Why ‘lazy’, ‘entitled’ millennials can’t last 90 days at work

nypost ^ | 03/12/2019 | Frank Chung

[ChicagoConservative27]

Millennials struggle to make it past the crucial 90-day mark when starting a new job largely due to “own goals” such as lateness and absenteeism, a HR expert says.

Greg Weiss, who specializes in developing “onboarding” programs to help improve retention rates, says businesses face a growing challenge with the new generation.

According to Deloitte, millennials will make up 75 percent of the global workforce by 2025, but data shows this cohort have a much higher churn rate — and it’s costing money.

In 2015, the Australian arm of global consulting firm PwC estimated staff turnover in the first 12 months was costing Australian businesses $3.8 billion in lost productivity and $385 million in avoidable recruitment costs.

[tbw2]

Yes. If you’ve got the right demographic check boxes, you’re owed because your ancestors were oppressed and you’re a victim of micro-aggressions. And everyone your age is owed by your greedy parents who have destroyed the world via climate change.

[riri]

I went back to work this year, at least temporarily, while my husband gets his new company off the ground. My “boss” is a millenial. She hasn’t put a full week in yet, in six months

[AppyPappy]

I am 60. I come in 10 minutes after 8 and leave at 4:45. An hour and a half for lunch. I asked for early retirement and was told “You know and do too much”. I’m not that good. I’m just the oldest rat in the barn and I am the go-to person on new technology. As I told the new programmers, “I do all the stuff no one else wants to do”. I am the last COBOL, C and Oracle Forms person. I am also the Groovy/Grails and Unix expert.

[bert]

Like I said you speak like a union steward who knows nothing beyond the union scam

You seem to know nothing of the front office or what it takes to keep a business running

[RedStateRocker]

You really don’t have a freaking clue as to what you are talking about.

You are probably the kind of guy who hires the cheapest unlicensed contractor employing a crew of illegals and then is utterly confused why you get a crappy job done .

Obviously you do not understand or believe in the free market, which belies the question as to what you are doing on a conservative site

[RedStateRocker]

Exactly.

My uncle graduated with a BS in phyics.

He bought a house in Topanga Canyon, married and started a family from that first job.

These dingbats expect someone with a $100K education AND the work ethic of us grizzled 40 or 50 somethings who’ve survived a few recessions. For

[mdmathis6]

He sounds like he has high functioning Aspergers. The lateness to work bothers me.

[flamberge]

For...

Your posting got cut short. But I'll bet I could complete it for you.

[..working for less than a store clerk at the local Stop-N-Rob convenience store.]

I have had to explain to executive officers the realities of cost estimates for complex projects, when said executives insisted they could be staffed by part-time contractors effectively paid less than minimum wage.

The summary is that you cannot anybody competent to work under such conditions. "No bid". Whining does not help.

[bert]

I am a world class contractor.

[Honest Nigerian]

Thirty or forty years or so ago a person out of college could get a job that would allow them to buy a house and start a family.
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As one who graduated college in the mid-70s I thoroughly disagree with that. There were a VERY few degrees that paid enough money for that. Accounting and Engineering are the ones that come to mind. Teaching was paying like about 2/3 of Accounting. Nursing about 80% to 85% of Accounting.
BTW -
One of my observations about “young people living with their parents” is that this is a function of my theory of “# of bathrooms” indicator. Starting in the 60’s homes started to have more than one bathroom. I believe that the average number of bathrooms in a home in a given society is directly related to the number of adults that live in a home on average.
If your lazy son or daughter had to share the only bathroom with the other occupants of a home I think they would move out a lot sooner.

[RedStateRocker]

In which case I bet you pay your employees WELL.

I have more respect for a good contractor or the people who work for them, than ‘consultants’.

What part of ‘you get the employees you pay for’ do you disagree with?

[Sequoyah101]

For me it was working on the rivers as a deckhand for at least two psychotic boat captains and with some really, really, really strange crew members. I scraped and painted two boats from the waterline to the top of the mast.

Painting is the only thing I happily hire done now and I never ever want to see Tiptonville, Tennessee again.

