Millennials found to want it all for little effort!

I guess it's impossible to discuss this with people who insist in dropping to the "lynching blacks" kind of rhetoric, or the "you always blame the kids". I think with that kind of discussion I will retreat. This is too similar to the attempt to have logical discussion about North America.
 

QuickSilver said:
The parents of the new Millennial generation, the Gen-Xers, are the children of the baby boomers. Boomer women were concerned with independence.. We wanted careers, we fought for womens' rights.. we had a high divorce rate.. many of us worked and "latch Key" kids were prevalent. A far cry from how we were raised, by the stay at home moms of the 50s. Maybe it's the Gen-X generations way of doing the opposite of how they were raised.. they did coddle their kids and were a tad over protective. So it is the pendulum you speak of Debby... just another swing.
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QS, I think that this is an accurate chronology.
 
Another example of the entitled generation would be the housing bubble. Besides those evil banksters who the frack with any common sense buys a house with almost no money down or doesn't think dozens of clauses in dozens of pages in a paper contract might not come back on them one day. Or ASSume the price will rise and they will sell at a profit. If those buyers, many young were in the working world anytime over the last 30 years during the age of downsizing, streamling, outsourcing etc what are they doing signing 20-30 year mortgages when job security was a fraction of what it was decades earlier. They're is also a lack of big picture thinking ie if the economy sucks there will be no one with money to buy your over priced house(part of that is education or lack there of, there has to be a market for their product ie the house). 60 Minutes did a story on a young educated white collar couple who got frustrated when they couldn't sell their house at profit and 'walked away' from their obligations because they regretted or couldn't live with their very own decision a few years later.
 

I haven't seen any store employees using their phones while they are on the job either, but maybe it happens in certain stores somewhere I don't shop.
Everyone is extremely helpful and offers excellent customer service, especially to seniors here.

Or is this a techno gadget issue then? Is the OP suggesting that millennials are a bad bunch and that things were better in the 30s and 40s? That's what I'm understanding from some of the posts --- send everyone into the army to straighten them out. Then instead of killing randomly they can kill with the approval of the government in a controlled setting. And take away their cell phones and make them dig ditches for a living with a shovel. That should build some character and then they'll show their elders some respect, damn it. LOL
 
QuickSilver said:
Seriously? No Canadian kids are ever RUDE???
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Actually, QS, I haven't seen it --- I see kids on the subway trains and buses coming and going, either to school or jobs and they are too busy with their friends or too tired from work and just wanting to go home. But remember, this is Toronto, and everyone is busy including the kids. It's probably a bit different in the burbs where kids have less to do and might be bored.
 
In my visits to Canada I found it a pleasant place to visit. Only problem I had was in the cities where I had problems with their time of operations. We would go to a shopping area to look around in late afternoon or evening. Problem was they often closed around 5 pm. So we would get pointed to the doors or if late enough the doors would not open. We were a bit confused as most places in the larger towns or cities in the US have very late closing time, or even 24 hours service.

But otherwise, I felt the people we met were pretty nice and polite and helpful. Including the ones in Vancouver that we went up there to meet. And Vancouver Island was also a nice place to visit. I have been to all areas of Canada but the eastern most province.
 
Cookie said:
I haven't seen any store employees using their phones while they are on the job either, but maybe it happens in certain stores somewhere I don't shop.
Everyone is extremely helpful and offers excellent customer service, especially to seniors here.

Or is this a techno gadget issue then? Is the OP suggesting that millennials are a bad bunch and that things were better in the 30s and 40s? That's what I'm understanding from some of the posts --- send everyone into the army to straighten them out. Then instead of killing randomly they can kill with the approval of the government in a controlled setting. And take away their cell phones and make them dig ditches for a living with a shovel. That should build some character and then they'll show their elders some respect, damn it. LOL
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It was about the turn of the century when cell phones really started to pick up in use. A lot "kids" started buying them. In the early years of cell phone use on a massive scale a lot of businesses had no rules on cell phone usage. Where I lived the stores were/are loaded with teen or young employees with cell phones. Too many times I either had to wait for the kids to finish their personal non work related conversation, answer their personal cell phone like it was an end of world call and/or they didn't pay attention to myself & others-the paying customer, the reason they had a job. Maybe it was just the etiquette catching up to technology and/or work place rules catching up to personal technology. Point being that many young people didn't think twice about ignoring their job/customer for personal business tells me a lot. Again that is partly the employers fault for not having or enforcing rules in the first place, parental training or simply ignorant teenagers with misplaced priorities.
 
I am certain there are at least a few rude Canadians, some of them in my building. Lol. My point was that I have not encountered rude young employees in the places I frequent. Are they rude elsewhere at times, of course they must be--but no more so I suspect than older people.
 
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