Posted on 05/15/2025 7:41:52 PM PDT by Beave Meister
(The Epoch Times)—Inappropriate attire, excessive use of cell phones, poor quality of work, and foul language are just a few of the reasons 65 percent of U.S. hiring managers gave for firing college graduates who had recently started their first job.
A Pollfish survey of 1,000 managers across America, reported by Resume.com, revealed the reasons that eight in 10 managers said newly hired college graduates did not work out during their first year on the job. Excessive use of cell phones ranked as the top pet peeve of managers, at 78 percent. Some 61 percent of managers found their new hires were entitled or easily offended, while 57 percent noted these new employees were unprepared for the workplace. Lack of a work ethic scored 54 percent, followed by poor communication skills at 48 percent and lack of technical skills at 27 percent.
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They all need ‘mental health days’ to recover from having to work and will go off on people who don’t use the proper pronouns. Even having to work a full work week is too much for them as they believe they should be given what others have worked an entire lifetime to earn.
They are all looking to declare a workplace ‘hostile’’ so they can rule the workplace as everyone is afraid of offending them. Heck, even the Mafia can’t find good young people to work.
https://www.businessinsider.com/millennial-mobsters-mafia-downfall-colombo-fbi-2021-10?op=1
Normally, there are no two snowflakes alike but now we have typical “snowflakes” of the tribal kind.
I suspect a lot of these could be weeded out by holding the interview at 7:30am, and including a reading comprehension test with hand-written replies, no phone allowed.
most excellent post
Inspiration for the bumper sticker that reads “hire a teen while they still know everything”.
“Theater Kids”
I know a kid who minored in technical theater in college along with a hard science major. Got a good job in the defense industry out of college. I was told the theater part was very attractive to employers. Surprised me.
THE LEGACY OF PARTICIPATION TROPHIES WILL LINGER FOR A VERY LONG TIME
CURSIVE WRITING, ALSO
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Maybe it was a better world when people had to start in the mailroom and work their way up.
This is good thinking. Easy, creative problem-solving that helps to deal with the current situation.
I can accept the idea that a lot of young college grads are not good quality.
But a big part of the problem would be the Older People who set policies (for hiring DEI, or for HR, or plenty of other things).
Also a big part of the problem would be Older People in the role of hiring manager who cannot interview, cannot judge character, and who hire the wrong person.
The younger generation isn't coming. It's here. It's all we have. The Older People need to find a way to manage this situation. And that's what Older People are supposed to do -- they "manage". They are "administrators". If they know how to do do their job, they can hire, train and promote good young people so that some day those young people can be the Older People who are running the business and boosting profits when their time comes.
Deal with the young people and help them be successful. Or hire H1-Bs. Or hire illegal immigrants. Our choices are pretty limited, and I don't think it's hard to see what needs to be done.
I once hired a guy with a BA in accounting for a clerk job.
He couldn’t use a 10 key adding machine.
That’s a skill developed over years. They grew up on a heavy diet of “my mental health” using it to blackmail people to get what they want. These are the ones sobbing in the restroom because they are “overwhelmed”. It’s the “Accommodation Generation”.
“Colleges don’t teach students how to behave in the workplace, and there is a lack of transitional support from both universities and employers,” Resume.org’s career coach Irina Pichura stated in the report.
“Most students graduate with little exposure to professional environments, so when they arrive at their first job, they’re often learning basic workplace norms for the first time.
Colleges should have a workplace training program to support graduates’ transition to the workplace.””
If they haven’t learned the basics of work ethic by the time they enter college, then it’s doubtful they will ever learn. My parents taught me the importance of listening, being on time, dressing appropriately, etc.
In middle school we had lessons on proper etiquette, even how a couple should enter a room together. In high school business courses, we had lessons on how to answer a telephone in a business setting, when to offer to shake hands, to look a person in the eye when speaking to them, etc.
If these young people are entering the work force not knowing those basics, then they may as well just apply for public housing and SNAP benefits because that is what’s in their future.
He couldn’t count his balls and get the same number twice.
You are reminding me of a story from the “good old days” when we had secretaries.
Human resources had found me a secretary. (I was on the road a lot and did not have time to deal with the hiring process.)
The first week was fine.
Then I asked her to type a very routine and boring letter for me. There was nothing controversial or even interesting in it.
She came back about an hour letter and told me she could not type it because it discussed items that were illegal.
I asked her to explain and I got word salad in response.
I fired her on the spot.
Yup—that is the correct answer.
If they can handle the mailroom job with a positive and cooperative attitude then you have a keeper.
I knew a guy who literally started his career sweeping floors at a car dealership and ended up a global Vice President at GM
It is not the job of college to teach work skills. That is the parent job. By sending their teens to flip burgers pack groceries mow lawns and get real jobs as youbg teens.
That prepares them for work world.
One child worked part time for dunkin. Worked with people she never would have met before... marginal financial people. . Learned how to work and be grateful. I remember her telling me that she was complaining about getting my hand me down 8 passenger vehicle and the manager a father put her in her place saying he would love such a vehicle.
She moved over to Starbucks a year or so later. They had such a lousy tracking of he drive through orders that she initiated the dunking drive through system there at age 17. At 18 she was the youngest manager in their system.
She is an excellent employee and has had the pick of jobs in her field. STEM.
Send your kids to work Mama!
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