Here's the author. A real serious journalist.
Posted on 02/28/2025 10:31:32 AM PST by nickcarraway
Ten years ago, workplaces were complaining about entitled millennials who pleaded poverty and an inability to get ahead financially — all while eating $10 avocado toast. But now these workers are no longer the office's biggest brat pack.
Meet the zoomers or Generation Z. Born between 1997 and 2012, zoomers are shaking things up at work — and in all the wrong ways according to baby boomers, Gen Xers, and millennials.
Here are 14 reasons bosses complain that Gen Z is the worst generation to manage and the reality of what Gen Z has to offer.
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“Here are 14 reasons...”
Went to the article - the 14 reasons are nowhere to be found.
Maybe it was posted there by a Gen Z’er. :)
Here's the author. A real serious journalist.
You have to click left on the big picture.
You have to click through the slides
No old people.
No young people.
Millenials are having their moment.
For me, the core problem isn’t really any of the generations. I think companies don’t pay well, and they have a lot of stupid rules. Young people may be bratty but they also realize that this is all a great big game, and the deck is stacked against them. They’ve been lied to all their lives, and they realize that the American Dream was there for older people, but it isn’t there for them. They are deciding that they don’t want to play a game that they can’t win.
This Gen A group is going to run rings around them. Gen Z isn't going to have it nearly as well as the Boomers, gosh gosh.
My friend research this guy at her company, who would always claim to be a millennial. He was actually older, but pretending to be millennial. I understand why, because companies cater to millennials an hate Gen Xers.
How do you know?
“You have to click left on the big picture.”
That didn’t work. I clicked all over the place - on the picture, and on the things to the left of the picture.
“You have to click through the slides”
I did that. Still no 14 reasons.
Complaint: Gen Z challenges traditional workplace norms
Complaint: Gen Z needs mentorship
Complaint: Gen Z needs more feedback from value-connected bosses
Note that the text takes the GenZ side in all of the reasons. It doesn't offer any balance or statement about the boss's positions. It tries to justify each of the Genz positions.
-PJ
I’m going to say the same thing I told the executives I work with at my current company: Bullsh*#
I’ve hired nearly 2 dozen Gen Zs in the past 10 years and my daughters are both Gen Z.
If you screen, hire, and train correctly they are just as hard working as any other generation. Put them in the role that fits them and train them up and they are great.
They have suffered a disservice from the colleges they attended in comparison to prior generations, but that isn’t necessarily their fault as much as the prior generations who didn’t police the universities properly...similar to how our govt. got out of control.
Thanks.
Gads what a depressing environment. Even the “Buzza Residents” must hate living there.
I used to be the only old guy at work. Now the number is increasing as the younger folks come in, hang around for a year or so, and then move somewhere else. If they hire a Boomer and he can keep up with the technology changes, he’ll stick around.
A local restaurant, great food, just announced earlier today that they weren’t opening today at all because of no staff showing up. It’s a university town & a lot of their customers are college kids,so that’s gotta hurt financially.
Agree.
The one really disturbing thing about younger generations in the workplace is the inability to NOT share EVERYTHING - the TMI is SOP.
I agree, the majority of the Gen Zers I interact with are astute, hard workers. And as a Boomer who got into and out of HR before it got radically feminized, I can agree with some of their outlook on work life.
They’ve been scammed by colleges and they’ve seen their parents take the promotion now with a promise from the employer that they’d see a raise at the next review, only for the raise to never happen.
As college students, most of them worked an entry level retail job where they were expected to work off the clock to be considered a “team player”.
An more than once, they were told “our employees are like family”, at least until they texted the layoff notice.
I worked for corporate employers that did all that on an almost daily basis....and was the one who had to communicate that to employees.
But at the same time, Gen Z comes replete with a know-it-all attitude, utterly fails at acquiring skills and knowledge voluntarily, and whines loudly about the same things we experienced years ago.
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