Millennials in the Workforce, A Generation of Weakness - Simon Sinek
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Simon Sinek explains how the millennial generation became so entitled. A combination of failed parenting strategies, technology, impatience and environment have created a wave of young people who can't hack it in the real world.
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“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” George Orwell
Fringe Wizard Boomers are dumbshits who fucked the entire planet
edit: so you're saying you'd like to be dead rn? i must concur.
if it were 100 years ago we'd be in the boom/bust cycle of the 20s.
do you really want that?
also, the boomers tend to be selfish, entitled fucks who want what they want and they want it *NOW*.
hahahahahaha please tell me you're joking lmao.
that's some dumb shit that just came outta yo mouth, dawg. xD.
No it's not. Tell me why it supposedly is? Btw most of the Amish in my area live like it's 1800 still.
Fringe Wizard you're on the internet so idk why Amish is even relevant.
You're an idiot if you wanna live through the great depression with the lower lifespan and lack of medical tech in comparison to today. Either that or just a fanatic.
I am not a Millennial.
But here are the small difference what I faced and what Millennials faced.
For me and for them.
State colleges where: $3000 a year- now it's $6000
Private school: $100,000- now $300,000.
Student loan: 6 months grace period after graduation before interest begins
Now: interest starts the day you borrow money.
Rent in Manhattan: $1400 for a studio
Now: LOL good luck.
Every generation say shit about the ones after them.
Nobody wins.
Hei C at least someone finally said it
Just to correct student loans still have a 6 month grace period unless you need more then what they are giving then interest starts when you borrow.
Nope interest now starts the day you borrow money... I am paying for it right now... you're telling me I don't need to pay?
Currently for federally subsidized student loans, the government will pay the interest while you are in university, and you will have a 6 month grace period after leaving university before you have to start your monthly payments.
it's good you realise your luck with things. I myself am not as lucky as the baby boomer generation but at least I just missed out on having to do years of unpaid internships just to get a job
"The new generation sucks!" ~ Every previous generation ever
This should be the title for this bullcrap of a speech :D
NarrowMullen Jouvenoia.
I think this goes beyond simple juvenoia, I was skeptical of this but the numbers don't lie.
Everything bad that's ever happened is the fault of someone older than me.
millennials are trash -genZ
They don’t understand or accept the idiosyncrasies that we have put up with for so long. I work in construction and it’s refreshing to see youngsters not willing to put up with all the bullying and nonsense we had to put up with when we were younger
It has to do with pay. I will tolerate all matter of idiosyncrasies if the job pays... but they do not.
Alot of whitehard hats are yelling and bitchy and very shity to work with so that's why I don't miss it
What to the younger people do when they get bullied in the workplace
@@dark7angel456If a patron or a supervisor is being an ass I do my best to fuck him/her over. I bully my boss back. As simple as that. Any slip on its behalf is an HR complain, if there's a chance to spread rumors and deceit I do so, any drinks left unchecked will be met with spit, every demand will be met with disdain; if there is the chance to hold equipment, metrics or worktime as hostages or to throw the boss under the bus, said chance will be taken. I've even put an additional lock on the boss's locker just to have it go around searching for someone to open the shit up while I watch the whole thing. Any opportunity to be petty with the target is taken. Fuck bad bosses. If my boss is a bad boss I am the worst employee. I hope this helps :3
NO!!! FIGHT BACK!!!!
I feel like when people talk about millennials, they just mean young people and don’t realize how old millennials are.
EXACTLY!!! Most people don't know they are talking about GEN Z or ZOOMERS now and say Millenials. Also, although I'm not done with the video yet, Millenials went into debt of college, where inflation is higher and pay wages have not raised with it (USA the only developed nation that doesn't do this, go look it up, its disgusting) then the Crash in 2008 happened, and in their early mid 30s the pandemic happened. This guy also doesnt quote any studies and millienials are not affected by social media as far as depression/suicide exponentially compared to GEN Z. I think he doesn't even know the difference.
Hell, im considered a millennial but social media wasn't a thing until my first year in college.
This video is 5 years old. That places Millenials in the 18 - 35 range and the audio on which the video was made is older than that.
@@MrDNMock missed that, my bad. Millennials did suck 5 years ago.
@ZigZag Pretty sure Gen Y was the original placeholder name that was later replaced with "Millenials"
So which generation created the unpaid internship?
Back in 1800 I think.
Back in the middle ages it was called being an apprentice, but basically the same thing.
Its was basically slavery until you completed your training and u were no longer a apprentice.
Apprenticeship was better. Apprentices were allowed to do any task and learn it, there wasn't any retarded restrictions, exclusionary tests, money you had to pay a school or any of that bogus shit!! Interns aren't allowed to get into the good, meat and potatoes of a company apprentices were able to.
Sadly, there's no more apprenticeship positions, and government funded public schools also don't have any vocational classes/trade classes like woodshop, plumbing, electrical, welding, auto shop or construction these days. The cheap ass government stopped funding that and put the burden of paying for learning those trades on the students by going to a vocational school and paying for it themselves while working 12 hr days at a lousy minimum wage job. They have no time to do both, it's impossible, there's only so many hours in a day.
The only viable solution is grants or help from their family. But grants are very selective, most vocational schools don't offer grants and are very exclusionary, it's like winning the lottery. Families arent all rich either. Again, if you're from a poor family you're shit out of luck. I feel bad for those kids.
Well businesses weren't as complex back then, like if you were an apprentice tailor, you'd just be a tailor. Nowadays there's retail, warehouses, shipping, management, and so many other aspects to running a business that a single person can't hope to learn or do all of them.
I think it’s safe to say that a lot of these negatives are not strictly associated with millennials. I am 57 years old. I’ve seen plenty of these types of attitudes in my generation and even the generation before mine.
its not about having the attitude and behavior, is about how many people are like that.
In your time maybe, there were people like that and they were many but nowadays this is like "everyone" which is a way bigger problem
Because this is nothing crazy, this are qualities universal for humanity
A lot of these negatives are a product of the same Socrates assessment.
@ZigZag i disagree with that notion, in fact I'd say its the opposite. Mankind has always been horrible and we simply repeat mistakes of the past in different form none the less we still improved. Example police brutality is widely spoken about in today's era but in reality we manage to decrease it in the last 2 decades but we simply have more access to know about it and moral understanding its wrong. The same can be said of rape, thievery, negligence, slavery, racism, and murder but obviously we don't live in a clean slate because evolution takes centuries and we are prone to repeat past mistakes when we don't learn of them. The only thing I can agree in the video is that yes its harder to be a parent but only because we came to a realization that we ask moral questions we need to teach more than we learned to succeed passing the torch, unlike before we had more children abandoned in the past to follow a life of crime to now just struggling to properly raise them.
i aggree but milennials are next level shxt , worth 0
As a millenial, when I talk to my peers about said "impact", it often boils down to being able to see the distance you went. When you work as a cashier, you see how much money comes in, but (1) the line of people never decreases, (2) the types of products never change, and worst of all, (3) despite seeing how much money comes in, that money never comes back to solve issues at your workplace. It seems like a chronic illness of the service industry that they are understaffed, with abyssmal pay, low if any inflation adjustments, constant lack of utilities, etc, etc - as such, there is a high turn-over of staff.
I quit my job of several years, because despite being aware of how much comes in every day (and getting company mails like "We made even more money than the past years - all thanks to you!"), nothing ever is used to improve a bad work environment. We don't do anything to improve anything, accept for the numbers in some asshole's bank account. We work, but we barely get what we're due. We don't just want our lives to be better, but that of those around us as well, and want our work contribute towards that. I don't mind doing menial labor - but what I do mind, is if it isn't helpful in regards to the human condition, even though it easily could be.
It's not so much about the lack of instant gratification for me and my peers in my personal environment, it's more about not wanting to work for greedy people. They rely on us for their wealth, but they don't want to hear our complaints. I fully understand what people say when they mean "I am not special", but I am an individual, a person, a fellow human being. What is a king without his people - and what is an employer without his employees? Authority does not have to be exploitative, and I would be glad to work for companies that aren't taking part in it.
Old people have been taking away bonuses and reward programs for workers for DECADES and then calling us lazy when we inevitably burn out. This is a place for the old and senile not the place for the young anymore.
I work retail now. I know you no longer do, but I wanted to say I love you. Everything you said is true for me. I always think about my brothers and sisters in minimum wage. We go in healthy and leave sick. Take care.
@@deadinside8781 I second that
I'll be honest, you need to change industries. The service industry will always be a terrible employer because of the economics - stores & restaurants are not any more efficient today than they were in the Middle Ages. If you don't have the skills or education for professional industries, manufacturing, construction, transportation and mining are good options, especially in times and places where there's a shortage of labor.
@@alexanderfretheim5720 Ok how, explain to me how im supposed to live on my own and pay for more education to switch fields. On top of medical bills and car expenses.
I'm almost 50 and guess what, I got a participation trophy for playing T-ball when I was five. Participation trophies are not unique to millenials, some people like the guy in this video push this idea because it fits their narrative that millenials are entitled and don't want to work for anything. Millenials are being thrown into a world with fewer opportunities and vastly more student loan debt. They frequently end up in unpaid internships that go nowhere or being underemployed. They have to compete for jobs with people all over the world now, not just in their town. They're seeing automation and globalization shrink their prospects. And people wonder why they're depressed. Yeah, must be the cell phones.
liverleef Not only that, just see how many people apply for a job with your same credentials, 500 or more (and they don't hire you because they usually hire someone they already know).
BUT you are also getting paid jack shit for that job you do eventually win, and you have 2 of them to pay for school, but also go to school full-time.
Yet I can't even afford food/a car. I share with my sibling whenever we eat at a restaurant. That's life in LA if you're a middle class, working 2 jobs, college student...with poor wages you cannot afford much. Actually that's life in the U.S. :/
Only a small portion of Generation Y is actually well-off, most of us are barely scraping by in retail, business, or medical jobs. That's pretty much all the people I know in school/work. Again only a tiny tiny tiny portion of Millenials can afford the stereotype this video is forcing on us. :(
I'm a millennial and I never got a trophy. Hell I've won competitions and I still never got a fucking trophy. I don't have any friends with trophies either. Who the fuck are all these millennials with their fucking trophies!?
liverleef EXACTLY THANK YOUA
I suppose it probably depends on where you grew up. Sometimes people did get participation rewards in my area but it was usually for younger kids. It usually stopped by the time you hit your preteens because there was an impression of kids being able to handle the loss at that point. Participation rewards are suppose to encourage you to try again and to not give up and that it is ok to lose sometimes (everyone loses sometimes).. Without negative enforcement.
I agree with the original poster. It is way harder to get jobs these days.. the requirements to obtain jobs are higher than they use to be. Debt is higher most people are in debt at least $5k or more and the likelihood of people being able to be where our parents were at our age is slim. It is like I read somewhere before 30s is the new 20s and 40s is the new 30s.. and i almost wonder if it had any merit... I honestly think the only way we could begin to fix some of this is if there was a mass debt forgiveness of some kind but that might cause more problems lol..
Those are good points. Im a gen-Xer and I got a participation trophy but I dont think I got one when I was older than 5 or so. I don't know if every millenial who played sports got a participation trophy or how common it was but its stupid to imply that this its a widespread millenial thing and its even more stupid to think that this cheap plastic trophy they got when they were a child somehow governs their entire concept of work and reward for the rest of their lives.
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
Socratese, 469-399 BC. Same crap different century.
Shame millennials aren't children. Oops. You just stepped into your own doo. And you don't address a single thing this video has to say. Beautiful. Good luck with your quote though (that has no context). I'm sure you'll...find...something...out of it.
@@bobmcbobbington9220 Every generation thinks they are better than the one that follows. Boomers heard the same crap from their parents. Then it was Gen X, Y, Millenials. Old people bitching about kids these days isn't new. The people bitching about Millenials did quite a fine job of fucking up the world. Enough context for you?
The more things change, the more they stay the same. A concept we haven't been able to fully grasp, and all of our attempts to change paradoxically are no different than what previous generations have tried and future ones will attempt. Everything is neatly contained in a box, playing out a familiar script, it's own particular scene of the 'human tragedy'.
Uhhhhh elders are rude towards me and they think they're entitled as well
@@bobmcbobbington9220 You did not get it at all did you.......
We're a nation divided by everything, including age. Sad.
Ariana Fabella Best, most sensible comment.
Collectively judging individual people by their AGE? How ridiculous is that!
Just the way it’s always been
@@thatdumbass8962 In your short lifetime that's true.
@timwins31 Why won't people think for themselves? It's not that hard.
