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Gen Z employee ignites a FURIOUS debate after telling their new boss they couldn't attend an 8AM meeting because they 'had a workout class' - prompting outrage from older workers... so, who do YOU think is right?
Daily Mail UK ^ | 14:52 EST, 1 February 2024 | By KELSI KARRULI

Posted on 02/01/2024 12:29:09 PM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 02/01/2024 12:29:09 PM PST by Red Badger
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2 posted on 02/01/2024 12:30:17 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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what debate... FIRED!!!


3 posted on 02/01/2024 12:30:26 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Are they paid to attend workout sessions during work hours, or paid to attend work meetings during work hours.


4 posted on 02/01/2024 12:31:08 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Chode

“Sorry, dude, I’m just not into meetings that early.”..............


5 posted on 02/01/2024 12:31:37 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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Wait until they get a job dealing with international companies when you have to be on a conference call at 5am or 11pm, sometimes on the same day.


6 posted on 02/01/2024 12:32:03 PM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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A Gen Z

Ahhh ... generational stereotyping; a sure sign of a weak mind ...

telling their boss

"Their"? That's a plural form of personal pronoun. "His boss" or "Her boss" is correct.

couldn't attend an 8 a.m. meeting because they had a 'workout class.'

No. That's normal business hours.

7 posted on 02/01/2024 12:32:27 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Trying to get fired and suck-up that nice severance package ,LOL


8 posted on 02/01/2024 12:33:22 PM PST by butlerweave
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Of course the emplooyee can refuse to attend. And, of course the employer can fired her snowflake ass.


9 posted on 02/01/2024 12:33:32 PM PST by econjack
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Exactly, what debate...

This is a mandatory meeting, you attend or you are fired.

Period.


10 posted on 02/01/2024 12:33:33 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Red Badger

Why the hell are pronouns disagreeing in number? I can’t read this garbage and make sense of it.


11 posted on 02/01/2024 12:33:57 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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These cry babies don’t know what work is, When I was working on rigs in the oil field, 16 hours a day, 6 days a week! if you said something like that you were not only fired on the spot, you were blackballed and nobody in the oil field would hire you.


12 posted on 02/01/2024 12:34:09 PM PST by eyeamok
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My favorite Gen Z story.

We lost track of an employee for a few days—he was supposed to be in the NYC office and they had not heard from him and he was not answering his home phone or cell phone.

Everybody figured he has just quit...

Until the folks in the Los Angeles office saw him walk into their office.

He explained he had decided to move to LA and join their office.

The big bosses were stunned—never heard of anything like that before....

Their decision was to tell him to report to the New York City office by the next morning or he was fired...

He got on a plane and showed up in the NYC office the next day.


13 posted on 02/01/2024 12:34:24 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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Fire their asses. Then they can work out all day long.


14 posted on 02/01/2024 12:35:25 PM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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The good old days...


15 posted on 02/01/2024 12:35:29 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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Oh you wont attend my meeting because you’re working out at that time? No problem, you’re fired.


16 posted on 02/01/2024 12:36:44 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: Chode

yup. I hired someone, gave them the hours expected to work and they showed up and said “I can’t come in at 9 tomorrow. I have a brunch I do with friends EVERY WEEK”

ya, well we open at 9 every day of the week, just like I told you when I hired you. So enjoy your brunch tomorrow you can go home now

“but the brunch is tomorrow”

ya well you were let go today.


17 posted on 02/01/2024 12:37:20 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: mass55th

The mistake here is sharing work related issues to the public.

This might have more to the story regarding work related hours or salary hours.

Don’t share the work related issue online.


18 posted on 02/01/2024 12:37:44 PM PST by Bayard
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To: Chode
Employee was salaried, so yes they were getting paid.

the meeting is a quarterly affair so the employee is responsible to be there.

Be there or report to HR when you do get in, they will have some paperwork for you to sign.

even having to talk about this gives me little hope for gen Z as a whole. They are lazy, self absorbed, entitled, overspending, toxic personalities

19 posted on 02/01/2024 12:38:10 PM PST by Ikeon (Why is it acceptable to be a fool but, wrong to point it out? )
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I can see this both ways, and I’m usually one to be a hard-ass when it comes to an employee's work ethic.

If this employee was hired with the expectation that he’d be starting work every day at 9:00AM, then I’m on his side — and it doesn’t matter what he’s doing at 8:00. If the employer had made it clear that an occasional early meeting was part of the expectations for the position, then I’m on this employer’s side.

In either case, I don’t think the employee is doing himself any favors here.

20 posted on 02/01/2024 12:38:53 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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