“After a long, long seminar on dealing with these folks as employees, we decided that the class content could have been boiled down (generically) to “gimme! I’m entitled!””
From what I am seeing and being told from others who have to “suffer” through working with these people, this is absolutely correct.
They are arrogant and group thinkers. However, they aren’t motivated enough to rise to the level of being traitors. They simply don’t care enough to interfere with their personal, selfish narcissism.
There are exceptions to the rule. And when you talk to the rare few who don’t follow the herd, they will tell you to not trust or believe there are members of their ranks that will be capable of being leaders when they inherit this country. That is really alarming because they don’t see themselves in that role either.
They were not raised as individuals and they truly do not like the older generation and in a lot of cases they don’t like their parents. Many see their older counterparts as hinderances to their promotion at work. It rarely occurs to them that they might have to pay their dues to move up in the ranks.
Very alarming and very sad.
I'm 45, and I have never understood this whole "paying your dues" business. Why should anyone have to "pay any dues" in order to achieve higher rank, status, or pay? Workers should be rewarded according to the quality of their work, not on the basis of how may years they've been punching a clock or how good they are at kissing ass.
I say if a person of 24 can do a better job than I can, they deserve to be my boss and make more money than I do.
The #1 reason we homeschooled our kids was so that they would not follow the herd. It worked! They are individuals.
Please take heart, there are thousands of homeschooled children who are VERY different from this group. My oldest is 18, very conservative, very opinionated, there are many more like him. I’m so thankful he is now a voter, and my 16 year old will be able to vote in 2012. Don’t rule out their generation just yet!