Big Generation Gaps in Work Attitudes Revealed

[EpyonXero]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

How are they not going to know, since at the vast majority of companies you need to call in sick to use a sick day?

It depends on the supervisor. In my case I just request the time off and put in the hours Im going to use, sick or vacation or some of each.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Trip

I was born in GenX, but totally a GenMe'er.

Heh, born GenX, but I align more with the BabyBoomers....

Originally Posted by tommymac

I wonder if reality will slap more of them in the face than anything else. Companies are there to make money, sure they wan tto give perks to get the best people but some of that stuff is ridiculous.

For real... I've seen lotsa people come into the workplace with ridiculously off-center expectations... College grads who think they know it all and can whip shit into place because they took a test on business management once... young up and comer's who just don't understand why they need to work more than 8 hours in a day...

Yeah yeah great... I'd love to work an 8 and skate gig where I get paid top dollar and am marginally busy all day... that's why I work 9+ hours per day and bust my ass as much as possible. It's not about getting my job done, it's about getting my job done and making the company more money. The more I do that, the faster I move up and the more valuable I become... and the less likely I am to get the walking papers if costs need to be cut (though obviously, there are no guarantees).

I didn't start off my career with the expectation of making big money and getting a retarded amount of perks. I have however, tripled my income since my first full-time job.. and doubled my income in the past 4 years. "Zach, why do you work all those hours and focus so much on work?" Look at my paycheck motherfucker... that's why.

Originally Posted by pauldun170

I have found that those who feel that they work their ass off into the ground are usually not all that great at what they do.

That's soooooooooo true in most cases. I don't have to work nearly as hard at my new job as I did at the old. I was good... nationally recongized multiple times in fact... but I had to fucking kill myself to do that. The new job, I still work damn hard... just as much effort really, but the results come more naturally. So technically I don't have to work as hard, but I do anyway.

[defector]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

I'm old school. I believe that taking sick days reflects poorly on you and I don't think of sick days as something "That I need to take before the end of the year"

Same.

With all of the holidays, my vacation days, and weekends off, I will only work like 140 something days this year. Plus my company pays you 2 weeks before Xmas for any sick days not used that year.

[Fleck750]

Company I'm with pays nothing, but give 5 sick days after 90 days, 1` week vacation after six months. At your 1 year anniversary, you get another week sick time and 2 weeks vacation.

The first day it's over 70 degrees, I'm taking a sick day. They all know I'll be on the bike.

[azoomm]

My husband doesn't get personal days. He goes to work for four weeks, then home for four weeks. While on the ship he works 12 hour days, everyday.

If the schedule puts him there during a holiday, so be it.