I’m a seasoned nurse with a lot of years of experience. I work hard to take care of my patients and their basic needs, and then some. But what is up with these newer grads, like in their younger 20’s? The ones who started 2019-2020, bc something is way different.
We’re all wondering what it is.
They expect the charge nurses and other nurses to do their tasks/work for them and I’ve seen some actually whine, roll their eyes, etc. when they don’t get their way or they’re a little bit busy.
It’s really starting to aggravate those of us over the age of 30, especially because if they don’t get their way they go to the manager and say “so and so didn’t help me enough” or “so and so wasn’t available and I couldn’t find them for an hour.”
I think it’s time I leave the hospital, to be honest. They are also incredibly hard to train. They don’t listen, get offended if you try to explain to them why something didn’t go well, or go complain to the manager.
Our management is tired of it too. Is it the same personalities? Are they really that easily offended? Someone ELI5. Thanx.
Don’t believe this is an issue? Just wait for the responses! LOL!
I think, in general, that the entitlement issue speaks more to ones personality and experiences than age. I have witnessed this across the board in all ages. In my experience though, and speaking as a boomer myself, I have seen it more in the younger generations. LOL, boomers were not the generation that was given everything in abundance, quite the opposite, and it was the younger generations that were slack on getting discipline while at the same time getting a blue ribbon for everything. The fact that we did have discipline taught to us, and also had to work for the blue ribbon made us able to critical think and realize that the world doesnt revolve around us.
The generation before boomers underwent severe measures of austerity, considering the effects of WWII and the great depression. That was the last kick of a dying breed as far as tenacity and being encumbered with responsibility beyond the self. Subsequent generations, especially the boomers failed to live up to those standards and have been unencumbered with responsibility and accountability. Boomers received in abundance yet have been the least giving hitherto. Look at how they chastise the younger generations about pulling themselves by the bootstraps when they did not do that. Irony galore.
Boomers are the most entitled generation bar none. They were given everything they wanted in abundance and most lack insight outside their immediate perimeter.
That is absolutely incorrect. I think you’re mixing up boomers with other generations. I don’t know any boomers who got everything they wanted. It’s probably the last generation that worked their butts off. You are aware that boomers are 60 to 70 years old right now correct? There’s not a generation that had things given to them. The kids were raised in the 90s and the current generation of 20-year-olds was definitely handed things.
The generation before boomers underwent severe measures of austerity, considering the effects of WWII and the great depression. That was the last kick of a dying breed as far as tenacity and being encumbered with responsibility beyond the self. Subsequent generations, especially the boomers failed to live up to those standards and have been unencumbered with responsibility and accountability. Boomers received in abundance yet have been the least giving hitherto. Look at how they chastise the younger generations about pulling themselves by the bootstraps when they did not do that. Irony galore.
I’m not even sure where that comes from. I think you’re giving baby boomers a very bad name. That is a very hard-working generation. Probably the last of the hard-working generations. Their parents were “depression era” kids and they were raised frugally for the most part. There was no social media, there were no cell phones, there wasn’t even 24 hour Nickelodeon and cable TV. This was the last generation that played outdoors and had after school jobs. I’m really confused why people think that was an entitled generation.
I’m not even sure where that comes from. I think you’re giving baby boomers a very bad name. That is a very hard-working generation. Probably the last of the hard-working generations. Their parents were “depression era” kids and they were raised frugally for the most part. There was no social media, there were no cell phones, there wasn’t even 24 hour Nickelodeon and cable TV. This was the last generation that played outdoors and had after school jobs. I’m really confused why people think that was an entitled generation.
Yeah that's not true. Im a millennial (34) and I played plenty outside growing up as did gen x. Boomers may have beem raised frugally but Boomers were the first to live beyond their means once on their own and their refusal to be progressive (I had to do it this way so everyone else should too).
As for you saying millenials had everything handed to them.....who are their parents?
Yeah that's not true. Im a millennial (34) and I played plenty outside growing up as did gen x. Boomers may have beem raised frugally but Boomers were the first to live beyond their means once on their own and their refusal to be progressive (I had to do it this way so everyone else should too).
