Thank you for posting this. 95% of the posters on this thread don’t realize how foolish they sound. Their generation was just as unprepared and foolish as the current one.
I disagree. College wasn't an entitlement in my generation. There were no "student loans". If you made it out of college, you'd accomplished something.
Their generation was just as unprepared and foolish as the current one.”
SOME of us were being recruited in HIGH SCHOOL.
I was one of those kids- good grades- finished my assignments-did good clean detailed work.
I was recruited as a senior in hs by one of the largest retail grocery chains in the country- which is still operating- for their regional offices near my home.
Actually, it used to be fairly rare for young college grads not to have worked steadily through high school and at least part-time through college.
Now, in combination with government funding for college and more affluent ‘helicopter’ parents, it’s pretty regular for kids to have done nothing more than a make-work internship or two into their early or mid-20’s. The cluelessness about employment and general sense of entitlement are markedly different than a generation or two ago.
I disagree. I’ve had a job since I was 13 and by the time I got out of college I was already well aware of how to work. Now I don’t think that a college degree usually prepares you for the exact needs a new employer will have. The employer should expect a learning curve. But you should have the fundamentals so you can learn and you should know how to work.
This article was about people who don’t know how to work in a professional environment — inappropriate sexual comments to co-workers, partying and then calling/emailing in sick, being lazy, etc.