I am lawyer with 7 years PQE. Lately, I find the kids who have graduated in the COVID years to be extremely entitled, lazy and sluggish at work. Plus, because they have not interned anywhere, they seem to have no sense of work timings. Most of them cry foul and mental health every time you try getting the bare minimum out of them to justify their retainer. I am expecting a lot of hate from the entitled brats. But, I want people with 5 years + PQE to share their thoughts. Have you noticed anything similar?
2-3 years of complete academic and professional lockdown.Dont you think that would most obviously stunt the knowledge and work ethics of anyone. Please do some deep dive and not jump to conclusions
It’s not a COVID thing. It’s a broader Gen Z thing, especially late Gen Z. But just wait till Gen Alpha starts law school in a few years. You got another thing coming!
The kids are doing what you didn't/ may not have had the balls to do.
Pushing back against ill mannered senior colleagues, unreasonable deadlines, arbitrary decision making, etc. is not entitlement.
More power to these kids. Lesser to you, with your talk of "justifying their retainer". In any reasonable scenario, you can't bleed people of all life just so the lala above you can look better in front of the lala above them.
Yeah. They pretty much claimed victim hood and did not do one bit of work through at least two years of law school- for some of them it was the most important years of law school. I actually heard some of them argue that to make them read was to oppress them. They sat at home and fostered a very fragile ego that would shatter if you gave them feedback or told them to do their jobs. Anything that is not praise is seen as abusive.
They think they’re activists but they’re really just badly socialised work shy over grown toddlers. They don’t do any activism for poor people or other people.They only do it for themselves. And they demand everyone treat them with kid gloves but they have poor emotional control and regulation so they lash out quite badly if you’re not pleasing them all the time.
University administrations went with it because it was the easy thing to do. So they never learnt consequences and think the workplace will change to suit them as well. They really do think work is just - hanging out in an office - watching videos on their phone , maybe playing on their computer, and then going to a high end bar to spend their salary.
I think you should fire them to be honest. A good kick in the pants would set them straight. And I think you should strongly consider hiring based on tests and on class. You should focus your hiring on people from disadvantaged economical backgrounds because that cohort stayed hungry and worked hard even though covid.
I am lawyer with 7 years PQE. Lately, I find the kids who have graduated in the COVID years to be extremely entitled, lazy and sluggish at work. Plus, because they have not interned anywhere, they seem to have no sense of work timings. Most of them cry foul and mental health every time you try getting the bare minimum out of them to justify their retainer. I am expecting a lot of hate from the entitled brats. But, I want people with 5 years + PQE to share their thoughts. Have you noticed anything similar?
Some are also poisonous, rumour mongering bunch, with liberal values slapped on to cover the general ugliness of prejudice and poor intentions.
When you point out their bad behaviour you will get denials that would match the best sociopaths.
Pushing back against ill mannered senior colleagues, unreasonable deadlines, arbitrary decision making, etc. is not entitlement.
More power to these kids. Lesser to you, with your talk of "justifying their retainer". In any reasonable scenario, you can't bleed people of all life just so the lala above you can look better in front of the lala above them.
They think they’re activists but they’re really just badly socialised work shy over grown toddlers. They don’t do any activism for poor people or other people.They only do it for themselves. And they demand everyone treat them with kid gloves but they have poor emotional control and regulation so they lash out quite badly if you’re not pleasing them all the time.
University administrations went with it because it was the easy thing to do. So they never learnt consequences and think the workplace will change to suit them as well. They really do think work is just - hanging out in an office - watching videos on their phone , maybe playing on their computer, and then going to a high end bar to spend their salary.
I think you should fire them to be honest. A good kick in the pants would set them straight. And I think you should strongly consider hiring based on tests and on class. You should focus your hiring on people from disadvantaged economical backgrounds because that cohort stayed hungry and worked hard even though covid.