[quote=ltsdd][quote=flu][quote=ltsdd]I am also pretty sure 40 years from now, the average adult will be complaining about how the “younger” generation are lazy, ungrateful, and have this sense of entitlement.[/quote]
Yeah, but short of the generation that came before Baby Boomers, I’d say that’s the majority of america right now, including baby boomers.[/quote]
What makes you believe that’s the case? The younger generation has more work cut out for them not because of their lack of motivation and laziness but rather due to the increased in competition both internally, due to population increase, and externally from other countries that only in recent years began to shed itself the effects of decades of wars and colonial rules.
During the 50’s what and who did we really have to compete against? Japan, Russia and Europe were in rebuilding mode after the war. China was still fighting a civil war. Korea was a backward third-world country in the midst of a civil war. India just barely got its independence. Most of the rest of the world were still under colonial rule.
I don’t want to take away the accomplishments of our previous generations. But at the same time let’s not be too harsh and sell the younger generation short, either.[/quote]
Interviewing them…. Some of them really are still in la-la-la land…
I was phone screening some interns recently from college. No experience, and frankly sucky skills. and was asking some rudimentary technical questions (which they couldn’t answer BTW). But nevertheless, I thought…Ok local person, maybe the person will surprise me with some “mark of intelligence…” Well a few more minutes in the middle of the interview… I get a “can you hold on, someone is sending me a message on twitter?”…
I don’t know, but when I graduated and jobs were scarce, and I had limited work experience (which at the time was a hell of a lot more than some of these jokers), I took every opportunity I could to try to get every possible position rather than fvcking around on the BBS chatting to people at the same time…
Guy had the nerve to call back and ask when to start. I almost flipped out and was gonna say what I was thinking “are you fvcking kidding me?”, only to be held back with the flashes of the word “liability”…. hell no did I want to make this person a millionaire via some stupid lawsuit..
So I bit my tongue and referred him to HR to get an update on his/her status.
I hate to say this, there’s a reason why a lot of these high tech jobs are going to H1-B’s these days…Apparently a lot of them take their work more seriously. The economy is *that* bad , people are complaining they can’t find jobs. And yet you have still a lot of arrogant people who are still in la-la-la land, when they don’t know crap, and demand to be compensated as if they’re an expert with absolutely no experience. Great, I guess if they create facebook app, that will lead them on the road to riches…Like Zygna…Oh, wait…. nevermind.
