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Posted on 05/15/2025 7:41:52 PM PDT by Beave Meister
(The Epoch Times)—Inappropriate attire, excessive use of cell phones, poor quality of work, and foul language are just a few of the reasons 65 percent of U.S. hiring managers gave for firing college graduates who had recently started their first job.
A Pollfish survey of 1,000 managers across America, reported by Resume.com, revealed the reasons that eight in 10 managers said newly hired college graduates did not work out during their first year on the job. Excessive use of cell phones ranked as the top pet peeve of managers, at 78 percent. Some 61 percent of managers found their new hires were entitled or easily offended, while 57 percent noted these new employees were unprepared for the workplace. Lack of a work ethic scored 54 percent, followed by poor communication skills at 48 percent and lack of technical skills at 27 percent.
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Then why hire them?
“Then why hire them?”
Because Trump is cracking down on Illegals.
A place where I used to work, an electronic defense subcontractor, hired a college grad with a new diploma in the engineering department.
He was a Mr. Know-it-all from day one and started criticizing everything. This was ‘wrong’, that was ‘bad’ this would never work, etc.
He lasted a week...................
“When considering youth disqualified for one reason alone, the most prevalent disqualification rates are overweight (11 percent), drug and alcohol abuse (8 percent), and medical/physical health (7 percent),” the Pentagon’s 2020 Qualified Military Available Study of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 read.
.,.. most ineligible youth (44 percent) are disqualified for multiple reasons rather than in only one area.
Among those ineligible for only one reason, being overweight was the highest disqualification, at 11 percent. Drug use (8 percent), medical/physical only (7 percent) and mental health only (4 percent) were the other leading categories found in the study.
The largest increases in disqualification estimates observed between 2013 and 2020 were for mental health and overweight conditions.- https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/03/77-of-young-americans-too-fat-mentally-ill-on-drugs-and-more-to-join-military-pentagon-study-finds/
So now do you see why we want to use H-1B visas?
Ah. Okay. So they’re put in the storage area with a red stapler?
F no. I don't see it. That makes the problem worse. We never get details only stupid generalizations and dumb one off anecdotal stories from ancient decrepit Freepers.
Ah. Okay. So they’re put in the storage area with a red stapler?
They can also help with the cockroach problem.
A few years ago my company hired a guy as a product manager in the marketing department. Literally six weeks later he came to a trade show with me and a colleague.
He proceeded to lecture us about technical issue with our product and how a competitor had a far better product.
After much discussion with this know it all, I calmly told him that my colleague and I had a collective 45 years experience in the field and he had six weeks. He’d be best off shutting up and learning, not talking.
He lasted a year or two and no one was upset when he left.
Because the universities credentialed them with degrees, and the businesses believed the universities.
-PJ
Then why hire them?
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They have to hire candidates who check off the right boxes.
Now with Ai, young people are getting degrees without ever opening a book, writing a paper themselves, or struggling to learn anything. They can’t read, can’t write, can’t think, and can’t hold a conversation about anything beyond what’s hot on TikTok. Hiring them is ludicrous. The Idiocracy has arrived....
“Most Hiring Managers Say New College Grads Are Often Terrible Hires”
And I have no sympathy for that attitude. Bitching about the younger generation is a time-honored tradition, but it is mostly a form of self-indulgence, and it is destructive.
H-1B visa people are indentured servants. I do not want a system that gives companies access to such arrangements. It invariably leads to abusive treatment for all of the staff, both natives and foreigners alike. BTDT.
And BTW, the Gen-Z people I have worked with are excellent at their jobs and adapt quickly to their new circumstances. The ones who don't are soon gone and nobody remembers them. That is normal too. A large number of new hires in any age group will be found unsuitable after seeing them on the job.
You cannot really tell much from a resume; it's just a lottery ticket for an interview. And even from an interview, about all you can do is weed out the obvious crazies and people who will self-identify as unsuitable for a particular job. You can improve your odds, and that is about all to expect.
There was a good reason for the "90-day probationary hire" that was traditional in companies, and it is still valid today.
Funny…during elections, all polls and surveys are considered crap, especially if the Repub scores badly.
But if people find a survey that reinforces their bias, well…it’s a keeper.
Simply put, this is a garbage survey.
First of all, this survey was commissioned by resume.com. That means they likely want to push results that generate business. What better way to promote “Get dream jobs with our AI Powered resume builder” that a survey that makes new grads sound idiotic?
Second, the survey was facilitated by Pollfish, which has a stable of poll-takers. That means you don’t get random sampling and all the attendant goodness. You get a biased sample. Which is likely what resume.com wanted.
Third, where I work we have plenty of fresh graduates. And guess what? They don’t suck in large measure. They are energetic, driven, don’t whine, and optimistic. They are smart but not arrogant (unlike some of the 40-something bros who think their stuff doesn’t smell). They don’t complain about coming to the office. And during the pandemic, they tended to be the ones that weren’t vaxxed.
That’s how braindead and drug addled they are.
Sherlock was unavailable for comment.
Matlock too.
Best the company supervisors and managers set these people straight right away instead of walking on egg shells. They can cause a lot of trouble.
There was a Employee Relations dept across the hall from us and some relatively new guy there complained about women were getting the promotions and or being favored. The director ended up being moved out of the dept and left the company later on while the new guy got his promotion then left the company a year later and the other 2 young ladies in their 20’s involved in the complaint who were not getting promoted left as well. The director had not had complaints before (I worked with her son in the Helpdesk) and was more or less railroaded to make room for someone new (politics...). She had worked there for over 20 years.
#4 About 2018 I had a co-worker in the Helpdesk I worked at that got a new job at a defense company that made drone aircraft. He started at $30/hr and let everyone know. I was making more but I worked there for years keeping my head down.... He lasted less then 3 months at that new company before he was told the contract ran out and as he was last hired he was first fired. You just know they did not have the military contract run out.
The real reason I bet is he was one of those that criticized everything and everyone and the company wanted him gone as rot can spread. He was that way at the company I worked at.
He managed to get his old job back and later was promoted by the manager to supervisor where on day 1 he announced all the people he wanted to fire in the company. We had 4 new people and they all quit for better jobs within the year as this guy would say everyday who should be fired.
Both he and the manager quit less then 3 years later as neither was going to be promoted by the new management.
I heard a new one yesterday.
Back in the day, HR folks usually noted a work ethic difference between Country Kids and City Kids.
The Country kids usually had life experience holding responsibility for death/demise of animals and crops if poorly attended. Their work was usually higher quality and seldom needed a lot of management.
The new one - Theater Kids - Real life experience in front of live audiences, where they needed to collaborate and follow the script for success, yet in the moment, adjust or ad lib to maintain the continuity when things went south. Eventually it was the audience that judged the performance.
Theater kids understand an audience’s appreciation for a quality show. Flowers are not given for participation, flowers are given for excellence.
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