Dude, Where's My Job?
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Dude, Where's My Job?
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#2One of the comments was probably better than the actual article:
http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/01/14/dude-where%E2%80%99s-my-j...
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#3One of the comments was probably better than the actual article: http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/01/14/dude-where%E2%80%99s-my-j...
Agreed. There must be something about the gravitational center of my eyeballs that causes them to roll upwards toward the ceiling whenever someone refers to this generation as 'entitled.'
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#4I think the real interesting part of Gen Y is the amount of writing which is being devoted to us. Is Gen Y really that difficult to understand or so unbelievable? Does it deserve all this writing and attempts to dissect it?
What's really interesting to me is how much criticism we're getting for wanting jobs that aren't a repeat of the workforce before us. Imagine if the Internet media was around when the generations shifted to cities and away from rural settings! Farmers crying out about the lost workforce from their children who went to work in the industrial revolution factories. Or maybe the outcry even further back when shepherds' kids decide to settle down and build a farm! Gasp Shock horror. Cats sleeping with dogs in the streets. Anarchy abounds. It is... simply put... the end of the world.
Gag. I'm just so tired of the Gen Y angle and BS that gets written about it.
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#5Being born in 1981, which according to wikipedia is the last year of Gen X, the following year, 1982, being the beginning of Gen Y, I consider myself more of a Gen X'er than a Gen Y'er. That said, just from the point of view of software, it is not fair I don't think to call Gen Y "entitled" because there is a lot more to know about technology than there was even 10 years ago. To keep up, people always need to be learning new things. So Gen Y has a burden unlike any previous generation of just the vast array of knowledge of different programming languages, etc. they need to be able to compete - a vast breadth of knowledge, if not depth. So it is really uncalled for to call Gen Y "entitled" as a whole group. Sure there are "spoiled brats" in every generation, but we cannot make these kinds of generalizations, especially in the technology sector. And even the whole notion of this article displays archaic thinking, regarding the job market, at least in technology. The whole "get a job" thing has been more replaced with "get a gig", i.e., people are more into independent contracting/consulting etc. than before, so Gen Y is not necessarily the same as Gen X in terms of trying to find a long-term employment, at least in technology. It is more a generation of independent consultants that is coming up. This article is wrong from top to bottom, wrong in calling Gen Y "entitled" and wrong to think that the ills of the job market are going to finally be all that damaging to them, since they are more independently minded than their predecessors. A response to this could be: What happens when deprecated purveyors of old technology get hit with web 2.0 and 3.0? The answer is they get replaced. By the same Gen Y they so despise.
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#6Oh yeah, cause I just demand to have balloons and a cheap plaque for my first day on a job.... or, you know, maybe not? My gen is probably unreasonable (few people are in any gen methinks) but "they" clearly just don't get it at all.
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#7My generation is X, they called us lazy because back in the late 80s and early 90s the job market was the worst since... WW2? correct me if I'm wrong.
Crap job market = lazy generation.
And because the Y generation grew up during unprecedented economic growth they are the most entitled generation.
If we could bottle folksy wisdom, we'd have a lot of stupid in bottles.
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#8So sick of crap like this. I'm Gen-X and very much remember being called whiny and entitled. We were neither -- no more than any 20-somethings have ever been.
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#9My generation is X, they called us lazy because back in the late 80s and early 90s the job market was the worst since... WW2? correct me if I'm wrong. Crap job market = lazy generation. And because the Y generation grew up during unprecedented economic growth they are the most entitled generation. If we could bottle folksy wisdom, we'd have a lot of stupid in bottles.
I much prefer bottled alcohol, it helps us forget the stupid things people sometimes say.
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#10One of the comments was probably better than the actual article: http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/01/14/dude-where%E2%80%99s-my-j...
Agreed. There must be something about the gravitational center of my eyeballs that causes them to roll upwards toward the ceiling whenever someone refers to this generation as 'entitled.'
Repeating something that has been said so many times that it has become popular wisdom is an easy way to fill word count.