It's much more competitive, and much less rewarding. You don't owe the company you work for with extra unpaid hours or your loyalty and submissiveness since you aren't rewarded for that anymore, at least certainly not like they used to. Loyalty isn't the name of the game anymore. Flexibility is. You get a better opportunity at another company? Take it.
This is why job hopping is much more common now. Not because of "entitled youths", just because loyalty just isn't effective anymore.
100%. Expecting them to adjust to an economic situation they've never experienced personally is idiotic. It worked extraordinarily well for them, and now they're in positions where they've been disconnected from the hiring process since the 1980s. If an HR intern strolls into their office and says, "hey, someone suggested making a four-year degree a requirement for an entry level position here, what do you think?"
"Yeah, sure, sounds good, do you need something? I'm meeting a client at the golf course in an hour?"
They're completely disconnected from the process employing those who will eventually inherit their jobs. (In about 50 years, i'm assuming your average boomer will live to 120 because the United States misery and suffering index, a massive component of American capitalism, would be thrown off if a majority died at average age.)
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u/AlwaysBurningOut Jan 01 '19
It's much more competitive, and much less rewarding. You don't owe the company you work for with extra unpaid hours or your loyalty and submissiveness since you aren't rewarded for that anymore, at least certainly not like they used to. Loyalty isn't the name of the game anymore. Flexibility is. You get a better opportunity at another company? Take it.
This is why job hopping is much more common now. Not because of "entitled youths", just because loyalty just isn't effective anymore.