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I work as a manager in a NYC agency with unionized staff. What I've seen happen in this work setting would make most people blanch–violence toward managers, sleeping at your desk, shaving on the office floor, radios blasting music like it's a car at the beach in the summer (and one employee who has done all of this repeatedly is still on the job). I feel most days that I am not asked to manage my team, but to first civilize them in terms of what is expected in a work place (don't drop peanut shells behind you as you walk around, you are expected to work for your paycheck). Granted, it is better at other city agencies, but it is nearly impossible to make headway when the overall culture is one where workers don't work and managers don't manage.

I hope that my experience is unique (I can't believe this sector, after having worked in the private sector), but I think it may be a topic to discuss–having to bring workers up to a minimun level of workplace civilization. That's a whole other managerial challenge.

Please understand that I'm not writing this out of anger but rather out of a desire to understand these feelings. You're not the first nor the last to express these feelings so I appreciate the fact you're willing to engage in this.

You posted the following about the "new generation":

"They are very sarcastic and I think they believe that they will never endure a hardship, very arrogant and entitled."

The sarcasm I couldn't care less about, but "never endure a hardship", "arrogant" and "entitled" – those are rather provocative phrases to describe an entire generation, don't you think? You're saying that we somehow have it easy, we think we're better than everyone else, and we deserve to be rewarded as such.

Why do you believe this? What is it in your personal experience that supports this, and how does it compare to your own experience when you were of that age?

I have some thoughts on why you believe this, but I'm more interested in what you have to say. Again, I'm not writing this out of anger or to prove a point or win an argument but to understand why I keep seeing this over and over again.

So maybe we can all step away from the "they just want a parent and hate responsibility" or the "they're so entitled!!" comments for once? Maybe the "young folk" are tired of being micromanaged and watching their disabled coworkers being treated like garbage for no reason? Maybe they look to their peers in other nations and wonder why they get regular vacations while remaining just as much if not more productive?

I just don't understand why I see this "generational divide" in the "business" world when I don't see it anywhere else. Why is it that whenever the smallest hint of "immaturity" is mentioned people come crawling out of the woodwork to complain about people younger than themselves? You folks act like you've never been young before or that you've never made mistakes and that the instant someone suggests there is a better way to do things they're "entitled"?

Maybe you guys need a break from the horse videos.

First, this article is about a New York City Agency – the city with Mr. Mike "Nannystate" Bloomberg as mayor. So, these extreme rules do not surprise me. Perhaps, it is someone in that agency that is trying to impress Bloomberg with how "caring" she can be?

Second; while that agency's rules seem extreme, there seems to be a lot of folks who do not know how to get along with others. Therefore, management needs to tell those folks how to behave.

Here's an idea – fire the jerks! But, wait, then those jerks will sue for discrimination.

Nonetheless, putting calorie limits on employee food? Holy micromanagement, Batman.