Posted on 02/01/2024 12:29:09 PM PST by Red Badger
A Gen Z employee has sparked furious debate after telling their boss that they couldn't attend an 8 a.m. meeting because they had a 'workout class.'
TikTok users have fired off at the hosts of the podcast Demoted, Natalie Marie and Ross Pomerantz, after they shared their reaction to an email they received from a listener claiming their Gen Z employer refused to attend an 8 a.m. meeting because it conflicted with their 'workout class.'
The hosts' response to the email ignited a fiery conversation as people on the web argued about work-life balance.
And, one Gen Z TikTok creator added fuel to the fire when he put himself in the shoes of the employee and questioned if his denial to attend meetings outside of his work hours should be something he was reprimanded for.
The debate began when a now-deleted clip of the podcast hosts discussing the topic went viral.
In the video, Natalie reads off an email she received from a listener.
In the email, the listener asked whether it should be 'allowed' for their 'Gen Z new hire' to refuse to show up to an early morning meeting because they had a workout class.
Natalie then chimed in with her own reaction. She said: 'You just started this job. I don't give a flying s*** about your workout class. Also an 8 a.m. workout class is too late. Work out at six, maybe seven.'
Meanwhile, Ross noted that the employee's response made him 'angry.'
He said: 'My visceral reaction was are you f***ing kidding me? My hand's shaking, and it's not from the caffeine.'
Both of the podcast hosts noted that while mental health was important, 'personal time' shouldn't interfere with work.
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LOL!! I am SOOOOO old.
“Who do you think is right”??? Why is that even a question!!
Fire the entitled POS...
When it became common usage to use “their“ for a singular person, I thought it was to avoid the awkward “his or her“. With what has happened in the past few years, perhaps it was just preparing us for transgenderism.
Lol. Have to give gen z credit for being daring and trying to push the boundaries. You don’t know what the boundaries are until you push them.
Every health care inpatient unit in the country annd most outpatient ones
If I was that employee, I’d be at that meeting unless I was hospitalized or deceased. Even if he’s right in this case, he has left a very bad first impression very early in his career.
GenZ’ workout class can take place some time outside work hours.
Yeah that’s about as interesting as getting gum on my shoe.
I had a job decades ago. My first year I busted my tail. My boss then told me I was ineligible for promotion because we had too many white male managers.
Next year my attitude was “you pay me for 37.5 hours and that’s all I will give you”, until I found a better job.
By traffic, I mean accidents etc. Hard to plan for some idiot crashing and shutting down a freeway.
LOL! Same here - but we were working with non-human ‘inpatients’...
Exactly.
We need to talk about your flair....................
I wasn’t lazy, I was the most profitable plumber in the company, when your employees work on commission you respect your top producer’s habits.
Since I had my own area I also got to hire the man to help cover the area, he was the second-best producer in the company and I got 10% of everything he made, which he didn’t know and it was a year before he even found out I was his boss and that he worked for me, he thought I was just a really helpful friend/mentor that would always show up to help him when he ran into problems in the field.
Ditto. It all depends on what was agreed to when the job was offered and accepted.
Adults will cut each other slack from time to time. But the basic agreed upon hours should be the norm.
An employer is perfectly entitled to weigh an employee’s flexibility in considering promotions, raises, benefits and assignments.
An employee is perfectly entitled to be a strict clock watcher if he or she wishes. And there are sometimes perfectly good reasons for an employee to refuse such a meeting. In my experience, these usually have to do with kids and dropoff/pickup schedules. Inflexible transportation constraints can sometimes arise. A workout class vs. a quarterly meeting? Not a very good reason.
Never had to do those on the same day, thank goodness, but yes, I did plenty of international conference calls at 5:00 a.m. or 10:00 p.m.
These poor little beleaguered Gen Z employees. If I had an employee tell me he couldn’t show up for a meeting because of a workout class, he’d be gone.
You go right ahead to your workout and enjoy it, we won’t bother you anymore with work related issues. Just sometime during the day you check your company email and go from there, enjoy...
I always hated 8:00am meetings and I’m sure when the boss called them they had some ulterior motives.
I wasn’t that stupid though.
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