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I do not blame the young people for their attitude towards businessmen. Millennial attitude toward employers were created by corporate abuse of workers. When I was young, our parents worked for companies, and as long as the parent worked hard and the company made money, the employer and workers valued each other. By the 1990’s we globalized our economy. Corporations can make huge profits and still fire workers. Americans saw their jobs moved overseas so the CEO can get a bigger bonus and stock option windfalls. We are not talking about corporations losing money or market share, we are talking about record profits. Items made by these corporations are sold at the same price if they are made by US workers or Chinese workers. Corporations pocket the difference and dumped the unemployed workers on the US taxpayers. Now they want more illegal immigrants and H-1B workers, that is their solution to US unemployment. Millennial growing up seeing their fathers treated like used condoms by corporate America are going to have an attitude towards businessmen. They learn from their abused fathers that you give only 100 percent to employers and take 100 percent from employers. Employers give only what they are required and expect 200 percent from workers?!! Have employers been loyal to their workers? Two can play the same game. Remember, employers started this BS with globalization. After decades of abuse of workers, they expect their children to esteem and kowtow them when they walk in for a job? So this is what our founding fathers fought for? Establishment of a businessmen nobility where people must grovel to get a job and live?!! Businessmen are quick to pounce on worker attitudes, have they look in the mirror and reviewed their attitudes toward people that help make their company successful?!! Corporate America is a boat, and the workers are the sea. If the boat rocks the sea too hard, the sea will sink the boat.

What you describe is pretty much what NYC teachers are going through now. The veteran teachers have given 200 percent for decades and are now treated like garbage. They are being tossed out of their positions on frivolous claims of verbal abuse by students who can't handle the words "No, you can't do that in here." They find their subject being eliminated while there's a senior ($$) teacher teaching it, then the senior teacher and all the other less senior teachers teaching that subject are tossed into the traveling teacher pool (Absentee Teacher Reserve), where they are are treated like subs and worse by administrators, students and even the mocking young teachers on staff. Suddenly their old school is offering that subject again, taught by half-the-price new teachers quickly hired. Another little thing they do is to deliberately sabotage larger schools by denying them resources and/or sending some of the worst kids in the system there, stacking the decks. Of course, no school can be successful lacking books, xerox paper, the meanest of other necessities. So then the city declares that school "failed", closes it, turns out all the veteran teachers into the Absentee Teacher Reserve pool, and reopens the building divvied into 4 new small schools all staffed by infant staff right out of school. BTW, the noobies are now not being given tenure, so they can be jettisoned at will. Not quite an incentive to enter teaching for the best and brightest, is it?

Now they've added a new twist, sending around administrators (most of them failed administrators who had to scramble for a new job) to observe veteran displaced teachers teaching a lesson to kids they've never met before, have no relationship to, and have no idea of any foibles or handicaps they may have. They are operating under an agenda of giving "Unsatisfactory" ratings to these lessons, no matter how good they are, and poof! They have done their bit to get rid of the displaced veteran teachers pool. This is actually happening and has turned the lives of these dedicated veteran teachers into a living hell of a nightmare.