@@ClownfishTVtruth. I’ve been called a boomer, and I’m 39. According to gen Z, being a boomer is a “mindset”. Never mind that millenials coined the whole “ok boomer” meme. Gen Z is really standing in the shadow of gen x and millenials and just don’t know what to do with themselves. It would be sad if it wasn’t so pathetic.
@@ClownfishTV Honestly I was raised by boomer parents and inherited their mindset and work ethic I wear this as a badge of pride when young people joke about me being a "Boomer" even though I am an early millennial .
"Gen Z" only applies to Americans and maybe some British kids, IMHO. These silly little labels are Americanisms, and it's our cultural dominance in the Western hegemony that cause them to be applied based not on the sociopsychological BS but just date of birth.
Okay I gotta say it. I wasn’t told that either, but seeing how my dad clawed his way up from nothing at age 14 to being 55 and the company head, it made me want to do the same. I think our generation just severely lacks positive role models and ambition.
No it isn't, the only reason why woke could get any power is because they were shaming ppl for being "racist", far-right etc. Theocracies, and fascism would likely not exist without shame either.
Shame is underrrated. Cancelling is too much imho, but shaming keeps people in check and wise them up. A lot of people just do not know or care and shame, while creating feeling of discomfort, nudges them towards change. It's the whip and the carrot. Both are needed.
Same. The time before social interactions are the worst, but after they start it gets a lot more chill. No way I would ask someone else to be an emotional support 💀
Back when I was under 25 I did not have a driver's license so I needed a ride to interviews and anywhere over a mile away that needed me dressed up and clean looking. Never had the parent in the office with me.
Good! Then you have a stronger backbone than a lot of Gen Z folks then. I applaud you for overcoming the struggle and stepping out of your comfort zone to do what needs to be done.
I’m looking for a job after being out of the job market for several years after breaking my back and I’ve been told that a lot of hiring managers won’t hire if you don’t have things like pronouns on your resume. It’s all so confusing.
@@jodi2847 Nope, I’m looking to return to health care. It’s an incredibly tough market so I was willing to do whatever I had to but maybe it’s hurting my chances instead.
This seems like a logical progression from the process we've been using to raise children for the last 40 years. We teach children to rely utterly on their parents and teachers for 18 years, them dump them into the real world and expect them to know how to act independently. If you're not given any freedom, you can't learn self-reliance.
I went back to college at the age of 35. This was four years ago and I had to do a project for my Psychology class where I had to make a zombie dinner menu over the parts of the brain. I was so mad that I was paying thousands of dollars to get a HIGHER education and here I was making a zombie dinner menu! A project better suited for an elementary school student!
@@MissRora let me guess. You had to buy your own supplies too. So pay us thousands to get that degree and you can’t even get a complimentary glue stick for the 1st grade level project we demand you do. At least when you made one in 1st grade all the supplies were provided free. 🙄
In 2019, just before the pandemic, we had a candidate for a position coming in for a 2nd interview. It was going to be a panel interview with the Director of HR, an IT Director and a junior manager. The candidate's mother literally wanted to be in the room when we conducted the interview with her son. Needless to say, the interview didn't move forward and we basically said "don't call us, we'll call you".
A lot of these kids don't want to live in reality. They want to live in a liberal bubble wonderland and that is due to liberals projecting their safe space out of reality nonsense onto them.
@@Agent_125I wish I wasn’t born at all now I have to suffer for life after they decide to throw you on pills at school for being a boy 😂this country is a failure all around
You are the problem. You're literally enabling what these parents did all throughout these kids school lives. It's always someone else's fault. Here's a hard truth kid. You failed because of you.
@@The13thRonin Heh thanks mate. Its been a few decades since someone called me a kid. I think you turned one of my grey hairs back to black Mr. Samurai.
It's a MASSIVE RED FLAG for any hiring manager... I am a generation before gen Z and the ONLY REASON anyone would use theirsl parents for was to get a job from a family friend or relative of the parents (aunts, uncles etc) but definitely not to come along interviews etc. That's embarrassing.
The parents should blame themselves for ruining their children by cuddle them too much and helicopter parenting them. Not giving them the freedom to navigate the world on their own.
It is because of upbringing... B0ys doesnt taught any responsibilities while G1rls doesnt taught about manners..... You Wondering why this generation are doomed??
@@jjred233 Maybe for 15 year olds or maybe if there is good connections that could help landing a good job. But something like these guys are reporting, like parents going to the HR departments of random companies to do jobs interview for their grown children, means at lack socials skills and real world experience that seems to come from a sheltered life and a total failure of the education system.
I worked for an engineering firm and we had several candidates show up to an interview with their parents. This was always met with a hard no thank you.
@@domingodesantaclara1130 That's awesome, I am jealous. I lost my dad when I was very young and left home at 17. No support but managed to retire young, also comfortable. Different starts you and I but similar endings.
I lucked out as a Gen Z (1998). At the place I currently work at I was only hired as a temporary worker, but I didn't call out for the entire year and showed up for every shift and they hired me fully when my time was supposed to be up. Been working here 4 years since
to be fair we're heading to the apathy route. look at men not participating at work, school, or training. NEETs basically. in a world of apathy, participation trophies WILL have value.
When my children moved out of the house they had three piles of things. A pile to take with them. A pile to donate to charity. Lastly a pile to throw out. Their participation trophies were in the throw out pile. The medals and awards they kept were the ones they earned. They were 3rd place medals or elementary school awards for reading 1 book a week in a school year. Or awards pine wood race car awards, where they built the car not Mom or Dad built car.
As a late-millennial who's mom has tried to insert herself into a few of my interviews cause she's an anxious busy-body, I can confirm it is embarrassing as all hell
This is what happens when you don't have a civilisation that is entirely reliant on agricultural cycles, which if they fail can result in mass famine and death.
