Zing! Sorry, Lucy.
Bump to read latah ...
Why can`t it ALL be posted here? Owned by the Washington Compost?
watch later
It cracks me up to see 20-somethings come into my field (IT for one of the largest consultancies in the world) and get a new project and think they are going to take over managing the project week 1 and the company week 2.
Then I give him/her the assignment: These 50 oages of handwritten numbers need to be typed into a spreadsheet (2003 format, please). And we have these 3 MPPs that need to be merged — list the reconciliation errors and then go to each of the track leads and get them resolved. You have until Wednesday.
*CRASH!* Reality!
When you get older, then one day it will truly smack you on your forehead to appreciate what you already owned.
Doesn't matter how special Gen Y or the special Gen Y is, every Gen (XXX, name your own) goes through the same thing.
People born in the late 70s are not part of Gen Y.
As if people in their mid 30s are the same as flipping 20 year olds.
First thing they need to do is stop voting for idiots like Obama.
Absoutely right on the money! MUST READ everyone, this explains it in terms your kids/grandkids who are products of the present educational system can even understand.
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!
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.