I’m a millennial, my parents gave me a life they could’ve only dreamed of, but they taught me the importance of value and more importantly, they taught me that if you want something in life, you have to fight for it… yes, I do know some lazy, entitled types that you speak of but they don’t occupy one particular generation…. So perhaps, our individual development starts with how we were raised by our previous generation?
Yea I agree totally agree with this statement. I was also grown up with parents that taught me to value thing and to fight for what you want aswell. I feel that it comes down to how the parents raise their children.
That's what this smug a-hole doesn't get: they raised us!
We will need a free wage. Push the button and go have fun. That's the future. If you want to argue with that, you're blind.
We are lazy button pushers moving toward a work free society Think what an average person has to offer in a world where the phone in your pocket is ten million times smarter than you. Imagine a future where you are not the smart one, and your trivial skills and work is worthless. The game has changed.
I was hooked all the way to the very end, where they did exactly what millennials count on... Relief of all accountability and responsibility for their own life their own actions their own happiness and their own sense of fulfillment. When you do this to someone, you make them helpless and ensure they stay helpless
As a millennial, I have zero interest in “making an impact” when it comes to my job. I’m better off coming in, doing what’s asked of me the best I can, and going home. Chances are, no matter how hard you work, your impact isn’t going to mean much after they put you in the ground. My mental health and caring for the people closest to me is what matters. I want a work/life balance where I’m not coming home everyday, stressed about what happened that day, and mentally dead to the people around me. I’d rather live modestly than working my ass off to make a ton of money that I’m too stressed out to spend when I actually have time to “enjoy” it.
Yep! My job not my life, is a good slogan. Only idiots act like the horse in Animal Farm.
Put learning how to say more with less on your to do list
@@LucicPower Yea I’ll get right on that 🙄
This is me 100%.
There’s betas and there’s alphas
Im 38. First year of the millenial generation. I'm a highly skilled tradesman welder and shipwright. I don't want free food. I don't want bean bags. I burn steel all day in the rain snow and heat. I work 14 days on 7 off 10 hour days. I want to buy a fucking home and not be in debt till I'm 80. I want to be able to afford that and not work myself to death.
You're my kind of man - you build the America that I love.
I hear ya man, I'm 32 worked my ass off all my life. It pisses me off when I hear dudes like this being like "millenials want everything handed to them" " I blame their parents" I bet this dude lives in city and only ever sees yuppies children. Get out in rural areas where people actually had to use their hands and brains for a living, its a whole other story.
I worked 10 hours today. It's -18 C I came home to frozen pipes. Also I'm Canadian by way of getting the hell out of the USA. My standard of living as a tradesperson is a hell of a lot higher up here.
You know I know this is going to sound funny, but as an Industrial Engineer, I consider free food a great idea, ESPECIALLY for your welders and people working on the assembly line. It isn't a great idea because millennials want it, it's a great idea because it wastes time to have people in line to scan their credit cards or find cash to pay for their food or coffee. The food is less expensive than the lost work time or rest time that they spend queuing to pay. Further, you can't get back the 15-20 minutes you lose each shift from doing such - that will be 45 minutes to an hour that your factory is either not producing or not producing as well, and there is no amount of money you can pay to get 45 minutes of factory time added back to the workday. The day is 24 hours, and any time you waste is time you WILL NOT GET BACK. Making them pay for their own at the cafeteria SOUNDS cheap, but it's actually expensive, and we as a society need to do a better job distinguishing between how things sound and how things are.
@@alexanderfretheim5720 hey we're all getting really fucking good pizza tomorrow like brick oven $45 a pie pizza. I'm not complaining. I also make 6 figures. I have however, been on jobs where they payed dog shit and gave us dominos for half an hour on the 23rd of December as our company xmas party. To be honest I stole every expensive tool on my way out the door for those kind of jobs and I won't go near any of that kind of work again but there still seems to be a lot of companies that are doing really well who do that kinda BS. Also making 6 figures is like the bare minimum these days to be able to afford a home. I'm pretty sure my parents got college degrees and bought land by working summer jobs and maybe digging through the seats of their parents cars.
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
Meh. With that theory, mitochondrial eve is responsible. Stuffs more peaceful, standard of living goes up, people lack off. People get used to having nice stuff so they want more nice stuff. Nothing special. Happens throughout history.
He points to bad education, and bad parenting as reasons for the problems raised.
Did you even watch the video.
at 10:27 he even says it's no fault of the Millenials, we just got dealt a bad hand, and have to work harder to unlearn all this "You're special, You can do anything" attitude.
You didn't watch till the end, did you?
...That was the point???? Don't you listen???
He said word for word "We [Baby Boomers/ Generation X] need to pick up the slack. We need to work extra hard"
If a robber told me he was "extra sorry" for breaking into my house I'd still blow his head off. Just because somebody admits they were wrong, doesn't mean it excuses them from _punishment._ The Millennial Generation was forced into a world that the Baby Boomers and Generation X destroyed because they were incompetent and irresponsible, and now they have the arrogance to display hypocrisy in regards to a problem they created in the first place?
Just because millennials are lazy and unfocused doesn't mean they aren't intelligent. Eventually their frustration is going to help them figure out how to stand up in this cess pool of inadequacy their progenitors created, and once that happens they're going to become _very_ focused on doing something about it and holding those responsible accountable for their actions.
I'm a millennial. I don't like social media. I don't care how the outside people see me. What matters for me is my family, my goals, my personal growth. I change jobs easily, searching for professional growth. I don't believe in a retirement from the same company doing repetitive tasks. I believe in movement, dynamics, personal growth etc. I'm very confident of who I am and what serves me and what don't anymore. I think this generation have as the others, goods and wrongs, but surely the family environment is crucial.
How do you land those jobs, what are the steps you take?
Im asking because i don't know what ima do after college,
@@supersmash6058 Hi! That depends on what are your interests. Usually if it's your first job, you can start with something basic that involves customer service. I started with a part time in a jewelry shop, then I moved to a Leather Articles store. I also worked in college helping on the financial assistance office. The best advice is to start building experiences to your resume. And most important, don't give up your goals for a job. Search a job that adjusts to your needs but respects your study agenda. Blessings and good luck!
@@supersmash6058 Look for jobs nearby that require certain certifications you can get in college or online. Then send those out to like 20 nearby employers and hope one responds back because most of them want 1 year experience so they think that they don't have to train you. previous job experience is good to get the feel for work but its not required anymore, employers just want somebody they don't have to train nowadays no matter how much experience you actually have, they can fire you if you don't do good enough at any time. Oh and if you have any sort of disability its gonna be a long and very hard road as employers will ghost you if you mention disability. Its gonna be a long road friend and I hope you're lucky enough to not have to couch surf for some of it.
Agreed! I have the same sentiment.
You're a female. Your whole world is image
I was born in 83 and this world is still pretty shit. My dad was born in the 60's and he still lost his job as a computer programmer. Fuck the workplace. Get your paycheque and go home. Do the things you find joy in no matter the cost. CEO's can afford the hit in their pocket, I can't afford the hit to my time. Life is short, I'm not looking to spend it making money for someone else. These people will try to pay you minimum wage and expect maximum effort, then they tell you that you are lazy or ungrateful for the "opportunity". Fuck that. Work just hard enough to keep getting paid until you can figure out a way to get paid more without wasting your goddamn life away everyday. That's exactly what your "boss" is doing.
agreed!
Haha this comment perfectly sums up my thoughts about the workplace today.
Chad Kincaid fuck mate, my dad was born in the 50s and I wan born in 93
That's the attitude of a mouse hell bent on escaping this rat race.
Keep on, muh dude.
exactly.
edit: I'm not agreeing with what Kevin said, I'm agreeing with Chad. I was working like a dog at my job until I broke my arm last year, I still work there but I am never working like that again and I made that definitely clear to my employer. I only work to make enough to live off of. with the time off I get I pursue my dreams. That's the way we all should live!
Let’s all revisit this conversation in ten years.
If you learn nothing, you have nothing to teach. The next generation is going to be worst.
Well, I'm just going to go about my life and when we finally collapse then....maybe 🇺🇸 will commit suicide.
I'll just watch.😐😑
When RUclips recommends it.
I'm from the future. Now I know what really happened.
message from a little more in the future. We learned more.
"Millenial" is out of date now. The next generation has already entered the workforce.
Weird to think about, Kids we were watching grow up are now working
This speech is like 7 years old
I thought Gen z was like everyone from 2003 and on, which means the oldest Gen z right now is like 17 like we have barely dipped our toes in the water
@@dominantseth4557 So that makes some kind of significant difference concerning his point?
Ethan King The cutoff is actually a lot earlier, 1995 and onward is Gen Z iirc. The rule of thumb was "if you don't remember 911, you're Generation Z."
3 mins into this and I’m at the end of the millennial generation and this sounds nothing like me. I would actually say this is more accurate for the generation after millennials.
I have a feeling alot of people think gen Y are millennials.
The concept of "social media" would have begun forming around 15-20 years ago, and smart phones became popular/common around 2010. The points relating to that would apply to people born in the 90's to late 90's at the earliest (for them to be children with it)
I agree. I didn't get a cellphone until I was 16. I'm 30 now. Totally do not relate to much of this.
Millennials are the poorest paid generation since the great depression. That's the source of everything. Screw your beanbag chairs and free food... I came out of college in 2008... Yep lots of jobs then right?.. nope! so people in my age and social class ended up moving back in with our parents, to the joy of us and of course our already burdened parents.... and we were called lazy because of it. We didn't have a choice in the matter. I have a B.S. in Evolutionary Biology and you know what I was able to do with that fresh out of college?... Working at a Sunoco station for $9 an hour. Yep this is why me and my peers went into student loan debt right? So we could make a better lives for ourselves. Not to mention that tuition is way out of control to the point we're enslaved when we leave college because of the massive and crippling debt.
Once my boss kinda mocked me for not being able to pay for something, saying that when he was my age he was making $5 an hour and he was happy. So I used a converted to calculate how much buying worth that would equate to in 2017. As it turned out it was close to $19 an hour, so I asked to have a raise up to $19. He did give me a bump up for humbling him, not up to 19 though. I'm reminded more of the dog electric current exercise. A dog was jolted with electricity with no way to stop it, eventually the dog would lay down and stop trying to find an escape and accepted it's painful fate. I was born in 85 and only now in my life am I able to get any kind of traction, but it was only because of my experience in medicine that I newly acquired that allowed me to have this. My degree has done NOTHING to further my life.
The bulk of us are just done. The buying power of most millenials wages is basically peanuts to what is actually needed in life.
TL;DR: That is called "Learned helplessness" And is becoming a rapidly increasing problem.
The principle behind the dog shock is called "Learned Helplessness"
A very dark and serious term in psychology. It is being mentioned more and more to go alongside testing. Each generation in the u.s. is taking more and more standardized tests. We are told if we fail the tests then we are not going to get into a good college, not get any good jobs, and are going to become addicts to things like alcohol or god forbid marijuana (sarcasm.) I can name 10 classmates off the top of my head who went into every single test expecting to fail. They went in for tutoring every day of the week and studied at home, yet were pretty sure they were going to fail the weekly math test then fail at life. There is an all-time high of people being diagnosed with test anxiety. I remember my 6th grade elementary teacher telling the class a story about a student who vomited all over her test due to anxiety. She got graded on what she had completed and could not re-take or finish the test. She failed because she got sick. We were told that we should not be nervous about the test so that did not happen. And starting 2 years ago that test was canceled and replaced with a new standardized test so colleges will no longer look at the tests we took from Kindergarten to 10th grade (for the class of 2017.)
I am honestly just glad I was in the minority for not having test anxiety. My psych 101 teacher had us write a list of what was scary about test taking and my philosophy was "If you fail you fail. If you pass then you managed to do what someone with photographic memory could have done." While multiple students had double sided papers or used a stapler.
For all time high of test anxiety: www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/exam-stress-at-an-all-time-high-that-pressure-is-needed-to-set-you-up-for-life-10249996.html
Though I did not check the validity of the report I vividly remember being told that through my middle and highschool years. As well as my Psych 101 teacher mentioning it on multiple occasions. It was also mentioned in the textbook (or so my notes tell me.)
Sounds like you're a special case of suck if you have a degree in Science and can't get a job. Look at BAH they have openings if you are qualified.
Something tells me you aren't and I won't be seeing you anytime soon. But cheers!
I'll start with some excuses.
