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Great thread. I need to rant.

So my kid brother (23) is about to graduate and has been having trouble finding a job or even an internship. I've set him up with my colleagues with industry, one of them being RZD, who said he's cooked. That's fine, standards are diff out in NYC. I've suggested people he should talk to and leverage my network, cause at least they'll give him the time of day, he didn't do that. Any of it.

I set up a volunteer opportunity for him at the upcoming WebSummit Vancouver conference, said to be the "Olympics of Tech" and was previously known as Collision in Toronto. I'm thinking, he'll volunteer one or two days, and he gets the next day to go roam, explore MasterClasses, network, go to after party events, etc. In my opinion - it's a fantastic opportunity to connect with people who can make or suggest hiring decisions, at least to get the foot in the door.

Kid goes like "Is there food?". I say no, and he looks turned off from it. (wtf u think I'm gonna feed you when I need you to volunteer? There's no paid food for me either.) Then I feed in the above opportunities line and his gf that's visiting joins in on the convo - i'm pretty pissed off at this point. Like I'm handing you an opportunity and you don't jump on it? Sit the fuck down. Anyway, he says, idk ask her if it's worth it. And I tell her briefly what it's about and she says "you should do it" (no shit dumb fuck - also why even ask her). And I go like, I'm giving you an opportunity to do all this stuff. It's a $700 ticket, of course you're going to have to work for it. And he's like I could care less if it was $1000. At this point, I'm fucking livid.

I end the conversation at - I'm not going to make connections for you (set up meetings) or hand you a silver platter (I don't have that kind of pull). What I can do is create the opportunities to facilitate it, it's up to you if you want to take or not. If you don't want to do it, fine, whatever. I'm just trying to help you out.

No fucking wonder everyone hates hiring Gen Z's. No wonder everyone else globally think NA's are lazy and entitled. Stupid dumb ass kids.