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.
(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...
If you can do the work, you can find it.
Bullseye
Want to know a secret? No school ever taught anybody anything. The subjects are learned through personal effort on the part of students. The Gen-Zs don't appear to have interests outside gaming and social media.
who is generation z??? Like genders, this is all to confusing...
“ Why do I get the feeling some of this is not so much “The damn kids won’t work” and it’s actually more “The damn young people refuse to be sheep and minimum wage slaves and are demanding to be treated like human beings”
Because you’re one of them?
L
That’s life.
You have to step up to the plate and stand in the box.
If you’re going to go down, go down swinging.
Bosses are firing Gen Z grads just months after hiring them—here’s what they say needs to change
College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds (7.4.26)
“Why do I get the feeling some of this...”
The reason you get that feeling is that you pull it out of your ass.
Dressing appropriately, speaking appropriately, having thin skin, and coming to work on time is not demanding slavery.
Those born between 1972 and 2012.
Texting and social media, entitled, coddled (Self esteem movement)... They lack the ability to “get along” and “communicate.”
Low educational standards. They’re told they are geniuses and want to tell their superiors and elders what to do and how F’d up they are, but they are clueless idiots.
I tried very hard to prevent my kids from being like most the kids today.
Looks like that account has been banned for some time now...I can’t imagine why...
Well, he’s ‘down’.
Been zotted.
Good riddance. We don’t need crude, ignorant antisemites here.
“making an honest effort to LEARN the mission statement of their employers”
If I walk into a company and they have a “Mission Statement” within eyesight, I have a visceral reaction and not in a good way.
It takes me back to the days when more time was spent on bullsh!t “crafting” Mission Statements; Inspire Excellence, Six Sigma, and ISO training; etc., than working. Too much airy-fairy gobbledegook and too little performances.
The only necessary mission statement is “do your effing job” so the company makes a profit, and no whining”.
You were a pretty good antagonizer bot until you got yourself zotted.
>>the Gen Z workforce is utterly consumed by social media and gaming.<<
You’ve hit the nail square on the head.
>> Working hard these days gets you nothing
Don’t you claim to run an IT business or some such crapola?
The reasons offered in the snipped text pretty much cover it.
>> If you can do the work, you can find it.
^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^
(&/or the work finds YOU thru word of mouth)
She sounds like Mustang material.
My son started working in the produce department of Wal-Mart just before starting his senior year in high school. It was a good experience for him (and his parents).
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