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they appreciated having a job and understood that effort was required.

Here's the issue: the up/coming generation ("Y"/Millenials) are going to demand that the standard for effort-required changes.

And they're going to have that demand met. Here's why - it all comes down to numbers.

There are approximately 80 million Baby Boomers. There are approximately 40 million GenXers. There are approximately 80 million Millenials (showing why they are often also called the "Boomer Echo").

There aren't enough Xers to make up for the losses that are going to be seen in the workforce as Boomers retire or die (more likely the latter, thanks to Obama). That leaves the Millenials in an incredibly powerful position to exert leverage over the work environment. They WILL change it, simply because they will be so desperately needed and there won't be anyone standing in their way. And from what I'm already seeing, the change won't be good.

There aren’t enough Xers to make up for the losses that are going to be seen in the workforce as Boomers retire or die (more likely the latter, thanks to Obama). That leaves the Millenials in an incredibly powerful position to exert leverage over the work environment. They WILL change it, simply because they will be so desperately needed and there won’t be anyone standing in their way. And from what I’m already seeing, the change won’t be good.

You have a good set of points there. And because the Graduates are really not all that good or capable explains why such an emphasis on automation is made by business.

That leaves the Millenials in an incredibly powerful position to exert leverage over the work environment. They WILL change it, simply because they will be so desperately needed and there won't be anyone standing in their way.

Offshoring. There's no way Corporate America is going to do as you say, as long as offshoring at a fraction of the cost is an option.

The fact is this: most of these college kids coming into the work force ARE NOT prepared to WORK for what they're being offered. They demand high salaries with ZERO work experience. Most of them don't know how to interview, they can't handle face to face communications due to the impersonal way in which they're used to communicating via constant texting.

I actually interviewed a 24 year old college graduate who's mommy was waiting for him out in the parking lot. (I could barely contain myself from laughing when he told me such.) I'm betting mommy dressed him for the interview too.

I've seen these kids coming out of college getting worse and worse at interviewing, and their work ethic getting less and less since 1995 when I became a hiring manager. This isn't a new phenomenon. And it's not just me saying these kids don't know how to interview, three local TV stations ran "series" on how parents could help prep their college graduate children to learn to interview for a job.

If I didn't know it to be true, I'd have called all three tv stations "series" complete bullshit.

Well, the cold hard economic fact is if your business cannot sustain a profit it dies. Simple as that. Those that do make a profit survive.

So if a huge herd of millenials decide to take it easy and not work hard, and this becomes the business style of America, American business will have its lunch eaten.

Maybe the mellenials will have no impact, because there won’t be any jobs here.

Another way for them is to man up , roll up their sleeves, and get busy. I believe that’s the only option, and, in fact, will be the outcome for that group.