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.
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 .
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.
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 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 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.
I’ll agree with the owner. No not all Gen Zer’s are but the majority just don’t want to work, to stupid to work or want to be CEO on day 2 because they deserve it or quit after a couple hours because they didn’t know work can be hard.
Nobody wants to hire someone who doesn’t even know their own gender or deal with the baggage of self obcessed brain dead indoctrinated liberal.
Yes there’s hard working young folks who actually want to make a living be productive but they’re in the minority.
The buck stops at the door of wimpy parents and cowering bosses. They cause more damage to society than the “bad” people, because they underwrite and give approval to self indulgence. Young people “fall to” under firm and consistent guidance by authority. Workers will step up for a real boss but are demoralized and become apathetic under a limp wristed one who lets lazy workers off the hook and uses the productive to cover for them.
My favorite bosses, looking back, I was a little scared of. One of the best was a Martha Stewart type who demanded high quality at all times. You KNEW not to mess with this woman, smiling and elegant as she appeared…but you also knew that if she affirmed your work she was not stroking your ego. She meant it.
You could try to blame the current generations, but who ruined them? Who was complicit in their immaturity? Parents and bosses! The “greatest generation” didn’t want their kids to suffer as they had, thus depriving them of the conditions which had developed their own vaunted character. Look where that’s gotten us!
This is just part of life. When you’re younger, you sometimes don’t know HOW to work. I remember when I got my first job out of college, and I have to admit, looking back, I was just terrible. But soon you realize that you have to really push yourself because it’s not just your life that depends on the quality of your work, it’s also your wife and kids. So as you grow into your 30s and 40s, you become a better worker over time. Now there are some that never learn... Those usually can’t be helped. Some have a great work ethic at age 16. Some need a few years of working to learn how to work. And some never learn. That’s just how life goes...
Looking back, I’d fire my 24 year old self. I’m glad somebody didn’t give up on me, had a bit of patience, kicked my butt into gear, and gave me the time I needed to mature into a star worker.
If Sloe Biden can hire based on nothing more than immutable characteristics, then so can this man.
Every snowflake thinks it didn’t contribute to the avalanche.
Every ‘parent’ thinks their snowflake doesn’t, yet, we all know they do.
If we want people to work and do a good job, perhaps we stop REWARDING them for NOT working...
I have friends who has kids older than mine. (Started my second family with Mrs Deplorable) Their kids are late 20s and early 30s and one kid (who is 32) had more jobs than I did. The kid’s mom (since he never knew his dad) gives him everything. Another kid who’s 29 spends more time doing drugs than looking for a job. He told me the government pays him.
It’s not easy to work when you have your face in your FB all day.
The silent generation had a stellar work ethic. The baby boomers had a solid work ethic. Millenials are super hit and miss. You get many ambitious Millenials who are nose to the grind stone, than many others who just want to sit around and play video games all day. I don’t know any Gen Z.