I work in HR and the things you see when interviewing people. Ive seen one person come in bathrobes because they’re being forced by mommy and daddy to go to the interview and they dont want to get hired💀 The other in literal shorts. 💀 now thi? What is happening with this gen😭
I had one guy who showed up to a job interview literally stinking drunk, looking like he'd been on a four day booze and coke bender and smelling like he'd slept in a pig waller.
The currect generation has at least in part become allergic to work. They want to stay home forever. I tried to work and failed. I panic or stress on a risky degree, I can't work like normal people. The curret generation is afraid, lazy or both. Mostly lazy, and think everything just... comes to them. It doesn't, it absolutely doesn't. I have help and family and a small job, and it earns me my welfare. I work as much as I can manage, but I do the work. These current youngsters are lazy, pathetic failures. And they apparently want to stay that way. Utterly abysmal.
@@karlthorsten9118 My favorite example of that was this one girl who complained on tic toc about a perspective employer "not accepting her time blindness" and being chewed out by the HR lady who was conducting the interview for basically admitting that she is a selfish inconsiderate asshole who thinks its okay to waste the time of others. If you're one of those people like me who would otherwise be late (I was two weeks late for my own birth) because you have a hard time managing your time then set up a routine that builds in plenty of time to do whatever you need to do in the morning so you won't be late then do that, instead of demanding that your potential employer "just accept" that for you a scheduled 8 AM start will actually be more of "guideline" than a hard rule.
I remember taking a Internship class in college that guaranteed to ensure you an internship. Halfway into the class, we were not given an internship. We were not told about the internship that was assigned to us, and the professor of the class knew this and did not help us one bit.
It's one thing if you ask your parent on how to fill out an application, especially if it's the first time you're filling one out, but to have your parent themself fill it out for you AND have them come to the interview with you just shows how awful this current generation is. They've been babied their whole lives.
I disagree. It shows how awful PARENTS are. If parent doesn't want to go, they won't go, no matter how much child will beg. If parent really wants to go and will force themselves, what can the child do, call the cops on them? Even when children are adult, as long they live under the same roof as their parents (and those who go to interview for the first job do), the parent-child power dynamics still apply.
@@Gnidel Heh, you win the prize. It's easy to get pissed off when Get X tries to absolve themselves of guilt while blaming whole generations for this worlds problems. Question: who raised Gen Z?
@@jackall-trades6149 Oldest half of Millennials and the youngest half of Gen X. You need to remember that each generation has their ebb and flow. The older half of the X Gen are more like boomers, for example, where the youngest are more like Millennials, and so on and so forth. Still, people have a point. Gen Z are choosing to be lazy. After 18 you can't blame the parents anymore.
My sister has this young woman on her team. This woman cannot get anything done because she spends her time making excuses and blaming other people. Worst of all, she took over another person's project for clout, didn't do any work on it, and blamed him for being unable to start because he apparently made some mistakes on it. With the deadline approaching quickly, my sis invited that guy back to finish it and he finished that morning. Unbelievable
This is why we should force women back into work like they did in the old days. If they were made to dye clothes for 7 cents an hour, they would actually contribute something useful to society.
My generation was completely coddled and denied every chance to grow up, as a child the one thing i DREAMED of was getting a job when i turned 16 so i could actually work for things i wanted, i dreamed of learning to drive, becoming independent and living my own life. I was told or outright screamed at CONSTANTLY because it either wasn't "allowed" or that i was trying to "grow up too fast". Even if i had tried to fight it, everything entry level was taken up by people three times my age. Then i turned 18 and i was told that due to having a form of autism, the government would give me social security and medicare. They said i wasn't capable of work, so i wouldn't HAVE to work. I was never allowed to grow up when i wanted to and the moment i was old enough i was STILL told i didn't have to because they would pay for everything. Now i'm 35 and i've never worked a day in my life, i've been playing video games. I have no idea how i even WOULD get a job if i actually wanted one. My life is boring, empty and meaningless, i've got no skills, i don't have a single reason or need to do anything. My parents are afraid for what will happen to me when they are gone, but they never let me grow up at all when i needed to, why would i suddenly have all those skills now when i was never allowed to develop them? "But i want grand kids" and what woman is excited to be the wife of THIS!? LUL! Despite living a life of leisure, i think i would have been happier being the kid who became a butcher at 14.
And to clarify by fight your parents I mean be WILLING to have a screaming match, and also be willing to sleep on the street. You have to stand firm and be willing to take the consequences.
My grandfather didn't find a steady gig that he loved until he was over 50. If you got the time, try a trade. They're in demand, and at least give you something to do with your time.
I just turned 32 8 days ago. I'm just at the beginning of my IT career and I'm autistic. It's not easy finding jobs tbh. Not to mention that I my career field requires me to keep getting new certs in orders to qualify for some jobs.
I'm gen Z. I took my mother to my most recent job interview. the difference is that I'm on the autism spectrum and don't exactly understand a whole lot, and also don't know the difference between lots of documents I needed. EVEN THEN, I didn't need her there for anything outside of being able to sort between the documents I needed. I'M ON THE SPECTRUM, I HAVE A SOCIAL DISORDER, AND I STILL SOMEHOW MANAGE TO HANDLE THESE THINGS BETTER. I'm ashamed to be a part of this generation.
No worries. Us millennials feel the same with our generation. We're in our 30s and we're somehow crying about words online and feel threatened?! Grow the hell up.
Funny enough... I heard, a decade ago, of an interview where the interviewee would not look at the interviewer and kept texting his responses to the guys phone. His parents were happy to talk to the man. He failed to get the job. The parents demanded why and he said; "he never looked at me and never spoke to me." It was only later when he turned his phone back on that he found the messages. It was insane.
We are speaking law of averages. There are always exceptions. Like the occasional screw up from the greatest generation. However among “gen Z” there are as many success stories as there are failures among the greatest generation. Gen X was forgotten, Millenials are the lost, and gen Z are the damned. They are lesser sons of greater sires. At least the generations prior to Z knew what a woman was and did not think 2+2 equals racism.
