Is it just me or are today's younger journalists lazy?

[bigugly]

I am not old. 40 to be exact, I guess to some of you that may be old. Anyways, I have no issues with my employees moving up and I am even willing to help them. The old good karma thing. Anyways I am exasperated with trying to help them and they act as if I owe them something. I am disgusted with what appears to be the modern sense of entitlement?

Is it just me or do you people who are in director and management roles also endure this? To be franks it just makes me not want to help anymore. I had a one-hour talk with another news organization that wanted to hire me and I recommended one of my staff. When I communicated to the staff member and told them what to send to the interested employer, I got corrected? I said what? Why are you correcting me and told them to forget it that I was not going to help them anymore.

My point is that I don't think many bosses (I never had one) try to help people advance and it has been nothing but a pain to me with this one and others.

Please give me your feedback.

 

[friend of the friendless]

Mr Ugly,

I'm old. I think a lot of my contemporaries are lazy. I don't think I invented the work ethic tho'. My father does, but I don't. (The sound you here is a father-son issue festering.)

YHS, etc

 

[Cadet]

Troll BigUgly,

There's a poster on here named Hondo. You two would make great friends.

 

[Blog Is My Co-Pilot]

All generalizations are false, including this one.

 

[sportschick]

Troll BigUgly,

There's a poster on here named Hondo. You two would make great friends.

They could throw puppies off the bridge together.

 

[friend of the friendless]

Mr Co-Pilot,

I've always said that there are two kinds of people: Those who divide everyone into two groups of people and those who don't.


YHS, etc

 

[spaceman]

bigugly,

you are absolutely correct. They all suck.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I've always said there are two kinds of people: those who think there are two kinds of people and those who don't.

 

[Van Lingle Mungo]

"It was hell," recalls former child.

 

[statrat]

I am disgusted with what appears to be the modern sense of entitlement? ...To be franks it just makes me not want to help anymore... When I communicated to the staff member and told them what to send to the interested employer, I got corrected? I said what? Why are you correcting me and told them to forget it that I was not going to help them anymore.

Is it just me, or does bigugly not know how to use question marks? To me he sounds less like someone who is 40, and more like one of those young people who phrase every statement as though it is a question???

 

[zeke12]

I think I hope bigugly doesn't write for publication anywhere.

 

[bigpern23]

I am not old. 40 to be exact, I guess to some of you that may be old. Anyways, I have no issues with my employees moving up and I am even willing to help them. The old good karma thing. Anyways I am exasperated with trying to help them and they act as if I owe them something. I am disgusted with what appears to be the modern sense of entitlement?

Is it just me or do you people who are in director and management roles also endure this? To be franks it just makes me not want to help anymore. I had a one-hour talk with another news organization that wanted to hire me and I recommended one of my staff. When I communicated to the staff member and told them what to send to the interested employer, I got corrected? I said what? Why are you correcting me and told them to forget it that I was not going to help them anymore.

My point is that I don't think many bosses (I never had one) try to help people advance and it has been nothing but a pain to me with this one and others.

Please give me your feedback.

You said you were corrected. Were you wrong? If so, then you don't have much of a reason to be miffed.

And I don't see anything wrong with an employee at a smaller paper looking to his/her boss for help moving up. It seems to me that at a stepping stone paper, the boss should understand their employees are looking to take the next step and facilitate that anyway they can. It only reflects well on said boss and helps to land the next "effin stud."

 

[Ace]

Bigugly,

Stop helping people.

There. Another problem solved.

Of course, I am old and so don't mind the extra work.

 

[RedCanuck]

I was going to argue that we're not lazy, but that would be far too much work.

 

[leo1]

it's just you

 

[HejiraHenry]

At the risk of trying to give a serious answer on a thread that's getting jacked ... I do think there is some difference in the way you have to motivate and manage younger employees. I think some recognition of that has been on the table for a while. Back in the mid-90s, when I wastedspent a lot of time reading management books and such, that was a common theme.

 

[buckweaver]

What, you mean one day I might be able to work for a company that keeps ****ing me in the ass on a daily basis and expects me to say, "Thank you sir. May I have another?"

Yes, why, I think I'll pass.

(Seriously: It's not the "motivation" that needs to be different for younger employees. It's the treatment. ... ****ing me over is not going to make me work harder. Sorry.)

 

[Alma]

The "youngsters" in this culture have been shaped by people well into their 40s and 50s. Namely, they've watched a lot of Baby Boomers of all income levels, political parties, genders and races act pretty foolish. You think young people have a sense of entitlement? Ha. Everybody does. Everybody wants what they want because they want it and thinks what they think because they think it. We live in a country full of people who think they're the first person to want/think the things/thoughts they want/think.

It's involuntary selfishness. It started, oh, after the New Deal. Really got going in the 60s.

My advice? Don't give people advice, even young people, unless they ask for it. In personal interactions, life should be a lot more about listening than telling - even when you're getting older. It wouldn't have been so bad to say to your staff member: "I want you to know I recommended you to so-and-so. If you're interested, they are." And just leave it at that.

 

[joe king]

My advice to you is don't give advice. Was that intentional irony, or did it just come out that way?

 

[leo1]

Everybody wants what they want because they want it and thinks what they think because they think it.

what the HELL does that mean?