This generation sucks...

PatrickBateman

"It's like the every-other-decade theory, you know? The '50s were boring, the '60s rocked, and the '70s-- Oh, my god, they obviously suck. Come on. Maybe the '80s will be radical. You know? I figure we'll be in our 20s and, hey, it can't get any worse." - Dazed and Confused

SPEEDY MCCREADY

IwasBit10 wrote:

jezebeloria wrote:

Couldnt agree with you more. This is why i got out of management. No work ethic whatsoever!!! And, and, and, I could go on for hours on my issues with the 20 somethings. For the most part they are just lazy and feel some sense of entitlement. Sucks getting older in an industry that is only getting younger!

I'm 23 and a manager for a logistics company, busting my ass 6 days a week. I work with a bunch of 40-55 year old drivers, and laziness and apathy is their specialty. Now, I don't go around saying "40 year olds have no work ethic," because obviously that's not true. Same is the case for what you said....

Can't argue with the sense of entitlement though. When's my promotion?!

...........................

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

well im 31 and im lazy.

Thoughts_Arrive

They are all a bunch of violent thugs.
No morals, no respect for anyone and themselves.
No work ethic.

pandora

my goodness generalizing is way not cool
you miss out on so much that way, closed minds and closed hearts
my 20 something children are awesome and of course they are not alone.
With each generation we did not want to be judged how soon people forget that.

chadwick

one thing is a fact.
these days a young person has shitty taste in cartoons.
young people's cartoons are bullshit.

IwasBit10

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

IwasBit10 wrote:

jezebeloria wrote:

Couldnt agree with you more. This is why i got out of management. No work ethic whatsoever!!! And, and, and, I could go on for hours on my issues with the 20 somethings. For the most part they are just lazy and feel some sense of entitlement. Sucks getting older in an industry that is only getting younger!

I'm 23 and a manager for a logistics company, busting my ass 6 days a week. I work with a bunch of 40-55 year old drivers, and laziness and apathy is their specialty. Now, I don't go around saying "40 year olds have no work ethic," because obviously that's not true. Same is the case for what you said....

Can't argue with the sense of entitlement though. When's my promotion?!

...........................

Speedy,

We definitely have drivers that work very hard and value their job very much. But of course, not all of our employees are like that. That was merely the point I was trying to make, that you can't just lump a bunch of characteristics on a group of people because of their age.

Cubs suck!

he still stands

it's like a discussion with Jerry's Kids in here...

Thoughts_Arrive

Back in my daaaay.......

Dissidentman

he still stands wrote:

it's like a discussion with Jerry's Kids in here...

Can we get our own telethon???

Given to...

I think another important word is "generalization." That was the point I was trying to get across. Not every 20-something is the same, nor is every 40-50 year old the same. Work ethics come in all different shapes and sizes (and ages).

Just because I've only been in the work force for 2 years, doesn't mean I don't work as hard as you. Do I think I have all the answers? Fuck no. I ask questions and try to learn every day through experience. Would my company survive without me? Of course! But I'm actually sickened that that's how people would perceive anybody my age, without any background knowledge of an individual. Are there some merits to thinking 20-somethings lack integrity, honesty, hard work, sweat, sense of accomplishment, etc? Sure there is! But you can't discredit the 20-somethings that are actually trying and contributing, just because you're from a different "generation." Just seems really generalized, not to mention arrogant and close-minded.

PS., I can't tell if you actually think that I think that, or if you're just trying to provide a different viewpoint. Nothing personal. And that whole promotion thing in my other post was completely sarcastic....[/quote]



Definetely not a personal attack on you at all. Sorry it came across as that. I work in an environment that has a wide age group, and it happens to be a union plant, so you can imagine the vast variety of lazy.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

They are all a bunch of violent thugs.
No morals, no respect for anyone and themselves.
No work ethic.

you sound like my dad about us.

Thoughts_Arrive

MrSmith wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

They are all a bunch of violent thugs.
No morals, no respect for anyone and themselves.
No work ethic.

you sound like my dad about us.

It's true.
The kids of today are stabbing, glassing, bottling, bashing, killing.
Well they are here in Australia, especially Melbourne.
i.e what happened to one our our fans recently....

stardust1976

he still stands wrote:

MayDay10 wrote:

I think the same things were said of us as well.

