Point/Counterpoint: Participation trophies are for the weak/Thank me for my service!
The following are essays penned by Jason Wiseman, a mid-level logistics coordinator for a major corporation and former Army Air Defense Artillery officer who served five years in the active force during the late 1990s.
Point: Participation trophies are for the weak
By: Jason Wiseman
In today’s snowflake society, everyone wants something for nothing and gets their feelings hurt every time they don’t get a pat on the head just for showing up. And showing up is all most millennials are capable of, while the few that actually do good work expect a brass band and a televised address telling them how amazing they are. I’m sure your parents threw you a parade every time they remembered to flush the toilet, but this is the real world, sweetheart, no one is going to give you a trophy for your perfect attendance record.
Doing your job doesn’t make you a special unique little snowflake—it makes you a member of the team, a cog in the wheel and we, as a society, need to stop pretending that doing what…
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