I don’t blame these young people. Why not have fun. I know so many retirees who worked 40 years for a company only to be told go home. They have nothing but their 401K and horrible heath problems and definitely can’t travel. With China becoming powerful with trillion dollar budget surpluses. We may not have a country in 40 years anyway. Plus companies did this. They have gotten so selfish with horrid pay and zero benefits.
Sometimes, it was several years less than 40 and before a retiree was ready to stop working.
This is exactly it. Companies don’t look after employees anymore and don’t care about them. The days of 20+ years with one company are over.
I remember my dad came home once over 10 years ago from an interview (He’s a Boomer) mad as can be because the interviewer asked him qualities he had and he said he was “loyal” and the guy laughed in his face and called him a dinosaur.
Millennials may have some stupid ideas, but they’re not completely stupid to the point where most of them are going to be exploited while Corporate America looks to replace them with H1B workers or outsource their job in 5 years.
If you’re ok with them having fun on your dime (ultimately), ..oh well.
If you worked for a company for 40 years, getting a salary and health benefits for that time, what really do you expect? All they have is a 401K? And? That likely means the company was contributing a percentage to the person’s own retirement savings (which everyone should so anyway).