Gen Y & Occupy

[john.quinn]

And as I was off tracking down the 60 Minutes episodes, Joe was posting the same thing

You two are obviously socialists in cahoots .

But you hit it on the head -- they weren't occupying DC -- it was "Occupy Wall Street," and while I'll be the first one standing in the "Please Fix Our Government" line, I didn't see a single Occupy message aimed at Congress. Honestly, I couldn't discern a single message aimed at anybody... more like an angry kum-ba-ya chant.

I just happened to be in Burlington at Burlington's 1st Occupy rally. My wife and I wondered through the park wondering what the hell was going-on (we didn't know it was an Occupy satellite rally). Nobody made ANY sense whatsoever. You couldn't look and listen without coming-away with the notion that this was some type of Communist or Socialist gathering by a bunch of poorly-groomed young people and a bunch of vagrants.

 

[ddavis]

John,

My grand parents lived through the depression and considered being offered charity an insult. These people want charity or something for nothing. They called them bums.

 

[Mitch Gallant]

The recent gen Y messaging I've heard going around is horse $h!t in my humble opinion. I actually felt stupid for sitting in on a session at DD. It had zero substance, just a bunch of generalizations and no ideas or creative tactics on how to actually do anything new, even though it promised a strategy to hire and market to gen Y. I left the session red in the face. I've read some social economics materials recently and was able to take more away from 5 minutes in a book then an hour in a session with some old guy who claims to be a gen Y expert. The auto industry needs a leader in this field as much as occupy movements need leadership, in my opinion, both look like "flopping fish on a dock"!

 

[Mitch Gallant]

PS I hate to be negative but that DD session really got my panties all up in a bunch, I think my face literally was red when I left.

 

[Mitch Gallant]

LOL and yes, I'm a gen Y so maybe that has something to do with "not having respect for my elders"... maybe the clown was onto something... not likely though

 

[john.quinn]

John,

My grand parents lived through the depression and considered being offered charity an insult. These people want charity or something for nothing. They called them bums.

Hi Doug -- that's the exact sentiment I had in-mind when I started this thread: the seeming sense of "entitlement" infused in the minds of this "crowd."

While I jokingly attribute that Sense of Entitlement to Gen Y (mostly to tease Alex -- tehe), remember Cash for Clunkers?

I doubt many here will remember me from then, but that was my first REAL uber-engaged topic on DealerRefresh. I remember the "Entitlement" theme back then: consumers found the blog, and started asking questions -- then complaining about dealers. People were "outraged" that dealers wouldn't deliver their units before being paid by Uncle Sam. They in no way could or wanted to learn about the actual economics of some dealers having absolutely no cash for floor-plan with a 90-day+ government cash turn.

It was just GIMMIE GIMMIE GIMMIE.

I too, Doug, find the sense of entitlement prevalent in this society appalling.

 

[john.quinn]

LOL and yes, I'm a gen Y so maybe that has something to do with "not having respect for my elders"... maybe the clown was onto something... not likely though

Of course it does! And "it" was said about me by my generational predecessor, and you'll say it about the new wave coming-up. Bashing the "kids these days" is simply a right of passage. You Mitch, like I mentioned to Blake earlier, are a stalwart and a credit to any generation, as are many on this thread and forum -- leaders, innovators, motivators -- success stories.

As I mentioned above, want to see the dregs of Gen X and the Baby Boomers? Go back to Cash for Clunkers and all the people who DEMANDED their government hand-out. It was an ugly sight and telling comment on the sense of entitlement prevalent in our society.

 

[ddavis]

When I graduated from High School, my options were work, college, or the military and none of them involved living at home. Even a dog weans her pups.