Entitlement
Feb. 15th, 2010 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMy brother and his wife are now home and back at work in post-cruise vacation mode. He said they had a great time and Dana went snorkeling for the first time and loved it, he's afraid, a little too much. He included an interesting take on some of the experience:
"The crew are as nice as I can imagine. Since so much is included most guests feel a certain amount of entitlement and it tends to translate into the way they manage problems with in your face demands and the crew just rolled with it. They managed problems with patience and relentless kindness."
I love how he bitches about the asshole-ness of the passengers by appreciating those who were its victims.
Entitlement is one of my hot buttons. It seems to me that more and more of the general population have rising expectations of what they are entitled to. Not what they earn but what should come to them because they breathe.
Or, worse yet, what they are entitled to because they did the dirty, got knocked up, and turned themselves into the automatic victim of single-motherhood. Yeah - I'm a bitch but just image how many societal problems would be solved by birth control?!
The only group I can think of who is entitled to at least some entitlement is teenagers. It's how they learn and it's a great way to learn but too many just never grow out of it. (I have a sister who has stretched her teenaged entitlement out nearly 40 years now.)
When I rule the world adults will be responsible for what they do and entitled to what they earn. The end.
"The crew are as nice as I can imagine. Since so much is included most guests feel a certain amount of entitlement and it tends to translate into the way they manage problems with in your face demands and the crew just rolled with it. They managed problems with patience and relentless kindness."
I love how he bitches about the asshole-ness of the passengers by appreciating those who were its victims.
Entitlement is one of my hot buttons. It seems to me that more and more of the general population have rising expectations of what they are entitled to. Not what they earn but what should come to them because they breathe.
Or, worse yet, what they are entitled to because they did the dirty, got knocked up, and turned themselves into the automatic victim of single-motherhood. Yeah - I'm a bitch but just image how many societal problems would be solved by birth control?!
The only group I can think of who is entitled to at least some entitlement is teenagers. It's how they learn and it's a great way to learn but too many just never grow out of it. (I have a sister who has stretched her teenaged entitlement out nearly 40 years now.)
When I rule the world adults will be responsible for what they do and entitled to what they earn. The end.
