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You are correct. You are lazy and you feel entitled, and many others of your generation are lazy as well. I don't blame you, but I do partly blame the parents of your generation. There is a point to this. My niece recently got her first job, and she is about to lose it. I have a contact where she works, so I get information that she does not know I get. She has had the job for about 5 weeks. She is already lagging behind two employees who were hired after her. She is not getting more shifts because she is not advancing with her abilities. She keeps asking for days off, and she is not forming working relationships with the other employees. In addition, she tells anyone who will listen about her boyfriend and their relationship which they all now think is "weird". (It is weird, but that's another story entirely) When she was in junior high school her mother went to the school and complained that her daughter had gotten a "B" instead of an "A" and successfully had the grade changed. Another time the mother pulled out her blackberry to show me the daughter's senior history class presentation that she had done for the daughter. It was quite elaborate and a large part of her grade. Now you see the source of this girl's problems. She is in college now, and I see a long and stormy road ahead of her. She should have been allowed to experience failure a few times before now. As it is, she is emotionally unprepared for failure and any mistakes she may make. And her work ethic sucks. To top it off, she doesn't understand why her job is in jeopardy.
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Quiet, mild-mannered souls might just turn out to be roaring lions of two-fisted cool.
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