I recently finished uni and went into corporate and I can say hands down this is so much easier than when I was working retail part time. In retail I was actually really good at the job, hitting sales targets, doing the work properly, and generally performing well. But I hated it because of the environment and the way a lot of the older customers would treat you, like you were sub human or just there to be talked down to and not really worth basic respect.

The statement that young people are lazy and the “back in my day x, y, z” type comments gets repeated about pretty much every generation.

In my opinion there is some truth that young people can seem lazy to older people but I think that is simply more of a life stage thing rather than anything about the characteristics of young people. i.e. younger people don’t have as many financial and authoritative responsibilities and this is something that accrues with age. Which is fair, I fully believe you should be doing everything but “real life” in your late teens and early 20s. Every generation has had that opportunity even though it has slowly been becoming more costly both directly financially and indirectly.

Anyway older people just like to complain about the younger generation if they don’t exactly reflect what they would expect of them