JibberJobber Jolts Gen Y

JibberJobber.com posted "Gen Y Sounds Like A Bunch Of Entitled Whiners"
and Your HR Guy went wild.

Gen Y aren’t equals! To say a Gen Y accountant coming in is an equal to a senior accountant with seven years of experience is the ultimate argument in favor of entitlement. No, you won’t be treated or paid equally as that person. You don’t deserve it.

I don’t think they understand that it takes “superfluous tasks” to get forward in life. You can’t get to work without changing the oil in your car. Superfluous tasks are part of working hard and Gen Y doesn’t get it.

And I am really frustrated (as a Gen Y’er myself) at the backhanded implication that the reason Gen Y gets this rap is because other generations are jealous of us.

I am not jealous at a bunch of snot nosed wannabe know it alls of my current generation and I doubt anybody else is.

David Sandusky piles on:

I don’t want to oversimplify, but go find Gen Y who want to learn and do. Yes, they are in the minority…

Heather Gardner says that all Americans are slackers:

I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve heard from Gen Y and other generations “I think I’ll pass. The job description you sent mentions ’some’ overtime. I don’t do overtime.”

And Harry McIntosh fights back:

gen-y demands nothing. they are simply asking - this is something no generation has dared do before.... to make the working environment a better place. whats wrong with looking for change?

work is now a 24/7 operation... gen-y believes employers should be more flexible to the hours. 9-5 does not exist any more... they just want to be efficient... and people are wasting their time on superfluous tasks.

what gen-y wants is to be treated as equals in the work and be given a fair chance.