[rb22982]

You are correct. You can get away with below or at market pay with other tools - great benefits, good culture, great recognition programs, terrific hiring and recruiting practices etc but ultimately the free market works for labor like it does other things. Millennials have some of the worst and best employees available right now. A hiring managers job is to recruit and retain the good ones.

[ClayinVA]

Let me throw down on this from the other side. What is in it for me as the applicant to spend an hour on your website when I can send out 5 resumes to other jobs in that same amount of time? The last time that I was out for a while, I applied for 57 different positions in 4 months and that was in a down market

[suijuris]

You may be correct about the Aspergers. Yes, the tardiness is a big problem, but we work around it and consider the total value he brings to the company. It is sad because he is really a great and honest employee with the potential to do and earn so much more.

[21twelve]

“I believe that the average number of bathrooms in a home in a given society is directly related to the number of adults that live in a home on average.”

We got a flier for some new homes in our neighborhood. They had demolished several okay ramblers (3 bedrooms, two baths) and putting in two 6,000+ sq ft monstrosities on the same lot (about 5 feet between homes, no yards).

I forget the number of bedrooms (5??) - and the number of bathrooms was 6!. Each bedroom had their own full bath, plus a guest bathroom. (Okay - that one was probably a half-bath, but still.)

It is pretty tough to find a starter home around here. Even those little ramblers were priced pretty high due to the property value. I’m guessing $350,000 for them? Although prices have been coming down lately.

[lepton]

So what’s up with the work ethic of this younger generation?
They feel entitled to a six figure income, for an easy job sitting in front of a computer screen all day?

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The other side of it is that they’ve been effectively barred from the employment market for the past decade. Since older, more experienced workers were taking up what used to be entry jobs; more than the usual number of role-models have been paid to sit at home; minimum wage laws have incrementally created a barrier to entry into the job market; and they’ve been given the ‘benefits’ of high self-esteem while being told that their education is supposed to be sufficient for them to gain higher earning - they have not incrementally learned the simple skill of having a job or being responsible for themselves.

[lepton]

If you can’t get the quality and quantity of people you need, you aren’t paying enough, or are throwing up stupid requirements not germane to the job (which is anything other than quantifiable performance or sociopathic misconduct).

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There’s some of that. There’s also a boatload of mis-trained people who are not at all prepared to join the job market, which instead of creating a curve where increasing pay has a proportional gain in suitable applicants, there is a step function.

[mdmathis6]

Honesty has a very high intrinsic value that can’t always be valued in a monetary way....but if he is a functional “nut” (no disparagement meant) in your firm’s machinery that is at least a good thing.

Perhaps a gentle or perhaps a not so gentle focused discussion regarding his lateness can be attempted by asking him why he feels so arrogant, so self special, that he can arrive at work when ever he feels like it while every one else gets to work on time. Two things might come of it....you crash through his inner cartesian wall and he realizes that he never considered his actions as being harmful to his workmates; that things aren’t “okay” and you see a real change in his behavior. Or...he points out that because of the structure of his work, when he comes into work on time, he discovers that until other departments “do their thing”, he has nothing to do for couple of hours until such time his work “basket”(electronic or otherwise) fills up. So, in his “aspergerish” thinking, why come into work until there is work to do, in which case he then dispatches such work in the astonishing efficiency and precision that you have described.

He might not be able to form a goal of being more than he is now, but if you actually give him more to do, not less, he might just adjust to it, including coming in at the hours you wish him to so that he can “finish” what is assigned to him. He gets his satisfaction by completing his assigned tasks so you might be able to increase his work load. He is happy in what he is doing so why worry about his not being overly ambitious?

I think the tardy issue can be fixed by confronting his “arrogance” or at least pointing out that it appears to others that he is “self important” when he is not and that he is expected to be to work on time like anybody else. Remind him that no one is expendable but that he does have talents that are desirable and useful.

(coming from a slightly asbergerish man and prone to feel “self important” himself, and fellow Freeper, who had to go thru a few life knocks and grow up!)

[Red Badger]

It all started with that ‘Self-esteem’ BS...............................