"I might have to move? awww I dun wanna"
"I might have to travel or go overseas, awww I dun wanna"
"I can't take my phone into the lab, awww but I wanna"
"Why are there 3 interviews? wahhh"
DiddlingDoom
Evolutionary biology. lol
Stephen Murphy You seem pretty sour man. What happened, you send more money to that Nigerian Prince again? "Those millennials with their change and new fangled technology that I don't understand!"
Wah! I don't like change! Wah! "Back in MY day, things were far superior. Trust me, it's MY opinion, so what could hold more weight than that?"
Thank God for fucking Stephen Murphy, he's going to help all of us scared, baby millennials figure it out! Please, teach us! I'm sure your job as a dollar store manager has gifted you with a breadth of life experience.
I do have a job now. It was 2007-2009, things were different back then as far as job availability. I'm well aware of Booz Allen Hamilton.... Not sure why you assumed I don't work there...... Most people don't address themselves by their youtube screen name. Such is the case with me.
I believe the "issue" with millennials is that they see how broken the system they are expected to be a part of is. Working for 40+ hours a week for a boss or company that couldn't care less if you lived or died is rather depressing. Working for 40+ hours when you can get the work done in
Danny Sullivan you get paid for working. It's not their job to pamper you.
@prolet kult Currently they are just whining, yes. But the first step to change is realizing there is a problem that needs solving and getting enough people on board to facilitate said change. There will be a time in the next 10 to 20 years when the people have had enough of being exploited and they will revolt. Until that time, it seems like recruiting more people to the cause is the best course of action.
Danny Sullivan occupy wall street movement was a first step, then it was the Bernie Sanders movement. Saying they are doing nothing is just not true. Millennials are fed up with being treated like crap and won’t take it for much longer.
Yea you are very correct I see it in myself I have 10s in schoop i could be a a student but why theres no reason for me I dont see a gain in it I could go on for hours typing away but I'm not
@@DannySullivanMusic you think we will fight
Message to millennials: "You are broken. It's not your fault. Corporations have to help. They probably won't."
Well that's depr-
"You also have high rates of depression."
yeah the whole global warming thing isn't helping with the depression either.
Oh look, it's the one guy that watched the whole video before posting a comment.
Oh, cool! I would also like it to be a bit warmer. Unlike you, though, I don't think I'd like to let coral reefs die, coastal towns flood, lose countless species to extinction, and abandon vast swaths of land to being just too hot to inhabit for it to be "a bit warmer out, actually."
Global warming isn't going to destroy the ocean, but pollution from things like Fukushima will fuck that shit up
Global warming is already destroying the ocean. Do you have any idea how sensitive aquatic biomes are?
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
Plato, about 2000 years ago.
Wow I love this quote. Thanks.
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"Ancient people said X back then, therefore X is false now!"
Some things never change.
well shit, if I lived at a time when children were considered free slaves, I would be disrespectful to my elders too.
Well, I'm Generation X (Born in 73) and I have to chime in here and defend Millennials. Let me just begin with an apology. MY generation was the first to normalize working for a discount. This is a trend I saw begin at the end of the 80's. When most actual "Millennials", as many choose to disparagingly call them, were about four years old, I began my first employment and watched as full time jobs began evaporating and replaced with the phenomena known as part time, seasonal. This took off like a rocket as rich "Boomers" who owned companies tried this experiment to maximize their profits by exploiting their labor force. It was MY generation who bought the B.S. that jobs were gotten by way of merit through hard work. This is a myth. Want to know the truth about Millennials? They are the first generation since "Boomers" to value their own labor and won't buy into the crap that their labor is expendable. Personally, I applaud them for the mantra of 'Minimum wage = minimum effort'.
Thank you man. Your words mean a lot. It really sucks feeling like we didn't really get a chance to flourish and now all the boomers get to pin all the problems they created on us
I can certainly go both ways on this. Employers look you in the eye and offer you less money then it takes to survive in the city they live. On the other hand I haven't lent money to anyone from my generation in years because they truly don't feel obligated to pay it back. Its a two way street. We were dealt a bad hand and then most of my peers just made it worse for themselves. They literally hurt themselves and then go "look what you made me do!" its "I hate you don't leave me" syndrome on a massive scale. I won't pretend I'm not tired of picking up the slack. Same people bitching about the environment are too overwhelmed by the effort it takes to recycle so its unsurprising that no one is listening anymore. We did this as much as it was done to us.
I think there is legitimacy to this. Millennias are more aware of the fact that employers, by nature of the relationship, exploit their employees to turn large profits. Millennials watched their parents slave away for some stupid company just to scrape by, or at least thats how they perceived it. All that being said I don't think socialism or communism are the answer.
As a millenial. I Appreciate your comment.
The part time/seasonal job is just a way to make some cash. It doesn't actually require too much skill. It is NOT supposed to be career. Labor is expendable. If my business is not making a profit, I don't need as many employees. Just a fact. At my job, I like to think I am great help to my coworkers, but I know very well that I can be replaced if I found a better job. Most people are not special. We may be special and unique to our families, but there are 7 billion more people out there. Is one of 7 billion of anything really special? I know millenials who are doing very well, but they learned a skill, and moved forward with their lives.
I fear getting a job because my parents hate theirs so much. I see their frustration and hatred toward there jobs and I don't want my expirience to be the same.
So what's the solution to you not wanting a challenge in life?
PinkCrushPegasus as someone who was in the same boat I know where you're coming from. I'm still pretty young but the deciding factor for me was that I would have some job experience and references for later jobs, and some money in my pocket
I get what you're saying. When the economy crashed in 2008, my Dad was laid off because of bullshit reasons and he couldn't find another job because he didn't have a degree. He had 30+ years of communications and media experience but not even a local news network would take him because he was overqualified with No degree. He's now a year away from getting his bachelor's. All the while he's been working his ass off for our family at jobs he was overqualified for, at a pay rate suiting an entry level employee. He's been getting better jobs even without the degree yet but nothing that's good enough for a man of his talents. My mom has been working at the same job for 30 years for the same old lawyer who yells and swears every day and produces a stagnant work environment. I know she hates it but at this point in her life she doesn't see any way she could make as much at another job she knows nothing about without sacrificing alot of time to go to school. My parents got fucked the same way alot of our generation claims to. There's money out there but we have to have a plan to get it. It's a rough world but the path is clear, get through school as fast as possible with nothing short of a B average, find an entry level position during school if you can, and always have a leg up on the competition. So take other classes to compliment your degree like IT certifications With a computer science degree which is what I'm doing. Eventually I'm gonna mould that into a software engineering job at spacex. I'm not quite sure how I'll do that but one day. And if I find that it's not what I want to do with my life, I'll find out what tbat is over time. Sorry I typed so much
I don't want a traditional job either..My father was injured on the job by dangerous equipment, and my mom has cancer from being exposed to dangerous equipment in a hospital. I have two businesses that I am working on. I get to say the time I go to work and decide when to cut out. When things slow down I have savings and can always help other folks/ friends with their businesses. folks in the work force today don't have the stability of jobs from the 70's and early 80's. They are lucky if they stay on the job past 1-3 years now.
Most jobs suck. They always have. You should "work to live" not "live to work".
Finding a job you love is very rare. You should take the time to actually interview people who are in the vocation you are considering. All jobs have negatives. The goal is to meet your needs and at least not hate your work.
I'm 76. . . a Baby Boomer. Our generation was called "spoiled" also. Some said we had an over active sense of entitlement. And now, as so-called older and wiser people, many of us are hyper critical of the youngest generations who are labeled that way too.
I have been guilty of being negative about those coming up. I laugh at the jokes about young people. But no more.
After listening and LEARNING from this vid, I will be more understanding and patient. Thank you so much for helping me adjust my attitude. ✌
As a younger generation person I’m here to tell ya that baby boomers are self entitled. More so then gen y. You guys had it easy, best economic situation, cheap housing, cheap everything and somehow you managed to fuck it all up for us who came after. Good job man. 10/10
@@stevencooper3202
OUCH! 😢😒 ✌ 🙏
It happened after ww2, after a lot of countries jumped into industrialization to take care of their army’s, prior to ww2, home appliances, food, water, anything you can think of was harder to get. Now we can buy something across the world and have it within a week. As an 18 year old luckily I have enough insight to see it as opportunity and a way to better society, but a lot of people my age and older have been indoctrinated into internet culture since we have all been “hooked” on it and it’s almost a second society that’s more critical and rude since you don’t have to show your face or tell them in person such that your generation had too (unless you wanted to wright a letter). My generation has been babied all their life while have never done anything great and we can cancel things or start things with a couple button taps. Luckily hard times created strong men.
It's a cycle. Every next generation is viewed similarly.
Ur wrong Joanna. Ur allowing social media to change U. That's why these kids R the way they R.
My mother sheltered me, stopped me from experiencing a lot, didn’t live in the best neighborhood so I was kept in the house, if I asked to help around the house I was told no. If I signed up for an activity like sports, etc. I was allowed to quit the second I did not like it, I was never encouraged to keep trying. I went to schools that gave participation medals so I stopped participating in things because I felt there was no point. When I was old enough to work my mom refused to let me work, told me to focus on school so I could be a college graduate. My mom tried to sign me to up for college and I just felt like I was “along for the ride”. She realized she couldn’t afford……I sat at home on my ass for the first 3 years of my adult life because I was essentially taught “sit and wait for it to happen”. I’m 32 now much more motivated, but I have been to therapy multiple times to help with my lack of drive. Why millennials gotta suck.
Snowplow parenting is so damaging. Glad you are getting help.
I could have written this
Similar experience here. Add to that in high school every job application had a checkbox "are you over 18?" and not a single employer ever considered me until after college because the local economy was still reeling from the great recession. Why risk hiring a teenager with regulations on working hours and no experience when there are a dozen adults who are willing to do any job just to not go homeless? I would have loved to get out of the house, earn money, and figure out what I was good at. By the time I got a job I realized the 2yr degree (because it's what I could afford) I got wouldn't let me advance and I soon hated the field after years of burnout and feeling like I was never good enough at anything.
Then those same parents get upset I keep moving back when rent raises above what I can afford to renew. I pay them rent. I do yardwork. I take care of their home, animals, plants, and mail when they take their multiple vacations per year. I'm still such a burden and they don't want my lazy pessimistic self around them so much.
I'm at the point I don't care if people call me lazy anymore because all they see is my lack of "success" currently and not how hard I worked in the past and how little it mattered in the end. The way I see it, I didn't have success when I was working 50hr+ weeks including overnight remote IT work, travel to onsite, and tons of call center day shifts - I had money but I was losing my mind. Now I have no substantial money, no positive outlook on the future, no positive view on college or ever owning a home, and constant disappointment from everyone in my family. It's all my fault I didn't stick it out and let that job kill me - that would have been the "motivated and successful" thing to do, after all.
I think this has happened to me and I need therapy for this to
Very self reflective. That’s good!
Pretty sure hubby and I are depressed because we no matter how much overtime we work, no matter the college and extra stuff for my portfolio, we can't get a job that allows us to put away money. We have no cable, no extras, don't go out to movies, don't go out to dinner or fast food, he gets home at 6-6:30 and we make our own dinner, sit down with our daughter and eat, prep everything for the next day, look for better jobs and send out applications, clean, and go to bed. If the car breaks down or one of us ends up in the hospital (last year he broke his toe and was out of work for a few days before going back to work on it) we lose all the savings we've scraped together. We're on the high end of being millenials, yes, but it's not because we spend time on social media, it's because no matter how hard we try to save money, get jobs with better pay, and not stay in a position of perpetual struggle, we can't. I don't give a shit about "making a difference" I just want to pay off school and medical debt and not fear an unforseen period of unpaid leave.
fealubryne Have you thought of apprenticeships?
fealubryne its the "new generation isnt like us so lets bash em" phase they are going through. Your struggle is real.
Stumptiscool 007 It was meant sarcastically buddy.
Then the sarcasm was too soon pal.
fealubryne The older generation in charge is spiteful. That's part of the reason so many jobs now are absolute shit. They say "Well I did it this way, so they have to as well!" To try and justify the fact they're just shitting on the future generation. Their hardships don't justify the obvious grudge they have against millenials.
Adults: “why are teens so depressed?”
Teens: “well you know the school system is in shambles, I’m drowning in debt because of how expensive school system is, and I’m being denied basic human rights but I mean-“
Adults: “itS THE PHONES”
Savannah Okland XACTLY MY THOUGHTS
If you had patience to watch it til the end, you would know this video concludes with failure of generation prior to guide this generation. rather than to bash this generation and their phones. plz at least watch this part again 11:26
DirtiestHaRRy That's right but take note that he spends around more than 7-8 minutes addressing the issue to the use of technology. I agree with it, sure great talk and video but.. There's sure other issues too.
