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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Pay more, get better employees.
Oh ha. I saw the title and thought he was talking about all the ex-FedGov employees starting to look for new jobs!
You are a realist and a patriot.
I’ve also noticed they lack a sense of humor
Generally true. But the problem will sort itself out eventually. AI is going to increase the unemployment rate.
That’s excellent. I basically did that for 30 years. Retired last month. Some of my jobs actually involved real problem solving and getting things done. I was very good at that. But most of my jobs were exactly like this video. But I got paid over $150,000 a year to sit and do nothing. The world shouldn’t be like that.
I have great sympathy for young people who are in a world with far fewer opportunities, with terrible wages, high costs for everything, and a society that seems to be trying very hard NOT to fix itself. Trump is the last hope.
IMO—THE EASIEST WAY TO WEED THEM OUT IS TO DEMAND A LOT OF VERIFIABLE EXPERIENCE.
YOU ARE NOT OFFERING PAY FOR ON THE JOB TRAINING: “OTJT”
YOU GOT PAID????????
REALLY ???????
WE GOT FED......
And it was all year around chores.... not just one day.
I ran my own bookkeeping business from age 40 to age 84.
BY MYSELF. FROM MY HOUSE. LAND LINE ONLY WITH ANSWERING MACHINE. NEVER had a cell phone.
Could choose who I wanted for clients & my longest client retired at his age of 84-—I was 82. I did HIS BOOKS FOR OVER 53 YEARS.
DO YOUR OWN HUSTLE.....YOU MAY WORK HARD SOME WEEKS & NOT SO MUCH OTHER WEEKS-—BUT YOU CAN MANAGE.
I love the Conservative mantra "kids are lazy and look at the fertility rate. No one is having babies". Well look around stupid baby-boomers. The USA is not fertile ground. It is a cesspool.
The employer says "First use your brain, then I'll pay you more" and the employee says "First pay me more, then I'll use my brain."
In many long years with companies large and small I have seen the prior happen quite often - but the latter almost never. Offering the reward first sets the expectation, and the employee makes no subsequent progress. Incentive-based compensation works better, but younger employees have been taught to hate it.
The wealthiest people I know are often not geniuses, but every single one of them is tremendously self-motivated. This is where I think Gen Z has been victimized by Obama-era collectivism in government education, and it is harder for them to overcome their early conditioning.
FARMERS WORK HARD EVERY SINGLE DAY
I am a big believer in On The Job Training. I think college is a massive mistake for almost everyone. Companies should hire kids at 18 and train them to be useful. And I don’t believe in unpaid internships (that’s slavery). Even people who are green and need to be trained ought to get decent wages. All the companies saying “We can’t find people to hire” ought to offer training and decent wages, and they would find people willing to do the work. I think it’s very unfair to say this problem is 100% because of young people.
THEY WANT MORE, BUT THEY ARE NOT WORTH MORE.
NONE OF THEM CAN CONNECT THE DOTS ABOUT THE COST OF LABOR & THE PRICES THEY ALSO MUST PAY FOR THINGS THEY WANT.
Wow, higher salaries beget a higher qaulity candidates. Are you too daft to realize that?
EVERY business runs with different beats....there is some adjustment to each job-—BUT if you do not have the basic skills or INCENTIVE OR MOTIVATION, you are useless.
NOT ABLE TO READ CURSIVE...
NOT ABLE TO DRESS APPROPRIATELY
NOT ABLE TO PARK THE CELL PHONE
NOT ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH FELLOW EMPLOYEES
SOME CANNOT EVEN READ AN ANALOG CLOCK !!!!!!!!!!!
I COULD GO ON & ON.
Absolutely. I don't blame the younger generation at all, as they've been dealt a bad hand. Also, as a Gen-X American, I remember when we were all called slackers. It seems every young generation entering the workforce has to deal with this sort of labelling from older generations.
Instead of denigrating and complaining about the younger workforce, older generations should do what they can to help them along. It's time for Gen Z to grow up, and they will with the proper assistance.
IT MAY GET MORE CANDIDATES-—
NOT NECESSARILY HIGH QUALITY ONES-—
My brother owned a company -—had over 60 employees.
Every spring the latest crop of college graduates would flood in looking for “WORK”.
HE got his most entertainment during those weeks.
They wanted all kinds of benefits—They wanted more PAY than he was paying himself in some cases. HE told them he didn’t even know if they could arrive every day for work on time yet, much less sell his services.
HE offered lots of nice benefits—including gym membership 1 block from plant. One person he interviewed wanted the machines in his home instead.!!!
When he was asked what the benefits were -—HE said: “YOUR PAYCHECK WILL NOT BOUNCE”.
When I was a payroll supervisor -—I got an applicant that COULD NOT RUN A CALCULATOR....ANOTHER ONE THAT COULD NOT SPELL...IF YOUR EVENTUAL SOCIAL SECURITY WAS TANGLED UP OVER A SPELLING ERROR_-—YOU WOULD NOT BE HAPPY.
DIDN’T CONTINUE THE INTERVIEW.
NEVER regretted becoming self employed at age 40.
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