Millennials - why so incompetent?

[GreatNews2night]

What's wrong with Millennials?
Just too entitled, lazy, weak, and spoiled?

A few weeks ago I saw an article saying that the highest rating ever, in America, of people defaulting on rent payments for their housing units, is from the Millennials. Sorry, I don't have the link, right now. If you can't believe me without a link, so be it, I don't care (Millennials love links - I like to counter this by saying: "Do you have a link to a video of your mother delivering you? No? Ok, so, you don't exist; you're a figment of someone's imagination; according to your generation, no link, doesn't exist."

Generalizations are dangerous. It's not all of them. For example, my son, who is a Millennial, is anything but lazy.

He is a Yale Law School graduate (the #1 Law School in the USA according to USN&WR for 25 years in a row) who made $390,000 in his first year out of school, and paid off his student loans in full in that first year.

So, it's not all Millennials. My son was raised with values such as work ethics, hard work, focus, and steadiness in the pursuit of his goals.

However, most of his buddies from college (I know them very well since I attended every single football home game featuring his school during his entire college career so I met and befriended all his closest classmates) didn't get to similar success. A lot of them spent more time smoking pot and playing videogames than focusing on their education and career goals.

And this is the generation that worships pipe-dreamers like AOC and Bernie Sanders. God save us!

 

[Grokmaster]

Educated by overwhelmingly democrat teachers, for starters.

 

[GreatNews2night]

Educated by overwhelmingly democrat teachers, for starters.

The teachers haven't changed that much, generation to generation.
So, what makes this particular generation so much weaker than the one ahead of them (Generation X), and the one behind them (Generation Z)?
I have the impression that Millennials (a.k.a. Generation Y) are the worst.

There's gotta be some other factor rather than who their professors were, since professors tend to last much longer than their generations of students.

 

[CMPancake]

Millennials are picking up from the easily the worst, and laziest generation in the Baby Boomers who expect us to work more hours for less pay while jacking up the prices for healthcare, housing, and education.

 

[The Mark]

What's wrong with Millennials?
Just too entitled, lazy, weak, and spoiled?

A few weeks ago I saw an article saying that the highest rating ever, in America, of people defaulting on rent payments for their housing units, is from the Millennials. Sorry, I don't have the link, right now. If you can't believe me without a link, so be it, I don't care (Millennials love links - I like to counter this by saying: "Do you have a link to a video of your mother delivering you? No? Ok, so, you don't exist; you're a figment of someone's imagination; according to your generation, no link, doesn't exist."

Generalizations are dangerous. It's not all of them. For example, my son, who is a Millennial, is anything but lazy.

He is a Yale Law School graduate (the #1 Law School in the USA according to USNWR for 25 years in a row) who made $390,000 in his first year out of school, and paid off his student loans in full in that first year.

So, it's not all Millennials. My son was raised with values such as work ethics, hard work, focus, and steadiness in the pursuit of his goals.

However, most of his buddies from college (I know them very well since I attended every single football home game featuring his school during his entire college career so I met and befriended all his closest classmates) didn't get to similar success. A lot of them spent more time smoking pot and playing videogames than focusing on their education and career goals.

And this is the generation that worships pipe-dreamers like AOC and Bernie Sanders. God save us!

Costs increased and wages haven't kept up with them.

 

[JMR]

What's wrong with Millennials?
Just too entitled, lazy, weak, and spoiled?

A few weeks ago I saw an article saying that the highest rating ever, in America, of people defaulting on rent payments for their housing units, is from the Millennials. Sorry, I don't have the link, right now. If you can't believe me without a link, so be it, I don't care (Millennials love links - I like to counter this by saying: "Do you have a link to a video of your mother delivering you? No? Ok, so, you don't exist; you're a figment of someone's imagination; according to your generation, no link, doesn't exist."

Generalizations are dangerous. It's not all of them. For example, my son, who is a Millennial, is anything but lazy.

He is a Yale Law School graduate (the #1 Law School in the USA according to USNWR for 25 years in a row) who made $390,000 in his first year out of school, and paid off his student loans in full in that first year.