Savannah Okland let's make a communist society but make sure the McDonald's CEO makes one dollar less than everyone so we can say suck it McDonald's I make more than your CEO
Is that why there are sooo many dislikes? That confuses me for a while, but what has been revealed is even more disappointing.
I live in Australia and can not believe how high house prices are! They have gone up and up so kids in school might never have the chance to own one.
Mark Wills just have to rent I guess, you can sleep in a car, but you can't drive a house
it will crash eventually
My Jorney - Not knowing how to spell "journey" or when to use than/then surely isn't doing you any favors. You and/or your friends may not get it, but any potential employer will think you're stupid if you can't properly write and speak. If you want to make more money you've got to develop a skill-set that's valuable in the market where you want to live, and work hard to establish yourself in that market, there's no sustainable substitute.
StopMoColorado, I find it interesting, to see a comment placed under a video, talking about the mistakes of singular words and grammar that was taught to that individual years ago and not learnt, while containing a whole sentence of well place, well written words after a video they just watched but haven't learnt anything from. I could spend a day of grammar mistakes and spelling mistakes and not even scratch that level of stupidity.
Why does everyone in this comment section seem to have glowy eyes in their pictures
As a so called millennial, I just don't want people eg governments telling me how I can live or should live my life.. My time is valuable to me and my children. Suppressing the way we live is a form of control.. People are scared of what newer generations are capable of learning and taking control of theirs life's, hence labelling lazy, hard to teach, hard to control.. Peace, Love & Hope to all you beautiful people..
I work in schools. You think the millennials are a problem? Wait till you get the next crop that's in elementary school now. You ain't seen nuthin' yet.
True story. Parents spend less time with their children. Both parents are working so there is only school to prepare the children for a difficult life. And everybody knows the education systems in many countries like the USA are rotten.
It's gonna b bad. 7 years olds with iPhones. Uhoh
I think your right and that's utterly terrifying.....why are we making people that are so damn shitty now? What the hell happened?
@@daves6503 Hey old griefer. I would suggest it may have been bad parenting and terrible school system. You are truly pathetic to haunt this comment section. This whole topic is so dumb that I wonder why the fuck it was suggested to me and I would have passed it just leaving a cynic comment until I read your bullshit. You must be one of the last nazis that survived their sad war.
@@skylarmulligan2341 I teach in Cambodia...most of the kids (7-11) have iPhones. Many are RUclipsrs. Unreal.
WRONG, it's not the corporations job to teach them these things. Your employer is not your parent. These are the things you should have learned growing up, before you enter the workforce. Blame the Parents, the Educators, and the Progressive elements of our Government for pushing the ideas, methods, and philosophies that caused this failure to learn in the first place. The best you can hope for now is to be aware and honest about your short comings and set about correcting them yourself, improve yourself. Seek out the knowledge, find a capable Mentor and ask for help. But most importantly apply yourself. It takes hard work, ongoing and consistent hard work. There are no short cuts. You are the sum total of the decisions you make in life. Make the decision to change the direction of your life starting today. Hard and consistant work over time makes a difference, and has a cumulative effect like compounding interest. Your young, start now before it's to late. My two-bits as a Gen-X who made it through the system before the participation trophy days began.
It's too late for that generation. What a waste of life. I'm speaking in general terms here, people. No need to get "offended".
michor10 Not offended, though the major screw ups that lead to my generation being called screw ups are the baby boomers.
I am just generalising here. No need to get "offended". :P
Sure. I admit that lot of Gen M are fucking weaklings, lunatics and triggered pussies. But from my experience these versions of Millennials depend entirely on what country Gen M is raised in. Where I live those weaklings are an extreme minority. In fact, I have only met one such person my entire life here. Most Gen M here are extremely hard working folk that take on extra duties just to be able to live independent much earlier than before.
The average age of leaving your parents home before my generation was around 22-23. A respectable age. Now it is 18-20. A kind of bit young age for such a huge change one would think right?
But you know what? They/We make it work. We start working summer jobs when we are 13-14 and every time a school year ends (or there is a holiday) the wast majority will go looking for work so they can continue saving up money for the future (and have money to do something fun as well ofc.).
No one is whining and albeit most of have different opinions here we are more than ready to argue with each other about them without becoming hostile or blindly think the other party is evil even if they don't agree with us.
You sound like a mature, smart person. People like you are the reason why I don't like to generalize on comments like this. Yet, I disagree with you on one point that "they/we make it work". Yes, you sound like someone who may do that, yet based on what I've experienced, most douche-bag-type millennials don't. It's a real shame really, but hey, what can we do except learn from the experience and try to raise our kids better. Cheers.
michor10 No problem. But the reason why I feel like I can make this claim about the general Millennials in the country I live in is because our country is isolated enough that "bleed-ins" would be easily noticeable.
I mean. I live in Iceland. Check the maps. We ain't exactly close to anyone else. Thus outside influence is largely through media and the interwebs.
And since living here is expensive and requires you to work hard to get by it is rare that parents overprotect their kids. I guess it also helps that comparatively there is little separation between those that are affluent and those that are worse by and most levels of society associate with each other freely.
Plus, our aspirations in general are rather meek. A decent job, a decent pay and a decent living is usually enough to make most people here content. Me included (once I finish all required engineering courses at least).
Of course I can't speak for everyone, but when you have such a small example size like the small population Iceland has it is usually easier to get a solid image of how most people act and behave in general in that location.
That is why I used the term "we" since overwhelmingly, people of my generation here are from the same mold as I and even if our opinion differs, we tend to not be whiny entitled weaklings... or so is my experience from interacting with my generation from all walks in life (Hmmm, am using that phrase incorrectly I suspect. But I hope my point gets across nevertheless)
I know you're young, Pixey, but there's a thing called 'youth' and it gives the young an inherint advantage over the old. They have more energy, are more malleable, and will work for longer careers than the old. Like, 2x/3x longer careers.
You want to staff your place with geriatrics, go ahead, but you're going to fall behind. And lose employees. And fall way out of touch with the times.
I was just fired from a job last week where I was working 60 hours a week trying to merely keep up with an entirely unreasonable workload; skipping lunch every day and showing up early/staying late every single day. If only I wasn't so darn lazy!
+HiDeguild2 I'll take you as a coworker as long as you work well with others, are flexible, understand the concept of team work, don't expect to have everything your way , and understand the concept of keeping the boss happy. This is addition to everything you said.
Sounds as though you like to complain a bit, just an observation. Doesn't matter how hard you work nobody likes a complainer or an employee with an attitude. They are not conducive to a harmonious work environment.
Big Evlwhtman yeah, when people worked 16 hours a day it was a wonderful work environment
paco ramon, and you are missing the whole point of my comment. If i could elaborate..things go much better in the work enviroment when you dont have to listen to a complainer and or a whiny bitch.
That's the problem. Not only do you have to do all the work and don't complain, but you have to have the perfect personality too.
That's exactly why so many are looking for alternatives or starting their own businesses.
Employers won't admit that they have so many unfilled positions because they are cheap and their expectations are ridiculous.
I am 54. We have no idea what their lives are like. We are trying to judge then through our eyes, our experiences, our lessons learned.
My generation and the baby boomers grew up with blinders on. Without access to the internet we had to rely on those in power to feed us information about the world around us. We couldnt question everything because we lacked access to alternative view points.
When we grew up there was no feeling of impending doom. But look what we have left them. Wages have not kept pace with the costs of living. Private school me1800 my daughter 17000 per year. College me 13000 my daughter (same institution) 54000 per year. I was born and raised in Hawaii my first house in my late 20s 277000. Today the median price of a single family home in Hawaii is almost 1000000. On top of that we are living longer and family wealth is not being inherited by successive generations, but instead paying for care homes and long term health insurance. My grandmother fell and had to go to a care home, it was 12000 a month. And it was just mediocre, she didn't even have a private room.
On top of that we have increasing levels of plastics in our waters, racism seems to be on the rise again, mass shootings have become routine occurrences, and in the last spending bill we are spending more than half of all monies on defense budget vs non defense items (which includes clean up costs of natural disasters), add to that the possibility that by next year the Colorado River could drop so low that water won't be able to turn the turbines generating electricity to millions of people.
But we want them to work hard, when they are faced with huge student loans, little chance of saving for a home (especially if they start a family early -tuition), to live in an uncertain future. A future they have continually asked us to help save and better (the environment), but even this last spending bill shows that we would rather make weapons to kill strangers than to help protect our children.
I personally think we could/should open our eyes and realize are failing our children.
Born in 1995. Got my ass beat by my parents if I didn’t listen when I was younger. They expected me to be the best. I became the best by working hard in school. I couldn’t go to a Cal State or UC; I went to a community college because we couldn’t afford it. I had to work at Home Depot to get myself through community college. I worked for my shit because that is what my dad taught me.
Idk what millennials you are talking about, but it is apparent to me that you are talking about well-off/wealthy millennials.
Single mom Millennials.
And now you're dressed up in a suit on your youtube profil ***cue The Jeffersons theme song***
Yes mostly well off or stupid millennials that can’t deal with real life.
Same here, he’s talking about the baby siblings we grew up with lmao 🤣
You are an exception rather than the rule. I'm glad you did the right thing and I'm glad your parents disciplined you....
-Obliterated economy, massive debt, broken education, pessimistic mass media, impossible experience requirements to get jobs, poor mental health caused by these issues,- *THOSE DAMN SMART PHONES*
Kadulikan ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Maybe a big problem with millennials is the excuses they make.
@@jakemetcalf2049 Or maybe it's people patronizing them, and making up dated arguments that avoid dealing with the real issues that their elders are creating. I'm not even a millennial and even I'm sick of hearing this shit.
He said smart phones are great! However, when you rely on short term satisfaction/quick-fixes, then the way you use smart phones is self destructive in the long run.
@Kristopher Ferrell And I agree. But my point is that smartphones aren't the main cause of behavioral issues with the millennial generation. They might be a contributor, in fact I believe they are to some degree. But there are much more influential and important problems being completely overlooked here, like the ones I listed.
Is smart phone/social media addiction real? Absolutely. Is it the end-all answer to why millennials have such high rates of mental illness? Certainly not. To argue otherwise is to willfully ignore far more urgent problems that require immediate solutions. When examining a collapsed house, it is entirely irresponsible to shovel all the blame onto one rusty nail when the entire foundation was flawed.
Hearing daily as a child that the economy is a time-bomb, education is broken, every politician is cynical, and you have no hope of a future is infinitely more damaging than the effects of smartphones.
I’m a Millennial. I work a full time job and a part time job, while going to school full for my Masters Degree. I am paying out of pocket for my school tuition, and have a loan that will be over $26,000 by the time I graduate. I work through feelings of constant stress and an overwhelming load on my shoulders.
Stop with the “Millennials don’t give a shit” rhetoric. We saw the crash in 2008, and how people’s Lives completely collapsed through no fault of their own. We want something better . We want a better and more peaceful world of acceptance, and tolerance, and everyone having what they need to live a happy safe life.
I am a Gen Z and shits gonna get worse. We are gonna have fewer opportunities and compete with people across the world(especially experienced foreigners who are wiling to work for less pay). And add in some AI and high living cost and sooner most of us Gen Z's are gonna either live with our parents or live in Ghettos.
Most White Americans need to get out their xenophobic racist feelings and want to work together with everyone all races to make America better. Note that there should be no preference within the government. Conservative judges won't change the future outcome.
I disagree, Millennials are at fault. You can’t blame your problems on your environment and you can’t expect corporations to be your parents. Despite the influence of the world, everyone still has a choice on how to live their life.
Brain dead take about what I would expect from a boomer
People born after 1984 are not tough to manage. This is an imagined problem. The concerns that people are having now about the latest generation are the same concerns that have existed about every generation. This mindset about the youth comes from a skewed perspective. It's natural to worry about the youth. I am saddened when I see parents adopt this perspective.
Also why do people think participation awards are new or common? They are not
Oh, child. Participation trophies are a VERY recent phenomenon beginning sometime in the 1980s. Before that? NOTHING. Don't worry about the youth. Worry about spouting bullshit in the age of information, princess.
When they are in the corporate world they are no longer kids. That is part of the problem. People still considering them kids in their 20’s and 30’s
Probably because they mostly behave like spoiled kids
Why not. So many still live with MOM..
Most people don’t know what age millennials are so I’m not surprised that this video exists lol.
Lol. I am a millennial who supports his deadbeat lazy ass boomer mother and her f!@king boyfriend.
Dumbf!@k.
