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Posted on 03/14/2019 6:05:22 AM PDT by C19fan
A third of millennials fail to make it through their three-month probation periods, a human resources expert has revealed.
Greg Weiss helps businesses integrate new workers but admits facing challenges with Generation Y.
He told Daily Mail Australia that millennials regularly under-perform, or are late or absent, and switch jobs often due to social media-induced envy.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
About thirty years ago, the attrition rate was about the same.
Part of the learning curve. They will do different on the next jobl.
If you grew up getting participation trophies for actually showing up half the time, you’re going to have a huge problem in a competitive environment were reliability and productivity are measured
Switching Jobs isn’t the same as “not making it through” in my mind.
That said, while I can see that the generalization is apt to a degree, of course it depends on the individual and how they were raised.
It’s also noteworthy that many in that generation are attracted to younger, less iconic companies that embrace remote offices and virtually no dress code. That’s how the people running those companies grew up and were raised. (think every PR, Marketing and Internet company you can)
Two words. “Smart” phones.
It’s true what the story says about lack of training. In most corporations, you have to learn the job from your co-workers. Ask questions, go to lunch with them, be observant.
But the biggest reason for men losing their jobs is anger, even if it’s totally justified. People are afraid of anger.
Anger is another specific reason that is part of the big, general reason people lose their jobs, which is that the workplace is different from school or any other environment you are used to. There is a boss who can fire you for any reason or no reason. When you fully understand how it works, you either become a perfect angel or get fired.
(Speaking as one on the border of Gen X and millennial in my last post, I still feel like one of those stereotypical old coots.)
You can make that more granular with words like GENDER, RACE, RELIGION, Etc.
My youngest was enticed by my companies management to get an intro level IT certification, which would open the door for an immediate, well-paying, permanent hire due to gender quotas (female) that needed to be met.
However, she was having too much fun working at a retail nerd shop hawking online games and related hardware to study like she needed to, so the trail went cold.
Yes, as a dad, I was extremely PO'd. Opportunities are fleeting, and won't always be there for the millennial's...
“Never let them fail” school policies as REQUIRED by “Pass Everyone” administrators since pre-k, kindergarten, first-fifth grade, 6-7-8, 9-10-11-12, freshman-sophomoric-junior-senior ....
These kids have NEVER been required to DO anything successfully. EVER.
Your average band member at least must practice and play their OWN instrument. A cheerleader has to move, jump, perform on his or her own - Nobody else is out there hiding their failures. I’d take “band” or cheerleading as a mark of success far, far more important than “grades” or test scores.
One of my kids holds a management position in healthcare. This is is a huge problem. They have no work ethics, Instead of planning their lives around their employment, they insist their employers should plan around their lives. Their priorities are completely backwards and it will kill the company if it facilitates this unproductive ignorance.
That said, while I can see that the generalization is apt to a degree, of course it depends on the individual and how they were raised.
Bingo. When I ask my (college aged) kids about their peers as described by the media (lazy, coddled, etc) they report the same. They are “with it” and so are their friends. They view the lazy kids as just less competition for them.
FWIW, same thing in high school. They said there were homosexual clubs, etc, and when I asked what they thought of all that, their response was “more girls for me.”
I’m not worried.
You can move on after that first trial period, to just say it was some ‘lessons learned’. But by the 18th month after graduation, if you are wrapping up the 3rd job that you were either let-go, or you left on your own....it’s going to be hard to convince the HR folks giving another shot.
I would suggest that some of these university graduates are discovering upon two years after graduation...that they aren’t prepared for the demands, or that they hate their profession. With $50k to $100k in student loans, you can’t do much to correct either problem.
I would also offer that the work demanded out of colleges in the 1970s/1980s....helped to define your stamina and drive. I don’t see that type of atmosphere today.
Let me guess:
Can’t tell time?
Get lost on the way to work?
Forget to GO to work?
Don’t know how to set the alarm clock?
Too lazy?
Can’t grasp the idea of being in the same place every day... at the same time?
The millenniels are finding out that in the real world, there are no “participation” trophies, and whatever they feel, isn’t good enough.
Task, Condition, Standards are the real world, Snowflakes. Adapt or die!
This article reminds me of the factories in Mexico on the US border during the 90s.
Workers were known to work for a few weeks at one place and then walk down the street to the next factory for 10 cents an hour more. Some would do it in a matter of days.
Authentic Western Jibberish,
Thank You !
Darn Youguns.
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