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In reply to the discussion: Time magazine=Millennials Are Lazy, Entitled Narcissists Who Still Live With Their Parents [View all]tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)This Millenial/Gen X (depending on who you ask, but I ID with the Millenial generation) had to send emails at 2 am with daily reports to her boss. He didn't care that I didn't have internet where I was living and that I did everything from my phone, he just cared that I got the job done. I never 'clock out' of my job as I'm on call 24/7.
As for your paycheck thing. It's really hard to care about the company that you work for when management does everything in its power to screw the worker and gets bonuses for it. That's just a reality of corporate America. I worked for a Big Box store for 6 years, and management rarely took the side of the employee. To Corporate America, a non management employee is simply a number instead of a human being. (Note, I was 19 when I started working for this particular store, I am now 33--- The starting wages at this store are the same as in 2000).
It also used to be that a college degree mattered and it meant you could get a good paying job. Now it means that unless you study engineering then you work at Starbucks.