Posted on 04/22/2022 12:03:35 AM PDT by Morgana
A small business owner has come under fire for the furious note he left on his shop window asking specifically for 'baby boomer' employees.
'I apologise for us closing again,' the note read. 'My two new cashiers quit because I said their boyfriends couldn't stand here for their entire shift.'
'Don't hire Gen Z's - they don't know what work actually means. Now hiring! Baby boomers only.'
The post has thousands of likes and comments, with many engaging in a heated debate regarding the legitimacy of the owner's frustration.
'That's a pretty awful and ageist sign,' said one commenter. 'I'm pretty young and I work 48 hours a week and never sit once while I'm on the clock! There are people who are young and hard working.'
He added: 'There are also many boomers I know of who don't do anything. It's all about attitude, upbringing, and motivation.'
But some thought that was the wrong way to approach the situation.
A woman responded, 'Please take time to sit on the clock. You shouldn't be proud of damaging your body for a boss that doesn't care.'
'It's sick that this culture is normalised - people need to stop with the "grindset" and take care of themselves.'
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I’m not so sure about this.
My millenials are very industrious.
I know Boomers and Gen X that are incurably lazy.
I understand his frustration. No one wants the beaus hanging around, distracting staff from their jobs.
All three of my kids, daughter 42 and twin boys 34, say the twenty somethings are the worst workers. Painting with a broad brush but the few good young workers are the exception.
My daughter works for a large local doctors outfit, complete with a surgery center. She tells me they go through the twenty somethings like grease through a goose. The youngsters want to talk to each other all day or spend half the day checking out Instagram and TikTok on their phones instead of taking care of their jobs. She has been there less than a year and gotten two promotions because she’s there to work.
And she works for a great outfit. Better than average pay and benefits and the work ain’t hard.
One son works for a local company building industrial conveyor systems. Again, a revolving door of twenty somethings that want a paycheck without the work. They go through a temporary agency so they don’t have to handle the paperwork for the employee turnover.
My other son is in construction, building houses. He says the kids showing up for work have all the muscle tone of jello. Most quit after two days. Very few can hang in there for a month.
The youngsters have no work ethic because they’ve never had to work for anything. Mommy and daddy gave them whatever they wanted. My kids grew up the old fashioned way. They knew what work was when they were 12.
Laziness exists throughout all age groups, sexes, races, and cultures. It has been so since the dawn of mankind, and will be so until the human animal becomes extinct. Something for nothing is the oldest and most prolific scam in human history.
My 20-something kids are all industrious.
The one girl wanted to quit her new job after only a week though.
“It is SO boring!! There is nothing to do, I just sit around waiting for the next customer!”
She is now into her 3rd week and they have created her own job description so she can work in two of the other sections of the operation.
“Most of the employees are happy just to sit around waiting for the next customer. But if giving you more work keeps you happy - we want you to be happy working here.”
It’s his business. He should be allowed to hire anyone that wants to work for him.
I have to admit that before I retired I would only even take interviews with people over 40 . The younger ones in my experience were not hard workers or dependable . They wouldn’t work overtime and when payday rolled around they suddenly got sick and called in . I ran into a few older guys that didn’t work out but with few exceptions the younger they were the less productive and quality work you got .
when ya’s git tuh work, ya’s git paid fuh workin’, not for lookin’ moon-eyed at each uthuh!!
the word is ‘work’, ‘work’ is rewarded with a ‘paycheck’..
a ‘paycheck’ is not an entitlement!
It isn’t just that they’ve had it so easy; it is also because they see less reward for their work than when we were working at that age. I don’t deal with younger workers, so I can’t imagine how supervisors contend with cell phones and drug abuse that seems far more widespread than when I was younger.
Now in NJ they just legalized weed; this should have an interesting effect on the workforce...
It is perhaps an ageist sign. Only Gen Z can change that.
What ‘Boomers’ are really working now? What he actually wants is Gen X, not someones retired grandparents.
Sure, there are outliers, but on the whole I think he's spot on.
We were just talking about this at our staff meeting yesterday - that's why our company is doing whatever it can to keep us "Boomers" employed - we all retire and nobody'll be left to do the work.
As a tax preparer, I see clients with a verified history of W2s per year. Granted that 2021 was another year afflicted with Covid, but most come in with 1 W2 some with 2 or 3. It is logical for the young to have more as they try to find a ‘fit’ BUT no one over 25 ever comes in with 5 while I handled several with 7 & 8! At a near universal bi-weekly pay setup, it takes real ‘skillz’ to reac those levels!
My wife is 70 years old and he works every day in the Publix Deli. She was never happy being retired from her college administrator job.
My wife tried to help a gen z by getting her a job at her company. The gen z quit in a few weeks telling us the job cut into her social time.
I agree with this owner.
I am a ‘boomer’. 67 years old. I still work full time. The three coworkers I supervise are all in their 70’s and do excellent work. All part time. They enjoy working and being productive instead of sitting around. And, yes, we are all grandparents.
I think its a statistics problem in some areas. What kind of upringing did those Gen z have? There’s the connection to work ethic from parents (non-parents) to kids.
I also think demand for labor is so high that those with actual “work etic” got employed in better paying professional jobs already.
It's called being retired after years of working hard. Many Boomers and some of us Gen Xers are and did.
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