So, it's not all Millennials. My son was raised with values such as work ethics, hard work, focus, and steadiness in the pursuit of his goals.

However, most of his buddies from college (I know them very well since I attended every single football home game featuring his school during his entire college career so I met and befriended all his closest classmates) didn't get to similar success. A lot of them spent more time smoking pot and playing videogames than focusing on their education and career goals.

And this is the generation that worships pipe-dreamers like AOC and Bernie Sanders. God save us!

There are more than 75 MILLION Millennials in the US. I am sure you did not see all of them in football games at your outstanding child's college.

This post is reminiscent of "what is wrong with the boomers?" or why do old people suck. Really, have you investigated the level of college loan debt, or the increasing rates of housing costs, or the decreasing rates of salary increase across the board.

I am truly wondering if you posted this as a joke?

 

[Abbazorkzog]

Inb4flush

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Helicopter parenting, participation awards, the belief that everything they do is "special", even their boogers, catering to every last whim or desire that they have, continual laser focus on social media...

You have to let kids get dirty, you have to let them screw up and make mistakes, and fail, you have to let them know that sometimes they're NOT special and not even average, and you have to say "NO" to some of the crap they ask for.

But as far as things like the record default rates on apartment rents, be sure to take the following into account:

A generation ago, rent was generally expected to be approximately a week's wages, maybe a little more, and even if you were only working a crappy minimum wage job, you could probably find a place to live. At that rate, it was bound to be lousy, tiny, a bit uncomfortable, short on accommodations and maybe not in the best neighborhood but it was doable.
It was doable enough that you could set aside enough time and money to better yourself and your situation with a little bit of patience and some thrift, but you could manage the basics.

Today, in most major areas, even the tiniest and crummiest place can easily chew up two or even three weeks of earnings unless you hit the jackpot and found a high earning job right from the get go. Otherwise, your McJob isn't going to cover the rent unless you're cutting out almost everything else, or you take in a roomie, and we know that roomies in a cramped little pad almost never work out well.

That doesn't excuse everything or even everyone but that thing that I call "the despair quotient" does play a fair sized role.
I am very surprised that tiny apartments have not made a comeback.
The bachelor pad I paid $110 a month for in Minneapolis in the 1970's couldn't have been more than 120 square feet tops.
It was one tiny room, the sink-mini-fridge-2 burner stove combo was set into the wall and there was a tiny bathroom and a tiny closet. I had a twin size bed because a queen size mattress would have made it very cramped indeed.

The despair quotient...the rent is too damn high. Lower the despair quotient and a lot of these other issues will slowly and surely begin to take care of themselves, at least to some recognizable extent.

 

[GreatNews2night]

There are more than 75 MILLION Millennials in the US. I am sure you did not see all of them in football games at your outstanding child's college.

This post is reminiscent of "what is wrong with the boomers?" or why do old people suck. Really, have you investigated the level of college loan debt, or the increasing rates of housing costs, or the decreasing rates of salary increase across the board.

I am truly wondering if you posted this as a joke?

Yep, last I checked, 71 million Millennials. Thankfully, I don't know all of them, LOL. They are very annoying. The many that I do know are quite insufferable, so, if I were unlucky enough to know all 71 million of them, oh boy, that would have been unbearable!

Yeah, yeah, student loan debt. My son came out of it with $150,000 of debt (could have been more, but he did get merit scholarships). It didn't paralyze him at all. He got to work, and like I said, paid it off in less than one year.

Sure, times are difficult...

But times were even MORE difficult for other generations, that faced the Great Depression, World Wars...

Still, it's the Millennials who defaulted most, all US generations considered.

Interesting, no?

I mean, it's hard to get to work, earn money, and pay your rent, if you're very preoccupied with your bong and your videogame controller.

 

[GreatNews2night]

Helicopter parenting, participation awards, the belief that everything they do is "special", even their boogers, catering to every last whim or desire that they have, continual laser focus on social media...

You have to let kids get dirty, you have to let them screw up and make mistakes, and fail, you have to let them know that sometimes they're NOT special and not even average, and you have to say "NO" to some of the crap they ask for.

