Stop the ACLU ^ | 4-3-10 | unattributed
Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:26:13 PM by smokingfrog
This might explain why 68% of those under 30 voted for Obama over McCain: For millennials, work ethic not defining factor. Are twentysomethings really spoiled and lazy? Survey suggests it’s true
Jared Rogalia, 25, a Hertz rental car manager-trainee in Alexandria, is as cranky as someone twice his age when he complains about his generation’s work ethic. Here’s how Rogalia characterizes his age group: “The first is: really spoiled and lazy. The second is: We’re free-spirited. And the third is: They’d rather be poorer and have free time than have a lot of money.”
The millennial generation — about 50 million people between ages 18 and 29 — is the only age group in the nation that doesn’t cite work ethic as one of its “principal claims to distinctiveness,” according to a new Pew Research Center study, “Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change.” The Washington-based nonprofit organization found that young adults and their elders agree: Baby boomers and Generation X-ers have better work ethic and moral values than those in their 20s.
In a survey of about 1,200 people of all ages, millennials chose other traits to define themselves: 24 percent said “technology use,” 11 percent went with “music/pop culture,” 7 percent chose “liberal/tolerant,” and 6 percent said “smarter.” Only 5 percent noted their generation’s “work ethic” — the same portion who chose “clothes” as their distinction.
I have the pleasure of working with some great folks under 30 whose work ethic is excellent. But, we all run into so many under 30’s who have little to no work ethic. The Millenials are a very feelings based group. After a long, long seminar on dealing with these folks as employees, we decided that the class content could have been boiled down (generically) to “gimme! I’m entitled!”
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: millenials; pew; workethic
1 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:26:14 PM by smokingfrog
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Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change.
Millenials: Arrogant. Groupthinking. Traitors.
2 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:30:37 PM by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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i found out why—
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg98BvqUvCc
3 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:36:07 PM by chicken head
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You also have to realize these are indoctrinated young people through textbooks teaching them America is racist horrible etc. Obama was positioned as a uniter /centrist (morons believed this?) and voting for him would rid our nation of its collective guilt.
Young people are ignorant through lack of life experience. They are easy targets for Democrats and Dems go after them. Young white people are taught to be ashamed of their race and history. Voting for Obama was sold as the cool thing to do.
Now... hopefully they are waking up. Universities though are where the young are radicalized. Listen to the interview with Obama’s communist college buddy. Becoming a professor (though Obama was never more than an instructor) and ‘community activist’ were acceptable paths for socialists.
4 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:36:24 PM by TigerBait
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My sister is 24, she voted Republican. My Mama raised her right :-) she didn’t get sucked into the whole Obama mania crap. She said he was a phony from the moment she saw him.
5 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:38:54 PM by Sarah Barracuda
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Well, what did you expect? None of these kids ever lost or failed at anything in school. If they finished last, they still got an award. If they failed, they were labeled as “defered achievers,” or some such rot. Why would they have developed a “work ethic?”
6 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:40:54 PM by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got Seven? [NRA Life Member])
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If you are not a liberal at 20 you have no heart.
If you are still a liberal at 40 you have no brain.
7 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:47:50 PM by 43north (BHO: 50% white, 50% black, 100% red)
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“After a long, long seminar on dealing with these folks as employees, we decided that the class content could have been boiled down (generically) to “gimme! I’m entitled!””
From what I am seeing and being told from others who have to “suffer” through working with these people, this is absolutely correct.
They are arrogant and group thinkers. However, they aren’t motivated enough to rise to the level of being traitors. They simply don’t care enough to interfere with their personal, selfish narcissism.
There are exceptions to the rule. And when you talk to the rare few who don’t follow the herd, they will tell you to not trust or believe there are members of their ranks that will be capable of being leaders when they inherit this country. That is really alarming because they don’t see themselves in that role either.
They were not raised as individuals and they truly do not like the older generation and in a lot of cases they don’t like their parents. Many see their older counterparts as hinderances to their promotion at work. It rarely occurs to them that they might have to pay their dues to move up in the ranks.
