You know what really grinds my gears?!

[WRXtranceformed]

Stop being typical millenials and work hard for your glory.

Eat a 9lb dick. Our generation graduated into the great recession and we bust more ass than anyone. We can also spell millennial.

For all the shade you throw about the pussification of America, do you not see the hypocrisy in bitching about "coddle culture" in the same breath you bitch the grocery stores are infringing on your freedoms by suggesting certain spots be reserved for certain people?

Shut the fuck up and waddle your ass 20 more feet. Or be an asshole and park in the spot, it's a sign not a cop.

Oh man! This kid! I love this one too. I'll keep going with option two, as do a lot of people I know who think those signs are for the weak minded

[WRXtranceformed]

Eat a 9lb dick. Our generation graduated into the great recession and we bust more ass than anyone.

In seriousness, there are a lot of hard working Jakes and Joeys out there but we work with over 90% of the Fortune 5 and a lot of them completely disagree. I realize there are articles on both sides of the argument but that is coming from the front lines of talent acquisition. Just something to chew on before you defend your generation :wink:

[D_Eclipse9916]

Stop being typical millenials and work hard for your glory.

Eat a 9lb dick. Our generation graduated into the great recession and we bust more ass than anyone. We can also spell millennial.

You know what really grinds my gears? All the bitching by our generation that "everybody fucked us". (not saying you are saying that, more towards all the protesters etc).

Guess what? No generation has ever had it "easy". History is easy to look at with rose-colored glasses. There is that small "got lucky" crowd in every generation who didn't work that hard and got rewarded spectacularly. However, for the most part, a learned skill, hard determination, perseverance, or just plain long hours is how most get by or become successful.

Surprised that "college" did not get you an "exceptionally" good job? That's because going to college isn't "exceptional" anymore. It really grinds my gears when I hear this generation bitch, and not do anything about it but bitch. The best is when I try to help some of these people and they "won't" do that job for some lame excuse.

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Edit: Lee, just stop.

[SlimKlim]

Oh man! This kid! I love this one too. I'll keep going with option two, as do a lot of people I know who think those signs are for the weak minded

Then park in them and shut the fuck up about it. Take some confidence in your decisions and do what you're gonna do without posting a diatribe to justify it to people on the internet.

You know what really grinds my gears? All the bitching by our generation that "everybody fucked us". (not saying you are saying that, more towards all the protesters etc).

Guess what? No generation has ever had it "easy". History is easy to look at with rose-colored glasses. There is that small "got lucky" crowd in every generation who didn't work that hard and got rewarded spectacularly. However, for the most part, a learned skill, hard determination, perseverance, or just plain long hours is how most get by or become successful.

Surprised that "college" did not get you an "exceptionally" good job? That's because going to college isn't "exceptional" anymore. It really grinds my gears when I hear this generation bitch, and not do anything about it but bitch. The best is when I try to help some of these people and they "won't" do that job for some lame excuse.

Yeah I have no sense of entitlement, in fact I'm very appreciative of the opportunities I've been given. I'd be so much further behind where I am now if I had graduated with $50k+ in school debt like a lot of people or I hadn't been able to get a job right out of school.

[Mike]

lee, we have/had it way easier than these "pussies" who graduated a few years after us. when i graduated, a job was pretty much automatic. not even close anymore.

[SlimKlim]

Eat a 9lb dick. Our generation graduated into the great recession and we bust more ass than anyone.

In seriousness, there are a lot of hard working Jakes and Joeys out there but we work with over 90% of the Fortune 5 and a lot of them completely disagree. I realize there are articles on both sides of the argument but that is coming from the front lines of talent acquisition. Just something to chew on before you defend your generation :wink:

In my experience, people in charge of Fortune 500 talent acquisition can barely open an email so that doesn't carry a whole lot of weight to me.

By the way you know I work for #130 on that list right?

[D_Eclipse9916]

Walmart tops the Fortune 500, and even though corporate is different, still not a company I would want to be associated with.

Working with or for a Fortune 500 company is NOT something I would be bragging about.

But I work "for the man", and don't mind doing so as long as work/life balance is good.

[SlimKlim]

Working with or for a Fortune 500 company is NOT something I would be bragging about.

Kind of my point. If some sniveling entitled asshole millennial can park himself on that list it's really not much to write home about. Not sure what authority "working with 90% of them" gives you to make assessments on the value of an entire generation.

[WRXtranceformed]

However, for the most part, a learned skill, hard determination, perseverance, or just plain long hours is how most get by or become successful.

Surprised that "college" did not get you an "exceptionally" good job? That's because going to college isn't "exceptional" anymore. It really grinds my gears when I hear this generation bitch, and not do anything about it but bitch. The best is when I try to help some of these people and they "won't" do that job for some lame excuse.

Agree and agree

Mikey, I can't speak to the rest of our generation but I know I had my first job out of college secured because I worked my butt off in high school and college to network and work at the ground level in the real estate business. When all of my other friends were going off to Mexico on spring breaks or being lazy and getting hammered at the local bars all day during Christmas breaks I was putting hours in at home, selling houses, learning that business and making myself an asset to the sales managers. I had a pick of companies I could work for as soon as I graduated not necessarily because the job market was easier but because I did what it took to make a name for myself despite a fairly limited level of experience. One thing that has been a generational constant, a lot in life is about who you know. Which can be fortunate or unfortunate depending on your ability to network and how hard you are willing to push yourself.