But as far as things like the record default rates on apartment rents, be sure to take the following into account:

A generation ago, rent was generally expected to be approximately a week's wages, maybe a little more, and even if you were only working a crappy minimum wage job, you could probably find a place to live. At that rate, it was bound to be lousy, tiny, a bit uncomfortable, short on accommodations and maybe not in the best neighborhood but it was doable.
It was doable enough that you could set aside enough time and money to better yourself and your situation with a little bit of patience and some thrift, but you could manage the basics.

Today, in most major areas, even the tiniest and crummiest place can easily chew up two or even three weeks of earnings unless you hit the jackpot and found a high earning job right from the get go. Otherwise, your McJob isn't going to cover the rent unless you're cutting out almost everything else, or you take in a roomie, and we know that roomies in a cramped little pad almost never work out well.

That doesn't excuse everything or even everyone but that thing that I call "the despair quotient" does play a fair sized role.
I am very surprised that tiny apartments have not made a comeback.
The bachelor pad I paid $110 a month for in Minneapolis in the 1970's couldn't have been more than 120 square feet tops.
It was one tiny room, the sink-mini-fridge-2 burner stove combo was set into the wall and there was a tiny bathroom and a tiny closet. I had a twin size bed because a queen size mattress would have made it very cramped indeed.

The despair quotient...the rent is too damn high. Lower the despair quotient and a lot of these other issues will slowly and surely begin to take care of themselves, at least to some recognizable extent.

Good post. But I don't want this topic to get down to a question of affordability of rent. It was but one example I quoted. To me, it does seem like this generation is particularly spoiled and poorly prepared to take on adult responsibilities. It's not just the rent. It's basically everything else.

For example, managers have repeatedly said that their Millennial employees are unusually difficult and unproductive.

 

[calamity]

What's wrong with Millennials?
Just too entitled, lazy, weak, and spoiled?

A few weeks ago I saw an article saying that the highest rating ever, in America, of people defaulting on rent payments for their housing units, is from the Millennials. Sorry, I don't have the link, right now. If you can't believe me without a link, so be it, I don't care (Millennials love links - I like to counter this by saying: "Do you have a link to a video of your mother delivering you? No? Ok, so, you don't exist; you're a figment of someone's imagination; according to your generation, no link, doesn't exist."

Generalizations are dangerous. It's not all of them. For example, my son, who is a Millennial, is anything but lazy.

He is a Yale Law School graduate (the #1 Law School in the USA according to USN&WR for 25 years in a row) who made $390,000 in his first year out of school, and paid off his student loans in full in that first year.

So, it's not all Millennials. My son was raised with values such as work ethics, hard work, focus, and steadiness in the pursuit of his goals.

However, most of his buddies from college (I know them very well since I attended every single football home game featuring his school during his entire college career so I met and befriended all his closest classmates) didn't get to similar success. A lot of them spent more time smoking pot and playing videogames than focusing on their education and career goals.

And this is the generation that worships pipe-dreamers like AOC and Bernie Sanders. God save us!

I have several millennials working for me. They are a bit quirky, and coddling is definitely a requirement. But, when it comes to writing complex code and understanding controls interface, they are irreplaceable. So, we coddle and put up with quirky.

 

[JasperL]

Educated by overwhelmingly democrat [sic] teachers, for starters.

They probably taught grammar!

 

[GreatNews2night]

I have several millennials working for me. They are a bit quirky, and coddling is definitely a requirement. But, when it comes to writing complex code and understanding controls interface, they are irreplaceable. So, we coddle and put up with quirky.

Well, that's a niche. Information Technology is certainly a strong point for Millennials.
But, everything else?

 

[GreatNews2night]

Millennials are picking up from the easily the worst, and laziest generation in the Baby Boomers who expect us to work more hours for less pay while jacking up the prices for healthcare, housing, and education.

Oh, poor thing! I'm *so* sorry for you! (NOT!)

 

[GreatNews2night]

Inb4flush

Whatever.

 

[JMR]

Yep, last I checked, 71 million Millennials. Thankfully, I don't know all of them, LOL. They are very annoying. The many that I do know are quite insufferable, so, if I were unlucky enough to know all 71 million of them, oh boy, that would have been unbearable!

