Need an Intern With a Strong Sense of Entitlement and Bad Manners? Hire a Rich Kid

[Stuckinthebush]

There is a rampant disease today that goes beyond borders. Entitlement is a contagious, insidious state of mind that has infected a whole generation of young people who feel they deserve things based on who they think they are or who their parents are. Or who they’ve been told they are.

Entitlement also affects adults, who feel they should have or get things based on their friends having them or just feeling worthy. It’s hard to pinpoint the derivation of where and when the disease started, but it’s an epidemic.

“Mr. Kirchenbaum, I am very disappointed that you do not have a position for me,” proclaimed the e-mail from a friend-of-a-friend’s daughter, whom I did the favor of meeting for an informational interview. Besides misspelling my name, she wrote she found it discouraging that I let her know trying to secure an internship or job is best done in December, not two weeks before college graduation . . . that most internships had been filled six months earlier (as was ours) and that, since masses of graduating college seniors would be seeking jobs, it was not exactly the most ideal or opportune time. She picked up her Balenciaga bag at the news and left in a huff.

The next day the imperious e-mail arrived, my friend cc’d as if to apply further pressure. Poor, long-suffering Carol, my assistant, has put up with years of rude and demanding behavior from “the children of” . . . with calls like “I’m in town and can meet him this week at three,” or parents who call about an internship status grilling, “Does Richard KNOW that Bettina has not heard back yet?” “Don’t they KNOW who SHE IS?” or “who WE ARE?”

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/need-intern-strong-sense-entitlement-bad-manners-hire-kirshenbaum

[geek tragedy]

1. non-profit organizations get stuck with these brats quite often

instead of the daughter or son of a friend of a friend, it's the daughter or son of a board member and important donor.

[Stuckinthebush]

2. Indeed

I've seen it often. Money money money.

[Igel]

8. It's spreading.

Perhaps it started with the rich who felt entitled.

But it's spreading. Middle-class entitled.

Those entitled on account of not having connections.

Those entitled because of "the system."

[Historic NY]

3. Oh I know a few of them.....

[Lucky Luciano]

4. We've had rich kid interns here.

I found them to be well mannered and hardworking. No dicks yet, but only been here a year. We shall see this year's crop next week.

[Sanity Claws]

5. Rudeness is a definite problem

They will give you the time of day only if they think they can get something from you.
I see this type of behavior rampant among the adults in the upper east side of NYC. I'm not surprised that the apples did not fall far from the trees.

[Kalidurga]

6. I love rude, entitled people..

They are great for venting on.

[BrotherIvan]

7. Go to any film studio or agent's office and you will find them there

[fasttense]

9. My daughter worked as an intern at a well known film studio

I can guarantee she is neither rich or entitled. There were about 10 other interns and most of them did come across as rich and entitled. I'm not so sure the experience was worth much for her. They make the interns do the most menial tasks. How is it learning to go get lunch or answer phones? I think the studio made out more in the deal than my daughter did.

[BrotherIvan]

11. Internships are a way for rich kids to get "experience"

and working class kids to be free labor. Nepotism rules the film industry big time. Everybody knows it so they don't really make a fuss. I actually had someone ask me when I was applying for a job, "Do you have a trust fund or other source of income because you're going to need it."

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. Posted to for later. n/t