*I’m Japanese and Gen Z. I spent 6 years of my childhood living in Los Angeles, so I speak English well. Went back to Japan for High School and Graduated with Honors. Graduated my local community college with Honors. I got hired at my town’s garden / nursery store and got promoted to Store Manager in 3 years. Now at age 22, I got my own House with my Best Friend, who also lived in Los Angeles for 6 years, graduated with Honors, and became a Store Manager at our town’s local Beach Store.* *And we’re Published Indie Musicians* *It’s not Gen Z. Its their Lazy and Unaccountable Parents for spoiling these brats!!*
dumb take. just went into Glassdoor forums (its a job hunt website) saying they've sent 100 resumes and not a single interview. it's not laziness. the entire job market is in the craphole right now with all aftereffects of the covid lockdowns
@@aurahoneydew9607 Not really. None of my employees are under 29 years old. I live in a small semi-rural town, and 96% of the High School Grads move on to the Major Cities for College (Not really, they want to party and be dumb). Some return after getting their degrees and refuse to work in our town. They have superiority complexes. They just want to find any way they can to go back to the major cities (to party and be dumb).
My friend (we are both late Millennials) moved to Washington and got a retail job immediately after the interview because the manager liked that he knew how to talk on the phone, apparently the Zoomers applying there were too afraid to answer the phone. I definitely blame the parents for that, like it is scary if you were never made to do it growing up, my parents made me call relatives and now I'm fine. My Boomer mom said she used to be scared of talking on the phone and her parents made her call people and she got used to it. 100% a parenting problem
I answer the phone if their on my contact list, or I know I'm waiting for a call. Otherwise I never talk on one as all the other calls I get are spam. And if they happen to not be, they usually leave a voice-mail so I know it was them and I can call back.
I'm Gen-X and recently encountered my first Gen-Z work colleague recently. He's less than a year out of college and has the mindset 'I've done a four year degree so that makes me a professional'. He really believes he knows it all. In reality, he knows nothing of any use.
That fear of failure or rather thinking nothing will change no matter what I think is definitely crippling anyone coming out of high school or college right now. I have it too. I’m glad I got another job cause while I still have that fear, I at least know I’m not stuck forever now.
Nobody is "stuck" in their early 20s unless they got someone knocked up. That's a mindset nobody can fix except you. It's not the responsibility of your employer to make you feel better about your life.
I’m gen-z and I can agree that most people in my generation are very disinterested in working. I personally have a CDL and have nearly earned my HVAC license. In my first job there was a kid who was 2 years younger was constantly complaining, smoking weed, sleeping and putting in even less work than the bare minimum. Although, I can understand why my generation wants their parents to show up for their job interviews. Many of our generation have been coddled and haven’t had to deal with the grit called life. My older brother and I feel like we were born in a different generation, especially when my younger brother who is only 3 years younger is bordering on brain rot. I love him, but I gotta show him some tough love and get him used to working. I had to force him to join the HVAC class with me. He watches XQC and thinks he can earn money by simply playing games online. He’s so smart, but he doesn’t care about anything. Hopefully, I can help my little brother iron out his problems before it becomes irreversible
I was 16 when I got my first job (2006). Yeah my mum came with me but didn't actually come with me into the interview. After that, I went myself. My parents did nothing to help because they aren't allowed to.
Just when I'd thought I'd heard of every bad parenting skill.....here comes another one. Have a little dignity, genz mom and dad. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
@@darthlaurel the fault was giving them ipads. The only thing they want to do is be influencers and most havent realized that gaining an audience this late stage into social media apps is the toughest thing to do. A lot just buy views until a company starts sponsoring them
When I - born in 1982 - look at these kids, I really wonder how we, their parents' and grandparents' generation, failed them. Edit: "Why are they blaming Gen X"? These kids were thrown into societies that gave them no chance to grow up, coddled all the time with participation awards, school systems not really teaching, utterly toxic positivity and helicopter parents. I don't blame the kids for not doing what wasn't an option for them.
Easier to blame others than take any responsibility? Or maybe its because according to this video and so many they somehow had the power and organization as young kids to force adults into giving participation trophies and everything, so getting a job should be easy?
Generational thing College thing I consider it as a failure to instill the drive to seek independence from parents, and the failure of the "child" to even grasp it for themselves. Kids can't read even at highschool nowadays, can't cook, can't do the basics of home or automotive maintenance. You leave them with a set of tools and instructions, and they'd rather call and pay someone else to do it. The generations now, are too geared for an automated world, that doesn't exist yet, and are horrified at the prospect of physical labor.
The only thing I can figure out is that their parents didn't do those things either. As children, we learn by observation. That's how we learn to function in the world around us. My kids have no problem doing those things, but I was a SAHM, so they had home cooked meals all the time, and my husband (though not his profession at the time) was a carpenter by trade so fixed the house. He also would fix the car if it broke down. So our kids saw that and wanted to do it too.
This is why we need to bring back feudalism. If we simply forced people to work, we wouldn’t need to waste time teaching them. Sure, they might complain about rights and liberties, but since most of them can’t even read, we could just have them sign contracts that strip those rights away without them knowing.
I cannot think of anything less appealing of having tons of followers on social media…an army of people that are either kissing your ass or hating your guts. No thanks. I’ll stick with my “real” job.
At a therapist, the problem we see with GenZ clients is their inability to overcome adversity. Whenever they get knocked down, they struggle to pick themselves up on their own.
Probably because we have been shatted on our whole lives and lied too we are tired already just the truth. When you riddle a group of kids with pills to act right at school lmao good luck that’s just one scenario where this country is a failure
Wow. Before graduating high school seniors had to take job search training courses. For the final exam you had to come to school dressed in your best, most professional looking clothes and take part in an test interview. Which was video recorded. The whole class had to critique your performance; your attire, posture, voice and how you conducted yourself. GEEZE. Schools used to care enough to prepare you for the "real" world.
"There are failures in a generation" Pretty sure that's every generation. I'm not embarrassed by a few losers that have no connection to myself, doing something I've never heard of people doing till this video.
