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Gen Zers make ‘difficult’ employees, managers say
The Hill ^ | 06/30/2023 | DANIEL DE VISÉ

Posted on 06/30/2023 5:33:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: 9YearLurker

I am sure they do. My buddy started there as a regular employee. Stocking the shelves and running the cash register. Opening and closing. This was after he did twenty in the Navy. So, he knew how to work.

However, many people do not want to manage other people. They want to come in, do their shift and go home.

This is kind of like the Peter Principal. Which is to promote people to the point of their ineffectiveness. Meaning, you take your best sales person and promote them to manager. The same attributes that made that person a great salesman, do not necessarily make them a great manager of other people. My company did this for its first twenty years of existence.

Very few people actually make good managers of other people and are able to motivate others to do their job better.


61 posted on 06/30/2023 6:57:45 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The majority of young kids I’ve worked with recently are lazy, have a self entitlement attitude, argue if they don’t like their duties, come in and leave when they want, are ALWAYS on their phones, ALWAYS have buds in their ears, frequently take days off, frequently call in sick. The older folks show up on time, all the time, do their work, help out others, take initiative, work late if needed with no complaints, and are responsible.


62 posted on 06/30/2023 6:57:52 AM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Engineers coming out of Colleges are learning the critical skills of victimhood and politically correctness. I don’t think they’re stupid, just not prepared with key skills to hit the ground running


63 posted on 06/30/2023 6:57:53 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Mama Shawna
The best part is when your children tell their friends how they were raised.
And their response is "My God your parents were tyrants!
64 posted on 06/30/2023 7:00:15 AM PDT by glaseatr (Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep. A Co. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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To: GingisK

well, I was including part-time jobs while studying


65 posted on 06/30/2023 7:03:54 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

OK. That makes sense. I am forgiven, I guess.


66 posted on 06/30/2023 7:06:01 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: napscoordinator

Prove that assertion. I work in Nuclear Power and my experience with them is they get stuck on what they think is new or innovative only to get upset when they are shown it has already been tried and does not work.

They think most things are new because they just thought of it and seem to be unable as a whole to consider, that maybe, it was thought of before them. This is made worse as they are on average lazy and do not bother to research an idea or project to see if there is any history around it.

In a nutshell, they fail to consider history did not begin only after they became self-aware.


67 posted on 06/30/2023 7:08:12 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: DouglasKC

A very boomer response, yours is.

I’ve never worked for anyone, always owned my own business. Retired at 36, I’m 47 now.

That doesn’t stop me from seeing what others are going through.


68 posted on 06/30/2023 7:10:43 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: FarCenter

PARTICIPATION TROPHIES

COMING HOME TO ROOST


69 posted on 06/30/2023 7:16:14 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: woodbutcher1963

If fairly compensated, many would like the opportunity to move up, though of course there has to be a fit between the person and the job.

Good to conscientious employees who would be interested in moving up, too.


70 posted on 06/30/2023 7:24:58 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"SGK Global Shipping Services."

Warehousing and packaging, and it's just Gen Z that knows what kind of s^ck pick-and-pack is? False premise.

Gen Zr's I have met and employed are usually tech-overload, you have to slow them down to prevent the critical (and often easy) mistakes, but that's part of any training. But they beat Millenials every minute of every day of every week of every year.

71 posted on 06/30/2023 7:28:06 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Celerity
A very boomer response, yours is. I’ve never worked for anyone, always owned my own business. Retired at 36, I’m 47 now. That doesn’t stop me from seeing what others are going through.

Sorry you wrote it that you would, presumably, defend this viewoint: "Work sucks. Everyone makes 15 an hour, regardless of how well the company is doing. Rarely are jobs found that give 40 hours. School didn’t teach anyone how to do actual work. YouTube sets the standard now. Onlyfans. Crypto psuedo-rich. 99.99999 prevent of the rest get to work in restaurants. in the first person as if you were currently experiening it." So it was implied that you agreed with it. So I was giving you what has been the time honored and time tested solution to the perceived problem. It wasn't an insult but if you don't think that it's a viable solution even today then why?

72 posted on 06/30/2023 7:28:24 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: GingisK

Only the kind that includes orange juice.


73 posted on 06/30/2023 7:29:54 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: mewzilla
Deep State's diploma mills aren't there to prepare students for productive lives.

Deep State's diploma mills are there to provide compliant employees who turn out obedient drones with cushy jobs and cadillac bennies.

It is all about "credentialing" to ensure anyone not deemed as worthy by the PTB is kept low on the pyramid.... any pyramid.

Lawyers? Credentialed. Doctors? Credentialed. Professors? Credentialed. They can be incompetents who bribed, screwed or cheated to get credentialed, but some arbitrary standard(s) applied by certain gatekeepers stamped the ticket which allowes access through the metaphorical front door and into the building.

The "educational establishments" have made wonderful gatekeepers for the PTB, and have been rewarded handsomely for it.

74 posted on 06/30/2023 7:30:42 AM PDT by niteowl77
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Youth Soccer


75 posted on 06/30/2023 7:31:17 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: woodbutcher1963
However, many people do not want to manage other people. They want to come in, do their shift and go home.

Management hasn't been management for decades. You have no authority to hire, promote, demote, or fire anyone. You're expected to oversee grossly unqualified staff that HR hired for all the wrong reasons, including sub par pay and compensation.

The situation isn't new. I exploded in the Dilbert Era in the mid 1990s and has gotten a lot worse since then.

Most managers would trade out almost all of their staff if they could hire their replacements. Since that's not going to happen, most smart employees don't want to be "managing" others.

76 posted on 06/30/2023 8:34:01 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Skwor
...my experience with them is they get stuck on what they think is new or innovative only to get upset when they are shown it has already been tried and does not work.

Bingo. They get very upset. Their egos can't handle the slightest rejection.

They also have a serious knowledge and awareness gap of the history of what they're working on. It's shocking how little they know, and care to learn about things that weren't spoon fed to them.

I believe a large part of it is having single mothers, and also television and computers instead of reading. Their analytical skills are stunted.

77 posted on 06/30/2023 8:45:32 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Noumenon

Who will, over time, become supervisors. Thinking about that makes me glad to be semi-retired! lol


78 posted on 06/30/2023 8:51:05 AM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: GingisK

Ask them what a “Combo Wrench is”.


79 posted on 06/30/2023 9:12:27 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

The USA employers are finding out the real results of PARTICIPATION TROPHIES


80 posted on 06/30/2023 9:13:20 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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