TXnMA
Posted on 10/10/2019 6:24:19 AM PDT by C19fan
Young people are spearheading mental health awareness at the workplace.
About half of millennials and 75 percent of Gen Zers have quit their jobs for mental health reasons, according to a new study conducted by Mind Shares Partners, SAP and Quatrics. It was published in Harvard Business Review.
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A millennial aged couple was standing in front of the freezer door at the grocery store that had food that I wanted to get to. They were saying to each other that they wondered if the frozen food that my wife loves was any good. So I told them that my wife loved it and they ought to give it a try. They both looked at me with absolute horror and disgust on their faces and scurried away. They will share absolutely everything about their lives on Facebook, but they are afraid of older people who they do not know trying to talk to them.
Thankfully said snowflake is no longer here.
Easy fodder for the globalists.
Your story makes me so sad! The United States has the best small businesses and entrepreneurs in the world. It’s crazy it see how it is all being undermined.
I blame the hiring managers.
Twice in the past 10 years I built high performance teams with 2-3 mid to senior experienced folks and 4 times as many straight out of college. In both cases I brought in 5 times as many people as I needed and did 1 full day of round robin interviews.
At the end of the day 30% of the resumes went in the trash. For 5% if I hadn’t made an offer my team would have revolted. The remainder we rack and stacked and invariable it broke out to 2 groups - qualified but will take a lot of work or qualified and will likely grow to be a hard charger (language, technical qual, etc)
In each case I ended up with 2-3 candidates that I had to personally decide on because I had limited positions available. In each case I took the one with an additional skill or experience that the other didn’t have.
Within a year we had made significant improvements in the area we were assigned. Mainly because I refused to bow to pressure from other parts of the organization to back off on meeting requirements. Constantly the other functions would come to me and rail about my people - I always responded with what the requirements and procedures stated and asked where they were wrong. Products improved, metrics improved, morale was through the roof.
All have gone on to higher careers and I still manage to see them on occasion.
I’ve been consulting the last few years after a company decided they didn’t want to change culturally (ended up having to close shop instead after I left); but God I miss working with those teams.
Hire right. Motivate. Enable. Correct them when they are wrong, but most importantly stand behind them when they are right and being challenged.
I’ve been looking for another team building opportunity for a few years, I’ll be patient until the right opportunity presents. A lot of hard work, but the most fun I’ve ever had in my career.
Snowflakes always have wet thumbs call for mommy.
I can’t even!
*Runs away*
Hmmm the parenthesis was supposed to be after the 3rd paragraph.
Most of them are contract workers of body shops. If their contract is not renewed, their body shop just finds them another contract. There is a lot of rule-gaming to keep them technically employed, so they don’t go out of status.
Mental health reasons = I didn’t get effusive praise and a raise (participation trophy) every time I did the insignificant, required parts of my job description, and nobody in leadership thought my ideas for how to run the company better should be given as much credence as somebody who had done the job 15 years longer.
About five years ago things got bad.
During a supervisor and managers training day a manager that would later become my manager taught from a book espousing empowerment and accountability. In other words managers and supervisors should push decision making and accountability down to their subordinates.
This manager is now my manager and is a micromanager of the worst kind. Decisions that were mine to make for many years are now his and my job has become much more difficult as a result. Cost and man hours needed accomplish my work are escalating rapidly.
Another biz word pushed by management has be ‘advocate’ as in advocate your position. I advocated my position and had my job threatened.
Now I plan to retire early for my mental health.
This company has always grabbed the latest Management Philosophy book and talked the talk but has always failed at the walk. But the micromanagement has never been worse.
It’s time to get out.
Sounds like me.
For some that may be true, but the strained job climate of the last decade and a half made for less scope for competition in the workplace as employees and employers both struggled to maintain their positions. For employees, advancement opportunities in the corporate environment were limited and tended to be awarded based in large part on loyalty. Company management was often driven by cost-cutting instead of expansion opportunities, with little attention to the need to keep employees engaged and loyal over the long term. Years of poorly chosen, relentless cost-cutting account for much employee discontent today, which is often expressed as work-place stress.
TXnMA
A bad hair day is cause for mental health issues for millennials. Whaaa, someone stole my green crayon!!!
I seriously doubt the numbers.
That is pathetic. Welfare is charity - forced charity at IRS gunpoint, but still charity. These parasitic snowflakes have no right to demand that others support them when they merely don’t feel like work enriches their lives enough.
They tried doing the same for the new owner, but given the goal of that company wasn’t really to sustain the company, they burnt out.
I remember a story about a prisoner of war camp in ww11. Allies came over and bombed a town. The Germans made the prisoners move the rubble to a pile outside of the town. Then they made the prisoners move the rubble back. On the second move, half the prisoners died because there was no purpose in it.
We move a lot of rubble in our society.
There is an answer for your boys, just tell them they haven’t found it yet.
About once a week she emails/calls me about the latest bit of silliness just so she can vent.
The stories she tells about what they put up with are incredible.
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