Posted on 03/25/2024 4:52:53 AM PDT by daniel1212
Hiring managers point to a number of issues with Gen Zers, and say during the hiring process this generation often:
Of the 94% of hiring managers surveyed who say they have interviewed Gen Zers, many have experienced Gen Zers acting inappropriately.
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Those who have worked with this generation say Gen Zers often:
More than half of hiring managers (54%) report having to fire a Gen Zer within a week, and 36% a month.
I got laid off in October. I’ve sent out hundreds of resumes and managed 3 interviews. 2 by Zoom and 1 in person. All three hired Gen Z people, 2 of those female.
I sent a resume into the company my old boss works at and followed up with him. He said his HR people never even showed him my resume. Big push on for “equity”.
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Like C210N said, pretty well established to be the effect of too much electronics and not enough personal interaction while young.
People have been complaining about that since Millennials started showing up in the work place. GenX is the last that can be expected as a generation to look at you during a conversation.
Digital Future starts with kids, our most precious loved ones
Ain’t no way.
You can’t force me to buy a ticket to your circus.
Is this what it looks like when one’s country is stolen?
(Ones meaning Americana people—Judeo-Christian religious, 80% white, 12% black 8% other, family oriented hetero and patriotic etc).
They are terrified of making decisions. Tiny decisions. Like should the post-its be blue or orange decisions.
I can teach them how to do a job. I can not teach them how to be brave enough to to it.
I am a little bit inclined to agree because as a GenX kid I remember that before they called us “GenX” they called us the “Slackers”.
On the other hand, there is something very wrong with the kids. In broad strokes, they are fat, unhealthy, entitled, easily offended, obsessed with computers, and possessed by radical ideas about climate change, leftist economics, etc. I say broad strokes because there are good kids that will do us all proud. I like to think my own, which all fall in the Gen Z range will be among those.
Fifty years of following the food pyramid have been disastrous for health on all generations. This generation AND their parents grew up on it so potential for epigenetic effects. I large proportion of these kids would have been the “fat kid” when I was in school. Obesity and chronic infalmation do a bad number on physical and mental health.
Computers take up an inordinate amount of their attention. I fight this with my own kids wanting to play computer games all the time. My kids are not allowed free access, but most kids have Tictok, Google and Instagram/Facebook constantly feeding dopamine as well through smartphones and every other device. This creates a constant state of distraction that is not conducive to getting work done.
Then there is the ideology rampant in the social media and schools/colleges. Liberals had de facto control of these things when I was young, but they tended to be more restrained and at least pretend to present both sides. Now academia and media are hard left controlled and not only have no pretenses about being unbiased. Schools at all levels are actively biased against anything that doesn’t fit leftist orthodoxy.
The three things that have grown in cost the most as a factor of the economy are college, health care and government. Kids are raised to believe they cannot succeed without college, and they cannot get through that without absorbing and spouting leftism. Health care is so expensive that people keep jobs they are unhappy with so that one trip to the emergency room won’t take away all their savings ad bankrupt them and the only remotely affordable way to get coverage is through employers.
And the government is spending their futures. 7% of GDP is government debt spending. Government employees are like the mandarins of imperial China believing that have the right to rule and that they don’t need to answer to the elected leadership. Ind the leftists have convinced the kids that the incredible and growing burden of regulation is neeeded.
Not part of the GG but still in a SW dev role at age 72. Still coding,learning new stuff and remembering stuff I used to know. Get up 5am and ride my GS into work every day. Hope I can stay working for another 20 years.
I have three kids a millennial and two Z’s. All have steady careers. They went to church, and were expected to work if they wanted to drive.
One’s a cop, he has two uncles who were cops and it’s what he wanted to do. My daughter is a nurse and loves working ER. The third kid had a baseball scholarship for college and went for one year. He made B’s and did fine but came to us and told us he hated college and wanted to quit and work until he found something he liked. We said that’s fine but you are going to work. He found a job at a local market, enjoys and makes good money working as a butcher. He was made the assistant department manager by age 20.
I am 30 yrs plus at my current job and deal with Z’s regularly. Right now I have two working for me and one is a homerun, she’s punctual, picks up on duties and rarely calls in. The other is a good worker when she shows up, but getting her to show up is 90% of the battle. She is probably going to be let go if things don’t change shortly.
My employer is going full bore into DEI come next summer and I’m just not interested in this foolishness. My doctor told me outright, you need to retire and file for disability. I talked with my wife and we agreed, one more year and I will be 59 1/2 and then not be penalized by the IRS for early retirement. So this time next year I am out of here and filing for social security disability to supplement my retirement. I will get in trouble if I have to live in the DEI idiocy.
potentially the worst generation of adults the US has seen
They haven’t even reached their potential yet.
