Having to wake up before noon is hard for them to “wrap their heads around.” Really tough on them emotionally.
shocking that the participation trophy/helicopter parent generation for some reason isn’t ready for real life!
“Do you want fries with that,” shouldn’t be much of a struggle.
not surprising if true: most colleges nowadays are little more than incubators for marxist snowflakes ...
Recent college grads not ‘emotionally’ ready for work.
I show up and have to work too how about I come in late and leave early?.
I suspect the kids that are successful in the workplace after graduating college had parents that expected a great deal out of them for the first 18 years of life. I know I had expectations for my children that were heavily influenced by my own experiences growing up. My kids had no problems transitioning to the workplace after graduating.
That’s a shame but I don’t want to pay their bills.
Ours aren’t in that mix. All left home and are independent.
Our youngest is 23 and lives in grandmas basement. He’s a full time OTR trucker and is on the road making money 5-6 days a week.
It’s not totally the snowflake generation’s fault. Helicopter patented, nothing was expected of them K-12, colleges charge so much that they have to treat their students as valued customers...it took a village to screw them up this badly.
I’m amazed how many kids don’t work prior to college. One of the smartest kids I had the pleasure to work with quit high school, got his GED and worked a ton of jobs. By the time I met him at 20 he was a decent auto mechanic, paint and body guy, cheese maker, and could drive a big rig. You never had to tell him anything twice, and rarely once. Where I was working he was the overall manager, and although I was 3 times his age it was an absolute pleasure working with him. We got everything done with minimal communication and effort. He went on to learn aircraft maintenance, which was a perfect fit as he was very methodical.
My first job post college was the civilian version of boot camp.
It seem like every other day I was called into the bosses office so he could yell at me—and then after torturing me for a few months he fired me.
I survived.
These snowflakes will have to learn to deal with it.
The lesson learned was that I needed to find help if I did not understand something—faking it was not going to work.
Trained to be V.P.
Wa wa wa. In my first five careers I felt bunt out at the end of most days.
“emotionally”? What “emotional” preparation does anybody need to get to work? You need money. There’s your precious emotions. Miss a meal or two and you’ll find you are ready to start working and getting paid.