I am an older person with some strong old fashioned ethics. But do not conclude that I am out of the loop. I am fairly good with computers and I check out the latest trends. And there a old fashioned ethics that worth knowing and living to. Shunning these ethics is not productive for yourself and society. And what are these ethics that I am talking about? Hard work, manners, and being self reliant are the three standards that I think are being ignored by the latest generation to enter the work world.
A few months ago I read an article that kids are taking their parents with them to job interviews. If I was an employer I would never hire a person that brought their mom or dad to a job interview. I would want a one on one conversation with the person that I might hire. And since I am not hiring their mom or dad, they shouldn't be there. It tells m that this person can't handle situations on their own. If I had a large corporation to run with a major presentation to be delivered by the millennial , do I tell then to make sure that the bring their mom with, because we can't miss this opportunity?
Manners seams to be dying away at a quicker pace. Because of the limited social interactions that this new generation has due to cellphones and twitter, millennials are social stunted. At work for me, the younger employees barely say anything at break and lunch time. they just sit and stare at their smart phone. And their posts are so grammatically challenged , you would think that a 5th grader wrote them. The art of conversation has vanished, being replaced with "loll's" and "ROFL's". With such limited mentality, these people don't know social graces like please and thank yous. opening the door for someone is now mostly done by the older people only. There are some exceptions, but there aren't many.
I was told at work that the 'rules' have changed. That we have to be nicer and more sensitive towards the younger generation. They can't handle the negativity that we are accustomed to. I am so against this principal. Now the younger people that have little or no work ethic have been given ore control over the work environment. Worse yet , we can't tell them to get to work. So people like myself that have worked a certain job for over 10 years have to bend over backwards to accommodate the younger less experienced person. They can actually start dictating how the work area will run because they can now run to a manager and say that someone like me was 'mean'.
And this new generation doesn't have a work ethic to save their life. Recently I have a 20 year old kid last one day working with me, and I did a majority of the work. Many 25 and younger kids haven't lasted more than a month at my work. How can you say that you gave a job an honest attempt if you only went to work twice? And these kids are our future leaders? well I feel a great deal of doom over head. Many kids were handed everything they wanted without having to earn it. So they have become dependent on the others giving in to them. These young adults get upset when they are cut off from their parents bank account. Work is something they just can't handle. They want the paycheck but not the work it takes to earn it. There are many that believe that they should be managers when they can't do the work of an entry level employee.
So why call these young adults with little to offer society the Maynard Generation instead of the millennium Generation? Because there is a TV character that these people act like. And not the Tow truck named Maynard from Cars. Because that character was 'Get R Done" , and that would require an effort. In the early 1960's there was a program called "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" or just "Dobie Gillis". Well Dobie was a high school student and he had his best buddy... Maynard G. Krebbs. Maynard was a Slacker that was afraid of work. Every time he heard the word work he would freak out. Maynard lacked social skills, manners, and a work ethic, much like this new generation does today. He is the clip from YouTube the shows you what I mean..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzpQPDSr2s
This is the first generation that has failed to show potential and desire to make this country a better place. This generation will be in and out of the work environment faster that many of us older workers and we will have to support their failures. This why we must improve our schools, schools have declined in putting out quality people. This must change our we will become the least modern industrial nation on the planet.
