The author is a very outspoken guy, perhaps just for the sake of it. He's the founder of Vice magazine and is known for his unpolitical correctness.
I still think he has a good point (speaking as a Generation Why youth)
I still think he has a good point (speaking as a Generation Why youth)
I should also add, that he has probably had employees as bad as imaginable, but I've had Gen-X and baby boomer co-workers every bit as bad. It's not a generational thing, or even necessarily a youth thing. Some people suck, some people are great. Sometimes one person can do both depending on a lot a external factors. It's foolish to generally demonize an entire generation.
He hires interns to do jobs that their job description probably didn't mention. No one has to stay at some shitty job just because someone believes you have to work your way from the bottom up. If he bitches about not having a maid, then hires an intern to do a maids job maybe he should have just hired a maid instead of an intern.
He hates how people want credit for their work, but this is hardly unreasonable to ask. It also isn't very hard to do, we do it all the time in school so I'm sure he can find a way to manage. I find it funny that he complains about people not wanting to start from the bottom, but then refuses to give photographers credit for the little things that they do. People do build careers off of passport photos.
Often a lot of people get screwed royally on work because they were told that they just might maybe get commission if everything works out good. It's not unreasonable for someone to not accept work that isn't guaranteed to pay, he shouldn't be a bitch about it.
He also complains about young people not being able to handle the simplest tasks, but he was probably the person that hired all those people that can't do these tasks. Some older people have just as much trouble finding things on the internet.