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Youngsters now days are very entitled

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Themagicfarawaytreeismyfav · 16/12/2025 17:51

Is it just me or are younger people now days very entitled? I work in an industry that often attracts lots of younger people mainly early 20’s ( im in my 50’s btw). Im noticing more and more that they have lots of entitlement and some bad manners/lack of social skills as well as a terrible work ethic. For balance i have 4 dc ranging from 20-30 years old and while all 4 have excellent manners the younger had a really bad attitude towards work for a year or two but is now a very hard worker and the elder 3 always have been. Anyway back to my fellow employees. They seem to know every single one of their rights but not so much about their responsibilities, they lack social skills and manners as well. Will happily talk over people during conversations, pick and choose what work they want to do, have appalling customer service skills and will never agree that something is their fault or they have done something wrong. My work is based heavily on seniority and usually the more senior a member of staff they get first choice in certain aspects of it. However the younger staff seem to completely disregard this and often push themselves to the front for these things and show absolutely no respect to those who have worked there for years ( fwiw im also very junior). Im finding it harder and harder to tolerate and beginning to detest having to work with them, but im wondering if its actually a “ thing” that others have noticed or its me and my perimenopause? 🙄

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Themagicfarawaytreeismyfav · 21/12/2025 08:20

BriefEncountersOfTheThirdKind · 20/12/2025 23:26

Managers are responsible for the training and hiring though 🙄

No they are not, thats down to the recruitment and training teams.

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Themagicfarawaytreeismyfav · 21/12/2025 08:22

BriefEncountersOfTheThirdKind · 20/12/2025 23:27

No it didn't but well done on using the fact MN delete 99% of reported "abusive" posts regardless of content to make it look that way

Who said anything about deleted posts? Your replies and name calling on here that haven’t been deleted prove this. I haven’t reported any of your comments so if any have been deleted your rudeness has obviously offended other people as well!

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