I could see this coming a mile away. When I worked for a University, the advisors would complain about kids bringing their parents to register for classes and debate grades for them if they felt the professor didn't grade properly. The hand holding never stopped.
Why would they complain? Could they not say "Thanks for coming in, just let me start by saying Ive enjoyed teaching [childs name], and that no amount of you talking will change the grade."
I was going to say... my mom registered my classes, but I was also a young teen who was duel enrolled and knew nothing about what they were talking about.
I'm taking some community college courses to up my licensure at work. Told by my professor that I'm the only online student to come talk to her personally about improving my grades (it's a challenging course). Everyone keeps complaining about how the course is unfair and wants the answers given to them to memorize. Despite that B.S., there are honestly some valid complaints. Digging for the useful information is irritating. The study guides are so lengthy it might as well say "know everything" (which is fine, just makes it superfluous). The textbook is written by someone who doesn't speak human. And to monitor cheating, the college requires you to install google malware on your device to record you in your own home. When it comes to school anyway, it's absolutely a two way street. No one knows how to teach anymore, and with the advent of AI, it makes it ridiculously easy for teachers to be as lazy as the students.
When I was teaching at a university, I only had one parent contact me. Her child had posted tests from my class to a public website and so I had called her out on it and asked her to remove the tests, saying that I was disappointed she had done it. (She had been in my class the year before; so I didn't even say that her grade would be changed.) The parent was irate and sent me an email about how dare I accuse her child of cheating. She has been so upset and on and on. And she was going to contact the president of the university to protest my horrific treatment. I asked my department chair what I should do about it. He said, "Nothing." The student is an adult and as such I'm not at liberty to discuss grades with other people unless they are specifically allowed to on the university records. I washed my hands of it and went on.
I got told a long time go by a manager that he did not hire people with average score superior to 8.5 (like a 3.0 GPA and above i think in the US), because for the MOST part those were fake, which was the problem with millenial schooling, a lot of people were getting grades that they did not deserve, now education has crashed and having degrees means nothing because the newer generations don't have the skillsets even the basic ones.
Parents' contact info is fine if your place of residence is their home, or if say you had a medical emergency they were the ones your new employers knew to call. Bringing them to an interview like it's a breakfast club will not get you hired most likely unless the job you're going for has "connections" you need to even be considered. In those situations have them come, but they're not there to speak for you. You're there for yourself and need to advocate, "My mom did this job once and trained me to do it as well," something like that without them explaining it to the person you hope to have as a boss.
9 years in college From game design to fine art drawing and painting, to media design, I'm working at an airport trying to slowly design my comic knowing that it's a dead industry because my passion is visual art and storytelling. Kneon, what damn art student said: "I dont want to be in-betweener." I'd kill to have that job. I didn't even think we still had jobs like that in the States.
Are you kidding? I did not take my parents when I was a teenager. If someone came to a job interview with their parents I would have them escorted off the premises.
I knew someone who was on “Mental health leave” from work because her new supervisor didn’t want to hear her opinion in meetings. She just wanted her to take notes.
I’m gen z and I went from homeless after my parents kicked me out to doing engineering. All my gen z friends have had a similar brutal experience. Idk where these people who are this socially inept are coming from 😂
On the flipside, I guess one can stand-out even more just by being a normal, stable human being. Candlelight grows brighter when surrounded by immense dark.
I had my first job (that wasn’t working on the family farm) when I was 16. One of my friends at school once suggested I could have my parents tell my employer I needed time off because I was still a minor (I can’t remember the reason I needed the time off work). I thought that was the most embarrassing thing I could do - have mommy and daddy interfere with my part-time job. And I was 16, still in high school, still living at home! I was just working as a cashier at a fast food place, but still. I can’t imagine being in my 20s and dragging my parents to an interview or anything like that!
If I were an employer or assigned to interview potential candidates. The second some schmuck brings in "mommy and daddy" to a job interview... My immediate reaction will be to point at the door and in no uncertain terms, tell'em to get the hell out!
XD I'd ask two questions "Are you X?" "Yes" "Are you here to work or your mom?" XD and depending on what I hear, I will decide if phase 2 is "we'll email you" or *quietly shreds application*
I remember back when I worked for Blockbuster Video in the 90s and we'd have the occasional parent be the one to call if we were hiring, come by to pick up the job app, be the one to fill it out and drop it off as well as bring the kid in for the interview and pace the store until it was over. Needless to say, they didn't get hired. We expected the potential new hire to at least put pen to the application if they were interested.
My first job was working for my Uncle, he was the worst/toughest boss I ever had. He said "I know I'm giving you a lot of shit, but when you go to get a job somewhere else and the manager tries to yell at you for something you'll say 'is that it?' and you'll never get flustered again." He was right. Being exposed to that extreme made it very easy for me to work in some tough conditions, because they weren't as tough as working for my Uncle.
When my friend had an interview many many years ago, they said they picked her for in person interview because her resume showed 4 years at gamestop. They figured that meant if they hired her she'd be with them for a while. Didn't give a crap about her degrees.
I've given that speech to a new hire who couldn't write 3 words without a typo "You job is to make my job easier - if I have to spend time correcting everything you do - then you are worthless and I will find someone else". And I have hammered that into my daughters - you find fulfillment in your family/friends/community - you go to work to eat. If you happen to find fulfillment through work REJOICE - because that is rare. Because if you find fulfillment at work - why are they paying you?
This! Teachers and counselors fill their head with finding their dream job where they feel they make a difference instead of viewing a job as just a means to an end. That end being taking care of yourself and hopefully having a little extra to do something every once in awhile for fun.
I'm 73. I cannot remember a single time that my parents and their friends EVER said that my generation was lazy. It NEVER happened. They did joke a bit about how lucky we were. You know, "When I was a kid we had to walk to school both ways uphill."