@@rackets7991 because it's too expensive to live alone in the US, which is no fault of millennials
but idk, I'm a swedish gen Zer student with my own home, and most millennials older than me have their own home too.
This is inherently wrong. Millennials grew up seeing how the “American Dream” worked/failed for their parents and are much more hesitant to go into a dead end job
No they're entitled
@Electrono9 anything to make yourself feel better than your fellow man huh
@Electrono9 holy moly you're head is so far where the sun don't shine. I kind of feel bad for you.
@Electrono9 Looks like someone needs to get their head out of some far right hogwash. The birth rate fell after 1970 for a lot of reasons, long before millenials. Starting later with older families means better stability and way lower infant mortality. People had a lot of kids because before modern medicine, women and children regularly died after childbirth or in early childhood due to various diseases. Vaccines, birth control and women working made the lives of children better and gave better survival chances.There's zero reason to have a bunch of kids. We don't live on farms anymore. Instead of falling for this tripe, read the real statistics.
@Electrono9 Millenials prize the same things Boomers and Xers do. They just *can't afford the life you had when you were their age.* You grew up with the New Deal programs, which yes-YOUR GENERATION GUTTED as "Socialism." Programs that helped people get on their feet and not starve. And then defund schools because you hate paying taxes. And then make being gay in the military a crime, despite thousands of gay men and women serving their country. You complain about how people aren't having families WHEN YOUR GENERATION GUTTED all the programs that made that workable. And decided to build golf courses instead of basic housing. And tearing up public housing as "ghettos" causing a homeless epidemic. Oh! And shutting down the state hospitals. There were bad ones. But there were also thousands of people who could not take care of themselves, who died in the street. BECAUSE OF YOUR GENERATION.
I make 400$ a month, sir. I cannot find any kind of place on that. I have to live with someone and even then, I cannot afford to save up for the kind of house you own. I have a job. I have a high school diploma. The only jobs that will have me are seasonal. I am locked into poverty. The programs that would have helped me like your mother was are all gone. The stable jobs are gone. The unions are largely gone.
Because YOUR GENERATION thought Unions and work safety was evil. Because YOUR GENERATION worshipped money over everything else.
Be angry at yourself for worshipping the golden calf.
I'm not a millennial, but there is something I've noticed over the years regardless of what field you're in. It's not about what you know, it's about who you know. It's also not about how hard you work, it's about how much butt you kiss. It's sickening.
+ned kelly Sounds as though you've had some pretty lousy experiences, to say the least. I hope things have improved for you. I couldn't agree with you more about the nepotism! Though, I have had some good experiences with local family owned/operated businesses as well, never having been the brown noser. Simply a woman of integrity.
+shane Which proves the point. You don't have to be the most knowledgeable, personable, etc. to move up the ladder. So long as you feed the boss's ego 😉.
+ned kelly Life isn't always fair, but it's what we make of it. Our attitude towards people and situations can make or break us. When I was younger I was in the service industry and had a difficult time dealing with people. There were times when I'd break down into tears or get an attitude if someone was rude. One day, I had an epiphany thanks to a woman who had an attitude. This was a woman who'd called in and I really thought I'd been rude back to her and felt bad. When she came in, I apologized and told her I'd felt overwhelmed being understaffed. She shared with me her mom was in the hospital and had been for days and that she was essentially carrying the weight in her family. She gave me the details, and all of a sudden I saw a vulnerable human being and felt so much compassion and love. I gave her my condolences and a hug and was forever changed. I'm happy for you that you're retired and no longer affected by all of the BS! I firmly believe everything happens for a reason. Good or bad, we always learn something.
+Resolute Support While those are certainly facts, I don't buy into playing the game.
sirenxo Your exactly right
I am a Gen X In my early 40s and I remember they used to say all the same stuff about us as we grew up we were on a decline then economically thanks to Reaganomics but as a society we learn nothing and put that shit on steroids. The only difference between my generation and current generation we did not have access to all the technology we have today and there was no social media to amplify things but we were also a generation of economic and social angst. When I first started working for minimum-wage was $4.25 an hour and it’s only $7.25 now. Pretty sad and the previous generation said all the same stuff about us
47 year old Gen X here. We're the most aborted generation in history, and nobody really mentions us, as our numbers are far smaller than the Boomers and the Millennials.
Having worked with many millennials, boomers and X'ers, I'll take boomers and X'ers any day. Millennials are great with meta references, some are good with technical challenges, but in my personal experience, they lack so many social skills, basic world knowledge, and are impetuous and self-obsessed. Again, just my experience, not that these aren't good people, they're just terrible employees.
Adolph Oliver Bush Definitely different people you’re encountering then. I’m 23, am a medtech at an assisted living facility and I’m a shift manager over those twice my age and I work circles around those old fucks.
@@flipper1559 careful......where you are, I've been. Where I am, you will be. And it happens far faster than you expect. Good luck.
More people are quitting jobs and finding new ways to make income. Maybe the workforce is the weakness.
Spoken like a true moron. It must be everyone elses fault.
@@Harpoon2theRescue God bless you.
If you call making RUclips videos as productive as industry building, then I'm glad I don't hire you
T Bone Nope not at all.
I love this about the millennials! Took me 18 years of my life to wake up to the fact that society’s expectations of me do not match my expectations of myself. Redefined what success means to me. So much happier.
Leaving Facebook was the ultimate best decision I ever made
I joined a republican group on FB to watch the boomers yell about liberals, it's pretty funny. On the flip side, there are plenty of sjws on tumblr embarrassing themselves as well.
never had an account on any social media platform whatsoever ... and look ... i'm still alive and well ...
... no depression , no sadness ... and still have most of my 9 friends ...
@John Taylor do you honestly compare commenting on a YT video to sharing your life and pics on FB ... ?
One can have an interesting debate on YT ... something one could potentially even learn from ... without turning one's life inside out or spend insane amounts of time piping into some looser's uninteresting life ...
... at least this is how i see it ... then again ... i'm not a millennial ...
@John Taylor ... if millennial everywhere are glad ... it's wonderful ... that's what i'm living for ...
@John Taylor that a load of shit rt there.
i remember every kid at my school that got "participation trophies" threw them away, none of us wanted them none of us cared, it was the parents and teachers that made a fuss about it.
The trophy companies had good salesmen.
But everyone is a winner 🤣🤣🤣
It's the same as all the garbage Sinek spews about millennials. It wasn't millennials asking for beanbags in the workplace, it was out-of-touch Boomers in management failing to understand their teams and thinking they could somehow solve it with beanbags.
@@mrdeanvincent Perfectly put.
Hurr durr I wasted my life for a corporation and I expect everyone else to do the same without hesitation
Oh there you are
Why is it always somebody else's fault ??? NO ONE ever forced me to work somewhere. Never, in 47yrs. I could have gone somewhere else or started my own business. The choice was mine...no one else. Even my parents couldnt force me to go to college, I went to trade school instead. Your Life...Your Choices. eos
Literally all this shit didn't even start coming out until many of us were going into college 🤣
If I had a penny for every time their generation called my generation entitled, I might be able to afford a house in the economy they ruined.
20quid haha 👌👌
+RontatoFTW You and I were clearly not born into the same society. Then again, seeing as you think name-calling is an appropriate substitution for a reasoned argument I would fathom that you're not a particularly well-adjusted individual who has any real experience of the world.
I find it even more amusing that you think using complex words you found of thesaurus will make you sound smarter. Your gender studies degree isn't impressive. Try to actually respond my comment instead.
+RontatoFTW Again with throwing the insults around, I'm sorry but it's no substitute to a coherent argument. I can't respond to the points in your comment until you actually make some points.
Nah 20quid is just stating factssssssss
And they can start by actually replying to people when they put in job applications even if you're rejecting them, I hate applying for 30 jobs at a time and having literally no one respond, how many times do i have to repeat this process before the crushing silence makes me give up?
211 jobs apparently. Even the IT sector has it hard.
dev.to/kim_hart/5-lessons-my-bootcamp-didnt-teach-me
I ended up going N.E.E.T. after about a thousand (or what felt like it).....
Ditto. I'm even turned down by fast food restaurants, for the reason being I'm either overqualified or lack fast food experience.
THIS
It took me 7 months to get an interview with a part-time job
I work with a lot of old timers that are lazy AF too and claim they’re hard workers.
You missed them busting their asses in their 20s and 30s and maybe 40s. Good job narcissistic solipsism, you think the world began with your birth once again.
@bert smith said the virgin
Yeah, some of em used to party on the job and then when it's about getting shit done they don't seem to know lol
@@sunkintree You used "solipsism". I haven't heard that word in over a decade. Great word. I don't know anyone who even knows the meaning.
@@clayblondin8239 I think they call them incels. lol
I was never told as a millennial child I could do anything I wanted I was told to have realistic expectations not sure what the better really
Look up 'self actualisation' to reprogramme your mind
Isn't every generation when they're young guilty of entitlement, low self esteem, and false imagery?
Enraged Monkey of course every generation faced that problem. But it seems that the generation that were born in the social media era and near to it suffered the most because of the way social media made this world small and it suddenly became our priority to impress others as everybody is watching us. I know because I was once caught in this loop and I was lucky to realise the truth, but only some months ago and is trying to get out of it and avoiding all unnecessary social media gossips.
Being that way and being outspoken and overbearing in the workplace are two different things. That combined with a company trying to accommodate their "feelings" is undermining productivity as far as I can tell. But I'm pretty sure it will all work out in the end, once they've gotten all of their workplace policies up to date!
@@JPJishnuPrasanth its not unnecereray - its just becuase you dont even know how to make an mobile app and just stupid people are being well, stupid. Dont blame us - just blame those who doesn't know how to propperly use things correctly (no hate) and..... bitter'd people.
Nathan John Palao Gaming I didnt say social media is unnecessary but I said unnecessary social media, by which I mean to say, you know, these posting pics of what we eat and drink and etc. Social media is really a good thing when it comes to connecting people and exchanging ideas but as you said most people dont know how to use it and I know it because, well, I didn’t know how to use it either. I didn’t have any control over it. But I am way more past than that. And also I am really excited about tech and I love writing programs and I want to make apps in the future too. But the thing is as they say too much of anything is not good. No hate taken😉
Jishnu Prasanth I realized I wasn’t comfortable in my skin when I was seeking validation from people on IG. Seeing your likes and follower count where you want it to be devalued me. Once I noticed someone had unfollowed me had me thinking what did I do wrong, do you not like me, do you not like my pictures, am I not good enough for you, I must be ugly .I always hated my situation because I saw everyone in their photos happy and well dressed. While I’m here looking like a bum. After I’ve gotten rid of social media. I began to work on myself. The first step was to love myself. Love yourself for who you are. Don’t seek others approval.
0:25 this is literally the same shit EVERY older generation has said about EVERY younger generation. The fact that people don't realize this baffles me.
oh no, they realize it. The fact that YOU don't realize that they realize it is what baffles all of us.
I said the same thing. This video is pointless. You can always say the next generation is lazy and entitled because we spend less time on basic things for survival like tribal people. It's crooked, warped reasoning to pretend like that is a bad thing.
according to this guy I am from this generation and I still think you're a bunch of pussies
That's your opinion. And clearly, your rock needs polishing because you don't come out from under it much to notice
Oh my god, nobody cares Travis.
Millennials are the ones taking a stand and saying, “fuck this shit.” They’ve got CEOs scared.
Strong men create easy times.
Easy times create weak men.
Weak men create hard times.
Hard times create strong men.
The cycle continues.
Love it
You forgot where men are crushed by hard times and the cycle ends there.
| The cycle continues.
Ka is a wheel.
OH MY GAWD YOU SAID ONLY MEN? WHY NOT STRONG WOMEN??? YOU'RE A MISOGYNISSSTT
lol modern day feminism
Skye Metrowich ayyyyu
"They were told that they could get anything they want". Seriously?! my parents said completely the opposite.
In general.
My cousins got any toys they wanted and cars too. Things my parents did not give me. Then again my parents loved me without feeling the need to 'buy my affection' like my uncle had to do with my cousins (because he taught them that.)
Both sets of parents were Greatest Generation giving birth to Baby Boomers and Late Boomers. The kids were raised radically different despite this and being neighbors.
i don't think he is talking for EVERY single parents but the majority...
, there is always exceptions...
My mom always said I could have anything I want as long as I work for it
Ikr my parents kicked me out at 17, I’m 25 now and been living on my own for 8 years. I was super rough at first but now I’m in a good place.
