Business Letter

October 7, 2009
Ms. Carolyn Crosby
Human Resources Manager
Merrill Lynch & Co
552 8th Street
New York, NY 55555

Dear Carolyn Crosby:
We have just finished reading the article “The ‘Trophy Kids’ Go To Work” and we think that you have touched on some very good points. We do believe that people in the millennial generation do think that they are entitled to a lot of things. We, ourselves, did think that way when we had our first jobs. As high school seniors and never having a job before we had attitudes and didn’t respect our managers as we should have and treated them more like an equal to ourselves rather than superiors. We think that most people in our generation have had more things available than prior generations and are used to having things handed to them without working hard for any of it. After reading the article we seemed to have opened our eyes and we realized that we were both guilty of acting like “trophy kids.” Although, after working for a few years, we have both come to see that we cannot act like children and receive the respect of an adult, therefore changing our attitudes towards the professional environment.
In any generalization there are exceptions. Not everyone in the millennial generation feels entitled and some people do work very hard for what they have. The same goes for our parents’ generation because they were the ones who pushed for the luxuries that we take advantage of today. There are people in that generation who also feel entitled, don’t want to give up time off and still want to make millions of dollars. This type of outlook is exclusive to certain types of personalities, not a generation as a whole.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Katy Robbins and Kara Cogley