FILE UNDER: I'll just leave this right here for eternity... CONTEXT: A few months back Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie wrote an essential essay on her personal website but I can no longer find it... Anyhow I did manage to copy a snippet - her issues with some of her students is just sooo spot-on - here is the except I preserved: "In certain young people today like these two from my writing workshop, I notice what I find increasingly troubling: a cold-blooded grasping, a hunger to take and take and take, but never give; a massive sense of entitlement; an inability to show gratitude; an ease with dishonesty and pretension and selfishness that is couched in the language of self-care; an expectation always to be helped and rewarded no matter whether deserving or not; language that is slick and sleek but with little emotional intelligence; an astonishing level of self-absorption; an unrealistic expectation of puritanism from others; an over-inflated sense of ability, or of talent where there is any at all; an inability to apologize, truly and fully, without justifications; a passionate performance of virtue that is well executed in the public space of Twitter but not in the intimate space of friendship.I find it obscene."
Another dear friend of mine whom I have known for decades runs a sucessful business in California - he is approaching his mid-40s and when the topic came up of millennials in the workplace, he said simply: they don't know how to pay their dues.
I think for the Gen X crowd this in an ongoing, deeply frustrating saga... which is not likely to improve.
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