What Goes Around Comes Around
by Miki Saxon
“When they discover the center of the universe, how many people you know will be disappointed that they are not it?” —Bernard Baily
How many of them have you interviewed? How many of your recent hires required remedial coaching to understand how the real world works?
It’s a well-known fact that actions and attitudes are contagious—yawn and others will start yawning, smile and they will smile—and entitlement, the attitude of “I am special, therefore I deserve…” is catching and not necessarily age-related.
You see it when you’re driving and shopping, but it’s most annoying at work.
More and more bosses are seeing that attitude and not just in their younger workers.
The deprived generation of the Depression raised the entitled generation of Boomers who raised the much entitled, very special generation of Millennials who are raising a yet more special, more entitled generation.
And so it goes.
But there is a kind of rough justice best captured in the attitude of ‘what goes around comes around’ or, more specifically, ‘as you sow, so shall you reap’.
Guess who will be hiring all these special kids in a decade or two.
Flickr image credit: Maudy Apon
