AOTD: My latest victory? I didn't punch an employee in the mouth this morning. Oh, self-entitled little contract attorney with 3 months experience, why do you task me so with your arrogance? If only I had authority to fire you.
In this case I think it is age. I am not that old, but I have noticed a certain sense of entitlement, across the board, from almost every attorney and staff person we've hired that is under the age of 32 years old.
I love the good old days when we were all huddled masses of fear, anticipating the firings and screaming and smiting. [sighs] That's still how I operate, but I'm a little neurotic. [coughs]
Thankfully most (not all) of the attorneys I work with aren't arrogant; it is one of the reasons I moved firms.
This is an interesting anecdote. I don't know if the observations are independent or are part of a larger bias, or both, but the implications are that:
1. Gen-Y -- the Millenials -- are a slightly spoiled bunch.
2. The older generations are simpling doing what they must do -- age -- and are taking out their own frustrations on younger, less serious people in light of the disproportionate hardships they face, particularly with their retirement finances.
I don't know who else here follows generational theory as offered by Stauss and Howe, but really, I feel for Gen-Y. Their last counterparts were the infantrymen of WW I, the most unemployed people in the country during the Depression and were the workhorses of WW II. Many of them died or were disabled in those wars.
I hate to think those kinds of challenges and their costs will be thrust upon our Gen-Y, so I try to remember to cut them some slack when I realize history can repeat itself for them.
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I love the good old days when we were all huddled masses of fear, anticipating the firings and screaming and smiting. [sighs] That's still how I operate, but I'm a little neurotic. [coughs]
Thankfully most (not all) of the attorneys I work with aren't arrogant; it is one of the reasons I moved firms.
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1. Gen-Y -- the Millenials -- are a slightly spoiled bunch.
2. The older generations are simpling doing what they must do -- age -- and are taking out their own frustrations on younger, less serious people in light of the disproportionate hardships they face, particularly with their retirement finances.
I don't know who else here follows generational theory as offered by Stauss and Howe, but really, I feel for Gen-Y. Their last counterparts were the infantrymen of WW I, the most unemployed people in the country during the Depression and were the workhorses of WW II. Many of them died or were disabled in those wars.
I hate to think those kinds of challenges and their costs will be thrust upon our Gen-Y, so I try to remember to cut them some slack when I realize history can repeat itself for them.
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