These kids today, they want it all
Twentysomethings being dubbed `Entitlement Generation' for their lofty job expectations
Evan Wayne thought he was prepared for anything during a recent interview for a job in radio sales.
Then the interviewer hit the 24-year-old Chicagoan with this: "So, we call you guys the `Entitlement Generation,'" the Baby Boomer executive said, expressing an oft-heard view of today's young workforce. "You think you're entitled to everything."
Such labeling is, perhaps, a rite of passage for every crop of twentysomethings. In their day, Baby Boomers were rabble-rousing hippies, while Gen Xers were apathetic slackers.
Now, deserved or not, this generation is being pegged, too--as one with shockingly high expectations for salary, job flexibility and duties but little willingness to take on grunt work or remain loyal to a company.
Man, I wish my friends would set me up on blind dates. I've got nothing!!
Dude, I'm sorry. I could set you up over here, and there were in fact a handful of single guys at the Zmayhem wedding (which you foolishly ditched for some
family
thing. What. Ev.), but the only truly stellar guy I know anywhere in the tri-state area is getting married in August.
Also,
t frolics in birthday wishes like a puppy in a pile of autumn leaves
What is the tri-state area for SF?
What is the tri-state area for SF?
I don't know which ones exactly, but I'd assume they're states of mind and not political entities.
What is the tri-state area for SF?
I'm thinking she meant my tri-state area.
Thanks, JZ!
Now, deserved or not, this generation is being pegged, too--as one with shockingly high expectations for salary, job flexibility and duties but little willingness to take on grunt work or remain loyal to a company.
You can't blame us, though -- we went to high-school/college during the Clinton years. There was supposed to be a booming economy full of high-paying internet jobs waiting for us when we got out! Our expectations seemed reasonable at the time!
I meant Jesse's tri-state area. I have one Back East guy, whom I actually would've set up with any number of Somervillains or NYCistas if I'd had the chance, who tragically went and met The One last year. They met at an audition, she proposed to him with a spoon (some long story about a quaint country tradition of her ancestresses which I can't now recall), he responded with a mighty "SPOOOOOON!", and now he's off the market.
There is no tri-state area in California. We're so spread out that San Mateo-Contra Costa totally counts as a long-distance romance.
or remain loyal to a company
Well, when companies have a reputation of not remaining loyal to their employees....
I've seen this appellation in the microcosm of the legal market-- the response is always that firms are expecting MUCH higher hours (400-600 more billables) and making fewer partners. So loyalty is right out.
