I've often said this, but part of the issue is selection bias. People who can't hack it will eventually either wise up or remove themselves from the work force, and then the older cohort will look better as a consequence. I'm at the borderline between "Gen X" and "Millennial", and people complained and moaned about both age groups. We're senior staff and management now and complaining about how lazy Gen Z is. You can find news articles from the 1800's complaining about "today's young people". This is the same wheel that's been turning since the beginning.
Ugg and Ogg sat in their cave knapping flint spearheads and complaining about how wheels are making kids too lazy to do real work. -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2024 6:31 PM To: 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
