Comments on: Generation Entitlement? Yes. http://anythings.org/2008/06/11/generation-entitlement-yes/ feminism is for everybody: equality, choice, justice, and freedom Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:56:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: erin http://anythings.org/2008/06/11/generation-entitlement-yes/#comment-7140 erin Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:17:22 +0000 http://anythings.org/?p=204#comment-7140 Interesting perspective. I think it's more of a cultural shift more than anything a generational shift. We are bombarded as society with the message that we have to have more, so we can never feel good about where we are. I am a Gen xer and the strategy when I got out of school was to job hop to get better titles and salaries. The sense of entitlement was no different, it was simply articulated in a different way. 'The younger generation doesn’t understand that the older generation expects them to put in their dues before they can get the good assignments, positions, etc: they feel entitled because they have a fancy degree and were told by their parents that they could do anything they wanted.' Often times this is simply the result of the work that needs to be done is highly administrative. The further I've progressed in my career the more I realize that as much as there is a lot of talk about 'strategy' in business, most of your day is filled with administrative 'stuff' whether you're the entry level worker bee or the Senior Vice President. Anyway, thank you..... Interesting perspective. I think it’s more of a cultural shift more than anything a generational shift. We are bombarded as society with the message that we have to have more, so we can never feel good about where we are. I am a Gen xer and the strategy when I got out of school was to job hop to get better titles and salaries. The sense of entitlement was no different, it was simply articulated in a different way.

‘The younger generation doesn’t understand that the older generation expects them to put in their dues before they can get the good assignments, positions, etc: they feel entitled because they have a fancy degree and were told by their parents that they could do anything they wanted.’

Often times this is simply the result of the work that needs to be done is highly administrative. The further I’ve progressed in my career the more I realize that as much as there is a lot of talk about ’strategy’ in business, most of your day is filled with administrative ’stuff’ whether you’re the entry level worker bee or the Senior Vice President.

Anyway, thank you…..

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