I Want To Understand Why All These Millennials Are So Lazy, But I Can't Seem To Find The Lazy Ones

[eridani]

[zazen]

1. link? I want to send that to my eldest, who busts her a** every day

working two jobs to stay help pay her way through a top university (oh yeah, and carries a full-time load).

My concern about this NSA generation is that they seem to have no appreciation of privacy as we understand it, but I can hardly blame them for it. They've never had it (and we haven't fought against it enough), so they don't know what they're losing. And they're so busy being tested and competing for crumbs under a burden of student debt that it's hard for them to find the energy to protest--not about privacy violations, anyway.

My kids are working so much harder at their respective ages than I ever did, with the promise of much less. And every year it gets more brutally competitive.

Journalists who write such tripe should be ashamed, but then, they're just holding onto jobs in a profession where 50% of the jobs have been gutted over the past 20 years and new grads can be hired for near minimum wage for preposterous hours and working conditions.

[eridani]

4. Sorry--was focused on the png link

http://www.upworthy.com/i-want-to-understand-why-all-these-millennials-are-so-lazy-but-i-cant-seem-to-find-the-lazy-ones

[msongs]

2. what % of on the job paid time is spent doing personal things like cell phone texting and yakking?

[2naSalit]

3. That probably depends on

where one works. I know some young people who have jobs where they are too busy doing their jobs to be distracted, and I know some who are too busy with their distractions to actually do their jobs. It's kind of 50/50... depends on the place and type of work.

[wickerwoman]

6. As opposed to the 1960s

when people had full service bars in their offices or the 1980s when power napping was all the rage?

Worker productivity increased 80% between 1973 and 2011 while wages have stagnated.

Also, at my last job people made personal calls and socialised during work hours because they worked 12 hour days and weekends. The company tried to cultivate an atmosphere of "this is your home, your life, your social circle" to keep you in the office for as long as humanly possible.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Most annoying thing about Millennials is that the only thing they ever seem to talk about

is "Millennials".

That said, I respect their voting habits.

[pampango]

7. I remember reading about the discovery of a writing from a Roman father 2,000 years ago

who was complaining about how lazy the younger generation was. I know my father thought my baby-boom generation was inherently lazy.

Older folks thinking that millennials are lazy is misguided, but nothing new. My guess is that millennials will think that one day about the next "younger generation".

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

8. I have a fairly lengthy list of complaints about Millennials work habits

But laziness isn't one of them.