Very alarming and very sad.
8 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:48:34 PM by BlessingsofLiberty (Obama, YOU LIE!!)
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Spoiled, no work ethic and no understanding of American History. Useful idiots for the socialists. . . We have a lot of work to do to try and educate them. . They're a big voting block.
9 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 1:49:45 PM by Art in Idaho
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At that age I had a strong work ethic, but virtually no knowledge of US History or how the government is supposed to work. I’m 58 years old, but government education back then was pretty poor.
10 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:00:17 PM by gitmo ( The democRats drew first blood. It's our turn now.)
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They will have a sobering moment when they learn that the Baby Boomers who raised them will have nothing to pass on to them because we had to pay for the ponzi scheme called Social Security and Medicare - instituted, managed, and consumed by “The Greatest Generation”.
11 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:01:32 PM by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
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It rarely occurs to them that they might have to pay their dues to move up in the ranks.
I'm 45, and I have never understood this whole "paying your dues" business. Why should anyone have to "pay any dues" in order to achieve higher rank, status, or pay? Workers should be rewarded according to the quality of their work, not on the basis of how may years they've been punching a clock or how good they are at kissing ass.
I say if a person of 24 can do a better job than I can, they deserve to be my boss and make more money than I do.
12 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:02:52 PM by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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Because they are stupid and run their live based on what they think is “Cool”?
13 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:04:49 PM by SoConPubbie
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What the author doesn’t account for is that the more spoiled and entitled the individual, the more enraged when they don’t get what they want.
When they can’t find work in this worsening economy they will hold Obama personally responsible for all their woes. And I don’t think all his various Obama Youth Corps programs will be able to employ a significant percentage of them.
14 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:36:51 PM by sinanju
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The “young folks” polled don’t pay taxes, ie., they’re still leeches...
...making them, naturally, part of a core Democrat constituency.
15 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:46:55 PM by Lancey Howard
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It’s simple. They don’t understand the way the world works because all they’ve ever done is school, which is an unnatural situation led by liberals.
I remember when I was in high school. Weekly Reader published a quiz on “Are you a Republican or a Democrat” (This was when 18 year olds first got the vote). Almost every kid in the class, including me, was superliberal, according to the quiz.
So I took it home (I wasn’t supposed to) and gave it to my conservative mother. She answered the quiz opposite every answer I gave, and explained WHY. It was hard to understand her logic, but now I realize she was right in all her answers, simply because I’ve now been there.
16 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 3:04:47 PM by I still care (I believe in the universality of freedom -George Bush, asked if he regrets going to war.)
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I’m 26 and work until my supervisors practically shove me into the break room to rest for a bit.
I learned from the best. My dad. :)
17 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 4:12:44 PM by Crazieman (Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
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I used to do that until I realised that none of the ‘work ethic’ generation work that way. Laziness isn’t the sole provenance of the young, regardless of what survey answers say. I personally think the younger generation is more honest about what they truly value.
Personally, I would rather spend more time with family and friends then I would at work. My family is the most important thing in my life after God.
For most of us, work really isn’t that important. It doesn’t define us, because ‘work’ is a nebulous concept. It comes and goes as it pleases.
I’m sure older generations made the connection with work because that’s what work was. You started at the bottom and worked your way up to the top. These days, it won’t work that way anymore. They will dump you when they don’t need you anymore and you have to find another job. This is why it’s unhealthy for us to define who we are by what we do.
18 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 4:25:46 PM by BenKenobi ("we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be")
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Everyone under 40 should be sent to camps and force fed grits and Bob Wills music.
19 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 4:37:13 PM by BigCinBigD (God bless you Texas! And keep you brave and strong,)
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because they are f-ing idiots would be my guess.
20 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 4:53:23 PM by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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The #1 reason we homeschooled our kids was so that they would not follow the herd. It worked! They are individuals.
21 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 6:05:09 PM by cookiedough
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Parasites versus Producers...
22 posted on Sunday, April 04, 2010 6:37:04 PM by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...)
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