Yeah, yeah, student loan debt. My son came out of it with $150,000 of debt (could have been more, but he did get merit scholarships). It didn't paralyze him at all. He got to work, and like I said, paid it off in less than one year.

Sure, times are difficult...

But times were even MORE difficult for other generations, that faced the Great Depression, World Wars...

Still, it's the Millennials who defaulted most, all US generations considered.

Interesting, no?

I mean, it's hard to get to work, earn money, and pay your rent, if you're very preoccupied with your bong and your videogame controller.

Spending time casting an entire generation as useless dredge, (except for your own offspring of course) seems a sad use. I certainly will waste no more of mine discussing it.
Have a great day. Remember, the Millennials will decide the next election.

 

[rjay]

What's wrong with Millennials?
Just too entitled, lazy, weak, and spoiled?

A few weeks ago I saw an article saying that the highest rating ever, in America, of people defaulting on rent payments for their housing units, is from the Millennials. Sorry, I don't have the link, right now. If you can't believe me without a link, so be it, I don't care (Millennials love links - I like to counter this by saying: "Do you have a link to a video of your mother delivering you? No? Ok, so, you don't exist; you're a figment of someone's imagination; according to your generation, no link, doesn't exist."

Generalizations are dangerous. It's not all of them. For example, my son, who is a Millennial, is anything but lazy.

He is a Yale Law School graduate (the #1 Law School in the USA according to USN&WR for 25 years in a row) who made $390,000 in his first year out of school, and paid off his student loans in full in that first year.

So, it's not all Millennials. My son was raised with values such as work ethics, hard work, focus, and steadiness in the pursuit of his goals.

However, most of his buddies from college (I know them very well since I attended every single football home game featuring his school during his entire college career so I met and befriended all his closest classmates) didn't get to similar success. A lot of them spent more time smoking pot and playing videogames than focusing on their education and career goals.

And this is the generation that worships pipe-dreamers like AOC and Bernie Sanders. God save us!

Twenty years from now this generation of millennials will be lamenting the work ethic of the new generation that is up and coming. Just like your father worried about your generation.

 

[GreatNews2night]

Spending time casting an entire generation as useless dredge, (except for your own offspring of course) seems a sad use. I certainly will waste no more of mine discussing it.
Have a great day. Remember, the Millennials will decide the next election.

The Millennials are notorious for sitting out. They like to go to Bernie Sanders' rallies as an event to dance and party and smoke pot and hit on attractive others, but when it's time to go vote, they can't spare any time away from their videogames.

Except for my own offspring = I'm certainly happy that my son is an exception to his lazy and spoiled generation. But most Millennials? Pffttt...

 

[GreatNews2night]

Twenty years from now this generation of millennials will be lamenting the work ethic of the new generation that is up and coming. Just like your father worried about your generation.

No, there are objective pieces of data showing that Generation X and Generation Z do better than Generation Y (Millennials). So, it's not what you said.

 

[PLizzy]

What's wrong with Millennials?
Just too entitled, lazy, weak, and spoiled?

A few weeks ago I saw an article saying that the highest rating ever, in America, of people defaulting on rent payments for their housing units, is from the Millennials. Sorry, I don't have the link, right now. If you can't believe me without a link, so be it, I don't care (Millennials love links - I like to counter this by saying: "Do you have a link to a video of your mother delivering you? No? Ok, so, you don't exist; you're a figment of someone's imagination; according to your generation, no link, doesn't exist."

Generalizations are dangerous. It's not all of them. For example, my son, who is a Millennial, is anything but lazy.

He is a Yale Law School graduate (the #1 Law School in the USA according to USN&WR for 25 years in a row) who made $390,000 in his first year out of school, and paid off his student loans in full in that first year.

So, it's not all Millennials. My son was raised with values such as work ethics, hard work, focus, and steadiness in the pursuit of his goals.

However, most of his buddies from college (I know them very well since I attended every single football home game featuring his school during his entire college career so I met and befriended all his closest classmates) didn't get to similar success. A lot of them spent more time smoking pot and playing videogames than focusing on their education and career goals.