These kids would love my mom though, she's so controlling that it turned into Munchausen by proxy. Thank god I'm at the tail end of Gen X though, because I still had at least some independence after school, and a high school job that suited people my age (local mom and pop video store, best job i ever had)
To be devil's advocate, companies nowadays have atrocious and predatory hiring practices that an inexperienced worker for hire will need someone more experienced to force a fair contract from the companies.
@debanydoombringer1385 Looks like you are unfamiliar with the current hiring practices of companies today. Try and look for a job today to get a feel of it. Sometimes the term 'boomer' sticks as it should.
Job hunting is a learning experience for you but, bring your parents is extremely embarrassing and shows you can't handle things on your own or do the job that your suppose to do. In life everyone can't hold your hand forever, if your parents is gone what are you gonna do, you have to put on your big pants on and grow up.
As a younger millennial in his 30s I see this as pathetic. I'm currently at the beginning of my career and these people can't go anywhere without their folks for jobs?
This sounds more like a parental mistake rather than a gen z mistake. My dad May occassionally drive me there but he waits in his car, he does not enter the building.
There is an inherent flaw with the education system here in America. The fact that tests are NOT open note and open book. When was the last time you were on a job where you were not allowed to research something? I think it is appropriate to have a timed exam, however. The reason being, if you ask a relatively simple question, and it takes a week to get a response, most people will NOT be happy. There tends to be a time frame where a customer will get angry if an answer takes too long. We need to get back to people thinking "how would a customer react if I did...such and such..."
When my son is tested to qualify for the next higher position at the oil refinery, it's not open test. He has to be able to point to each pipeline running through the area, identify what's going through it, and say where it goes to. When there's a fire and a valve needs turning off, you don't have to time to look it up. It's about being to respond quickly and efficiently is why you're taught to memorize stuff and remember it. Is a company going to promote someone that has to constantly stop work to look up someone or the person that can immediate recognize what needs to be done and do it in less than half the time?
The mental health days cracks me up, especially for people who work a traditional work week. Like, dude you already get 2 mental health days a week. Its not anyone elses fault if you fill up saturday and/or sunday (or whichever 2 days a week off your job gives you).
Honestly, the concept itself doesn't bother me much. Depending on what their lives are like, they may have their weekends full of other things (taking care of family, maybe a second job if needed, etc.). If a person has vacation days built up and they want to take one just to have a day off, that's totally fine with me, but it needs to be scheduled in advance. You don't just up and take off on the day of and leave your fellow employees in the lurch.
@@ChaoticYak1 Yeah I am not talking vacation days, good companies give those to you and use them as you like within their scheduling rules. The idea though that you can just wake up and decide you don't want to go to work that day, and we are all supposed to understand it as some sort of "mental health" day is more of what I am making fun of. Again you get two days off work every week, why not use one of those as the mental health day? I think that is kind of what religion did back in the day, a day to sit and not work and meditate on your god or the meaning of life or whatever. The demand for "mental health days" now just seems like a lazy person's excuse for not working, and then they complain they can never get ahead. Do they think pro athletes or other successful people give into themselves everytime they don't feel like doing something. No they get up and do it anyway because it is what they have to do to get to where they want to go. No one is going to carry them.
@@ChaoticYak1 That's not your employer's or your fellow employee's problem. All of whom your choice to just not work that day effects. I don't think you understand what a "mental health" day is. This started in the tech sector. Thanks to TikToks of A Day in Life Of videos, young people are expecting it in every workplace now. It's you being allowed time off because you can't mentally handle work. In some tech places, they'd be off for months and because they're salaried workers, still be getting paid.
In the workforce is hard to find good help these days. The real world is hard and we all have to deal it of all ages. Things definitely need to get better.
Your society was doomed the moment you invented electric lights, clean drinking water, air conditioning, and central heating. The fact that you no longer have to worry about marauding bands of Indian tribesmen has made your entire society weak and pathetic.
As a X-er who normally just assumes that everyone in Gen Z is aZoomer, the bad reboot version of the Boomers except with the Internet rather than television and the Woodstock and LSD. The small minority of your generation that are actually functional people are disgraced by the others.
I hate to break it to you but as an HR manager in charge of interviewing. We already have a very bad opinion of your generation. Not your fault personally but people of your generation. I'm going to give you a couple of hints to really impress. 1. Dress for the interview Make a good impression. Clean shirt short hair tie pressed trousers sports jacket or suit and leather shoes preferably with a high shine. 2. Remember you are probably the 100th interview that we have had and we are praying to the gods that you are the one so we can stop interviewing people. We are on your side We want you to impress us We want you to get the job so we can stop interviewing people!!! We are on your side You can relax! 3. ask yourself one question and if you can answer this question with enthusiasm you will 99% get the job. Why do you want to work for this company? 4. work ethic work ethic work ethic!! We are HR managers that have had to interview hundreds of people so we can smell entitlement a mile away. It's not a nice smell and you won't get the job if we smell it on you. be humble Do not automatically demand things. I actually had one person that wanted to file a complaint at me for the interview! 😅😅😅
Less competition for you. Imagine getting to be one of the few sane individuals. You're literally going to have such a great life when that's who you're competing against for jobs and partners.
I have seen a Gen Z girl show up with her mom on the interview and she spoke for her the entire time. We didn't hire her. We also have employees parents show up and hang out regularly. It gets awkward when they are there for an hour. One manager said he saw a girls parents more than he saw his own.
Back in the good old days of the Hanseatic League, we would separate children from their parents, and the parents wouldn't even know which boarding facility their children were being sent to. Most of these children would only reunite with their parents once they became fully-fledged merchants.
I believe most Gen Z do not know how much work goes into any "show" on any platforms. They seem to think if they start a 30 minute show, then they will only have to work 30 minutes a day. They do not understand that they will need someone to look up information on the subjects on their shows. And they need someone to edit the footage of the video that will be shown on their show. Also, they will not make much if any money until they get 500,000 subscribers or more. It takes a LOT of work, something they do NOT want to do. They want everything handed to them!
