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alt5250 61M
1283 posts
7/28/2015 8:20 pm

Having gone through this & talked to others in different professions I can assure you dear lady it is not you, nor has anything to do with you. It is accross the spectrum.

Different expectations, needs & desires seems to be the norm for the generation. I am sure there are exceptions, but that was my impression as well.


jenny14 75T  
90121 posts
7/28/2015 8:58 pm

wdg

Us "crusty old timers" feel the same

Too many have too high expectations

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw

Jenny


alt5250 61M
1283 posts
7/29/2015 7:45 am

    Quoting ralph696969:
    since I invented sex these kids will have to find another lie to tell
Ralph, I doubt it...get a couple of marketing types in there & then the revisionist history starts. You probably have to get a few statues of you put up first!


opus20002 63M
148 posts
7/29/2015 11:59 am

As a Manager I often interview millenials and have the same experiences. The world has been at their finger tips via technology and helicoptering parents. Sometimes i'm surprised the parents did not accompany them to the interview. I have a son who is 18 and recently found myself having a discussion with him about how he expects the fine life, but has no expectation of earning it. He does work...but keeps coming to me for things beyond his means. He is finally learning nothing is free and most things of real value must be earned.


GAIJINGO 64M
263 posts
7/29/2015 2:26 pm

Boy, your comments ring true! Most of them are so self-absorbed I'm surprised they even bother to apply for a job. However I have met a few in their early twenties who would make wonderful Regan conservatives. It is with them I will hang my hopes!


Geekachu 47M
781 posts
8/4/2015 6:15 am

There's a book by Trey Willis which describes and explains this perfectly, called "The Snowflake Effect: How the Self-Esteem Movement Ruined a Generation".

Basically, this is a generation who've always been told that they're special, where everybody wins, and nothing can get in the way of getting what they deserve (which, of course, is "everything they ever wanted"). This has had an unintended effect, too - when they fail, they know, deep in their soul, that it can't have been because of their actions - they're a special, talented snowflake after all. Given that as a basis, the only possible conclusion is that it must be somebody else's fault - their friends, their parents, their teachers, their colleagues, their bosses...this is the generation that accountability forgot.

I can't help feeling that this is all going to end very, very badly.

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"Shun-SHENG duh gao-WAHN." - Mal


Maleficent4U 52F
116 posts
8/8/2015 11:45 am

Goooooood luck!!!!! I as well have had to deal with this. I was not the hiring manager, HR was and let me just say in the end I was the one who had to have the "self-reflection" talk with here!!!

The girl just would not wear a bra to work, or the appropriate tops to go braless. Her response, “ I don’t like wearing bras, I ‘m always braless”

The male managers and HR (he was male) wouldn't touch the topic with a 10 foot pole and I was the only female manager in that particular office. This is an area management has to tread carefully, but the employees where offended when she would be bending over to talk to them!



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