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@Its Me LuLuBelle2 wrote:

I retired last December but prior to that worked full time and had to drive 70 miles daily on a major six lane highway (3 lanes each North & South).  In the last couple of years of my commuting the "new" thing was people driving on the shoulders to pass three lanes of traffic and then just cutting folks off in the right lane to get back in.  It scared the hell out of me.  I guess these very "special" people were the only ones going to work while the rest of us were obviously headed to Jones Beach at rush hour.  "Entitled" beyond all points of reason.

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@Its Me LuLuBelle2

They do that here in Texas too...

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@viva923 wrote:

many years ago i worked in a department store.

i worked in wigs, hat department (this is going way back--well over 30 years ).

the ladies that would purchase dresses/hats/ jewelry/shoes  to attend a formal event and within a couple days bring back the used items and expect a full refund.  The department i worked in did not belong to the department store (it was leased out to the wigs-hat people who owned the merchandise ).  Ladies would purchase hats and wigs, back then they were expensive wigs some were real hair..  I would tell these ladies I couldn't take back either item (health reasons). I was surprised the store would force me to give the people their money back, then I would get into trouble with the merchandise owners. It was a double edge sword.

I went to work to earn money for a t.v. Set. Our broke and we didn't have money to purchase a new set. I worked long enough to get the money and i quit. It was not worth all the trouble and aggravation of one hand telling me to do something the other hand was telling me not to do. 

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@viva923

My realtive that was a Dept Manager always got a chuckle when women bought fancy evening gowns for Christmas Parties or News Year Eve Parties and after the event was over they brought them all back of course.....

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I am so sorry but I disagree with the comment about older people being entitled......I think it's the millienials that have no manners and feel entitled----at work---they come in late, leave early and call in sick most Mondays/Fridays, they think their job consists of playing on their phone or on the work computer instead of doing the work they are getting paid to do....they are the ones that cut in line, stand in the middle of store aisles while they chat or text on their phones, blocking the entire aisle....some of them don't think they should have to pay back their student loans, even though they got their degree.....They move back home and let their parents pay all the bills and use their paycheck for fun things....a lot of grandparents are raising their kid's children.....I know everyone is not that way, but from my experience this is what I see happening more than not....Our newspaper even had a series called, "The Entitled Generation"......nuff said!

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@Perkup wrote:

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@qualitygal wrote:

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@PamelaSue72 wrote:

I see this feelng of entitlement more so in older people. At the stores, in many restaurants, etc. 

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that behavior has no age thing to it, I've seen in across the boards.

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Respectfully, I could not disagree more.  Older people are far more likely to say PLEASE and THANK YOU. They hold doors open for people.  They rarely park in Handicapped spots and leap from the car and run into the store. They show respect for their country and it's flag.  They are more inclined to stand back and let others go first. They wait their turn to be seated and to receive their meals in restaurants. They are not in a massive hurry to get to where they are going, rarely drive stupidly (unless they are beyond driving well), don't often speed or cut in on the freeway.  They never blast Big Band music from their car radios, and I don't recall seeing anyone over 40 partiipating in riots or throwing bottles at cops.  I don't know where you live or where you shop, but apparently we are in different worlds.  And yes, I am definitely older.  

SOS  =  Slower,  Older,  Smarter

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http://time.com/247/millennials-the-me-me-me-generation/

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Anyone can claim that any generation or group of people behave with a sense of entitlement. However, if you google "entitlement generation", mainstream publications/sites invariably name Gen Y and millennials.

Dictionary dotcom as one example gives a *definition* of the "entitlement generation" as those born between 1979-1994.  Nearly every article that comes up in a google search echoes Gen Y/Millennials as entitled as a group.

So a person can say whatever they like - that seniors or baby boomers are the "real" "entitlement generation", for example - but that doesn't make it true. 

It sounds to me like something a Gen Y or Millennial would say 😉