Riiiiight..,this is a fkn lie
I am a millennial and I am not a victim of instant gratification or anything you said in this video. I agree that's the majority of our generation. Rarely do I find people who I can connect to deeply because everyone's attention span is less than a goldfish from all the social media, distractions, instant gratification. I'm a simple man I try to stay sober from all drugs, I don't use media without intent, I meditate, journal, I question existence daily. I focus on the present moment. At one point I was depressed, anxious and suffering from social media addiction, food addiction, binge watching, all sorts of drugs, poor sleep, social anxiety, etc. But the suffering forced me to awaken. To claw myself out of the dark place that the mind can be. I have found so much joy in the simple things in life. Eckhart Tolle - Power of Now is what really accelerated / started the spiritual process and now it's the center of my life. To all millennial out there this video is true in a lot of ways. But we are conscious beings capable of much more than our little minds think. Discipline yourself, balance, learn to be present and stay away from all the instant gratification and spend time working on yourself instead. Focus on the things that really matter. This video may describe you in some ways but it does not have to be this way. There is so much joy in simply being alive and breathing and all the little things. Wish you all the best! :)
I am a millennial and I am not a victim of instant gratification or anything you said in this video. I agree that's the majority of our generation. Rarely do I find people who I can connect to deeply because I address them with the same condescending tone and long-windedness as I used writing this manifesto. They usually avoid eye contact by looking at their phone and look for the instant gratification of ending conversations with me as soon as possible.
It’s not people’s attention spans that are too short. You said it yourself. You’re simple...
Actually guys I agree with him. Is he being condescending. Maybe. But is he speaking facts? Yap.
@@morganstokes1930 He's not speaking 'facts' at all....he's spouting Boomer/old Xer nonsense.
We are the first generation since AT LEAST the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to having a lower standard of living than our parents. We have suffered TWO "once in a century" economic catastrophes.
....and somehow we are entitled?
@@morganstokes1930 he's speaking facts. But he's also missing an crap load of stuff. The social media addiction, yeah That's a problem. But fails to explain the full impact of it.
The people in charge of these things use social media as a way to get people to act a or think a certain way. You have tv shows like jersey shore, girls became more slutty and. The chad types showed up after that. Teen mom came out and showed pregnant high schoolers, or high schoolers with kids having a rough time but doing fine because the show was paying them. Made it look easier than it is. Now high schools have day cares.
You turn on the news it's whichever side of politics the channel is sided with bashing the other. It's almost like the depression is because the kids grow up following what the media shows instead of doing what they're meant to be doing.
And it definitely has lead to feelings entitled. Anyone who doesn't agree with that hasn't been looking at the world lately. It's literally the most descriptive word of modern feminism and influencers on social media.
The real problem is the media period. Its responsible for 99% of what's wrong in the world today.
We acted like the children were fragile little eggs so we packed them in cushioned containers and told them how important and special they were. Then we told them to go get jobs. They fell out of the crate and made nothing but mess.
"The children now love luxury. They have bad
manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and
love chatter in place of exercise"- Sokrates
...
My Man
about 400 years before the collapse of ancient Greece
don't forget Socrates complaining about writing and how people would forget things. I always think about these quotes whenever I hear anybody talking about a generation being good or bad.
Nocentre Noborder nope looks like it's about 3,000 hits from Socrates objections to writing
They walk across the street without looking both ways. Lol
You forgot to mention the part where living costs way more than the job even pays. And don't even get me started on the insanely high price of college.
1st comment college is a scam. Became your own boss and say no to paycheck by paycheck slavery life.
Tough shit. Baby steps and challenges are part of life.
Or the bad choices they make in what degrees they want.
Open a savings account and before you pay anything else you put small amounts of money in and if you get either raises or tax refund do blow it put that in the account. I worked in the worst paying job in retail and managed to save up half the down payment an a used card because i put money from my tax refunds and some money from my paycheck. I did the same thing in 2001 and managed to save enough money to go for 2 weeks to to mackinaw island.
Javier Martinez become ur own boss by doing what?
Getting a text feels good? Man am I doing it wrong. When my phone buzzes I view it as an annoyance more than a joy.
Kreeos Congratulations! You are not narcissistic. :-)
Kreeos I hate my phone
Kreeos With my last job my phone was a constant source of stress. Everytime it rang or I got a text I would worry it was my workplace trying to get me to fill in for a shitty worker calling in.
Kreeos I do too.
I'm no millennial! I have Reprogeria! I's the same condition Benjamin Button has!
You missed an important aspect: economic crisis. It is not just a matter of individual attitude, but of cycles of economic growth and optimism (when those kids were young) and economic crisis (when they became adults).
Hay , your genaration is not the only genaration to see the economy crumble.
Im a gen Xer and have lived through 3 resessions, my olds lived through rashions during ww2 and their parents the grate depressing and the 2 genarations befor me lived through every economic crisis their has been since the grate depression to now.
We are all living through this economic crisis so its not all about you hun.
We are all feeling it.
@@jaded9087 Yes. all those living in an economic crisis are living it together (unless one is a capitalist profiting from it). So... yes, it is not only about you or me.
There were always some economic crises. And the generations who went through the world wars can be hardly called weak and pathetic.
Could it be that they can't find work and rent and housing is so expensive that they may never own a home... Maybe that's it? Millenials work harder for less pay than any other generation while old people are retiring at 65 and living off our taxes.
The older generation outsourced all the productive jobs, steal what's left of our income as taxes to retire long before they need to, won't let new houses be built near them (forcing up the price of their house; good for them, shit for us), then they scorn us for being 'lazy' - fuck that shit. This is why the largest political divide is now between generations, instead of anything else.
Alex R-T go work in a factory like I do you dumb shit easy money work a whole entire year if I wanted easy fucking money
I agree, factory work is good money, and an underrated career path, I worked at Rolls Royce for a year, had a great time, earned some money before I went off to uni to learn engineering. That doesn't mean that good factory work is easy to come by, Factories are few and far between (largely due to 40 years of outsourcing), believe me when I say most service workers would trade up if people (schools, government) made an effort to make it look more like the great career it is instead of a dead end.
That doesn't mean that the retirement age isn't too low, that doesn't mean that housing isn't so expensive that few young people on an ordinary salary know how they will ever be able to buy a house. That doesn't make young people lazy, at worst it makes them misguided, and whose fault is that?
Also, hint, if it's easy you're doing it wrong.
Why are you all so angry with this generation. All of you are leaving it in our hands. People think of now for themselves. Never thinking of the people who will be taking over after that person is gone. You can get mad at a person who "isn't like you". But face the fact that, that person is grown and trying to live in a world you left them. They are working with what you all give them.
I could say that you are all old enough to not act like some angry kid and or troll about these "young people" but I know you should know better.
Alex R-T I load trucks easy shit half the time the sorter breaks down and I get paid to stand around and do nothing
Jeremy Worley - don't get on my ass for being lazy then mate.
Hahahaha the generation of "i want it" was raised by the generation of "GIMME IT ITS MINE" hahahaha. #GeorgeCarlin
Wise words of a wise man
I didn't know 9 yr old could have a RUclips account. Welcome, kid
@@Frankincensedjb123 Ahhh the good ol doucheboy response. Judging by your dumbass picture i'd say you're about 35, single, a complete jerkwad who girls hate to be around, and everyone at work can't stand you. Does that sum your little world up, boy? :)
Carlin 4 life
Benjamin Hancock The “GIMME IT’S MINE” generation is now getting upset about the “ok boomer” meme, even though they’ve been bashing millennials for years.
I do gotta be real
As a 33yo "millennial"
A lot of us didn't get raised, we were lucky to survive our parents and upbringing.
Personally I'm ok with just a job that pays alright and respects breaks 🤷
Every generation complains about the next generation. That is the bottom line.
And rightfully so...
Dagnab them young whippersnappers! They worry me to tarnation.
I’m gen Z and I also complain about millennials
Every generation since the greatest generation is the reason the western world is falling apart. But Milenials are just sad and pathetic, weak emotional lazy parasites. It worries me about the future that over 50% of them want socialism over a free market.Their are some good milenials that are red pilled tho
And younger people have always lacked life experience by definition. It's worrying that people forget what it is to be young.
I love it when the older generation complains about the generation THEY RAISED.
This always annoyed my as well. Parents calling their children ungrateful or spoilt. Hello! I wasn't born spoilt or ungrateful 😁
I love when the younger generation blames everyone, and then sucks on the older generation like a leech! but you think you're all going to be dead in 10 years so what's the difference oh, you also believed jussie Smollett, and Russian collusion oh, and Donald Trump is going to get impeached!!! Bahahaha
@@Clayton.Bigsby.360 Go away troll. No one appreciates your lack of critical thinking.
@@mp2jimmay
Well, jussie Smollett believer, if I am a troll, why are you feeding the troll and responding? LMFAO! HOLY shit you American leftist sheep are very ignorant and gullible, and get dumber every time I interact with any of you leftist Americans! Bahahaha hahaha bahahaha
@@Clayton.Bigsby.360 aight imma head out
As cliche as it sounds, the old saying applies here: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Why would a millennial (or any person) give an attentive ear to some random older person who expresses utter disdain for them and their entire generation? This has been the case for decades. Hippies, rock and roll, the roaring 20s... Older generations have looked down on young people for years. If the internet existed in the 50s, older folks would have been posting about how the younger generation was being ruined by rock n roll. I personally think it has to do with how rapidly the world has advanced over the last 100 years. As industry, media, and technology become more and more complicated, the way people relate to one another and the world at large evolves. Each generation's experience growing up is so different from the one before, and I believe those differences are becoming more drastic as the world changes more rapidly. I was born in 1983, a birth year sometimes thrown in with millennials and sometimes with gen X. I don't really identify with either, and I wish there was a category for people who are old enough to remember (with great fondness) a world with rotary phones, VHF/UHF tv's, no caller ID, handwritten letters, and fun times with friends and family who weren't distracted by phones or stopping every 10 minutes to share our good time with people on Facebook who we never see in real life... but young enough to connect with the people born right after us, who came of age with technology and consider texting with someone to be an actual conversation. I don't generally approach life the way a millennial does, but I don't think less of them because of that. The world is changing, and always is. If you want to influence those younger than you, start by seeing them as people and stop waiting for them to apologize for being who they are just because you don't get it. Remember that someone once thought your generation was a mess. Then your generation grew, pushed the old farts out of the way, and went on to run the world your way. Well, that's happening again. And keep in mind, those obnoxious millennials blame you older people for the mangled world they're inheriting.
I Guess So Word.
I Guess So preach
I Guess So so much do I agree with this. This asshole has not really even bothered to understand us at all. We're weak? I say bullshit most of my peer groups are some of the most self sacrificing people I know. If anything I would say the last generation is the selfish generation. They could give too shits about us and ran the world into the ground because they could. Fuck this guy and his high horse he rode in on.
Well said I Guess So. You know... God is calling you. I just thought I'd mention that. You have a job to do here on earth, it's big huge, actually! You have all the self confidence of a blow fish unfortunately, but that's the message I'm getting. If you'll just trust what you don't understand, you'll be able to fly...
I Guess So As a filthy milnal get to the point
It's a job, not a parent.
As a milllennial i've witnessed many 'patient' people get fired...
Yah, I don't know what that be patient thing he mentioned was all about...
Pretty much a significant chunk of the generation.
Yes I’m disturbed by all the toxic upper management playing mind games with their peers and bullying the entry levels they know are more skilled (and less evil)
So now, a manager that expects results is a "bully". How convenient a cop-out that is.
@@rom5285 Both the previous points about managers and your point represent extreme ends of a spectrum. Those talking about bully managers likely have had bad management, whereas if you have not been through poor management you might percieve those people to just be weak or lazy.
My comment really wasn't about "bully" managers specifically. Simply an observation that I have witnessed many of my peers get fired.
What I mean by that is the point Simon makes about being "Patient" doesn't work today. There was a time where people could do just about enough to stay in a company and become "part of the woodwork" the longer they stay the higher their wages become. Unfortunately today it doesn't work like that. People have to give 100% all the time and the moment they give 99% discussions start happening about their future in the company. They will not get a significant raise for this 100%, no matter if they stay there giving 100% for 20 years. On the contrary, companies will just take you for an easy cog in the machine (a "lifer", if you will), while they look to new hires with newer / more current qualifications and offer higher pay that matches their expectations. It only makes sense to jump ship. If you move jobs you can expect:
1. a pay increase (if you offer value to a company of course)
2. respect and reverance from peers that don't know you too well, just that you have worked in industry longer than them
3. renewed vigour for your job, because people get bored of going to the same building day in day out, and a change really does reset a weary professional.
It only makes sense to move, there is no point at all to be "patient". I'm speaking from experience as a relatively content engineer.