[SlimKlim]

Mikey, I can't speak to the rest of our generation but I know I had my first job out of college secured because I worked my butt off in high school and college to network and work at the ground level in the real estate business. When all of my other friends were going off to Mexico on spring breaks or being lazy and getting hammered at the local bars all day during Christmas breaks I was putting hours in at home, selling houses, learning that business and making myself an asset to the sales managers. I had a pick of companies I could work for as soon as I graduated not necessarily because the job market was easier but because I did what it took to make a name for myself despite a fairly limited level of experience. One thing that has been a generational constant, a lot in life is about who you know. Which can be fortunate or unfortunate depending on your ability to network and how hard you are willing to push yourself.

Wooooooooow, you studied hard and didn't go on spring breaks so you could work? I take back what I said man, you really had to pull yourself up by your boot straps. I never had to do anything that grueling. :roll:

[WRXtranceformed]

Not sure what authority "working with 90% of them" gives you to make assessments on the value of an entire generation.

I think the point you missed there was not to make a note about the Fortune 5 in particular but to say that I hear about the same struggles day in and out from companies of every conceivable size and industry. I just ran a training class for our VBU (small business sales) and they made some of the same comments coming from their clients. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but that is what the people who put people like you in seats believe.

[WRXtranceformed]

Mikey, I can't speak to the rest of our generation but I know I had my first job out of college secured because I worked my butt off in high school and college to network and work at the ground level in the real estate business. When all of my other friends were going off to Mexico on spring breaks or being lazy and getting hammered at the local bars all day during Christmas breaks I was putting hours in at home, selling houses, learning that business and making myself an asset to the sales managers. I had a pick of companies I could work for as soon as I graduated not necessarily because the job market was easier but because I did what it took to make a name for myself despite a fairly limited level of experience. One thing that has been a generational constant, a lot in life is about who you know. Which can be fortunate or unfortunate depending on your ability to network and how hard you are willing to push yourself.

Wooooooooow, you studied hard and didn't go on spring breaks so you could work? I take back what I said man, you really had to pull yourself up by your boot straps. I never had to do anything that grueling. :roll:

Your troll is starting to falter young man. I also worked my first year and a half in construction building homes before I went into sales, so that I could learn how to sell them better. I froze, sweated, bled a lot, got screamed at and probably lost 5-6 years off of the end of my life but I would do it again if I knew then where I would be now :wink:

[Mike]

I mean, yeah, I had it hard. When I was 18 my Dad gave me a 1-million dollar loan and he said don't buy in Manhattan and you know what I did? I bought it Manhattan.

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[SlimKlim]

Your troll is starting to falter young man. I also worked my first year and a half in construction building homes before I went into sales, so that I could learn how to sell them better. I froze, sweated, bled a lot, got screamed at and probably lost 5-6 years off of the end of my life but I would do it again if I knew then where I would be now :wink:

Oh boy and one of them was physically demanding too? Can we just give this guy his social security check now? He's already put in a whole lifetime of work.

Sorry man I just didn't realize that was something to brag about. I've gotten to where I am because I started working at 14. I had a half-dozen jobs before I got my first "real job" and I busted my ass at every single one whether it was sweating my ass off at car dealerships all summer or sitting behind a desk. Ask Ken, I never did spring break or anything like that in school because I had to go home and put in as many hours at work as I could.

[WRXtranceformed]

I mean, yeah, I had it hard. When I was 18 my Dad gave me a 1-million dollar loan and he said don't buy in Manhattan and you know what I did? I bought it Manhattan.

I read this article a while back, that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretary's that any other company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this picture, of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrari. Blew my mind. you see shit like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think its possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's just more of it. The $87 Million lottery winner, that kid actor that just made 20 million on his last movie, that internet stock that shot through the roof, you could have made millions if you had just gotten in early, and that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I didn't want to be an innovator any more, i just wanted to make the quick and easy buck, i just wanted in. The Notorious BIG said it best: "Either you're slingin' crack-rock, or you've got a wicked jump-shot." Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging crack-rock: I became a stock broker.

[WRXtranceformed]

Your troll is starting to falter young man. I also worked my first year and a half in construction building homes before I went into sales, so that I could learn how to sell them better. I froze, sweated, bled a lot, got screamed at and probably lost 5-6 years off of the end of my life but I would do it again if I knew then where I would be now :wink:

Oh boy and one of them was physically demanding too? Can we just give this guy his social security check now? He's already put in a whole lifetime of work.

Sorry man I just didn't realize that was something to brag about. I've gotten to where I am because I started working at 14. I had a half-dozen jobs before I got my first "real job" and I busted my ass at every single one whether it was sweating my ass off at car dealerships all summer or sitting behind a desk. Ask Ken, I never did spring break or anything like that in school because I had to go home and put in as many hours at work as I could.

I mean congrats? Was there a time when I made you feel inadequate or something? I respect that about people willing to do it. Of course you should be proud about your work ethic, it's what is hopefully going to make you successful.

I thought I made it pretty clear when I singled out you and Jake from the rest of your knuckle dragging generation
(ps, that last part was a troll, just to get out ahead of DJ's warning post)

[SlimKlim]

Was there a time when I made you feel inadequate or something?

No, you just seem terribly defensive and proud of what I would call a fairly normal college experience.

[WRXtranceformed]

Was there a time when I made you feel inadequate or something?

No, you just seem terribly defensive and proud of what I would call a fairly normal college experience.

Whether that is normal or not could be up for debate but what I am proud of (and what you should be) is being willing to do things that other people aren't to set yourself apart and be successful. Man I'm starting to feel like a life coach right now.