Poll of the Day > So... why does the older generation say all millenials don't want to work?

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Is it that we don't want to work, or we don't want to work under (certain) current conditions?!

Because my grandmother was complaining about how nobody wants to work at her hospital. Lo and behold when I asked if they are training the new people her answer was "No, training an adult is much harder than training a kid"

I lol'd can't wait for these old fogeys to gtfo (sorry grandma)
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Because young people generally don't want to work? >_> Young people tend to be immature and lazy, and millennials are currently young.

mastermix3000 posted...

Because my grandmother was complaining about how nobody wants to work at her hospital. Lo and behold when I asked if they are training the new people her answer was "No, training an adult is much harder than training a kid"

????
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Yes, all young people are exactly the same.
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Zeus posted...

Because young people generally don't want to work? >_> Young people tend to be immature and lazy, and millennials are currently young.

This is too easy

I sometimes feel like you intentionally set yourself up for Trump jokes
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That's an oversimplification. The fact is that because of the way the economy has shifted, thanks in part to Reaganomics, the same opportunities don't exist. You can't buy a house and live comfortably working retail anymore, which was possible until a few decades ago. As of the '90s, the inflation to wage gap essentially doomed a large portion of the population that at one time could've been middle class.

Why bother doing something you hate when there's no incentive? On the flip side, some people simply do not have to work because their parents got on the other side of the bubble.
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mastermix3000 posted...

Zeus posted...

Because young people generally don't want to work? >_> Young people tend to be immature and lazy, and millennials are currently young.

This is too easy

I sometimes feel like you intentionally set yourself up for Trump jokes

It was said about the youth of each generation by some of the generation that came before them. The youth of the 60's confused and worried the Hell out of many of their their parents and grandparents generation. Then you can go back further and see the same thing.

Old people forget what it was like to be young and youth thinks they will never be old.


What does this have to do with Trump?

myghostisdead posted...

What does this have to do with Trump?

nothing, this was a jab at the particular person who posted
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You can say all the stereotypes you want about young people, but a young person will learn new technology 10 times faster than an old person and be twice as good at using it at the end of the day. That makes them pretty valuable in the workforce where everything is getting more automated.
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crinalex posted...

Yes, all young people are exactly the same.

Because apparently trends can't exist unless everybody is exactly the same. All of which glosses over the fact that I said "generally" on top of that.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

That's an oversimplification. The fact is that because of the way the economy has shifted, thanks in part to Reaganomics, the same opportunities don't exist. You can't buy a house and live comfortably working retail anymore, which was possible until a few decades ago. As of the '90s, the inflation to wage gap essentially doomed a large portion of the population that at one time could've been middle class.

Why bother doing something you hate when there's no incentive? On the flip side, some people simply do not have to work because their parents got on the other side of the bubble.

Countless problems with that statement. First is the erroneous idea that working low-level retail ever provided people with a really good living. People working low-wage jobs have traditionally always been renters rather than homeowners. Second, "Reaganomics" didn't cause manufacturing, etc, jobs to vanish which were a bigger driver of the shrinking middle class. And the wage gap isn't a thing onto itself, it's mostly a symptom of other factors.

And, in general, all of which glosses over basic demographic trends and erroneously only blames external factors.

myghostisdead posted...

mastermix3000 posted...

Zeus posted...

Because young people generally don't want to work? >_> Young people tend to be immature and lazy, and millennials are currently young.

This is too easy

I sometimes feel like you intentionally set yourself up for Trump jokes

It was said about the youth of each generation by some of the generation that came before them. The youth of the 60's confused and worried the Hell out of many of their their parents and grandparents generation. Then you can go back further and see the same thing.

Old people forget what it was like to be young and youth thinks they will never be old.


What does this have to do with Trump?

tbh, I'm not sure if Mix is being single-minded with his comments or simple-minded with them.

And yes, it's probably less a trend associated with a generation and more a trend associated with youth.

Yellow posted...

You can say all the stereotypes you want about young people, but a young person will learn new technology 10 times faster than an old person and be twice as good at using it at the end of the day. That makes them pretty valuable in the workforce where everything is getting more automated.

Not really connected to anything, but okay? I'm not even sure that's necessarily true, mind you, considering that older workers will have a better understanding of how a new system ties into their existing one rather than somebody coming in from scratch who only understands a new system. And, in general, this was more true of the pre-computers crowd.
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The older generation are all retiring now, they're the ones who don't want to work.
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Zeus posted...

crinalex posted...

Yes, all young people are exactly the same.

Because apparently trends can't exist unless everybody is exactly the same. All of which glosses over the fact that I said "generally" on top of that.

I wasn't even addressing your post. Still think this coarse generalisation about generations is pretty dumb, especially when it dominates media as much as it does now. People think that people the same age are an even remotely homogenous group.
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cause older folks need any excuse to shit on young people
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crinalex posted...

Zeus posted...

crinalex posted...

Yes, all young people are exactly the same.

Because apparently trends can't exist unless everybody is exactly the same. All of which glosses over the fact that I said "generally" on top of that.

I wasn't even addressing your post. Still think this coarse generalisation about generations is pretty dumb, especially when it dominates media as much as it does now. People think that people the same age are an even remotely homogenous group.

It's not a comment about generations, it's a comment about youth in general.

Otherwise sure, the current generation classification system is stupid for a lot of reasons.
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I imagine the fact that there are less millenials than there are other generations has something to do with that. It gives the perception that there are less people entering the workforce (which is true), but people think population is a static number, so they incorrectly assume that people just are choosing to not work.