It's the result of never having to compete their entire lives, just awarded for "trying".
Posted on 10/10/2019 6:24:19 AM PDT by C19fan
I seriously doubt the numbers.
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You are not alone. I’m betting that what they should have said instead, for example, would go something like this:
50% of the millennials that quit there job do for mental health reasons.
That’s at least possible even if it remains implausible.
It's the result of never having to compete their entire lives, just awarded for "trying".
I know they’re driving me nuts. Call Outs and cell phones.
So laziness is now a mental health issue?
I quit several jobs.
Once in a far away place when I was a dishwasher/busboy my coworker and I were cleaning up (end of night) and my coworker threw a dinner roll at me. Manager saw it and sent him home. I said wait you are going to send him home and leave me to finish up all by myself?
Long story short after I finished up, I went out to the bar where my manager was sitting and told him I quit and why. The guy sitting next to him called me the next day and offered me a job doing the same thing. LOL
I worked for essentially 3 major companies during my career. In all 3 cases the job was interesting and compensation was acceptable. In all 3 cases the management started boiling the frog which eventually led me to leave. The only reason I stuck around each company was the commitment I had to my family to provide for them. At the end, in all 3 cases, I had management (who had maybe the faintest clue about what my job entailed) telling me how to do my job, and how long it would take me to do it. Bean Counters.
Two of those companies declared bankruptcy after I left, and the 3rd seems to be headed in the same direction. Breaks my heart...
I can understand people leaving the workforce when the company leaders only care about how much cash they can stuff in their pockets at someone else’s expense. The leaders don’t seem to care about company long term success, so why should the workforce? OTOH, have a new job before you quit the old one, especially if you have others that depend on you.
Yep, I stayed in a job I hated up until a few months ago as the majority of the companies subtly made it clear I was too old, knowledgeable, and had been far too successful in my field to stay at the level I wanted to-—”why haven’t you moved up to VP, C___, etc...and didn’t buy the “I have a family and being going more than 50% of the time is not an option for me response.
Out of the blue an old acquaintance called me up, told me about a position he needed to fill and within a week had a new job that I absolutely love-—and where there are very few people under 45 years old.
Ironically, our biggest customers and targets won’t give the time of day to these younger folks who don’t have decades of experience and have just been trained to say certain things and give certain responses.
“And the professional HR field is beginning to advise companies that you have little choice but to suck-up to them.
This can’t end well.”
I saw this first hand at Microsoft.... they coddle these people and call it culture and inclusion. I could not get clear of that out fit fast enough.
AND it is not just the ‘kids’..
Remember, todays ‘kids’ and 30 somethings are OUR grandkids.
The 50+ crowd is filled with direct descendants of the VN protestors etal (AMONGST ‘others’) and a lot of them hold ‘High positions’, especially in Education and Politics.
I saw a ‘grinning idiot’ on Judge Judy who was getting paid by the Government to baby sit HER OWN grandchildren(4) of her 20 something daughter whose only talent was MAYBE working at MickeyDs ‘but it was stressful’.
These idiots and the ‘baby daddies’ and ‘well I’m a single mom’ proudly announce their status like WE are supposed to really care. (YES, sometimes there are extenuating circumstances)....
AND how do these people manage to pull off these big income tax returns? Even married with 2 kids in my ‘prime time’ getting a couple hundred back in taxes (admittedly I let her ‘have’ the deductions as we were able to file separately) was considered great yet ‘they’ tried to convince us to get it as close to zero as possible.....WHY ‘loan’ the Government money interest free for the year?
JJ Used to rail on those drawing disability (WELFARE??? for the most part) .... back was usually the problem and she would say how long then come up with....IF your back bad enough to keep you out of work, how did you manage to make and produce 3 children that Byrd & I have to pay for?
She doesn’t even call out the ‘welfare’ Moms with garish hair styles, covered in tats or all sorts of metal attached to their head etc...
WE ARE DOOMED....
Of course, every generation since before the Last Supper has spotted the ‘new generation of teens’ and asked ‘how will we survive with this newest batch of idiots’?
The problem is most “managers” have little real world experience and are now treating employees as fungible goods rather than an asset to be developed. Bottom line is the most important thing and the more you can put on employees the better the bottom line until it doesn’t work.
you can enjoy Indian management here as well.
I was assigned a millennial (26yr old at the time) contractor a few years ago for a project. He was only there about 7 weeks and he asked the boss to take 2 weeks off because he was too stressed. We were still on the easy part of a 2 year project.
I can’t believe how fragile millennial and post millennial people are. There are some that aren’t but way too many are. If we had a real national emergency, I think half of them would lay down and wait for death rather than act to save themselves.
I know a guy who ran into a similar situation in Qatar.
Even then, I find it hard to believe that these Snowflakes would ever admit they have a weakness, especially a mental weakness. And for 50% or more of them to say so, just seems impossible to me. Perhaps they think it makes it easier to explain why they live in Mom and Dad’s basement and get some kind of public assistance for a mental illness...who knows?
In the next year or so, the older Millennials will be turning 40....
I wonder how they are going to handle it?
Chill out—this was an incredibly bogus study (e.g., LGBTQ overrepresented):
“We aimed to broaden this perspective by framing our questions in terms of individual symptoms, which are less stigmatized. Instead of asking whether respondents had a specific diagnosis, we asked if they had experienced one or more symptoms from a list of common mental health conditions. (For example, “In the past year, have you ever felt sad, numb, or lost interest or pleasure in most activities for at least two weeks?”) We collected responses from more than 1,500 U.S. adults in the for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors, with statistically significant representation across race, gender, LGBTQ+ identity, education, and seniority groups — including demographics that have been historically underrepresented and under-researched in this area.”
https://hbr.org/2019/10/research-people-want-their-employers-to-talk-about-mental-health
This is a serious problem. I wonder if there is a study that shows how many hours are lost by these conditions and, how many hours are lost for management trying to help them with it.
i am beginning to suspect that a major reason that the h1-bs are so popular with HR is because they are less likely to initiate a lawsuit if/when they get terminated...
According to the obama admin; anyone with the slightest mental health issue cannot own a gun. So will all these young people be barred from owning a gun for life?
If they can’t be considered responsible enough to own a gun then how can they be considered mentally capable to vote? What about driving a potential weapon; a car? What about riding on public transportation? Is he/she going to wig out on the bus, train, or plane?
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