Why are so many millennials lazy and entitled?

[Valentina327]

I'm technically a millennial, on the older end. I think we are just looking for a different kind of work environment. More flexibility, better work/life balance. But some are just lazy.

That is what every working person has desired since the first caveman had to go out hunting for Wildebeasts Are Us. It's no excuse to act like a buffoon at work. If you commit to taking a job, you do it until you find something better. You don't nap at your desk because you're not used to being up before 11am. LOL

[Anonymous 8]

What age group is generation x? I'm an older millennial and from my experience I feel like you just described generation x

Says the lady that stays with a man she absolutely hates to avoid working a real job.

Bazinga!

[Valentina327]

First, millennials are the generation born from 81 to 96. The youngest millennials are late 23, so your 22 year old co-worker is not a millennial. Second, statistics show that millennials are actually harder working that previous generations. Why are you spending so much time worrying about what your co-workers are doing instead of focusing on your job?

It sounds like she has to train these new hires, so if they aren't asking questions or picking up on things that may negatively reflect on her.

[Linda_Runs]

Learned it from generation x

You are absolutely correct. Also the latter baby boomers produced millennials too.

[Linda_Runs]

Here is a Millennial video you might like:

[Smarties]

So you mean its.in trend with ALL milienials instead of the claim.stated upthread that its not the college graduates living at home....a

Yes, its a trend among all millennials. But I don't believe its the college graduates who are responsible for most of the trend.

Do your research 30 percent of college graduates live at home with their parents. Thats just them

You know, I was actually curious what the statistics really are. So I looked. It was difficult to find a study that showed statistics for different categories of people. This is from a study published in January 2019.

While numbers are higher across the board, adults with only high school diplomas are more likely to be living with their parents than adults with college degrees from the same age range, just as I suspected.


The study also talked a lot about home ownership. It said that although it would seem logical that adults living at home would have greater opportunity to save for down payments for homes, and therefore later in life have a higher rate of home ownership and equity in their homes, it was actually the opposite: adults who did not live with their parents were the ones who had higher rates of home ownership and home equity later in life. Perhaps because they have more education and therefore higher incomes on average.

There are a lot of other ways the study looked at different sub-groups so if you'd like the whole thing let me know. It was pretty interesting.

[QuantumNursing]

Yes, its a trend among all millennials. But I don't believe its the college graduates who are responsible for most of the trend.

Do your research 30 percent of college graduates live at home with their parents. Thats just them

You know, I was actually curious what the statistics really are. So I looked. It was difficult to find a study that showed statistics for different categories of people. This is from a study published in January 2019.

20190914_085802.jpg

While numbers are higher across the board, adults with only high school diplomas are more likely to be living with their parents than adults with college degrees from the same age range, just as I suspected.


The study also talked a lot about home ownership. It said that although it would seem logical that adults living at home would have greater opportunity to save for down payments for homes, and therefore later in life have a higher rate of home ownership and equity in their homes, it was actually the opposite: adults who did not live with their parents were the ones who had higher rates of home ownership and home equity later in life. Perhaps because they have more education and therefore higher incomes on average.

There are a lot of other ways the study looked at different sub-groups so if you'd like the whole thing let me know. It was pretty interesting.

Did you read the part where 30 percent of college graduates live with their parents?

[Smarties]

There's lazy and entitled people in every generation, but they're almost never the majority. From my personal experience in managing workers, Millennials tend to be the hardest workers and highest performers in most workplaces, given a good working environment. That is the part that makes it or breaks it. Millennials demand a different sort of work environment than what used to be the norm. I've been thinking about this lately. What I've been able to conclude, mainly from my own experience, is the following.

It seems to me like we are more transient and more willing to job and career hop than Gen X. I've noticed that it used to be a source of immense pride for Gen X and especially Boomers to be able to say that they've worked in a certain field or stayed with their company for 10, 20, 30 years. I honestly don't know any Millennial that would pride themself in that. In most cases it's the opposite. A lot of us have excellent work ethic and performance records, but very little to no employee loyalty. If a job isn't working out for us, we tend to walk. If there aren't any appealing jobs in our immediate field of expertise, we look at other fields. Hell, even if there is nothing wrong with the job we have but we find better elsewhere, odds are we'll jump. This effect tends to multiply if we're talking nonskilled or entry level work, which sounds like what the OP is talking about.

We do that because we can. As a whole, Millennial professionals are more educated than any generation before us. We're also more flexible, and a lot less dead-set on having a traditional career or only working in the field we're educated for. That gives us a certain degree of freedom and choice. We've learned to ask the question "What's in this for me?" If the answer begins and ends at "a paycheck", well, we can find that anywhere. We're not inclined to put up with a job that doesn't suit us, or stick around in a negative working environment, because there's almost always something better out there.

I have seen all of these things. I also believe the research on this generation reflects that these are typical characteristics.

[QuantumNursing]

Yes, its a trend among all millennials. But I don't believe its the college graduates who are responsible for most of the trend.

Do your research 30 percent of college graduates live at home with their parents. Thats just them

You know, I was actually curious what the statistics really are. So I looked. It was difficult to find a study that showed statistics for different categories of people. This is from a study published in January 2019.

20190914_085802.jpg

While numbers are higher across the board, adults with only high school diplomas are more likely to be living with their parents than adults with college degrees from the same age range, just as I suspected.


The study also talked a lot about home ownership. It said that although it would seem logical that adults living at home would have greater opportunity to save for down payments for homes, and therefore later in life have a higher rate of home ownership and equity in their homes, it was actually the opposite: adults who did not live with their parents were the ones who had higher rates of home ownership and home equity later in life. Perhaps because they have more education and therefore higher incomes on average.

There are a lot of other ways the study looked at different sub-groups so if you'd like the whole thing let me know. It was pretty interesting.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more- ... 2018-05-08

[Smarties]

Do your research 30 percent of college graduates live at home with their parents. Thats just them

You know, I was actually curious what the statistics really are. So I looked. It was difficult to find a study that showed statistics for different categories of people. This is from a study published in January 2019.

20190914_085802.jpg

While numbers are higher across the board, adults with only high school diplomas are more likely to be living with their parents than adults with college degrees from the same age range, just as I suspected.


The study also talked a lot about home ownership. It said that although it would seem logical that adults living at home would have greater opportunity to save for down payments for homes, and therefore later in life have a higher rate of home ownership and equity in their homes, it was actually the opposite: adults who did not live with their parents were the ones who had higher rates of home ownership and home equity later in life. Perhaps because they have more education and therefore higher incomes on average.

There are a lot of other ways the study looked at different sub-groups so if you'd like the whole thing let me know. It was pretty interesting.

Did you read the part where 30 percent of college graduates live with their parents?

I read the part that said that its not the college graduates who are responsible for the majority of the adult children living with their parents. Most of them, almost 2 to 1, are high school graduates only.