, etc.

I work at a hospital in direct patient care where the hours are 24/7/365, and they don't close for holidays. We are required to work half our hours day; half off shift (evenings or night). I worked with a 21-year old who insisted that she should have every Friday off because she had a part-time job teaching aerobics. So since she didn't think she had to take a Friday work turn, everyone else had to always help cover Fridays.

Then she'd pick up another aerobic class to help another teacher and expect SOMEBODY to switch hours with her. When she couldn't get anybody to she'd call off or on one occasion just not show up.

The younger ones want their schedule adjusted because they go to school (OK reasonable) and also adjusted when they want to PARTAAAAAY!, when a home town team is in the playoffs, or Super Bowl.

Though anecdotal, this has not been my experience. I can remember our kids coming home with words to practice spelling for tests each Friday; not unexpectedly and more than a few times they would initially spell the word incorrectly, and when I would say it was wrong and begin to tell them the right spelling they would say “It doesn’t matter... it’s okay, I ‘tried’ to spell it right”.

With my head about to explose and eyes twitching like Chief Inspector Dreyfus I then asked the rhetorical question: “Who told you that it doesn’t matter if you spell the word right?”. The answer of course... “Teacher”.

This is the perverted, upside down world of the libtard... everybody’s special... everybody deserves a trophy... and an arrogant, aignorant, self-aggrandizing a$$ clown is elected pResident.

Though anecdotal, this has not been my experience. I can remember our kids coming home with words to practice spelling for tests each Friday; not unexpectedly and more than a few times they would initially spell the word incorrectly, and when I would say it was wrong and begin to tell them the right spelling they would say “It doesn’t matter... it’s okay, I ‘tried’ to spell it right”.

With my head about to explode and eyes twitching like Chief Inspector Dreyfus I then asked the rhetorical question: “Who told you that it doesn’t matter if you spell the word right?”. The answer of course... “Teacher”.

This is the perverted, upside down world of the libtard... everybody’s special... everybody deserves a trophy... and an arrogant, aignorant, self-aggrandizing a$$ clown is elected pResident.