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A blog post from Mother Jones about the same article which gives a quote from The Organization Man back in 1956 which says the same thing (but without quite as
by MaysonL 18y ago
A blog post from Mother Jones about the same article which gives a quote from The Organization Man back in 1956 which says the same thing (but without quite as much snark):
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2008/10/damn_kids.html http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2008/10/damn_kids.html
- tjmc 18y agoBy 1956 an economic boom had been going on for the best part of a decade. Sound familiar? It's only natural that graduates of an era where jobs are easy to come by will be more frivolous about where they work and the conditions they expect. When I left school in 1988 it was very hard to get work - there were waiting lists for jobs at McDonalds for example. The "Gen Xers" I know have similar memories and are generally more cautious about quitting a job without something else to go to. Now that the economy's tanking I think attitudes will change. The article's assertion that "their sense of entitlement is an ingrained trait that will likely resurface in a stronger job market" looks pretty bogus to me.
- dla2000 18y agoBut you could read this in another way and say that this was the start of the decline... and we're just worried about how much farther we can slide... I know I've probably made a lot of people on this board a little irked, but I'm serious when I say I'm worried about how we'll compete.