I think it is totally fine to ask and get it on the calendar. Just can’t interfere with their requirements or penalize them for serving. Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 26, 2024, at 5:59 PM, Sterling Jacobson via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: > > > Had luck recently hiring non-college Gen Z kids that are enrolled in some > form of the armed forces. > > Might still be their first real full-time job with benefits, but they > understand "work" and "learning on the job" and "full time" etc. > Drawback is they sometimes have to go do "military stuff" and get paid. > > I also recently learned (I'm not an HR person, so cut me some slack) that I'm > not supposed to ask about said "military stuff", or "when they will be gone > and for how long" > So it's been a potluck of what happens after the hire, what the actual > availability is going to be. > BUT STILL I would hire these people all day long. > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> on behalf of Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2024 4:31 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Gen Z new college grads > > I assume some percentage of people in the Gen Z cohort do want to work hard > and build a successful career. Imagine you're a new grad hired into a work > from home or 2 days at the office company. That's got to be sub optimum. I > think the whole Covid work from home thing also relieved the first level > managers of actually doing their job - managing people. Or is that done by AI > now? > > Article seems to say after a couple years of just griping about it, bosses > are starting to fire the non performers. So what were the bosses doing until > now to earn their pay? Oooooh, firing people is hard! With newbies you also > need to do feedback and mentoring, because according to the article, colleges > aren't preparing them for the world of work. And if these companies have > accumulated a bunch of worthless employees with bad attitudes, that's going > to rub off on impressionable newbies. Honestly, that kind of happened to me > at my first job after college. > > Just my $0.02 worth. > > ---- Original Message ---- > From: ch...@go-mtc.com > Sent: 9/26/2024 5:06:27 PM > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Gen Z new college grads > > There seems to be a growing idea amongst the younger citizens that there is > a universal human right to never suffer hurt feelings. The ultra woke I > think would see a world where you have to be nice all the time to everyone, > irrespective of circumstance. > > This was prophesied by Rod Serling: > https://youtu.be/QxTMbIxEj-E?si=KMH-oBOURYW7tPbM > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan-GAMs > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2024 3:46 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Gen Z new college grads > > What did you expect? They're raised on TV and gameboxes and a diet that > literally had no food value, zero nutrition. Their brains never > developed and most of them are now living on adderal or ritilin. > They're non-functional humans and we have an entire generation of them. > With the attention-span of a fruit-fly. We might as well have used > lead-cookware, same result. > > On 9/26/24 14:13, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > https://fortune.com/2024/09/26/bosses-firing-gen-z-grads-months-after-hiring/ > > > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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