Young People Terrible Though Great For Exploiting

Via Malcolm Harris, the award for best final paragraph in an article about how millennials are immature, entitled, and bad at their jobs goes to Mitchell Hartman at the New York Times:

John Scrofano, 31, who is Ms. Koerner’s boss at OneWed in Seattle, appreciates the comfort his younger employees have with social media. “They don’t have that line between work and home that used to exist, so they’re doing Facebook for the company at night, on Saturday or Sunday,” he said. “We get incredible productivity out of them.”

Raise your hand if this makes you want to take back a vast swath of weekend work emailing and reblogging cute Tumblr posts on the company account. 🙁

Also, this forever:

But complaining about youth on the cusp of adulthood isn’t novel. In the Middle Ages, masters complained about their apprentices’ work habits.

“You can find these complaints in ancient Greek literature, in the Bible,” said Peter Cappelli, director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School. “It reflects the way old people see young people.”

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