The Millenial Generation

I didn't actually watch the video corresponding to this article, but what I read has me pretty upset and many of the commenters as well, from what I gleaned.

Faced with new employees who want to roll into work with their iPods and flip flops around noon, but still be CEO by Friday, companies are realizing that the era of the buttoned down exec happy to have a job is as dead as the three-Martini lunch.

"These young people will tell you what time their yoga class is and the day's work will be organized around the fact that they have this commitment. So you actually envy them. How wonderful it is to be young and have your priorities so clear. Flipside of it is how awful it is to be managing the extension, sort of, of the teenage babysitting pool," Salzman tells Safer.

Almost every one of my friends is part of this 1980-1995 generation and NOT ONE (ok, only one) of them would ever consider pulling this kind of crap at a job. We are all so poor and up to our necks in student loan debt that we would take any decent job in our fields and not complain in the slightest. I would be mortified if an employer ever considered hiring me as analagous to a teenage babysitting pool.

The young people they are referencing are obviously those that can fall back on their parents at any time and not feel guilty or reprehensive at doing so, even though their poor parents (like mine) are probably getting ready to retire.

I think the blame should fall on both the parents and the children (and not Mr. Rogers); the parents should have been realistic about life and opportunity and the children should have come out of their safety bubbles in college long enough to get some real world experience and disappointment.