“You know the problem with grads? It’s their sense of bloody entitlement. It’s like because they've graduated, or have gone through a ‘competitive grad scheme’ they are now obligated only to do the interesting bits of a job; get promoted without demonstrating any competence; and have things handed to them rather than going and getting them for themselves. When I started out, I knew I’d have to put in a good few years of silly hours to set me up for the rest of my career and I was more than happy to do so”
And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the exact moment when I got old and bitter. I performed the holy trinity of bitter old man - answering my own rhetorical question, wheeling out the tried and tested “kids these days don’t know how lucky they are” and topping it off with a bit of “in my day we knew the value of toil”.
