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."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...
I think it’s also worth noting that wages have been stagnant for 50 years, so people getting entry-level jobs are really being paid very low wages. And can they move up? Well, businesses rather famously decided a while ago that “middle management” was just a waste. What did those people add to the bottom-line?? Some guy was getting paid to manage 5 or 10 people? No one needs that.
So middle management was largely hollowed out. Now some guy manages 100 people. Gets a nice title like “Division Manager” or something. Not too hard with computers. No time for mentoring of course. And you can’t really tell what the team is doing. But mind your spreadsheets and you can “manage” a team of 100.
But, if you are entry-level and want to move up, where do you go? Well, the next step up is Division Manager. And that guy needs to leave before his slot opens. That can take years. And you compete with everyone on your team to get his spot. So the odds are 99-to-1 against you if you want that promotion.And, heck, the company will likely hire from outside anyway. So your entry-level job is a dead-end. You’re not going anywhere. Might as well work at Starbucks. Yeah, that’s sort of a trash job but you can hop from one place to another and feel in control of your life. Might seem better than slowly dying in a cubicle farm for about the same amount of money.
At 13, I helped the neighbor farmer baling hay all day (12 hours).
At the end of the day, he gave me a quarter. I knew right then, I didn’t want to be a farmer!
I ended up joining the Army at 17, jumping out of airplanes and helicopters! Much harder, but more fun! (and less itchy than baling hay!)
Also, there is a tremendous amount of age discrimination going on with hiring.
If an applicant is older than the HR people, he/she will be rejected, no matter how much education, discernment and experience they bring to the table
Also, there is a tremendous amount of age discrimination going on with hiring.
If an applicant is older than the HR people, he/she will be rejected, no matter how much education, discernment and experience they bring to the table
Yup. On the one hand, “Kids today are lazy. Why can’t they work hard like Baby Boomers?” and the other hand, “I’m not gonna hire some old guy”.
Good luck with that.
they weren’t...Portnoy and other Barstool employees were messing with the newly elected A.O.C., who was running her mouth and threatening any and all companies about union organizing. She took the bait and they made her look foolish. Remember, you are reading “wikipedia”...i mean, cmon.
one summer, i baled hay at a horse racetrack..just brutal work, especially in the heat.
A huge percentage of Gen Z is still in highschool or college.
Getting angry at them is akin to being angry at a child—because they ARE children.
While I won’t go not detail, so far all my Gen Z kids are doing great. Hard workers and know the world doesn’t owe them anything. It’s because WE RAISED them. I’ve got a Gen Alpha kid also being raised, and he’s think he will be just fine.
We don’t expect anyone to raise our kids for us.
What’s ‘old’ if he/she is efficient and capable? It means you can be away from the ‘store’ and know that things are under control.
I have two Gen Z children.
One is a dispatcher for a heating and airccompany. The other manages a pizza and sub restaurant. Both go to work faithfully and with determination and have done so for years without complaint. The pizza kid walked to work in sub zero temps when transport was not available. Both also serve a few hours every week as janitors at our church. They NEVER complain about their work.
So...there are exceptions.
We gotta bring em along, not bash em. If they are losers, who raised them? And don’t blame the teachers. They’re always commies. Actually the Zs are showing very conservative traits. Portnoy? Needs a real job. Has no right to bash anyone for being worthless.
Tossed hay one summer in south GA. Just once.
“ Those young whipper snappers don’t know what it’s like to work 10 hours a day in a snow storm for a nickel !”
An old guy I knew said that back in the day he worked at a sawmill from sunup to sundown for $0.50/day, and if you weren’t there by sunup you didn’t make a full day.
One of the worst things to happen was when people could no longer get a job by walking in the door somewhere and interviewing on the spot.
Resumes delivered via the internet are just words and a person has little to no chance to present who they are on an in person basis.
It might also help if we had real jobs like we used to when we manufactured things in the US. Now we have lower pay assembler jobs putting products together with parts made in other countries and shipped into the US.
We have too many people with crappy college degrees that mean nothing and not enough jobs for them. Many of them believe because they went to college that they are too good for most jobs available. Face it, some aren’t even high school level and they have degrees. What a scam.
We are headed for more robotics taking over jobs. A serious problem because humans actually need to work and feel productive even if the human doesn’t realize it yet.
Yeah but back then you could buy a house , a car and a wife for 3 dollars and still have money left over for a pack of smokes
My daughter worked for Universal Studios in LA - she was put on probation for 90 days and told if, during that time, she was caught on her phone while on the clock, she would be immediately fired. She locked up her phone in her locker so she wouldn’t even have it on her.
She said her fellow hirees were fired left and right for checking there phones during work time.
Another similar article said some of these young workers are hired in and then proceed tell the boss/owner how he is doing everything wrong and how best to run his own business, to let them handle it - that they know better than he does.
The bosses/owners were shocked at the audacity, lack of respect and decorum - and got rid of them ASAP
I hate to break it to you, but this country was broken when the progs came to power in the early 20th century. The uniparty has existed since then and the idiots you mentioned in your post just continued the destruction with their fellows uniparty members in congress.
I CALL ALL OF THIS THE “LEGACY” OF THE PARTICIPATION TROPHIES.
HAD many a discussion at Senior Center lunches with grandparents who thought such trophies were JUST WONDERFUL.
TOLD THEM OVER & OVER : THE PAYCHECK FROM AN EMPLOYER IS NOT A PARTICIPATION TROPHY....
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