I run a business too. I dont call anyone for an interview until I read their email first THEN the resume. I can easily weed out the nincompoops if they have pronouns beside their name.
This seems to be a bigger issue with younger Gen Z than older ones. I know mine are the same age as you and none of their friends are like that except one and they rag him constantly. Pretty much everyone they grew up with has stable lives and are living on their own. My eldest's wife just turned 23 and this seems to be more along her friend's attitude. Her younger brother is even worse.
I have seen this most of these gen z fools are always on the phone even on the job then they get angry when the boss scolds them for being on their phone instead of doing their job.
I worked several work expirence and part time jobs before I finally got a full time 40 hour contract. But damn, taking your parents in with you to the interview? That is embarrassing.
Yeah Gen Z is the absolute worst but it is the fault of their terrible helicopter parents, social media, the purveyors of the message and trash school system.
I'm old Gen Z. I'm going out and trying new things. Challenging myself. I've got my fair share of setbacks and failures. Just gotta keep your head up, learn, and grow.
Gen X here, and have an 18 year old daughter who is like this, she won't listen to a single word we say because her generation knows best, schools have a lot to answer for not preparing these kids for what is heading in their direction, so if they won't take advice from parents and schools are filling their heads with magic what do we do?
She won't listen to you not everyone. you became her friend instead of a parent because the other mom/ dad will judge you, now they say wow what dead beat kid All because you need be the cool parent.
You have to let them fail. It's hard. Believe me, I know. But they'll be better for it in the long run. Don't help them if they have an issue. Make them deal with it themselves. They'll figure it out. They have to learn their problems aren't your problems anymore.
I only ever heard of one applicant bringing ther parent to a job interview, guy was a Hmong who just moved to the country and he needed a translator. It must have went well he got hired as a blacksmith apprentice on the condition he passed his language exam. he passed his exam 4 month later, on time.
I will say from experience (mine and serval colleagues). This started in the 90's and it does not matter if it is a University, Community College, or Trade Schools. The instructors are told to only teach them how to pass a test. They need the test scores for funding and a lot of these schools threaten the instructors stop teaching normally and only teach them to pass the tests. It is all about funding.
Dude I'm 30 now and as a millennial I can tell you that we were not prepared for the fucking real world I sure as shit do not think that Generation Z is
6:00 - it's crazy because our parents did wild stuff like that but I don't know of any parents now that would do the stuff they did. I DEFINITELY didn't do stuff my parents did.
My son is Gen Z and struggling to get a job, we help him as much as we can but he wont even let us see his applications or grill him on his answers but he has had so many interviews with no success. I think its hard for recent school leavers to have something special as they missed out on work experience and summer work due to Covid. Saying all that my uncle got me my first job and I'm gen x :D
It was very common when I was job hunting. I sent 5 applications a day and rarely got a reply, even a polite refusal. You just had to assume you would never hear back unless they wanted to interview you. 🤷
The crazy thing is, I've been applying and one that I've been trying for and kept getting alerts, they recently started asking to "record your responses" through camera with your face like an interview but there is actually nobody there to interview you, just to record you. I'm already upset that they ghost or it's a total ghost listing, I'm not going to give them any more info (facial/vocal recognition data) than they already collect when I'm just applying for them to sell where ever instead of hiring me. Don't even get me started when some of the online applications demand SSN, I refuse to give that out too until I get the actual job.
Try and go for trades. I'm serious. A job is a job, not an identity. Plumbing, Electrical, Business Apprenticeships, EMS. These show that you can actually do something, and look fantastic on a resume.
Yeah, people can say whatever they want about Gen Z being lazy, but that doesn't change the fact that the job market and the applications have also become hell.
My wife and I just came back from the second two week vacation we have taken in 29 years of marriage. We both work and are college graduates - she in business me in computer science. We have had to work first what we have - including two kids that are also college graduates. We are -in our 50’s - finally where Gen Z demands from the first day of their first job. Makes zero sense…
You an Geeky are not in your 70's there fore you are not Boomers.
It was a joke. Gen Z calls anybody over 30 a “boomer.”
@@ClownfishTVtruth. I’ve been called a boomer, and I’m 39. According to gen Z, being a boomer is a “mindset”. Never mind that millenials coined the whole “ok boomer” meme. Gen Z is really standing in the shadow of gen x and millenials and just don’t know what to do with themselves. It would be sad if it wasn’t so pathetic.
@@ClownfishTV Honestly I was raised by boomer parents and inherited their mindset and work ethic I wear this as a badge of pride when young people joke about me being a "Boomer" even though I am an early millennial .
Some Boomers haven't hit 60 yet. You could be 59 today and be a Boomer.
@ClownfishTV we were the MTV generation
I’m Gen Z, and my Czech/Italian parents told me if I wanted something, I had to work for it. I uh, see other parents did not do that.
"Gen Z" only applies to Americans and maybe some British kids, IMHO. These silly little labels are Americanisms, and it's our cultural dominance in the Western hegemony that cause them to be applied based not on the sociopsychological BS but just date of birth.
Okay I gotta say it. I wasn’t told that either, but seeing how my dad clawed his way up from nothing at age 14 to being 55 and the company head, it made me want to do the same. I think our generation just severely lacks positive role models and ambition.
@@spartanhawk7637they're there, but the morons on tiktok and tweeter just screeched louder so guess who gen Z ended up hearing
Polish. Not an issue.
We're living on 🤡 world
This is why shame is a societal good.
agreed
No it isn't, the only reason why woke could get any power is because they were shaming ppl for being "racist", far-right etc. Theocracies, and fascism would likely not exist without shame either.
Shame is underrrated. Cancelling is too much imho, but shaming keeps people in check and wise them up. A lot of people just do not know or care and shame, while creating feeling of discomfort, nudges them towards change. It's the whip and the carrot. Both are needed.
It depends on the shame.
Shame is important, but a parent helping a child get a job has been going on since the beginning of time.
