A generation of “stunned mullets”.
The end result of “Participation Trophies”.
Sooner of later, your artificial props fall down.
I am SOOOO VERY GLAD that I no longer am hiring & firing employees.
The end result of “Participation Trophies”.
Sooner of later, your artificial props fall down.
I am SOOOO VERY GLAD that I no longer am hiring & firing employees.
Not true of the ones I know
Structured on-boarding would include a sit-down with the employee to go through each of their duties one by one and explain “what good performance looks like” within the first three months.
“If there are any realistic low-hanging fruit projects that can be delivered on, then the new employee and employer should agree on those as a test,” he said.
“Sadly the majority of companies throw people in the deep end and expect them to muddle through.”
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So, the whole point of going to college and getting a degree is so that your employer can spend the time, effort and money to school you up to be at least basically functional.
Kids come out of colleges now days and can’t even think.
And for those who think STEM is exempt, you’re just not paying attention. The same SJW pressures that destroyed gen ed are going after STEM right now.
I've seen the professional workplace as both a low-level employee and a senior executive, so I think I've got a pretty broad perspective here.
I usually don't like making broad, sweeping general statements, but I will make one here because it's probably very relevant to the topic of discussion. I've had mostly good employees, and a few bad ones. A few of them were "bad" only because they were decent people who simply didn't fit into the position they held. Most employees had a lot of strengths and a few weaknesses ... and the key is always to get them to reach their potential in their strengths and work to improve their weaknesses.
The one broad generalization I will make is this: Over the last 25+ years I have noticed a dramatic increase in one particular type of new employee: recent graduates who apply for an entry-level professional job out of college in their mid-20s without ever having once been employed before.
I suspect this is the biggest reason why you hear so many complaints about the "poor work ethic of Millenials" and that sort of thing. Most people I know began working even before they were in high school -- and I'm not very old. Recent graduates today come out of school with impressive resumes and interesting life experiences, but I think most of what they've done means almost nothing in the business world. Piano lessons, traveling soccer teams, and high school class trips to Europe may be great experiences for a kid, but I've come to see them as liabilities for a modern job candidate, not assets.
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
Darn Kids!