> Complaint: Gen Z doesn’t take initiative
> Complaint: Gen Z challenges traditional workplace norms
> The one really disturbing thing about younger generations
> in the workplace is the inability to NOT share EVERYTHING
That tracks with my experience. Gen Z workers can be absolutely great: smart, dedicated, highly productive. But some are definitely bottom 10% material: highly educated, well-credentialed, but unreliable, argumentative, and eager to take the initiative, but not in any ways that have anything to do with what the company is supposed to be doing. A department meeting is NOT the time to “challenge workplace norms” by delivering a harangue on your pet social justice issue, nor is a group lunch the time to start talking about how much you love your new anal beads. (I am not making this up.)
I blame HR, for not merely not filtering these people out early in the recruiting process, but for seeming to think we need *more* people with anger issues, hair colors not found in nature, and an inability to decide which gender they are this week.
Zoomers collect mental illnesses like we collected baseball cards. Then they want accommodations. They are also very hive-minded. They hate things like Republicans because their friends all hate Republicans. They know so little that they have to immediately resort to snarkiness. Their #1 response to a question about why they believe something is “Maybe you should watch the news sometime”, arguing from ignorance disguised as authority