Posted on 10/15/2013 12:39:37 PM PDT by Marie
I remember early in my career spending the evening with my boss at that time who explained how he planned to be at this level after 2 years, and after 5 years at that level, etc., etc. This was all strange to me, and I just did my job as well as I could while he went off to other opportunities. After a few years, he was working for me!
Yes, that level of frustration is apt to produce a high level of anger.
That’s true, but Gen Xers are just as bad.
Reading through the comments after that article is somewhat disheartening. Many of the comments are written by kids with that utter entitlement mentality, complaining that baby boomers had everything given to them, and in today’s bad economy, it just isn’t fair that they should go to college and end up flipping burgers.
The concept of starting at the bottom and working your way up is foreign to a majority of those commenting. One highly rated comment even complained that people are too focused on material wealth and jobs, and that isn’t the real road to happiness. Well, fine for him, if he really thinks he will find happiness by living in poverty and eschewing material possessions—let’s just say that since he is obviously using a computer and the internet, I don’t believe him (I think he really just wants wealth redistribution, with him being on the receiving end and others having to produce the goods and services he desires).
The article itself is probably fairly accurate. These entitlement mentality kids are going to have to grow up sometime.
<I don’t see that many 30-somethings with that attitude problem — I think this commentary might be more towards the millenials.
I teach grad students, late 20’s and upward, with many early 30’s (graduated college, worked as a barista, figured their degree in basketweaving wasn’t taking them anywhere, and decided to get some training for a real job). They generally act as I would expect young adults to act, so no problems.
I don’t get many of the entitled young, we call them ‘snowflakes’ in academe (’cause they’re each unique and special, dontcha know?). However, my acquaintances who teach undergrads have huge issues with them. They want credit for having tried, or ‘worked hard,’ even if they turn in terrible assignments; they want all kinds of special arrangements and hand holding (’It’s your fault I failed the exam, you didn’t tell me what was going to be on it.’). Yuck.
I’d probably be arrested for slapping some reality into some of them.
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