I am not Gen Z and I go to work every day as required. It is not a pleasant environment as many workers are profane all of the time. However, I GO to work and suffer it. No sympathy for those who won’t go because they don’t like the way people talk to them. You will NEVER be able to fix that.
Presumably they believe they could get a job where they don’t have to go into the office every day, which is what they’d prefer. Nothing wrong with them thinking about switching to something they expect would suit them better.
The Sales Ops Department at the last company I worked for before I retired was adjacent to the HR Department. Those were the laziest, loudest, party crown I’ve ever seen and made it almost impossible for those of us serious about running the business to get anything done. It was a real challenge to complain to HR about HR itself. No profanity problem, but I think this was even worse.
I don't disagree with your post until I get to this sentence.
I'm in total agreement: we can't fix the idiots who treat others like crap. That's on them, not on us.
Here's my problem with going back to the office: the trip in is unsafe. Walking through the bio-hazard that is Shitcago's south loop, the stench of urine, feces, homeless drug addicts is enough to make any normal person physically sick.
Telling me, a licensed conceal-carry permit holder who spends time at the range every week to stay in practice that I, at 60 years old, cannot defend myself from the vermin that infests "the loop" on a daily basis, looking for their next victim to pounce upon is a non-starter.
That the Chicago Police are ordered to stand down and not take down the criminals because "black lives matter" and the lying liberal lesbian licker lightweight lori lightfoot is weak on crime certainly isn't helping matters and the "news media" in Chicago isn't reporting the real situation in the city re: crime, filth, disease, homelessness and more is what continues to make Chicago a veritable "ghost town" because all it takes is one trip downtown "to the office" before damn' near every one of my co-workers including myself, says "NO!" we're not going back downtown.
So with respect because you're a long time Freeper who I've read and respected previously, your situation may be right for you.
It is not right for everyone.
I'm not going back downtown. Been there, done that. It's a fecal infested hellhole that isn't safe.
It didn't used to be that way. It is now. No one in their right mind goes into that city to work.
Best to you.
I am retired—but one of my big issues with the office was Laquisha two cubicles down spending all day on the phone loudly discussing her “child” and his legal problems.
It seems her “good boy” tended to commit a bunch of petty crimes and spent a lot of time in court and in jail.
Affirmative action makes the office environment a toxic workplace.
I have not gone to work in 7 years.
I make good money in my bathrobe.