Why do I get the feeling some of this is not so much “The damn kids won’t work” and it’s actually more “The damn young people refuse to be sheep and minimum wage slaves and are demanding to be treated like human beings”
Maybe because you’re one of them?
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You are discounting the effect of the COVID years of “dis-education.”
Sorry, as an oldster dealing with Gen Z-ers, that is DEFINITELY not my experience.
They treat coming into work as optional, and quit without telling you they are doing so. Among other things.
Nope, they are just bad employees.
You know - like - a slave?
If you worked for me with that ‘tude the first thing you'd be doing is hauling materials, scaffolding, digging trenches. 15 minute break 2x a day and 30 for lunch. Late once and you'd be relegated to the end of a shovel for a long time.
And let me add one more thing - in the “work zone” - you don’t deserve anything until you earn it.
Same as the .MIL - you’re a private - until you are better than a private.
I’ve had more than a few employees that thought they were very good at what they did and that that was good enough. I’d ask “is that all you are or can be? No matter how good you are you can always be better if you want to be. Do you want it?”
The socialist hive mentality of today's universities teach their hivelings that our private industrial system is systemically racist and sucks and they need to change it according to socialist groupthink.
Negativity and little to no initiative is the result.
Just a guess.
Cause you landed n your head as a child?
Because you don’t work with enough of the demographic. Their precious “mental health” really is pathetic, with initiative and integrity horrifically degraded from earlier generations through ill-education paired with deep tech addiction. The American character has been fundamentally changed without sufficient notice.
In my last (managerial) position before retiring, I reached a point where I didn’t want to hire someone unless they were (1) over 40, (2) a legal immigrant or (3) a member of a dissident subculture in the US (such as a homeschooled student or Mennonite). I know some very hard-working young people, but they all reject mainstream American culture. The sense of entitlement and passivity (with the expectation that someone else will step in and fix things for them any time they have a problem rather than showing some initiative) is crippling.
I’m not sure that is the case because the article deals with recent college graduates who might usually be able to find above minimum wage work even if it is not directly related to their degree.
Because you are a employee not an employer and have a renter attitude that will get you nowhere in life.
Hey Mitch, you’re definitely on the wrong island to play survivor.
I’d guess more like: The damn kids have a worthless college degree in gender studies, and can’t read or write.
College degrees don’t mean what they did 40-50 years ago.
No, they think they should walk in as bosses.
Not buying your take.
The colleges produce total incompetents.
“The damn young people refuse to be sheep and minimum wage slaves and are demanding to be treated like human beings”
If they can find jobs that satisfy them, fine, but otherwise what do they do for money?
Are you Gen Z ?
two of my kids are “gen Z.” Both are independent and well employed, as are my two millenials.
One is a legit rocket engineer. The other is a trucker. He mostly drives flatbeds because they are harder to operate and pay more money. When a former employer declared bankruptcy, his boss called a friend at a different company and said “Hire him, he’s the hardest working kid I’ve ever known.”
He was at my house when the company called. The interview was short. “Ben, when can you start?”
Maybe homeschooling had something to do with it. Maybe teaching our kids that life doesn’t revolve around technology and screens played a part.
OK, the Astronautical Engineer spends a lot of time on a computer but weirdly, he’s not a geek about it.
He’s got a great tweaked out Ford Bronco, camps and hikes a lot, has an enviable gun collection and is getting married soon. Not your typical engineer geek.