If, by “agency” you mean gov’t agency it doesn’t matter (might even beneficial) because the more inept they are the sooner they will be shut down. When the collapse comes, they will be the most 2nd most harmed after the welfare-dependent population.
I’ll just cut the crap here. As a Gen X’er, the Millenials remind me of Baby Boomers. The parallels are scary. Millenials have just taken the traits to a new level, but the traits are the same.
Let’s face it, the last good generation was the Silent or Korean War generation. Anyone trying to stake claims that came after that is suffering from grand delusions.
So unless you were born before the post-WWII period, how about we just all get over ourselves and realize we all are the problem, and the people of this country just ain’t what they used to be?
Well, you aren’t firing fast enough. Hire them and fire them like water and eventually good ones will be forged from their failures.
They have been artificially exempted from failure, and without it none of them will grow into anything useful. With it some eventually will.
Sometimes, it's just the manager that's the problem. I worked for AT&T Labs, and it took years to show to management that having bigger screens meant better work. A manager typing a memo only needs 15", a worker bee looking at lots of code or a big spread sheet can get more done faster or better with a big screen.
This particular problem, outdated managers ignoring better tools for the workers, was fully discussed 3 generations ago, read your Deming: Out of the Crisis
These are rare folks, though. Maybe it’s always been this way
I actually think it has been this way, maybe not to some of the extreme we see today, but it’s always been there. Older generations always think younger ones are slackers, don’t want to pay their dues, etc… and that they had it so much harder than every one else. You know the old’ I had to walk to school barefoot in the snow, uphill 5 miles each way’ thing.
And the point is that society as a whole has changed and you can’t really blame kids raised in this society for what society has become. Isn’t that ultimately on the very adults complaining about it? They are the ones that created the way society is that these kids were raised in.
They had me until the 1 used a cuss word himself and wasn’t even actually in an angry context.
I can see a lot of these problems coming up.
“They have been told they’re the best, and their opinion is equal to anyone else’s, even those far older and more experienced than them.”
Boy, do I see this all the time. One of our experienced team just resigned. One of the reasons he gave is that as a “mentor” he was was tired of being asked questions then told the answer or being argued with by his mentab. He’d had enough of sweeping up messes as well. The only thing Confidence and Competence have in common is the letter ‘C’.
One of our management “techniques” is to take on candidates as contractors and send them on to other opportunities if they don’t work out. It is just too hard to terminate an employee any more. They stick like glue and some just stink like... well.
We also see some diamonds that are keepers and are very pleased to have them working with us.
If I had my way about things every body would be contract and have to pay ALL their own benefits and quarterly taxes. It would be a better and better informed nation.
One complaint I have is that far too many businesses don't realize time is money. Buy a good sized second monitor and you'll save me a half hour a day. That will pay for itself in about two weeks. That's a simple decision to make. But it seems like this manager just sees that as a expense. Although sometimes I joke at work that I have a bigger tech capital budget at home than I do at work and sometimes bring my obsoleted equipment from home to use at work.
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When I was working at a factory as a project engineer I would see the majority of the young hires texting away on their phones. Eventually a zero tolerance policy went in to effect and people were fired on the spot. It was surprisingly effective and equally hilarious hearing how ever text was an emergency.
We call them - Generation “Entitled”.
Too many of the new generation are entitled brats.
Now we know why there are so many pointless and incoherent commercials on TV.
This article seemed to be more of a little office whine than offering anything meaningful or insightful.
“Has anyone else noticed that it’s harder and harder to find proper candidates?”
Hire old people.
They probably need to suplement their pensions, and so would work for less than the punk trash.
It’s not just you; it’s been a disaster in the hiring pool and I don’t think it’s going to get better any time soon.