You can completely take the girl out of everything you wrote and it still holds true. My experience was always that there is a sharp decline in EVERY aspect of a male employee’s performance for every year below 30. 18, 19, and 20, were all pretty much worthless.
I can agree with the decline...dealing with immature people is certainly a challenge for management...and the youngsters today think the world should dance around their every whim. .....When they hit the real work environment it’s a rude awakening some don’t handle well at all. Not prepared that employeers expect a days wages for a days work....rather they attempt to make managers their “friends” and step over all sorts of boundaries. Often the management team can and do cross boundary lines themselves.
I came to work one day watching a 40 yr old female manager tickling to the ground a 20 yr’ old employee....others buying gifts for one another...this just goes over healthy workplace boundaries IMO. But I am more conservative, they are much the liberal mindset....you can imagine the friction daily I have!