Posted on 04/13/2025 2:39:13 AM PDT by Libloather
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy didn't mince words when discussing the "lazy, entitled losers" taking baby boomers' place in today's workforce.
Gen Z – the generation born between 1997 and 2012 – has received a bad rap for laziness, entitlement, emotional sensitivity and poor communication skills in recent years. Since they've overtaken their baby boomer grandparents at the office, the changes are already showing for some of those managing them.
"They don't want to work. They're spoiled brats," Portnoy said Thursday on "Varney & Co."
"They've grown up in a world where it's [an] everyone gets a trophy generation, and the idea of showing up and going through traffic and being at the office at 8:45 and working until six, they look at you like you've got 10 heads," he continued.
Portnoy proceeded to claim the youngest working age group expects everything handed to them "on a silver platter" and lamented they're "very hard to motivate."
He closed out the criticism by branding Gen Zers "really lazy, entitled losers."
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I FAILED TO MENTION THE HIGH NUMBER OF CANDIDATES THAT CANNOT PASS A DRUG TEST...
They are part of the ‘lay down’ generation. They know they will never do as well as their grandparents, so don’t bother trying - ie, they have quit the rat race before starting.
This guy is not really in a position to criticize anyone.
https://youtu.be/droSWInXv18?si=Tq7iktJXiP0IwuDl
“ Stuff came to me, in large part because I chose a good time to be born.”
I disagree, every generation could say that.
Plenty of challenges for our Boomer generation.
To Basalt,
Every summer from the 8th to 10th grade I was sent by bus from Arizona to Iowa to work on the farm(s) as a hired hand. I bailed hay, hauled manure and de-tasseled seed corn among other interesting jobs.
That convinced me to study engineering.
Or working in the oil field on a rig for 100 hours a week and surviving. At 19 in 1979 it was the best thing to turn me into a man and since then, there is no such thing as Hard Work, because everything else is easy in comparison.
I’m a boomer and have three degrees & didn’t pay for any of them. Did them all through work reimbursement. Have an Assoc. in Networking; Bachelor’s in IT and a Master’s in Leadership/Coaching but I lean with Charlie Kirk that they’re overrated.
Born on 2012 means they are 13. Doubt many work.
At 14 I sorted and stacked cases if returnable soda bottles for 10 cents a crate.
Priced and put up milk gallons from containers to shelf. Got $9 a week.
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