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Originally Posted by burn_baby_burn
It doesn't seem that long ago that people were telling me that my generation didn't have any respect. Now at the age of 36 I have people in my generation saying the same thing about teenagers today. I find it pretty interesting.
In response to the OP, I wouldn't paint the whole generation with the same brush because of some ridiculous comments by one member of that generation. If this 55 year old member of your team was so smart he wouldn't still be in school at his age.
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Um did everyone just miss the fact that I was making a play on the "young people these days" cliche, and flipping it around here?
I mean, I _just_ said that was the parody in post 4... and flipped the cases of what is said to paint a whole generation for young people, to the exact same case for old people. (Entitlement, not willing to put in the world to learn and thinking someone else will bail them out, immediately saying he's right before listening to why he is wrong - the 1 hr thing, demanding respect without proving their worth et al)
The bolded was exactly what I was trying to prove... surprised so many people missed that.
Funny so many people dogpile the cliche... turn the case around and well, whatever is written so far.
(For the record, I don't mind working with the guy. I like to do most of the work myself anyways and he's a good guy when he's not trying to act like a father. We went with him cause he's an uncle of the other 24 year old, and me and the other 24 year old are able to take care of the work load anyways, so I don't really care if we have a 3rd person or not and I don't take leaches really that personally.)