Monday, April 13, 2009

He didn't see it coming?

Strange. This dude feels as though Generation Y just popped into the scene last week. Dude, they've been trying to knock Gen X out of the way since their parents stuck those 'Baby On Board' signs in Volvo back windows!
One might say Generation Y is "high maintenance," self-regarding and selfish. And while it has grown up questioning everything — authority, parents, the government and even bosses — there is one label sometimes given to this generation with which I do not agree: lacking a work ethic.

I agree with him on this point. Gen Y'ers are little whiney-pissy prisses, but the MANY I work with cannot qualify as layabouts. My biggest issue with Gen Y is they cannot decipher what sucks from what doesn't. The way an item or idea is marketed to them is more important than actual usefulness.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's a fight as old as time. Older people always say they had to work harder and younger people always act like slackers, but they work hard, too.

Can't win that argument.

Kath

Wek said...

I think the Silent Gen really got the hose with this. The WWII era people really came down on the Silents as being "slackers", but the body of work those "quiet" ones did is impressive.

Jennifer Chronicles (jenx67.com) said...

very funny about the baby on board signs.