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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In my last (management) job, I got to a point where I would not hire anyone under the age of 40 unless they were a legal immigrant or a member of a dissident subculture in the US like Mennonites or homeschoolers.
“Even the immigrants aren’t the immigrants of old who came to work and contribute and become AMERICANS.”
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Its seems that immigrants are quickly learning to adopt American “work ethics”. They will soon develop a sense of entitlement and bad habits that Americans are falling into like being preoccupied with their cell phones all day long.
Gen Z were children brought up into this, so don't blame them. Their parents, grandparents and even great grandparents helped foster this.
As for "work or starve", the Welfare State is a direct, multi-trillion dollar rebuttal to that.
Stereotyping a whole generation of people in an article is stupid.
> You need a carrot as well as a stick to motivate people. <
Hmm. Like with most things, this employment situation is complicated. You post provides a needed piece of the puzzle. 👍
“When I was in High School, if you didn’t have a job, you were a loser.”
A buddy and I were so excited to work together at a gas station with a lift! We worked on our hot rods in between customers, that having that lift and other equipment there was fantastic. Exhaust systems were the first thing we did. We’d experiment with timing and then do a “test drive”, dialing it in.
I’d bet that the company you worked for was getting property and corporate tax breaks based on how many job positions they filled. Management calculated that ripping off the tax payers was better for business than having a well-paid hard-working staff.
“A lot of managers don’t want people working for them who they think can replace them.”
LOL
I ran into that decades ago after interviewing at a company I had worked for earlier. My name was on many of the product design documents and the guy running engineering might have been a bit intimidated by that.
I mad no mention of that but I am sure he knew about it. No offer.
That McDonald’s franchise owner is likely a registered Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and is getting tax incentives to hire people with the right melanin level.
20+ years ago a friend had a standard question for teenagers who would come into his watersports company looking for work.
“What is 17 plus 11?” If they couldn’t tell him, they were sent away. Most would ask for a “calculator”. Others would get a job, immediately announce a vacation and get fired. Others wanted summer vacations. Boss would explain that the 90 days of summer made the year for the business, required all hands on deck. A lot of them got fired over that.
The situation isn’t new, just worse. Now they don’t even bother with finding a job where they can goof off and get paid until they get fired.
“Oh and to hate all republicans and any older person with experience and wisdom.”
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Lot of truth to that. They have been indoctrinated to believe that all successful people are undeserving, not very bright, and got there by exploiting others.
One of the reasons for this is that many over-educated teachers and professors resent the achievements of business people who earned what they have through hard work, persistence, and sacrifice. Talk with any “educator” and you’ll hear the elitist resentment dripping off them. Nothing bothers them more than seeing blue collar workers and business owners having more money than they do.
“I believe the staff profile all depends on the manager and they prefer to hire from their own racial and ethnic groups.”
Also, it’s no secret what the ethnic composition of workers is at a particular business and if it is biased heavily then other groups do not apply.
“Who knew paying crap wages where recent grads can barely afford rent even with roommates, lousy benefits, an expectation that salaried workers would always work overtime with no additional PTO (wage theft) and a readiness to lay off/outsource/replace with a foreigner at a moments notice might sap the work ethic.
They’re not stupid: if they have to choose between being forced to work hard and live miserably and living miserably on the dole by voting for socialism, they’ll vote for socialism.
You need a carrot as well as a stick to motivate people.”
Unfortunately, there is at least some truth to your post.
> “What is 17 plus 11?” If they couldn’t tell him, they were sent away. <
Please see my post #53.
Illegals didn’t displace kids from those jobs. Affluence did.
“Parents won’t let their kids do that work.”
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Parents don’t seem to want to teach their kids to work. Very few assign any chores to their kids or encourage them to work in part time jobs. No lawn mowing, no snow shoveling, no yard work, and not even picking up the mail. Instead the kids learn that sports, video games, hanging out at the mall, etc. are what life’s all about.
I like to point this out to people: when my wife and I started out in our careers, we paid NOTHING for health insurance. We also insured each other and back then there was no coordination of benefits. If medically needed I could have recieved a heart transplant for the $200 deductible. Sure that was 40 years ago but when you got sick the doctor didn’t use leeches and spells; I don’t recall people dying in the street either. Before I retired, I was spending several thousand dollars a year to insure two people with a max out of pocket of $10k.
So, what the hell happened? Someone’s getting rich here and it’s not me.
Who expected that those of earlier generations that aided and abetted those lies would resent Generation Z for those problems?
It must have been due to the fluoride they consumed.
LOL. Good one.
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