Millenial complains to CEO in open letter; finds out that the real minimum wage is $0

The piece's fundamental assertion is that being offered a job by a bartender (a family friend, no less) out of the blue is equivalent to getting somewhere based on hard work and merit. It's unbearably smug and condescending.

I should note that I'm not defending the original piece.

 

These women seriously think anyone is going to read THREE of these novellas?

Jesus. Talk about self-important longform writers who need editors...

 

I remember one time after landing my first journo gig, after paying first and last at my new apartment, I had to borrow $20 from a good friend to get through the week. I was mortified. He didn't care, because he was a friend, but it just went against everything I believed in.

Listening to her, and the people she worked with beg, is just embarassing. I honestly feel bad for her. Not her situation (which I laughed at relentlessly), but the fact that she has no issue with this mentality. And if she was my daughter, I might change the locks on the family home. Then again, I can only assume her parents had a hand in this the-world-owes-me-because-I'm-me outlook.

 

I could do with out her picture with her smug smile and "any idea how fast you were going?" glasses, but a solid takedown regardless.

 

Then how would she follow the path of the "Hard worker" and live at home for a year?

 

She was offered a hostess job. That's pretty much how those jobs are offered -- someone knows someone who needs a job.

It was neither clueless nor myopic, nor is it smug or condescending. It's an account of someone who needed money and went to work.

 

Seriously, this is all satire, right?

 

When I saw the 36-year-old weigh in, the thought did cross my mind that all of these people are being paid to promote Medium.

 

By Tuesday we'll have an 80-year-old telling them about walking to school in the snow, uphill, both ways.

 

You would think Millennials would be made of sterner stuff, what coming of age during a global recession and having no memory of peacetime. They are a fkn walking contradiction.

 

There's always prostitution.