Are Gen Y too lazy too work?

[pastro243]

HappySqurriel said:

pastro243 said:
I dont think you can generalize, and besides, its an act of irresponsibility of old guys to just blame us when they really caused the problem(I dont see the way I couldve ruined the world at the age of 19). Pretty much every problem we have today is caused by previous generations and still we have to deal with them telling us we are lazy and the way we should live.

Besides, calling some kind of ocupations lazy work and such is pretty much stupid when you consider the competition the actual world has in any medium makes it hard to be succesful if you dont try hard.

The sad part is that we will get old and live to work like any other generation before and we will think the younger ones are fucked up, its the same everytime.

At 30, and being born in 1979, I’m at that odd age where I represent the border between the two generations and I have interacted heavily with both generations; and if you’re dealing with people who are 25 to 35 you could probably say that they’re all in a similar position to me. The biggest problems with Generation Y (from what I have seen) giving them a reputation of being remarkably lazy is their unwillingness to unplug and do their work.

If you walk through an office that has a lot of workers who are under 25 you will notice that there is an epidemic of using Facebook, Youtube, MSN, or doing anything except for working; and when these workers repeatedly fail to meet deadlines that they agreed upon and show overall very low performance they seem unwilling to accept that they did not receive massive performance bonuses. There are probably exceptions, and there are examples of people who are older that are just as bad, but in general (as a total group) they are doing less work and expecting greater rewards than people have before.

Well, Im not going to pretend I actually know much, but maybe is more an age thing than a generation thing, I mean, you have more  things that can keep you away from work and I think inmaturity leads to these problems, I dont think these same workers will do the same thing once they grow older as I think old people now wouldve done the same thing if they were young.