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I would so not want to manage this generation. At a holiday gathering a young relative was grousing about her boss. The problem? It's getting cold now, so she has to spend 5-10 minutes warming up her car and scraping her windshield before work, and she told her boss she was going to be 10 minutes late due to that. Every day. All winter. He explained it was her responsibility to be at work on time, regardless of the weather, traffic, etc. just like everyone else. "I don't control the weather!" she told me. "Bad weather is everyone's problem, and we're all expected to deal with it - why should you get a pass?" "You sound like him! You're impossible!" and walks off in a huff.

The kicker to me is that she drives at all. She works literally one block away from her apt - she could walk to work in 3 mintutes, 2 if she put her phone away. During really bad weather, she's refused to dig her car out and co-workers who live in other towns have swung by to give her a lift on their way in!