But I cant help but be very concerned for the generation(s) after us. Most of them have no fear of authority at all. Too many parents dont do any teaching themselves, and blame the outside world whenever their kid fails or is challenged.

yeah but since the 50s/60s the new generation has always been criticized for lacking the correct moral compass or not being in-line with the mainstream. I'm criticizing this generation for something altogether different.

Today, I think that kids are all defeatist pussies who don't have any ambition, no excitement for adventure/experience, and are okay with a meaningless existence consisting of video games, stealing their parents prescription drugs, and developing a flabby and pale body.

But maybe that is just the small sample group that I am aware of (probably 20 - 50 kids) in my localized geography in Eastern PA. Maybe kids elsewhere are different...

Nope, people are the same here as well. Kids....well, they really aren't kids anymore....older teens/young adults, they irritate the crap out of me. Yeah, we had access to things growing up that our parents did, but they had access to things THEIR parents didn't either. The last hundred years spawned the greatest changes technologically EVER.

But this Generation are lazy. Generalising I know, but it's mostly true. They expect to have things handed to them, they don't want to work to get anything, and believe the world revolves around them and their issues. Some of the kids I go to uni with are absolutely dillusional. They truly have no concept of the outside world, and believe that it doesn't matter anyway.

Being a parent myself, I think I can safely say that a lot of it IS down to the parents. There are a lot of people out there who ARE trying to protect their kids because the world is no longer the safe little place it used to be, and in doing so, set their kids up for a life of fear, lack of ambition, and a general belief that someone else will do it/get it/make it happen, because their parents spent their lives doing everything for them, in order to protect them.

It's a sad indictment on today's society. Hopefully if enough people realise, we can fix it. Maybe.

Thoughts_Arrive

Correct they don't care for anything.
I went overseas last year with some friends and they couldn't be bothered seeing the country, just sleeping in till 2am, getting drunk all day and fucking chicks.

pjfan021

i'm 23, work full time school part time....I can thoroughly say that a solid 70% of my generation are douchebags. Everybody dresses the same, listens to the same crap, watches the same dumbass reality shows, and usually has no concept of anything outside their cell phone, ipod, or the latest episode of jersey shore. Not saying I'm hot shit or anything but I dislike a lot about my generation and the overall lack of interest in anything serious. To anyone who considers themself old I say this....be afraid...be very afraid.

michelleelise

OK, I know I posted that study earlier in the thread about how in the past 30 years, young adults haven't really changed.

But I have thought of a couple things that really worry me since then

1) Video games. WTH is going on? Every single male neighbor I've had in the past few years (6, I think) comes home at night and plays video games for hours. They're paying a premium to live in a neighborhood 4 blocks from downtown and half a mile to hiking, climbing and cycling trails...and they sit inside playing war games constantly. What must be happening to their brains?

2) When the show Real World started, I was about 20. And it was actually a great show. The people were dropped into a strange city, same as they are now, but they were each pursuing careers so the show was about their struggles and dealing with the "real world". And they did it like that for a few seasons, with young cops, singers, writers, etc. And now, the "real world" is that they get the most overly-dramatic people they can find and force them to give up their career (if they actually have one), lock them in a house and try to get them to drink and hook up with each other. If you're growing up watching that crap for four years and then you go off to college yourself, what are your expectations of the "real world" going to be?

My point with both examples is they feed their minds a steady diet of bullshit.

Maybe if this crap had been fed to the rest of us when we were younger, we'd be in the same boat. Luckily, it wasn't, I guess. It's up to parents to limit the exposure their kids have to these things and make sure they're actually out having meaningful, real-life experiences and not filling their brain with the crap that's on TV these days.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

MrSmith wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

They are all a bunch of violent thugs.
No morals, no respect for anyone and themselves.
No work ethic.

you sound like my dad about us.

It's true.
The kids of today are stabbing, glassing, bottling, bashing, killing.
Well they are here in Australia, especially Melbourne.
i.e what happened to one our our fans recently....

they were doing that here in the 90s. maybe its just now migrated to Australia

lukin2006

A STUNNING SENIOR MOMENT

A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game,
took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why
it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation.

You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one, the
student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear. The young
people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man
walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We have
nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed
processing and.....pausing to take another drink of beer...........

The Senior took advantage of the break in the student's litany and said,
'You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young........
so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little shit, what are you doing
for the next generation?'

The applause was resounding... I love senior citizens

Heatherj43

It is my opinion that each generation is more self centered than the one before.