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?
Those young whipper snappers don’t know what it’s like to work 10 hours a day in a snow storm for a nickel !
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.
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
Portnoy’s Complaint?
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.
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.
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 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....
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!
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.