I just got my first job this summer. I've been working at this job all summer. Not only am I working at this job, I'm also working out early mornings and then im doing chores at home. Recently my job has been cutting a lot of our hours (overstaffed) and yes, I am upset about this because I show up to work to work the hours they at least told me I would have. And is that what you call entitled? I've never asked for a raise( even though we are paid 20% less than the previous generation) or free food, all I want are the hours. I make time for my job, expecting it to be the same. I work even harder and more than one position so I can guarantee I keep my stay. Now I'm looking for a second job. I'm not complaining to my bosses or managers nor am I planning to start a protest. Neither are my co workers.
My experience working with millennials has been awesome! Good luck on the job search!
Roman Ryder thank you ❤
Marina Moreno What job do you have?
I lead a team currently and it never gets easier. Instead of telling them something lacklustre like "You are not doing good enough", I believe in telling them ways on how they can get better at something I require them to do. Inadvertently that learning process helps them get better at that certain job so they can flourish even if they join a different organization.
The problem with that is unless our generation(yes I'm a 90s kid) opens itself to that learning process we will never be able to build a sustainable career mark. In your case I suppose it's the incoherent leadership that's making you take such well-thought decision even though you were loyal to them all along. Hope you find a better job with reasonable pay and methodical leaders ! all the best !!
Marina Moreno except for patting yourself on the back for not asking for a raise in the first three months of work, I don't see a single word of what you wrote that I couldn't have said at the time I had my first job, except for this: I had a second job. And slept on peoples couches. And couldn't afford coffee. As a college graduate. I'm now a successful professional. Get over yourself and stop expecting it to be easy when you first start. It never is. For anyone.
CITATION! CITATION! CITATION! You keep saying "the science is there." where's the citation?
In the empty description of course!
Didn't you know that asking for evidence makes you entitled lol.
Shifting the burden of proof? Bad way to go, m8
+Roberto Vargas - The burden of proof lies on the ones making the claims; i.e. the guy in the video. OP didn't make any claims. Learn what the hell burden of proof is before you continue trying to act smart.
Found the republican.
I can kind of agree with what kids are told and how they become disappointed because it's unrealistic. Though for me, it definitely came more from school. My mom was able to provide me with way more realistic information and encouragement while being understanding/supportive when I struggled. School would constantly regurgitate BS like "You can do anything if you just put your mind to it!" but then make you fearful of failing in life for doing badly in school. (I did well and have a high school diploma but never needed it for anything ever) I knew that most of it was BS, but hearing it again and again and again for the first 2 decades of your life has a psychological impact even if you don't believe the words. I couldn't help but be kind of angry about how I was legally forced to go to school so I could be lied to and emotionally manipulated like that and how the kids today experience the same thing.
People seem to confuse millenials with spoiled brats. Or for some reason, some people have created this fictional image of what everyone in this generation is like and how they act.
I disagree with generalizing people in any way. It's inaccurate and you look stupid and ignorant.
I was born in 1996, what people would consider a millenial, but that has nothing to do with anything. I was taught good work ethic and I've been working since I was young. I own a house and I'm investing my money into assets. I know many people my age who are also hard workers and take responsibility for themselves.
What you are referring to is not a generation, but a type of parenting. Whether it was used now or used in the 70's the results would be the same.
Every generation that comes after is always frowned upon, even yours by whoever came before you. What I notice is that the media only highlights the worst of every generation and that becomes people's impression of them. You would do well to learn your opinions first hand instead of having them spoon fed to you like some moral toddler.
It's simple really. This is the old generation bitching about the new generation. I bet the Baby Boomers parents bitched about them. And when Millennials get old they'll bitch about the generations after them. Simple as that lol. Don't listen to this fucking garbage video.
but the baby boomers on, the generations have been getting worse and worse, on things like work ethics etc.
I don't believe that for one second. I'm sure if you took a time machine back to 1940 you'd see the same types of people. People who work hard and people who fuck around. Just because you're alive now and see lazy people doesn't mean it didn't exist back in the day. If you're grandparents tell you otherwise it's just cause they're not used to the new generation. I'm sure their parents said the same about them and so on and so forth.
How do you have a house at twenty? By house do you mean a $10,000 home or something small like that?
+Diego G There is one difference in the generations above me, and to a much smaller degree my generation (I'm 50). There was little to no social safety net. If you failed, you failed. There was protection for the old and sick, but if you could work, you did work. And because my parents knew this, they didn't fail. Whatever it took was what they did.
Job satisfaction is a new thing, having a job was all the satisfaction you were expecting. There were more jobs for my parents generation, but a lot more of them were shit jobs.
My generation was the first to really have teenagers. Before that you went from child directly to adult. You were expected to instantly take on full ownership of your lives. And if that meant that some days you didn't eat, then some days you didn't eat.
The western world today is much kinder than it was for my parents. It still sucks, but it's at least a little sorry about sucking. And I'm not sure that's a good thing.
How can you call it weakness when regardless how hard you work at a grocery store you can't support a family and live comfortably in 2018... while in 1980 it was a good job that supported your family...... same jobs that expect more work for less pay....... your nuts if u believe everyone is lazy..... there is less opportunity
Bullshit there is less opportunity! Scroll up and read what Parker Woods-Wilson
said. Just b/c you can't support a family on one particular job doesn't mean it's a bad job. Apply yourself. Between you and your wife you should be able to get great jobs and work together in supporting a family. Or, don't have a family until you both are financially stable.
S O S O Tell that to people in South America.
While opportunities still available, the value of working hours is steadily decreasing and corruption is the "normal way" to do business.
There is no shame on having a simple life, but it's a certainly a problem when you see your family dying due to poor health conditions and starvation.
Frankly, I always sensed that rising a family used to be a way to have a purpose in life, but nowadays it's considered quite unfeasible and irresponsible to have children without proper planning, something that wasn't really a thing back in the time of my grandparents or even parents.
Quite funny if we think about it, because... Are this newer generation doing the correct thing or just too afraid of dealing with failure?
There is no space for failure acceptance and kids are being raised in virtual worlds where you can always restart to reach the top rankings or the perfect results.
My mom worked a minimum wage job when she was in her early 20's she was able to get a car and rent a house. Now me I am making a few dollars over the minimum and I can't even afford a cheap apartment things have changed and not in a good way.
Entropian, thats because as millenials we got screwed before we even were old enough to be aware of what was going on, our parents generation set us up this bomb from the start and we are the ones being blamed for it...our generation is the first in US history to NOT be better off than their parents generation
Easy answer...it's not 1980 anymore.
Once you enter the work force, there's one thing you'll have to come to terms with. You only have a job because they haven't figured out how to automate or outsource what you do yet. That's going to be difficult for anybody, Millennial or otherwise to deal with.
Hahaha who do you think is programming and testing the “new technology”. Obsolete jobs are being replaced with fulfilling higher paying jobs. Millennials are 40 now, and Gen Z will be fine.
Oh god the “participation medals” thing. Look, no one wanted a participation medal or thought it meant anything. We all knew how winning and losing worked. This is almost verbatim what every older generation says about a younger one.
And it's not even a creative critic
And who tf GAVE US THE PARTICIPATION MEDALS? exactly: the gen before us
bullshit. people forget to mention one that you keep proving true, you can't take criticism
@@artzreal And if the "criticism" is proven to be bullshit?? What then??
Yeah, and who exactly was GIVING the medals in this scenario? The idiots never seem to mention that.
Oh boy!! I can't wait to get old enough to project *my* frustration onto a generation that probably doesn't deserve it.
obakecafe you literally just proved his point, I’m a millennial by the way.
They're being sarcastic, so no, they didn't, Josh.
Fuck off with that bullshit, Doug. We live in a world where getting screwed over is the norm. It was your job to make the world a better place for the next generation, but now you're surprised when the new generation doesn't give a shit about the future? We live in an America where freedom is an illusion, but all its consequences are real.
Damn it. I'm not smart bc I'm a millennial and my opinions clash with his. You caught me. ;^(
Thats very mature of you to recognise that ;p We millennials are now 18-35. Just wait a year or two until the first Gen Zs are entering college and then we can trash their collective self-esteem real good!
I am not a millennial, I am a Son of a Baby Boomer, born in the sixties, and I must confess that I am one of those that will wait until the season ends so that I can binge watch the entire season.
....maybe were impatient because we've seen the people who have worked 20 30 years and still ended up miserable and broke
and worse we can see when we replace them as they retire we are making even less...
How about "we're impatient" rather than "were impatient?" Millennial test. If you don't know basic grammar, you might be a millennial.
WildWing 1955 1955 huh? Lol
"From the ice-age to the dole-age" eh? Ask yourself what is it you gain exactly by picking on the grammar of someone half your age and a few SD's lower in IQ?
+Adelaide Hamilton - Richard Branson is dyslexic lol, so you're smarter than him? That's the greatest change we will have when these baby-boomers get too old to use the bathroom anymore, the social values and basically not being a cruel asshole, live and let live, will become the social norm. Forget the fact they have ill-gotten gains from a property market they corrupted to increase their wealth and bury any new home-buyer, they lived an era of hate and greed and that's not worth it.
Every modern day generation uses social media. It's not a millennial thing. My baby boomer parents are on Facebook just as much as I am.
It´s also a business thing now. My mom uses facebook to support her business she started a year ago in a cost-free way.
Facebook is always cost free you small child
This entire video is anecdotal. Where are the stats in comparison to previous generations?
Crime rates were lower in 1950.
You shouldn't have destroyed germany, you shouldn't have let those "migrants" in.
How is showing stats relevant to the point he's making? How is crime relative to the millennial thesis he's making? Stats isn't going to prove anything about generations from before and now when generation in of itself is conceptualizing a broad term of age groups. It's difficult to define basically. To ask for stats is only looking at this one sided.
He says millenials are entitled. He provides no evidence for this. He says millenials were constantly told they're special. Were they? He provides no evidence for this. Were previous generations raised differently? He provides no evidence for this. Did most millenials get participation trophies? Did previous generations not get participation trophies? How did a cheap plastic trophy they got when they were a child shape their entire future belief system about work eithic? His points are stupid and there is no evidence to back any of it up.
when you get a slap on the wrist and let go that's what happens DUH
no evidence Liverleef? how much do you need look around you, I want now I want now I want freebies freebies freebies paid by someone else. and no participation trophies didn't happen before you turned up you won or you didn't. and if you want to understand them in the work place just ask any employer you know who employs over 10 people.
We millennials didn't grow up with social media. This guy has a math problem. I didn't get a smart phone until well after I graduated college.
Life is harder for our generation than the previous. It bothers me that people don't get that. Our parents grew up in a different, easier America.
In my field, pay has contracted by half in the last 20 years, and companies no longer hire them directly, but through contractors which provide no job security or benefits. That's why millennials are doing bad. Real jobs pay less than they used to, and there are less of them available. They have been replaced with stop-gap part time shit jobs that the government subsidizes to lower unemployment numbers. They are not enough to live a life on. No family, no house, no life.
Jens Boettiger But... but increasing wages wouldn't be fair to the old fuckers
>when you work more hours for less money than your parents but you're lazy and entitled
You decided to take that job agreeing to that pay. No one's fault but your own
there are no other jobs available
AFO3310 you would support his being unemployed?
+AFO3310
Wow you really must be an idiot,
pay and working conditions have steadily been declining for the vast majority of jobs since the eighties. Meanwhile things like house prices have sky-rocketed (at least here in the UK) Pensions are far less generous and jobs with good opportunities for advancement and purpose have all but disappeared.
A smug gen X/baby boomers calling millennials entitled and lazy is just showing his own laziness and entitlement, not to mention his ignorance and stupidity.
I had to LOL at my GF's dumbass old-ass grandma who said that people have no excuse for not having a job meanwhile she hasnt worked a few days in her life. Its just bad math to work 40+ hours a week for $12 an hour. That's not a job, that's wage slavery.
The millennials were "dealt a bad hand", and now the corporations need to "pick up the slack"? Okay, but who works at the companies? People with children, who will now have to spend all their time at work, trying to give these millennials the upbringing they apparently never had -- and the result will be that these employees now don't have all the time _they_ need to spend with _their_ kids and raise them properly. Sounds like the perfect recipe for a next generation of miserable youngsters and wasted potential.
I think you're underestimating the millennial generation. Every generation thinks that the generation after them is the worst. My great grandfather thought the generation of the people who lived through the depression. Turns out they're widely regarded as the greatest generation.
The millennials I work with are awesome and I LOVE working with them!
And the members of the greatest generation I've met haven't even been all that impressive
I'm Generation Y. I can say that Generation X before me and Millenials after me are both equally worthless, but Generation X had better music.
