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Posted on 03/12/2026 6:14:19 PM PDT by simpson96
After complaining for years that Gen Z grads are difficult to work with, bosses are no longer all talk, no action: Now they’re rapidly firing young workers who aren’t up to scratch just months after hiring them.
The numbers are stark. According to a survey, six in 10 employers admitted they had already sacked the Gen Z workers they had hired fresh out of college.
Intelligent.com, a platform dedicated to helping young professionals navigate the future of work, surveyed nearly 1,000 U.S. business leaders. It found that the class of 2024’s shortcomings are shaping how bosses hire next—and it’s not good news for future grads.(snip)
So where is it going wrong for fresh-faced graduates?
Employers’ gripe with young people today is their lack of motivation or initiative—50% of the leaders surveyed cited that as the reason why things didn’t work out with their new hire.
Bosses also pointed to Gen Z being unprofessional, unorganized, and having poor communication skills as their top reasons for having to sack grads.
Leaders say they have struggled with the latest generation’s tangible challenges, including being late to work and meetings often, not wearing office-appropriate clothing, and using language appropriate for the workspace.
Now, more than half of hiring managers have come to the conclusion that college grads are unprepared for the world of work.
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I see the kids come in with that "attitude" like they're God's gift to employers.
A few have a great work ethic, but not many. Companies would have to be out of their minds to let workers my age go.
Part of it also, is that students don’t even think of the job search until their final semester. It’s something you need to start planning for in your freshman year, if you want the best opportunities. Start netwoking ASAP.
It’s why I advocate a lower wage for those under 18. But it will never happen because unions won’t allow, because it would result in hiring more teenagers.
If your first job is in a company that is big enough to even have an HR department in the first place, then I think you are already starting your career on the wrong foot. But that’s just me.
“Work your butt off for a company run by H1B migrants who will give you little to no benefits while every day you gotta watch some corporate video telling you how horrible you are for being a straight white male and will get reprimanded by management for not using proper pronouns around the office”
No
Nope, they are just bad employees.
I think every generation has its share of slackers.
“Apprenticeship” is something that an individual needs and is also responsible to recognize and grab the "Bull by the Horns" as they say. (Hold on for a minute. Chicks are talking after the Pistons game, and I have to change the channel). Anyway. I built a career and it took some time but it paid off. Cant save everyone. The world needs ditch diggers also.
I’m retired but I have a part-time job. 90% of the staff is Gen Z. Out of all of them only a few do any work. The rest always come in late, don’t follow the dress code, stand around and gossip or are glued to their phones. They do as little as possible. They are only there to collect a pay check.
That’s very insulting there, no0b.
CC
Wonder what percentage of those getting fired were DEI hires...
When me and my contemporaries entered the job market, we viewed it as kind of an honor and a privilege, and we gave it our all. We wanted to be achievers, and really earned our paychecks, in spite of how meager they were.
Sorry but the truth can be insulting to snowflakes
On a positive note, my eight-year-old grandson is already making a decent amount of money buying and selling baseball cards at card shows and on the internet.
Either that or it’s the liquor talking...
...or both.
I remember when everyone in HS had a job. If you didn’t work, you were a loser. But that went away. Now a lot of low-level positions are filled by very old people, not by very young people. Kids get to be 22 with a degree, and they go out to work their first job, and they don’t know how it’s done. People ought to be working at a young age — for some money, sure, but also for simple experience. It matters.
“They are only there to collect a pay check.”
No poo-poo, sherlock, if I had to work at a job where I was treated horribly and got no benefits I too would only put in the minimum work, if jobs want people to work their butts off you better give the employees a good reason to work their butts off
Just like the job market, I don’t think you’ve been on FR long enough to be this immature and demeaning.
CC
You know - like - a slave?
If you worked for me with that ‘tude the first thing you'd be doing is hauling materials, scaffolding, digging trenches. 15 minute break 2x a day and 30 for lunch. Late once and you'd be relegated to the end of a shovel for a long time.
People I can see who are retired and have not been in the contemporary workplace, go and try and get any job as a white guy and tell me how it goes
“”””The world needs ditch diggers also.””””
You think these people can dig trenches? You should see what it takes to try and find someone who isn’t the rare good worker to dig a long 5 foot deep trench.
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