Posted on 04/13/2025 2:39:13 AM PDT by Libloather
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy didn't mince words when discussing the "lazy, entitled losers" taking baby boomers' place in today's workforce.
Gen Z – the generation born between 1997 and 2012 – has received a bad rap for laziness, entitlement, emotional sensitivity and poor communication skills in recent years. Since they've overtaken their baby boomer grandparents at the office, the changes are already showing for some of those managing them.
"They don't want to work. They're spoiled brats," Portnoy said Thursday on "Varney & Co."
"They've grown up in a world where it's [an] everyone gets a trophy generation, and the idea of showing up and going through traffic and being at the office at 8:45 and working until six, they look at you like you've got 10 heads," he continued.
Portnoy proceeded to claim the youngest working age group expects everything handed to them "on a silver platter" and lamented they're "very hard to motivate."
He closed out the criticism by branding Gen Zers "really lazy, entitled losers."
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Not all are like this.
All my kids are Gen Z. My oldest received several merit bonuses, two promotions, and 3 raises in the last year. He was able to replace two people in his office and still has time to check his phone.
My middle one just completed their Associate’s in Science while working 30 hours a week and earning the ASL certification.
My youngest has been taking care of me, driving me around, runs errands, does dishes, laundry, helps me clean and does the lawn. We are waiting until we move so I can retire before he starts school.
How about CTP hours?
Good comment. And there have been reports of companies increasingly hiring kids right out of high school, giving them significant on-the-job training, and sending them to college at night when necessary.
Those young whipper snappers don’t know what it’s like to work 10 hours a day in a snow storm for a nickel !
I will add significant lack of critical thinking and basic math and English skills. Simple things like an X bar R Chart are indecipherable to them unless they have an app to calculate the results. Dont get me started on their ability to interpret the data.
However, they are real interested in proper use of pronouns and the carbon footprint of the facility
Marxist ideologues within the education system have systematically undermined critical thinking, conditioning both students and teachers to be emotionally driven and ideologically pliable. Since modern Marxism thrives on grievance and emotion rather than reason and inquiry, genuine critical thinking poses a direct threat to its spread.
Thus, Marxist ideology is a threat to our constitutional republic and our way of life.
It begs the question, "Why were his employees looking to unionize?"
They don’t know the art of showmanship. You tell one joke and then leave on a high note. Maybe go see Titanic.
Seinfeld reference
I retired, but my company wants me to come back.
I was a late Baby Boomer. I was young and irresponsible and did all the wrong things. But jobs were always easy to find, apartments were always cheap, and night classes at the university were cheap too. Took me 16 years to get my undergraduate degree, but I paid cash. But Reagan was president when I was in my 20s and the tech boom came in the 90s when I switched over to an IT path. I got the American Dream — wife, kids, big house in a nice suburb. I didn’t ever really struggle or worry. Stuff came to me, in large part because I chose a good time to be born.
Kids today have a tougher time finding a decent job, tougher time moving up in a career, tough time finding an apartment or a partner. There is no American Dream for most of them. Therefore, not much motivation for most of them.
This is a broken world, and the kids who are 20 years old aren’t the ones who broke it. Older people broke it. Bush, Obama, Biden. They ruined a great country and now we blame young people for saying it’s a rigged game and they’d rather not play.
bttt
Absolutely. What’s truly amazing is how deeply Marxist ideology has been infused into our society—so much so that many people don’t even realize they’ve absorbed it.
I have a good friend I sometimes bike with—a former schoolteacher and retired Army major—who considers himself a mainstream liberal. One day, I gently pointed out how some of his views align closely with Marxist principles. He was genuinely shocked. I made sure to explain it in a non-confrontational way, just laying out how the ideas he supports mirror core Marxist concepts. It was eye-opening for him—and honestly, a reminder of how effective that ideological seep has been over time.
Baby Boomers accuse Gen Z of being lazy entitled losers - and there is some truth to this.
Gen Z accuses Baby Boomers of being spoiled/entitled and running up massive debts and of giving “advice” about how they just need to work harder and sacrifice more while they themselves (education expenses, housing expenses, stock market returns from 1980-2000) got a MUCH better deal than Gen Z has gotten - and there is some truth to this as well.
Then comes the inevitable anecdotes about how some members of Gen Z are really hard working and how some members of the Baby Boomer generation didn’t have things easy at all and had to work really hard. No doubt both accounts are also true for some.
There. No we can dispense with the next 100 posts in the thread.
I think it’s an HR problem. Looking at applicants, among whom are many acceptable people, yet hiring the losers is certainly a big part of the problem
Maybe employers ought to hire qualified people with a demonstrated work record
WOW! Self awareness and not just the usual intergenerational bickering. That’s unusual.
As a Gen Xer myself, I agree with the criticism of of a lot of Gen Z - that many of them lack critical reasoning skills, that a lot of them have utterly useless degrees like Gender studies, African studies, etc etc and that a lot of them bellyache about any expectation that they put in some hard work.
BUT
They are also not wrong when they point out that Baby Boomers overwhelmingly did get a much better deal all around...that there is less opportunity for younger people today than there was for getting a good paying job, buying a home, finding a good marriage partner, etc. Skyrocketing costs for education and housing, Outsourcing and a spiraling national debt are real and they are not things Gen Z created.
I agree. The people doing the hiring obviously cannot do the helpful thing and tell applicants: "With your hair color? Those tattoos? The piercings? And the way you mentioned your pronouns 5 times during the interview? No one in their right mind would ever hire you. Get out."
Anyone who says that would face a lawsuit, so no one says that. But it would help a lot of people to hear straight up that if you are way out on the fringe, society has no place for you. But the reality is that when a freak shows up, some hiring managers are afraid of getting into trouble so they almost preferentially hire the losers. Seems like a safer choice, right?
True, but that doesn't change the observations in the article - the writer says the kids are not as effective at their jobs as baby boomers are.
Apparently, the broken world produced broken adults.
Portnoy’s Complaint?
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