Posted on 09/28/2024 7:35:07 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
Companies are hiring and firing Gen Z graduates faster than ever, creating a very miserable work experience for everyone involved. The rapid firing of Gen Z in multiple companies is not surprising as employers have spent the last few years complaining about how this particular group of employees is hard to work with, but the scale at which this is occurring does not set a good precedent for the future of work.
The Gen Z mass firing was revealed in a recent survey that showed that six in ten employers have already fired college graduates who were hired this year. One in seven of these employers also claim that they will refrain from hiring similar recent college graduates next year as well.
According to a survey by Intelligent, 75% of companies reported that some or all of the recent college graduates they had hired this year were unsatisfactory. Companies are quickly firing these Gen Z workers because they feel these employees are “unprepared for the workforce, can’t handle the workload, and are unprofessional.” These complaints have been levied against the group for the last few years but so far, managers have been able to work around the problem rather than eliminating the workers.
The primary reason for the rapid firing of Gen Z in companies is said to be lack of motivation among the employees—50% of respondents cited this as the main reason. The other factors include lack of professionalism, poor organizational skills, poor communication skills, challenges with accepting feedback, lack of relevant work experience, and poor problem-solving skills. The dearth of technical skills, poor cultural fit, and difficulty with working in a team were a few of the less cited reasons on the list.
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This comment has been posted here on FR endlessly. Your economy collapses if basic human functions are considered “skills” in a work force.
I disagree. Yes there are a bunch of kids with parents who think their job is to be their kids best friend, but it has just passed out from the culture when fast food joints found they could hire illegals for less money and landscape companies went into competition with neighborhood kids.
“When I was in High School, if you didn’t have a job, you were a loser.”
When I was in high school as a Boomer there were not enough jobs to go around. In my town even to get a fast food job one’s family had to have some influence.
Within a few years of my graduation, those same business owners were hiring young seasonal workers from Europe to fill those jobs because they claimed American kids didn’t want to do them anymore. It was easy to see why. Many of the peers of my younger siblings were driving brand new cars at the age of 17 and they weren’t driving down to the Jersey shore on weekends to work in those places. Instead, they were LIVING down there all summer at a family’s second home, and keeping the shore businesses thriving by PATRONIZING the establishments where my peers used to work.
But that now $10 Big Mac value meal tastes the same.
Indeed. And ordering kiosks instead of employees taking your order are becoming more prevalent. Unintended consequences …..
It's by design that schools turn out unlikeable, lazy, illiterates with arrogance and entitlement.
Are young people like this not the perfect Rat substrate? Do they not flock to communism? And do they not hate conservative disciplinarians?
I've said it a million times how we need to BRING THEM ALONG. We must. As much as we scorn them and as much fun as it is to dislike them, we MUST get them on our side.
Because sometime before they die they will grow up enough to do a day's work. Do we want to be despised by them, and have them love the Rats?
OR, do we want to be the ones who showed them a path out of the wilderness.
We need to do the charitable thing and bring them along.
It will pay off hugely.
And Trump needs to speak of this important topic.
The young women and men I know are working hard and making bank. They own their homes and work hard and play hard. Most are partnered if not married.
They will cry out, “Save us White men!” And we’ll whisper back, “No.”
Too many culturally incompatible ones..
We had a family tool and die shop with 2 employees - a machinist and a floor sweeper - me. I find that young people nowadays can’t do basic math and can’t tell the difference between a 7/16 wrench and a 7/8 wrench. It’s unbelievable
Ask one to show you 5 3/16” on a tape measure. First laugh is asking them to identify a tape measure.
I did three jobs in 5, and had to carefully explain why to many prospective employers.
Was told “We don’t hire people who are only looking for money. “ always found that odd. I’m not working for fun.
But great for you. I’ve encouraged many of my employees to do the same if they can.
“They’ll probably hire Indians to replace them.”
I worked for a Telecommunication company when I retired from the military in the late 90’s and they were replacing Americans with Indians because it was cheap labor. They would rather do rework of their s/w products multiple times than have it designed and worked with less issues when deployed. I watched as whole departments were replaced after they were trained by who they were replacing. Those with a lot of years had to stay and train them if they wanted to retire with their pensions.
Once the Indians obtain a foothold in a company with hiring responsibilities it became difficult to be hired if one was an American as they always leaned to hiring their own from abroad.
A few Gen Zers were raised correctly. A small minority. Most come from divorced and never married parents who are in a race to the bottom to see who could spoil their children the most. And which household could have the fewest rules.
Or so they are lead to believe...
I am stuck with one .
A difficult error , error ridden , entitled , zero communication skills , and a know it complex .
I cant wait to unload her .
Know just what you mean, we called it ‘Madonna complex”
When you call the tune, you must pay the piper. Sometimes in unexpected ways.
Forbes had a similar article. Result of a breakdown of proper parenting.
rire 50% of the staff and double the salary of everyone who remainedI've long held that such is the only solution for our failed schools: fire half the teachers, double pay for the rest, and hold them accountable, as there will be someone else waiting to take your job if you can't handle it.
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