Marvin Harrison Smith II Gen Y and Millenials are the same thing XD
It goes Gen X, Gen Y/"Millenials", Gen Z, Gen Alpha.
They were the last great generation, it has been all downhill since
The narrator makes the point that the millennials have great difficulty dealing with the "real world" , but then concludes with the idea that corporations are responsible for helping the millennials. Sorry. That notion runs counter to the reality of the real world.
Exactly. This video diagnosis the problem correct but 100% misses the solution. Corps have no responsibility to your self-improvement/happiness. Since parents did not build proper functioning adult....you are responsibly for building it in yourself.
Corps have a responsibility to bottom line, but for them to do that, they need told workers to push the line.
So, in order to get that incentive, Simon is suggesting to implement human capital investment to build the relationship skills within their corps.
@@ckniffen7111 I don't understand your statement.
@@RKWWWW Then it is travelling safely over your head. This whole video is an excerpt from a talk that was meant to HELP huge corperations get the talent they need to be exceptionally more profitable. Kind of weird, for a tone of argument, but there's a lot of good points on their own merit here.
Um. I'll stop at the beginning there with the whole "you are special" thing. Actually the reason why millennials like myself are so reluctant to work is because we were told we can never accomplish anything. "Those are just dreams, expect less in life" is what we were told. At least that's what I was told. I was scoffed at for wanting to pursue careers that interested me because adults saying "that's impossible". "No one gets a dream job, expect to work at mc donalds or walmart because you have to be born into a good job".
Believe me no kid in school at least in my time got a medal for doing nothing. Actually if you weren't smart enough or skilled enough, you weren't even invited to the award ceremonies. I know this because I got many actual awards in school for cgi animation, programming, and being the first student in the whole school to make over 15 credits in technical classes. x'D That's about a college semester worth of technology classes. No other kids except for those who achieved above average in classes got an award. The kids who didn't get an award were shamed even more and made to feel less.
Also no kid is going to be jumping to work when they see their parents constantly miserable, they are constantly told they'll live miserable lives, and when they become adults they try to apply for jobs but get this wall of "we don't hire newbies and if we do we treat you like trash" in little asterisks next to each job opening.
Exactly! I notice a lot of these "Millenials are terrible" videos are always done by older people who always seem out of touch with the younger generation.
You didn't watch the video. You forfeited your right to discuss it.
I watched the video, crash979797. The guys has either never been to a modern school or never used technology before, also on top of that he doesn't even know what "dopamine" is(which is the feeling of being happy, not only present in drugs, but present in eating, sleeping, reading, and riding a bike).
1. Awards aren't given to every body in a school. (As I said, in my school you aren't even invited to the ceremony if you aren't above average)
2. Kids aren't told they "special" if anything mentally disabled kids are thrown in with the abled kids and these kids get brutally abused by the heighten stress and their lack of ability to keep up.
3. It's nearly impossible to get an A in this modern age of schooling. Plus the only way to get all "A's" is to give up all forms of play and communication(normal child behavior), which this oh so evil facebook fixes this lack of ability to play or communicate, by being easily accessible allowing kids to communicate with friends while they work and have some fun. (Basically kids aren't kids any more, they are expected to suffer to achieve a grade)
4. Again dopamine is just feeling happy. Mind as well lock your kid in the basement and keep them awake all night if you want them to live a dopamine free life (oh wait! That's what modern schools promote kids to do! Locked away in a room, staring at a piece of paper, writing boring ass useless math problems all day).
5. College is really fucking expensive, these kids are working 5 or more jobs while this old ass most likely is only working one and even then barely working! No wonder he is so confused why modern kids are so quick to quit! Modern day kids are more intelligent, have to work harder than previous generations to just get a decent job, and even then they have to pay off college once they get into a "decent job" which will most likely only pay minimum wage anyways.
6. IMPACT. This guy is so retarded he even admits he doesn't know what it means to "make an impact". Modern day kids don't want to work for a company that is either detrimental to society or tries to scam others. They'll straight up quit. We don't tolerate this idea of "oh it's just business! There's no heart in business". No, we've watched our parents suffer and we don't want to suffer as they did! We don't want to the future to suffer like we did! So we refuse to work for companies that promote this suffering and we shame companies who do promote it!
This is just how times change. It's a new era of companies who actually have to care about their consumers and a new age of workers who are over stressed and weren't allowed a single bit of free time in their lives. No wonder depression and suicide is so high! Imagine getting out of college, being hundreds of thousands into debt, working 3 or more jobs at once, not able to even afford an apartment given current day living costs. Jobs tend to pay a whopping $10 below minimum wage. You can't finically even have a family. You'd want to jump off a bridge too!
Boo-fucking-hoo... I'm a millenial and can't afford dating! I'm a newb' at the job and I wanna quit cause they treat me bad... Boo-hoo!
You know what that is? It's fucking life! That "old fart" you're bitching about is only working one job because he started with your three... four... five... and whittled them down to the one he wanted to keep for twenty or thirty fucking years... And you (never worked a day before you get there) come in and wonder why you're being talked to like a kid? Jesus F. Christ! You don't really know the company (besides a spread on the web)... You didn't spend the last ten years on field projects. You haven't known the contacts in the industry. You can barely find your own cubicle without fucking it up somehow. And you want the full pension, snack-room privileges, and nobody better say shit to you about having that god damn phone stuck to your face or the side of your head or so help...
You know what... I'm glad I don't have kids. I'm glad I don't do more than the occasional one-nighter... And I'm never in hell bringing the bitch home... The next generation's all alike. They want to come out of college and kick the old-guy out of the business because the newb's got himself a diploma. Killed a fucking baby sheep to show his ass for building a monumental debt that's only going to be obsolete YES YOU TOO WILL BE OBSOLETE IN LESS THAN A DECADE! And you will also be replaced by a newer younger newb' who hates you just as much as you hate everyone older than you for telling you the same damn thing I'm about to say.
"GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE GOD DAMN PHONE! IT'S WHY I KEEP MINE SCREWED TO THE WALL IN THE KITCHEN!!!"
You asses want inflammatory, you get it. :o) Fuck you.
@gnarth d'arkanen The point I was making is the guy in the video is just making shit up and just went on whining about kids getting awards for everything (without any actual examples in reality) and goes on to say there should be a law limiting use of technology because it makes people happy, which is just extremely illogical conclusion to come to. On another note, yeah, sorry, but if some sucker is going to work for a shitty company that's on them, but that company shouldn't feel obliged to have workers, whining about the youth refusing to work for them, and if they suffer because of their bad practices like United Airlines is right now, well the company should suffer and lose their business. A lot of new age workers are demanding better pay and more rights. Either companies actually pay attention to their surroundings or they'll crumble no matter how big a business they are. The ones that survive are going to be ones that treat both their costumers and employees like humans.
Far as I can tell "millennials" were born either between 1986 and 2006... OR between 1981 and 1996... Apparently humans can't quite figure out how their own concept of generations actually works...
That being said I fall into both timelines, however as a "millennial" who has been repeatedly turned down from jobs on the basis of being "overqualified" bc of my HS diploma while watching people who either got a GED or dropped out entirely get one job after another, I'm inclined to think that it's less of an employee problem and more of employers seeking incompetent workers who will do just about anything bc they're desperate for any job they can get...
But go ahead and blame an entire generation of people for the failings of their parents while complaining that America is becoming more useless... Totally NOT a contradictory standpoint or anything... I can't help but wonder who raised these millennials to think this way, bc their parents obviously didn't raise them properly...
I was born in 1994, One of my first memories was my mom telling me "you will never be the best at anything." My parents taught me the value of hard work, taught me to treat others with respect, and never congratulated me for failure or mediocrity. But they still believed in me, they pushed me and at times I hated them for it, but now I appreciate it more than anything. I graduated university last year, couldn't get a good job because Canada's economy is crap, so I worked my ass off in a soul crushing job and pretended to be happy until I could get a better one. Nothing is owed to you, you are not special, but you don't have to be special to live an amazing life.
well said mate..but most millennial dont understand this...they believe socialist culture is the answers live in an amazing life....most millennial are idealist...
Telling you "you will never be the best at anything." isn't teaching you the value of hard work, or how to treat others with respect!
@@D0x1511af What's wrong with being sociable?
what degree did you graduate with?
BlankoPie you have good parents. Cause they did you a huge favor by telling you nothing is free, or comes easily... My parents did the same to me. "Work hard or fail. The world doesn’t care about you. If you want something done, then do it yourself. And take nothing for granted. What easy come, easy go... Treat you fellow human and creature the way you wanna be treated... GET OUT OF BED, or else you die in bed. If you fail, then do better next time etc etc. Life is not a shortcut... for some yes but not the majority..." that is what my father taught me
Baby boomers: sure we screwed everything up but at least we're trying to blame the millennials for it
Fuck I wish I could buy a house for 50g . Then whinge bc we payed 18% interest rates for 12 months .
Fuck off m8 baby boomers don’t give 2 fucks about anybody but them selfs
The only time o hear anything out of use is when it effects use , like super, negative gearing to name a few .
I didn’t hear use when they cut penalty rates on a Sunday as long you can get smashed avocado and a coffee on Sunday and save $2 , who gives a fuck right .
Fucking baby boomers pleas...
next your gona tell me how good of PM jonny Was .
You need to take responsibility in life or you will find chaos in a Gulag Archipelago and become a lobster.
That Guy lol
As if the boomers had a choice you twat
Right
I used to be told I was special but that was a sweet way to tell me I was to be given specially hard jobs nobody else could put up with.
This video was kind of sad. I feel like the older generation think they know us but really don’t
They are wiser. They know you better than you know yourself. You will one day understand just not yet
@@superwilcox9026 just nope
I'm 18 and I agree with this video. Social media is bullshit - it gives you a false reality and tries to make people think alike like sheep. Kids in my generation are "depressed" in the western world yet they don't even know how lucky they are. You have to wake up and realise this new society is BS, and focus on the quality & happiness of life.
@@MrIDGAF 1. totally agree with the social media stuff 2. If you‘re 18 than you count as a Gen Z 3. that video has a wrong focus
@@yukiinu89 Isn’t Gen Z apart of milenliual?
Your average millennial wants only one thing; to do the job they actually spent their life training for.
Well that and being able to pay the rent, debts, bills. Oh! And eating too, that's a really hard habit to kick!
Frustrating right.
That is everyone's problem we aren't all rich no matter how old or young we are.
I'm a Boomer from the 50's and fought this all my life.
Work for yourself and stop complaining your employer isnt giving you what you want
Then you better train in skills that are needed, because business and liberal arts degrees are not going to get the average person very far. Previous generations were also more flexible, the purpose of work is a paycheck.
@@kc0jtl What was your BSc/MSc/PhD in?
patience. I can feel when people are impatient with me or even when I'm impatient with myself. not being patient leads to compulsive actions and terrible decisions. be patient with yourself and others.
I've never met a person whose parents just told them you can have anything just because. It's always 'you can have anything YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO' meaning there is WORK involved, it doesn't just come. I know the US is different but you'd have to be another level of stupid to just believe that you can have anything simply because you are you. Also, in the UK, your parents cannot affect your grade, what bullshit is this where parents can change your grade. Wtf!? That's the fault of the school or the government for allowing it - I mean if you're allowed to do something to better your future, you would wouldn't you!?
millennials have fun with their friends but can't rely on them because they know if something better comes up their friends will ditch. That's not because we can't form relationships. That's because we're in a shitty individualistic society that says 'LOOK OUT FOR NUMBER 1 ONLY, look out for yourself, you don't have to be tied to anyone else, you don't have to do anything you don't want to. Freedom.' If we lived in a society that still valued the community, that agreed that sometimes you should put other's needs before your own, and that you DO have to do things you don't want to, then maybe we wouldn't have this problem.
But there are also some great points like how corporations work to make things worse, and the whole idea of instant gratification. But I think that can be said for a lot more generations as I know lots of 40s-60s people who are constantly on the mobile or laptop. I stopped using my phone this year. I can't say I'm happier, and I definitely miss snapchat but it's okay. I notice people are constantly on their phones, even when it's just the two of us and they know I don't have one, they'll sit on theirs until I bring it up. People forget that it's pretty rude to be paying attention to something else when it's not really that important and someone is with you. But everyone does that now.
Great response! There's a big difference between being entitled and expecting your hard work to pay off.
lol! ikr!
Why would they waste time flipping burgers when there are so many other jobs to work!
There aren't many other jobs to work.
There are very few other jobs to work.
Jobs are on the decline.