I was born in 1939.
Have accounting background, but did other jobs when Computers were coming online.
Became self employed doing books for small businesses in 1980. Had as many as 19 clients at one time-—employee gross of $69,000 a year to $3.2 million. Mostly one man shops.
Last client retired 2 years ago..I did his books for over 53 years.
He is now 86 I am 84.
Yes this is absolutely accurate. Poor work ethic, easily offended, a deep seated belief that the workplace should change to accommodate them rather than the other way around, bring emotional problems to work, unreliable when deadlines bring increased pressure or stress…potentially the worst generation of adults the US has seen.
Quite the confirmation, although my generation as a boomer was deficient in character than the previous ones. Culture, familial and societal, mainly forms character overall.
Life is not like that.
Most of us learned that at school. These young people are having to learn it the hard way.
I can’t disagree with what you say.
I remember watching a new video from some Asian country last year. A kid maybe 5 years old cooked a complete stirred veg rice meal on a wok. He collected the firewood, matches, oil EVERYTHING and was watching his toddler brother simultaneously.
It actually depressed me as I realized my intelligent young grandkids are only working on mastering the next level on some stupid non-reality video game.
That’s impressive and it (again) makes me wish I would have gotten a degree in something more of a trade. I have a science education degree.
Seventy-one percent of young people are ineligible to join the military, according to 2017 Pentagon data. The reasons: obesity, no high school diploma or a criminal record...According to one report, 52 percent of employers in Pennsylvania find it challenging to hire people with adequate skills, training or education. - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/14/military-service-most-young-people-dont-qualify-careers/3665840002/
You can much blame that on the demise of Biblical Christian faith when tested by prosperity and the massive numbers of abortion, coupled with contraception and work outside the homestead for women, which significantly decreased birth rate, esp. among the demographic most likely to enlist, and has decreased more in the recent past, with the % per pop. size of military being half of what it once was:
Millennial women are having babies at a slower rate than any previous generation of women in American history. Between the year 2007 and 2012, the rate at which African American women in their 20s had children dropped by 14 percent. The rate at which Caucasian American women in their 20s had children dropped by 11 percent. The rate at which Hispanic American women in their 20s had children dropped by an astounding 26 percent. - https://defendernetwork.com/lead-story/intelligent-reasons-millennials-arent-kids/
Millennials with Generation Z generate 57% of pet ownership in America. Millennials lead the share of pet owners in the U.S. (31%). In 2012, $52 billion was on pets. For 2021, roughly $109.6 billion have been spent on pets in the U.S. - https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/pet-ownership-statistics/
In a recent survey conducted by YPulse, they found out that 76% of Millenials (ages 20 to 38) prefer to have pets over children. Over half of the Millennials who answered the survey own a dog, while 35% own a cat. - https://topdogtips.com/millennials-on-parenthood-opting-for-pets/
Dog or baby? 22% of Millennials, Gen Z prefer pets over kids. - https://www.wfla.com/news/animals/dog-or-baby-22-of-millennials-gen-z-prefer-pets-over-kids/
Dec 8, 2022 — A new Forbes Advisor survey found that an overwhelming majority of pet owners (78%) acquired pets during the pandemic. - https://www.forbes.com/advisor/pet-insurance/survey-78-pet-owners-acquired-pets-during-pandemic/
there was a time—1850 to be precise—when huge households, chock full of tykes, were common and considered “right.” US Census data from 1850 show that families with six to nine kids were common.... the culture dictated that a woman’s place was in the home, and her fulfillment was found there, where she served her husband and raised her children. In his 1983 book Family and Divorce in California, 1850-1890, University of Oklahoma historian Robert Griswold cited an article published in the San Mateo Gazette in the mid-19th century that states, “Woman is set in the household and man is sent out into the world.”
..Family size in the US peaked between 1860 and 1920 because infant mortality rates were declining while large families were still valued, according to Northern Kentucky University sociologist Joan Ferrante’s 1992 book Sociology: A Global Perspective. Even a woman of modest means could “be happy in the love of her husband, her home, and its beautiful duties without asking the world for its smiles and favors,” the article argued... Women, Ferrante writes, “The mother’s median age at the time of her last child’s birth was 40 in 1850; by 1940 it had fallen to 27.3.” .. In 1980, less than 0.5% of all households had eight or more children; - https://qz.com/reparations-slavery-uk-trevelyan-grenada-1850156017
was https://thehawkeye.org/31226/op-ed/the-generation-that-doesnt-want-to-work/
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