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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:46 AM
| By
Samantha Henig
A post from Double X writer KJ Dell'Antonia:
Susannah Jacob meant to write a humorous account of her failures as an IHOP waitress. Instead, she offered yet more fodder for our “entitled generation” conversation,
and revealed herself, intentionally or not, as being unable—or
unwilling—to succeed at one of today’s most elusive goals: an actual,
if unglamorous, job.
Jacobs lives in an affluent Dallas suburb. She’s heading to college
in the fall. She doesn’t, by her own admission, “need the paycheck.”
And it’s clear that she thinks it’s funny that someone like her ... (
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