"Call me a strawberry millennial, but being passionate doesn’t mean I’m willing to be exploited" - Feel like a lot of older workers view us fresh grads as being unwilling to work hard. Any thoughts?

Nothing wrong, each to its own

Can't blame them, thye live in an era where hard work are largely compensated with better returns and follow a pretty simple script for a fulfilling life. Now, the younger generations (being exposed to globalisation) are looking forward to a lot more than the normal narrative of graduate-career-marry-house-kids.

It's due to this that people are getting more and more demotivated to work as hard as they (foolishly) thought it as a hindrance to them achieving the life they actually wanted.