I have severe anxiety and sometimes struggle to do things like interviews, I still don't ask my parents to do it for me 😂
Same. While I would like if they'd do it for me, the embarrassment would outweigh the anxiety and so I do it myself.
Same. The time before social interactions are the worst, but after they start it gets a lot more chill. No way I would ask someone else to be an emotional support 💀
@@spacejunk2186Specially because it's counterproductive. If you never do things by yoursef, you will never do anything by yourself.
Back when I was under 25 I did not have a driver's license so I needed a ride to interviews and anywhere over a mile away that needed me dressed up and clean looking. Never had the parent in the office with me.
Good! Then you have a stronger backbone than a lot of Gen Z folks then. I applaud you for overcoming the struggle and stepping out of your comfort zone to do what needs to be done.
If I see pronouns on a resume, instant no hire from me.
Or the word "Other" in the gender section
I’m looking for a job after being out of the job market for several years after breaking my back and I’ve been told that a lot of hiring managers won’t hire if you don’t have things like pronouns on your resume. It’s all so confusing.
@angelwings1979 Whoever told you that is lying, unless you're applying for activism.
@@jodi2847 Nope, I’m looking to return to health care. It’s an incredibly tough market so I was willing to do whatever I had to but maybe it’s hurting my chances instead.
my pronoun is: there's the door.
This seems like a logical progression from the process we've been using to raise children for the last 40 years. We teach children to rely utterly on their parents and teachers for 18 years, them dump them into the real world and expect them to know how to act independently. If you're not given any freedom, you can't learn self-reliance.
Good point, I'd assume
I went back to college at the age of 35. This was four years ago and I had to do a project for my Psychology class where I had to make a zombie dinner menu over the parts of the brain. I was so mad that I was paying thousands of dollars to get a HIGHER education and here I was making a zombie dinner menu! A project better suited for an elementary school student!
About a decade ago I was in a Graphic Design program where we had to make collages. Glue sticks, magazines, the kind of thing kindergarteners do.
@@MissRora let me guess. You had to buy your own supplies too. So pay us thousands to get that degree and you can’t even get a complimentary glue stick for the 1st grade level project we demand you do. At least when you made one in 1st grade all the supplies were provided free. 🙄
Seriously!!!!!
Wow
True, but was there more detailed complexities attached to it.
Fir example, if they ate [enter part of the brain] how would it affect them ?
In 2019, just before the pandemic, we had a candidate for a position coming in for a 2nd interview. It was going to be a panel interview with the Director of HR, an IT Director and a junior manager. The candidate's mother literally wanted to be in the room when we conducted the interview with her son. Needless to say, the interview didn't move forward and we basically said "don't call us, we'll call you".
and then the pandemic happened and everything changed
you hired mom?
Looking at Gen Z, I'm seeing the absolute failure of their parents to prepare em for the real world.
A lot of these kids don't want to live in reality. They want to live in a liberal bubble wonderland and that is due to liberals projecting their safe space out of reality nonsense onto them.
Some people should have kids because they are not responsible enough to handle the lifestyle.
@@Agent_125I wish I wasn’t born at all now I have to suffer for life after they decide to throw you on pills at school for being a boy 😂this country is a failure all around
@@Agent_125sad
Lawyer
Emotional support....I can understand. Calling and going into the interview...hell no
@@domingodesantaclara1130 i prefer my emotional support python
This reminds me of the episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Marie send a letter to the bureau embarrassing Robert.
To be fair, most public schools don't teach a single useful thing about getting a job. Someone has to set an example for these kids.
You are the problem. You're literally enabling what these parents did all throughout these kids school lives.
It's always someone else's fault.
Here's a hard truth kid.
You failed because of you.
Thats not their job. Its never been their job. It shouldnt be their job.
@@The13thRonin Heh thanks mate. Its been a few decades since someone called me a kid. I think you turned one of my grey hairs back to black Mr. Samurai.
@@The13thRoninno they failed based on their parents and society haha. You are how your raised and where you grew up, that’s unfortunately the truth
@@elLooto Why not? If school isn't to prepare kids for the future then what is it good for?
A lot of people nowadays confuse being honest with being mean.
Those same people can't get weighed by their doctor without feeling discriminated against.
It's harassment.
Against who? @hit3894 an entire set of children born within a 10 year gap?
@@hit3894 how is being told the truth harassment?
@@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays @qaanndrakmord6319 I mean't telling the truth is considered harassment these days.
It's a MASSIVE RED FLAG for any hiring manager... I am a generation before gen Z and the ONLY REASON anyone would use theirsl parents for was to get a job from a family friend or relative of the parents (aunts, uncles etc) but definitely not to come along interviews etc. That's embarrassing.
The parents should blame themselves for ruining their children by cuddle them too much and helicopter parenting them. Not giving them the freedom to navigate the world on their own.
I blame society thinking discipline and child abuse are the same thing.
Funny, I use to see parents helping children apply for jobs all the way back to 1990s. Its just on social media now,
It is because of upbringing... B0ys doesnt taught any responsibilities while G1rls doesnt taught about manners.....
You Wondering why this generation are doomed??
And not getting involved in the school system or thinking school will solve their kids problems or....parents don't give a shit.
@@jjred233 Maybe for 15 year olds or maybe if there is good connections that could help landing a good job.
But something like these guys are reporting, like parents going to the HR departments of random companies to do jobs interview for their grown children, means at lack socials skills and real world experience that seems to come from a sheltered life and a total failure of the education system.
I worked for an engineering firm and we had several candidates show up to an interview with their parents. This was always met with a hard no thank you.
@@domingodesantaclara1130 That's awesome, I am jealous. I lost my dad when I was very young and left home at 17. No support but managed to retire young, also comfortable. Different starts you and I but similar endings.
I lucked out as a Gen Z (1998). At the place I currently work at I was only hired as a temporary worker, but I didn't call out for the entire year and showed up for every shift and they hired me fully when my time was supposed to be up. Been working here 4 years since
Participation trophies was a garbage thing that happened to kids
to be fair we're heading to the apathy route. look at men not participating at work, school, or training. NEETs basically. in a world of apathy, participation trophies WILL have value.
