When satisfying shareholders over the employees who keep the business alive and only consider employees as an expense that needs to be kept as minimum as possible to avoid cutting the profit for the shareholders no wonder the younger generation of workers is dissatisfied with work. On top of that they grew up in a setting era where they were rewarded for just being present (stars for everyone) and they assume that they will all be working dream jobs with starting salary of 6 figures so there’s no reality. Yes we have jobs with poor management who also have to produce an expected goal pre-set by people in corporate who merely push numbers around. Everyone is their own important self and no one is a team member.

To say that I want to work may not necessarily be true (some days anyway)… but I do want to have the $$ required to provide myself with the basic necessities and some discretionary $$ to have a little fun with.

I think in some cases it can be seen as ‘you get what you pay for.’ If you want to pay as little as possible, it’s quite likely that your employees may either not be as skilled as needed, or they’ll quit as soon as something with better pay comes along.

If a company requires a BA or higher and a minimum of 5 years experience and specialized certifications … they have to be willing to pay what all of that is actually worth.

YES YES YES

That said, I am eagerly awaiting the day that the current crop of super strident self-righteous twenty year olds become problematic to the generation younger than them. As a gen-exer who was quite strident and self righteous in my younger days, I have come to appreciate that what goes around comes around.

60’s and up? Most demographers put us as being born between 1965 and 1980, or there about. So the oldest of us are mid-50’s and most are younger. Lots of our kids our absolutely “newly minted adults.”

This is my favorite thing about my former classmates whining and moaning about “kids these days” and it’s cousin complaint “we were the last generation to play outside/whatever…” – THESE ARE YOUR KIDS. YOU raised them, and YOU raised them this way, so…

But the fashion of the day is to blame GenX for all the world’s ills. Can’t possibly be anybody else’s fault.

There’s a self feeding cycle. Employees don’t give a damn about companies because companies don’t give a damn about them. And companies don’t give a damn about employees because employees don’t give a damn about them. And so everybody goes through life miserable, drifting from job to job, hating every one of them, and companies suffer from lack of a labor pool to choose from.

Most people want to work, as long as they’re not treated like garbage. Many companies have shown no loyalty or respect towards their front-line, yet are astonished when workers return the favor.