fuck this job.com

I think a large part of the issue is the "changing of the guard," so to speak, of generations. There's a new batch of 20 and 30 somethings that have grown up completely in the "me" generation.

I agree with anticorporate that it is a changing of the guard. The 20-30something age group has not only problems looking past what they DON'T have, they have a huge sense of entitlement, expect to get money whenever someone dies, talk incessantly about themselves and what more they should/could have, and also have a general lack of sympathy along with very poor interpersonal skills.

I went to school later in life (in my mid-twenties) and I found lots of me-me-me people. They had their parents' credit cards, no job, they just had to study and become the best they could be. Most of the people I knew during my studies started off well but they had no survival skills whatsoever. Seriously. I was working a lot during school and my pregnancy, and they looked at me like I was a definite outcast. I kept saying that "life gets in the way sometimes". It's a really hard concept to convey.

I don't believe that these people are assholes, just that they are raised to be kids their whole life, until they become doctors (or whatever big dream their parents thought up for them) and they live with their parents for an extended time and never freel the squeeze of I'm-going-to-have-nowhere-to-live-next-month or what-am-I-going-to-do because the parents take care of this, in attempt to give their kids a better life. Initially, it's the parents' fault.

Once in a while I spurt out things randomly (which probably isn't very mature of me, but gets a reaction). I had a school colleague tell me her sob story of not getting as much money from her dying mother as she thought (and, thus, not be able to go through with her post-death plans), and I said "my son almost died while i was giving birth to him. I'm sorry that your mom's not doing well". She reacted by shutting up and later saying she didn't realize that and she was sorry.

What I'm trying to say, is that you can't know something unless you've come across it before, in being either taught or self-learning. The lack of empathy is just that: they have not been through your situation before, they've been protected like a rare orchid, most of them, and they need to mature and gain experience. Unfortunately, many of them will be in a position of corporate power and this will just make it worse??

Enough ranting, back to the grindstone, one tooth at a time.

I have to admit it, I have a son that has this mind set exactly. I remember my first job, I did my best, so glad that I could actually be paid to do it. I left home at 17 and never went back. My son 24yrs, oldest, he simply quits a job if he doen't feel like going to work. He is at the end of his me-me-me rope though. I may sound like a bitch but, I will not allow him in my house. He was making 22.00/hr and quit his job! (3rd job at that rate)"I didn't feel like going in" he says. As I write, he has a TENT in my back yard. (3 acres so I don't really see him) There have been big storms, he stays outside by my rules. He used to drive a suped up Toyota, now, he has a peice of junk, totaled the toyota. He is getting the biggest kick of reality in his ass he ever imagined. My middle son is different, 21, a lifeguard, works like crazy and goes to school. He saves his money, he may have more than me, he is decent, I gave him my old Jetta, he says VWs are expensive to care for, he sees the big picture, he can sell it if he wants but I think he feels I like the Jetta or something. Anyway, there are all sorts of kids getting into the workforce. The older one borrows from the middle one, it is sad. My older son just feels he is entitled to everything, he thinks he should run my house, that is why he is not allowed in.
Oh well, I had to vent about "KIDS THESE DAYS!!!"
Some are good, some are not, probably a lot like us back then. i hope the good ones rule! oh, i am claudet with a te at the end.