“Why are they the lamest generation?”
Because they think their problem is the previous generation, when really it’s the fact that they’re all still paying off student loans at age 39, like the woman in the article.
The Boomers have a lot of negative qualities, but they didn’t come out of college 100,000 grand in debt. Or take out mortgages they had no hope of repaying.
Gen X algebra: Entitled + (seeing yourself as a vicim) x (looking for someone else to blame) = Lame
I’m sure there are some good X’ers out there, probably lots of them. I know there are some bad Boomers, probably lots of them. In fact, the world’s Greatest Generation raised some of the world’s lousiest kids and grand kids. There are some late 20 somethings that hold promise. Not sure what label has been put on them. Most of them are from multi-phase broken homes, see the effect it has had and are just plain fed up with the consequences.
I have a much younger brother that is an X’er from ‘67. You would think he was raised by Gypsies because he is almost nothing like my sis and I. Old people seem to be just a nuisance to him and he doesn’t seem to think about what happens when the shoe is on the other foot.
I’ll have to agree here though. The X’ers I work with have... problems. Problems with:
1. Accountability. Every thing that is bad is somebody else fault or some thing. You will seldom if ever hear one say, “I screwed up, I’ll fix it.”
2. Direction, they resent it and ignore it if they don’t like it. They seem to think they know it all and what they don’t know, they make up and don’t seem to care much about he consequences of an error.
3. If they don’t like the direction they don’t say so, they just ignore it.
4. They will drop everything for personal gratification
5. They seem to be pretty self centric
6. When their world goes wrong they lock up
7. Need is a one-way street... as in, “I’ll communicate with you when I need something.”
8. An apology from them is a hardly ever thing. See #1
9. Smart enough but their education in problem solving is not just lacking... it is not present.