Arrogance and Naïveté : Generation Me

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Arrogance:


They are endorsing them for skills never witnessed

They are listing skills that experience has never shared

College graduate, worked at a burger joint, skills of training and management

All they did was take cash at the window

Instruct the manager on how to make more burgers

Places fancy words behind it

The only passion was getting out, getting ahead, getting up,

Climbing, upward, higher and higher,

The rungs of the ladder, the backs of those who made a difference

Not knocking the foundation, but the entitlement of title and six figures

Perhaps the six figures should include the two digits after the decimal point

People with decades of experience, seeking new talent, new passion,

The experience will come is what is said,

The knowledge will come is what is said,

The salary will come, they hear,

The promotions will come they hear,

Trust the aged, and experience, the way will be clear,

Though they have never been to the top

They’ve seen it happen

Too much introspection, not enough retrospection

Perhaps there is underemployment

Perhaps too many jobs were passed by

Perhaps it is desperation

Perhaps it is realization

Realizing that they can only lead if they know where they are going

They can only know where you are going if they have vision

The only vision they see is success

They don’t know how to get there

And they don’t know the rules

Walking into the middle of a monopoly game

And they have brought chess pieces and a deck of cards

While checking the king in free parking

And cornering his queen on “Go”

And then claiming they’ve won

They haven’t won anything

Naïveté