Millennials are being held back by their sense of self-entitlement, according to a generation asking them to work for ‘exposure’ and ‘experience’ instead of money.

Young people are being asked to work for little-to-no money as more baby boomer bosses look to reduce their overheads.

‘Business is down across the board. Our profit margins are razor thin. I don’t think it’s too much to ask the younger generation to carry the burden after I worked hard to build up my business from scratch,’ said Larry Butterbean, a 62-year-old business owner.

While Frank Barker, another baby boomer boss told us: ‘Millennials come in expecting the moon on a stick. They expect to actually be paid for their work when they’re getting all this exposure and experience for free. Do they seriously expect to be able to put their hands in my pocket and rob me of my money too?’

Baby boomers argue that they’re entitled to reap the rewards of the businesses they set up and that millennials must wait their turn before getting a slice of the pie.

‘It’ll be a bloody long wait though because I’ve blown most my money on property and bad investments,’ said Larry.

We tried asking some millennials for their thoughts on this but they all seemed to be busy asking banks if they’d consider exposure or experience instead of cash as a down payment on a mortgage.