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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kanegrundar" data-source="post: 2360736" data-attributes="member: 3913">I manage a computer lab for the Farm Service Agency in Saline County, Missouri.  I've had a lot of people roll through the lab through the last 3 years that i've been in charge, and it's true, kids today feel that they are owed something.  It's laughable.  I'm 27, so I fall into this "Entitlement Generation", but never once did I feel that just because I am who I am that I'm entitled to be treated better by my employer.  I had one guy, who was a few years older than me and who I beat out for the job I now have, that felt that just because he went to college (got a degree in Ag Mechanics that does nothing for him in the GIS field), got married, and had a kid that he should be given a position.  Nevermind the fact that he had basically no advanced computer skills, and never bothered to learn anything about the programs we use in our everyday work beyond the basics that you need just to do the job that all the kids do bck there.  Even when they bought him up front (the lab is kept in the back of the office away from the farmers coming in to report acres and such) to help out with filing, printing maps, updating the county linework, etc.; he still told the CED (the guy that even I answer to) what he was and wasn't going to do.  Most time he sat at his computer doing crossword puzzles on the internet while being angry that he wasn't in charge of the lab or given any other full-time position (the lab workers are all temps except for me).  He left finally (he was a day or two from being fired) to go farm for his dad.  After all, the FSA didn't appreciate him enough (his every own words).  That was an extreme case, but I see it to varying degrees with all the kids that work for me in the lab.  They know when they are hired that they are temporary.  That means no benefits other than vacation time and sick leave, but yet they complain about it.  The feel that they are essential to the workings of the FSA.  Well, they aren't.  Heck, I'm not even essential.  It aggrivates me that ANYONE feels that they are owed anything just becuase they did some work in college.  A degree without continuing drive and determination gets to no further than someone without a degree that also has no drive or determination.  Kane</blockquote>

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