Generations Issues
By CraftyCorner
@CraftyCorner (5600)
United States
March 10, 2010 11:32pm CST
It would seem that Bosses & Big Wigs in the British Supermarket Tesco has a dim view of "Generation Y".
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Generation Y is said to have 'attitude problems' and believe the world 'owes them a living', a direct quote from a Tesco Boss.
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Lucy Neville-Rolfe, director of corporate and legal affairs was more specific about her objections to the 'work habits of the 'Y's'. "Youngsters too often turn up late for work and interviews and fail to see the importance of dressing neatly and working with others,"
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More of her inspired dislike of youngsters' work habits can be read in the Daily Mail...
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What do you think? Do you think she's just sucking lemons or does she have a point?
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Mar 10
hi craftycorner well I am in America so do not know about that problem of Britain but I do know that a lot of American youngsters goof off and do not work as hard or as well as older people, and are not as considerate of their jobs or respect their superiors as well as older people. its a known fact here that a f orty year old wo rker is really more dependable to get his work done and does not call in sick every time he gets bored at work, while a twenty year old often fibs and calls in sick for any of a number of other reasons not having to do with illness at all. I know some kids that age are hard and respectable workers but a lot just are not.It has not any thing to do with any generation gap it has to do with a lot of younger kids being spoiled rotten. they think that the rules at work do not pertain to them. a thirty year old worked follows the rules but the kids often do not.
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
11 Mar 10
There is a small group of youngsters that has grown up entitled to the point of the indiscussable. They are indeed very annoying, they are the little twits that expect rewards for even sitting put for five minutes when they are eight. Well, this acute recession is going to come crashing down on their little tiaras. Life isn't about them.
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This small group is very noisy, drowning out via "mememememememe" the other kids who were not brought up entitled yet go about unnoticed in the crowd. I think this is so in the UK as it is in the United States.
@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
11 Mar 10
I think they are right, but maybe are not expressing the message in a way to get a response from those young workers. I see it on here when people talk about trying to get their young, unskilled children to work in the family business, and these same young people think $10 per hour is not enough and the work is too hard. I hear kids that are barely old enough to work legally complain that they are worth more than minimum wage, but they are too good to mop a floor or do the after hours clean up where they work.
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@advokatku (4033)
• Indonesia
11 Mar 10
each generation has a different lifestyle, maybe those who commented are those from the older generations that normally become old-fashioned view for the generation after them
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
11 Mar 10
Yes, the woman pictured in the article looked like a member of the 'Boomer' generation.
