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thebergeronprocess: gingerslice: betterbemeta: writeswrongs: headmeetsdesk: freshgirljade: catfacemeowmers: motherjones: kateoplis: “Here are some broad descriptions about the generation known as Millennials: They’re narcissistic. They’re lazy. They’re coddled. They’re even a bit delusional. Those aren’t just unfounded negative stereotypes about 80 million Americans born roughly between 1980 and 2000. They’re backed up by a decade of sociological research. The National Institutes of Health found that for people in their 20s, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is three times as high than the generation that’s 65 or older. In 1992, 80 percent of people under 23 wanted to one day have a job with greater responsibility; ten years later, 60 percent did. Millennials received so many participation trophies growing up that 40 percent of them think they should be promoted every two years – regardless of performance. They’re so hopeful about the future you might think they hadn’t heard of something called the Great Recession.” The Me Generation Well, they’re right about the “save us all” part, anyway. Okay, like…what total fucking assholes.  Actually we HAVE heard of the Great Recession!  In fact, that’s WHY we live with our parents!  And I don’t actually know ANYONE in that age bracket who is optimistic about the future.  And I’m not sure how wanting a job with greater responsibility makes you narcissistic.  My last job was as a barista.  You’re telling me I shouldn’t want a job with greater responsibility than making coffee and being nice to people when they were mean?  And none of the people I have ever worked with EXPECTED to get promoted regardless of performance.  They either didn’t care about being promoted, or they expected to get promoted by working hard to show that they were more competent than everyone else. Go fuck yourself, Time. P.S.  Want millenials to stop thinking about themselves so much?  Then maybe you should make Syria or Bangladesh the cover story instead of whining about how your kids are annoying. ^^^^ this “Expect to get promoted regardless of performance?” No, motherfucker, we don’t expect to see promotion or advancement no matter how goddamn hard we work, because there’s NOWHERE UP TO GO. We live in a world of wage and hiring freezes, without cost of living adjustments in the face of rising costs, of dead end jobs, where entry level demands a bachelors, and that bachelors sinks you so far in a hole you’re going to be paying for it for years, so you better not rock the boat or get fired. Fuck Time. Print media must love watching itself die. Rich white people raise their rich white kids to be whiny and entitled, then complain that *all* young people are like that even though it’s mostly rich white kids. Yay you assholes, yay. Step 1: Basically leave a gigantic mess for your kids to clean up. Unapologetically make it worse every day. Step 2: Watch as your kids get disillusioned with the future and retreat to their own social circles where they feel they matter. Step 3: Demonize them for not wanting to pick up your bullshit all the time. Do nothing to pick up your own bullshit. Ignore Syria. Focus on your kids not doing what you want them to do. Step 4: Continue defunding your kids. All of them. Complain they’re self-centered when they have a hard time seeing a world with them in it. Step 5: Die. Die and leave us all alone with the mess you made.  Step 6: Leave us to repeat your mistakes, because somehow the anti-war movement free love/peace youth evolved into the current baby boomer generation. How the fuck did that happen. Don’t leave behind any instruction on how to not do that again. Above: Meta killing it as usual… Different branch of the comment tree on the same subject, so bear with me, but the six-step thing OMG YES TRUTH.
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