Stephanie West Allen at Idealawg posts about a group, calling themselves 80 Million Strong, with plans to seize control this summer.
Without strong advocates, this generation will continue to be underserved by policy solutions. This cannot remain the status quo. The Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE), Mobilize.org, and the Roosevelt Institution are convening a coalition and summit entitled 80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs, named for the 80 million members of our Millennial generation, each and every one of whom deserves a decent, quality job.
Whenever someone claims that they “deserve” something, it compels the question, why? For all their bravado, it seems that the Slackoisie are terribly un- and underemployed, and they aren’t happy about it. A “decent, quality job” is their birthright. That’s why they deserve one. Each and every one of them.
Stephanie asks a question in return:
And what does the workforce deserve from the Millennials? Am I hearing the one-sided, one-way entitlement demands from them again?This past week has given us a wealth of insight into what our children have to say. From the WSJ Law Blog to the ABA Journal to the mother-lode, What About Clients?, we have tried to help enlighten those of our youth who have failed to mature sufficiently to grasp why they, for better or worse, will most assuredly get what they “deserve”. Unfortunately, most have reacted in a way that clearly proves the point to their elders, while believing that their responses are brilliant and presuasive.
Does the Slackoisie really believe that they have so much to offer that they are in a position to make demands? Why yes, that’s exactly what they believe.
Let me add my question to the mix: Do we really need 80 million Barristas, each complaining that the tip wasn’t big enough?
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Thanks for the mention. With all the humor that surrounds the issue (and it must be funny, or you’ll go nuts), here’s what’s not funny, no matter what your political or cultural persuasion may be: (1) the law profession is about clients, not about employees; and (2) “what about me?” associates and staff are expensive, demoralizing and a drain on both firms and clients.
Working for clients is a privilege and the main event–not a detail of employment. And unless you live in some jurisdictions in Europe, a job is not a right. It’s a privilege, and honor, too–and a big one. If law is “too hard” for you, step away from it.
As you obviously know, being both the primary guru of client service as well as the coiner of the brilliant term, “Slackoisie”, the humor surrounding this insane misapprehension of why we are allowed the honor of representing human beings masks a very serious problem. Lawyers are in bad enough shape given their dubious concern for others over their own pecuniary and personal self-interest; what becomes of the profession when medicrity and entitlement become the acceptable rule?
Lawyers exist to serve their clients, not to give Millenials a place to go in the morning and some walking around money. Unless this is fully understood, appreciated and institutionalized in the newer members of the profession, the law will truly be the last refuge of scoundrels. No, there would be nothing funny at all about that.
Since you mention Europe and since we’re being told that the US needs to be more like Europe and given who’s at the helm …
The situation in Europe is even worse. “The right to work” is being integrated into the European Constitution : “It is a fundamental human right.”
Needless to say, this will be interpreted as an entitlement. Couple this with the right to pursue happiness, you’d have to give a job to the applicant who can only find happiness at your firm, or whatever. A way out for you could possibly be to demand that much work that people become unhappy and leave.
Besides the fact that Europeans don’t seem to have a clue what a Constitution should really contain, talk about entitlement mentality. I wonder if and how this right is actually enforceable. A guaranteed job for every slacker! Heh! You can’t make these things up!
We guarantee the right to pursue happiness. There can be no guarantee of the right to achieve it.
I need to learn the tags for facetious, cynical, ironic etc.
It was clear. Just adding my two cents.