As for you saying millenials had everything handed to them.....who are their parents?
I agree with your observations. In fact, boomers were not raised frugally, that was the preceding generation -the silent generation. Boomers were raised in opulence at a time when America was the shining city on the hill having conquered the world and taken mankind to the moon. The economy was booming (no pun intended) and you are absolutely right, most of them lived beyond their means eventually, unlike their parents and generations before. It is quite fascinating that boomers are now known to be quite inflexible relative to insight outside of the self and I think you captured it well with the bolded statement in parenthesis.
I agree with your observations. In fact, boomers were not raised frugally, that was the preceding generation -the silent generation. Boomers were raised in opulence at a time when America was the shining city on the hill having conquered the world and taken mankind to the moon. The economy was booming (no pun intended) and you are absolutely right, most of them lived beyond their means eventually, unlike their parents and generations before. It is quite fascinating that boomers are now known to be quite inflexible relative to insight outside of the self and I think you captured it well with the bolded statement in parenthesis.
Wow you guys - I don’t know where you get your information - all you have to do is Google “the entitled generation” and millennial is all over it - 99% of all the hits will be millennials. It’s also the generation who got the trophies for losing.
Wow you guys - I don’t know where you get your information - all you have to do is Google “the entitled generation” and millennial is all over it - 99% of all the hits will be millennials. It’s also the generation who got the trophies for losing.
Can you factually challenge any of the specific details that I outlined? Speaking of Google, if you search "OK boomer" which unfortunately has been used to dismiss boomers, you will find some valid evidence of the sense of entitlement and sanctimony that we are highlighting. The expression bears some sense truth that aptly irks the boomers.
One is for marketing so I am sure they do research.
But as I stated before there is more to the story than just merely thinking is can only be one generation. That said, maybe some older people do feel somewhat entitled as they have worked their butts off for a very long time and now either cannot do some things or just feel it is others time to work hard as they have already put their time in. I remember older people always (seemingly) feeling this way and people who are young now will probably feel that way too when older.
Wow you guys - I don’t know where you get your information - all you have to do is Google “the entitled generation” and millennial is all over it - 99% of all the hits will be millennials. It’s also the generation who got the trophies for losing.
And who gave us those trophies ? Not our fellow friends and students, no it was ....
boomer parents who couldn’t stand the fact their kids weren’t the next michael Jordan....
also I guess my husband working 3 jobs while helping take care of his widowed father just isn’t hard working enough ???
Ha. That’s gen Y saying that now. Heck my cousin whose in the *same* generation I am tried to OK boomer me and I just laughed at him until I had to excuse myself. But he’s just a run of the mill smart aleck teenager - and that’s in every generation
And who gave us those trophies ? Not our fellow friends and students, no it was ....
boomer parents who couldn’t stand the fact their kids weren’t the next michael Jordan....
also I guess my husband working 3 jobs while helping take care of his widowed father just isn’t hard working enough ???
It was the
48 minutes ago, cynical-RN said:
Can you factually challenge any of the specific details that I outlined? Speaking of Google, if you search "OK boomer" which unfortunately has been used to dismiss boomers, you will find some valid evidence of the sense of entitlement and sanctimony that we are highlighting. The expression bears some sense truth that aptly irks the boomers.
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48 minutes ago, cynical-RN said:
Can you factually challenge any of the specific details that I outlined? Speaking of Google, if you search "OK boomer" which unfortunately has been used to dismiss boomers, you will find some valid evidence of the sense of entitlement and sanctimony that we are highlighting. The expression bears some sense truth that aptly irks the boomers.
Just Google “entitled generation...” 99 percent millennials...
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The generation before boomers underwent severe measures of austerity, considering the effects of WWII and the great depression. That was the last kick of a dying breed as far as tenacity and being encumbered with responsibility beyond the self. Subsequent generations, especially the boomers failed to live up to those standards and have been unencumbered with responsibility and accountability. Boomers received in abundance yet have been the least giving hitherto. Look at how they chastise the younger generations about pulling themselves by the bootstraps when they did not do that. Irony galore.