Jesus christ! Gen z really does not want to work. I have one that calls every week before her day off. Only a 4 hour shift. It screws us full timers over I can't get any thing done.
Another calls in sick way too much! Gets a 6 day weekend!
Total bluntness: why wouldn't they? Born in the chaotic aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, they spent their earliest years living surrounded by people either in panic or griping about the damage done by those in panic. In their childhood, they saw the 2008 crash and the rise (and prompt extinction) of Occupy Wall Street. The Boomers who grew up in the era of getting a job that could support a family right out of high school and working your way up from the mail room didn't "pull the ladder up after them" so much as douse it kerosene and set it on fire; the Gen Xers who should've stepped up to positions of leadership afterwards couldn't be bothered, and the Millennials are so mired in crazed hopelessness they probably wouldn't've if you put a gun to their heads.
Raised on a diet of constant fearmongering porn, told the world is going to end due to climate change- no, wait, overpopulation- no, wait, oil running out- no, wait... they wound up paranoid and neurotic, and faced with the choice of despair or hanging loose, they chose the latter.
And then Covid happened.
More precisely, the lockdowns happened. Terrified overreaction based on a total lack of evidence- that soon became terrified overreaction clung to despite an overabundance of evidence. Climate change is a troubling danger that's far from hopeless; overpopulation is a Malthusian myth that's been constantly disproved for more than two centuries, and entirely synthetic oil production has been possible for over a decade- but the stark undeniable evidence of EVERYONE around you turning into a screaming lunatic perfectly happy to not only abandon basic civil rights they swore allegiance to, but throw friends, neighbors, and family members under the bus and call for more was an undeniable message that things really ARE just as bad as they've always been told. I hesitated on that last sentence, since not *everyone* went nuts, but those of us who didn't faced a level of social backlash like nothing I've ever seen. Having a storefront window explode in front of your face because the tennis ball-sized rock hurled at your head missed has a way of dampening your enthusiasm for sharing your ideas, and a way of terrifying any witnesses.
Think of the world they grew up in, and that they DIDN'T see the relative sanity and security that marked our childhoods- even if you grew up in truly awful circumstances, you knew there were good places with good people out there. They don't have that advantage.
We had a new 20 year old start 3 weeks ago. On probation for 700 hours. Already called in sick 4 times. Wanted to leave early last Friday. Keeps talking about Christmas holidays needing time off. Told him to stfu looked like a deer in headlights. He already asked to get moved elsewhere saying I was too hard on him…. Pointing out all the mistakes he makes.
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I did not want to work either but I did not have rich parents or some kind of welfare scam. I don;t blame them. I look back on my life and most of it was taken up with having to go to a job every day.
Don't know, I started working for myself hauling scrap at 8, never stopped even during a stint in hospital, 70 hour weeks doing what you enjoy doesn't even feel like work
Boomers deserve to be screwed over. I hope they call in every week.
Laziness. Spoiled by parents.
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