And this is the generation that worships pipe-dreamers like AOC and Bernie Sanders. God save us!

What a load of moral grandstanding.

You're doing to my generation what your parents did to yours. You're doing the "god damn it, when I was your age!" that several generations of middle aged people that hate getting older have said about the upcoming younger generation of people.

In the 60's middle aged people complained that young people were lazy, spoiled, had it too easy, and were snowflakes. Then it was said of young people in the 70's, the 80's, and now the 90's and 2000's, and that's why this is really old hat and worn out.

I know, I know, it's true when you guys say it. :roll:

 

[PLizzy]

No, there are objective data showing that Generation X and Generation Z do better than Generation Y (Millennials). So, it's not what you said.

Literally everything you said about my generation was said about the MTV generation you grew up in.

 

[gulfman]

I thought most millennials still lived in their parents basement

 

[Xelor]

What's wrong with Millennials?
Just too entitled, lazy, weak, and spoiled?

A few weeks ago I saw an article saying that the highest rating ever, in America, of people defaulting on rent payments for their housing units, is from the Millennials. Sorry, I don't have the link, right now. If you can't believe me without a link, so be it, I don't care (Millennials love links - I like to counter this by saying: "Do you have a link to a video of your mother delivering you? No? Ok, so, you don't exist; you're a figment of someone's imagination; according to your generation, no link, doesn't exist."

Generalizations are dangerous. It's not all of them. For example, my son, who is a Millennial, is anything but lazy.

He is a Yale Law School graduate (the #1 Law School in the USA according to USN&WR for 25 years in a row) who made $390,000 in his first year out of school, and paid off his student loans in full in that first year.

So, it's not all Millennials. My son was raised with values such as work ethics, hard work, focus, and steadiness in the pursuit of his goals.

However, most of his buddies from college (I know them very well since I attended every single football home game featuring his school during his entire college career so I met and befriended all his closest classmates) didn't get to similar success. A lot of them spent more time smoking pot and playing videogames than focusing on their education and career goals.

And this is the generation that worships pipe-dreamers like AOC and Bernie Sanders. God save us!

Red:
There's nothing wrong with some of them, and there are various things wrong with some of them.

 

[Geoist]

What's wrong with Millennials?
Just too entitled, lazy, weak, and spoiled?

A few weeks ago I saw an article saying that the highest rating ever, in America, of people defaulting on rent payments for their housing units, is from the Millennials. Sorry, I don't have the link, right now. If you can't believe me without a link, so be it, I don't care (Millennials love links - I like to counter this by saying: "Do you have a link to a video of your mother delivering you? No? Ok, so, you don't exist; you're a figment of someone's imagination; according to your generation, no link, doesn't exist."

Generalizations are dangerous. It's not all of them. For example, my son, who is a Millennial, is anything but lazy.

He is a Yale Law School graduate (the #1 Law School in the USA according to USN&WR for 25 years in a row) who made $390,000 in his first year out of school, and paid off his student loans in full in that first year.

So, it's not all Millennials. My son was raised with values such as work ethics, hard work, focus, and steadiness in the pursuit of his goals.

However, most of his buddies from college (I know them very well since I attended every single football home game featuring his school during his entire college career so I met and befriended all his closest classmates) didn't get to similar success. A lot of them spent more time smoking pot and playing videogames than focusing on their education and career goals.

And this is the generation that worships pipe-dreamers like AOC and Bernie Sanders. God save us!

Every generation is 'the worst.' You think they had good things to say about Gen Xers? Btw, I know many Boomers and Xers who are narcissistic, coddled, and think they are something special. I also know many Millennials who work hard and don't expect special treatment. Aren't anecdotes fun?

 

[Geoist]

The Millennials are notorious for sitting out. They like to go to Bernie Sanders' rallies as an event to dance and party and smoke pot and hit on attractive others, but when it's time to go vote, they can't spare any time away from their videogames.

Except for my own offspring = I'm certainly happy that my son is an exception to his lazy and spoiled generation. But most Millennials? Pffttt...

Oh yes, every Millennial sucks except for YOUR special kids. Are you serious?