When my children moved out of the house they had three piles of things. A pile to take with them. A pile to donate to charity. Lastly a pile to throw out. Their participation trophies were in the throw out pile. The medals and awards they kept were the ones they earned. They were 3rd place medals or elementary school awards for reading 1 book a week in a school year. Or awards pine wood race car awards, where they built the car not Mom or Dad built car.
As a millennial I would be absolutely mortified
I’m a millennial born in the 80s and if I had told anyone that I had brought my parents to an interview, my peers would’ve said yo that is so gay
@randombro89 same here man lol. i was also born in the 80s. Ive only been at interviews solo.
As a late-millennial who's mom has tried to insert herself into a few of my interviews cause she's an anxious busy-body, I can confirm it is embarrassing as all hell
@@randombro89 I'm a 90s baby and the thought of bringing someone with me to a job interview has never even occurred.
@@clarehidalgomillennial mothers tried to force themselves into everything.
As a gen z this is fucking embarrassing.
me too
It's no fault of thine.
Just keep treading that upward path, and maybe you'll blaze their trails to follow.
I’ve already done a job interview without my parents, so thankfully I’m more prepared.
You're fine. Don't worry about it.
This is what happens when you don't have a civilisation that is entirely reliant on agricultural cycles, which if they fail can result in mass famine and death.
I work in HR and the things you see when interviewing people. Ive seen one person come in bathrobes because they’re being forced by mommy and daddy to go to the interview and they dont want to get hired💀 The other in literal shorts. 💀 now thi? What is happening with this gen😭
I had one guy who showed up to a job interview literally stinking drunk, looking like he'd been on a four day booze and coke bender and smelling like he'd slept in a pig waller.
@@Hammerhead547Was it McDonald's? Because they'll take fuckin anyone 😂
The currect generation has at least in part become allergic to work. They want to stay home forever.
I tried to work and failed. I panic or stress on a risky degree, I can't work like normal people. The curret generation is afraid, lazy or both. Mostly lazy, and think everything just... comes to them. It doesn't, it absolutely doesn't.
I have help and family and a small job, and it earns me my welfare. I work as much as I can manage, but I do the work.
These current youngsters are lazy, pathetic failures. And they apparently want to stay that way. Utterly abysmal.
@@karlthorsten9118
My favorite example of that was this one girl who complained on tic toc about a perspective employer "not accepting her time blindness" and being chewed out by the HR lady who was conducting the interview for basically admitting that she is a selfish inconsiderate asshole who thinks its okay to waste the time of others.
If you're one of those people like me who would otherwise be late (I was two weeks late for my own birth) because you have a hard time managing your time then set up a routine that builds in plenty of time to do whatever you need to do in the morning so you won't be late then do that, instead of demanding that your potential employer "just accept" that for you a scheduled 8 AM start will actually be more of "guideline" than a hard rule.
Crazy things, dress code is no longer a thing, they are entitled and have no respect.
When I was 16 and looking for a job, I would ask my mom for interview advice but never bring her with me.
My wife just told me about a woman that came into her work looking for a job for her daughter.
No joke.
I remember taking a Internship class in college that guaranteed to ensure you an internship. Halfway into the class, we were not given an internship. We were not told about the internship that was assigned to us, and the professor of the class knew this and did not help us one bit.
It's one thing if you ask your parent on how to fill out an application, especially if it's the first time you're filling one out, but to have your parent themself fill it out for you AND have them come to the interview with you just shows how awful this current generation is. They've been babied their whole lives.
@@Ability-King-KK ipad gen that wasnt prepared for anything except what are your pronouns?
I disagree. It shows how awful PARENTS are. If parent doesn't want to go, they won't go, no matter how much child will beg. If parent really wants to go and will force themselves, what can the child do, call the cops on them? Even when children are adult, as long they live under the same roof as their parents (and those who go to interview for the first job do), the parent-child power dynamics still apply.
@@Gnidel Heh, you win the prize. It's easy to get pissed off when Get X tries to absolve themselves of guilt while blaming whole generations for this worlds problems. Question: who raised Gen Z?
@@jackall-trades6149 Oldest half of Millennials and the youngest half of Gen X. You need to remember that each generation has their ebb and flow. The older half of the X Gen are more like boomers, for example, where the youngest are more like Millennials, and so on and so forth.
Still, people have a point. Gen Z are choosing to be lazy. After 18 you can't blame the parents anymore.
My sister has this young woman on her team. This woman cannot get anything done because she spends her time making excuses and blaming other people. Worst of all, she took over another person's project for clout, didn't do any work on it, and blamed him for being unable to start because he apparently made some mistakes on it. With the deadline approaching quickly, my sis invited that guy back to finish it and he finished that morning. Unbelievable
This is why we should force women back into work like they did in the old days. If they were made to dye clothes for 7 cents an hour, they would actually contribute something useful to society.
My generation was completely coddled and denied every chance to grow up, as a child the one thing i DREAMED of was getting a job when i turned 16 so i could actually work for things i wanted, i dreamed of learning to drive, becoming independent and living my own life. I was told or outright screamed at CONSTANTLY because it either wasn't "allowed" or that i was trying to "grow up too fast". Even if i had tried to fight it, everything entry level was taken up by people three times my age.
Then i turned 18 and i was told that due to having a form of autism, the government would give me social security and medicare. They said i wasn't capable of work, so i wouldn't HAVE to work.
I was never allowed to grow up when i wanted to and the moment i was old enough i was STILL told i didn't have to because they would pay for everything.
Now i'm 35 and i've never worked a day in my life, i've been playing video games. I have no idea how i even WOULD get a job if i actually wanted one. My life is boring, empty and meaningless, i've got no skills, i don't have a single reason or need to do anything. My parents are afraid for what will happen to me when they are gone, but they never let me grow up at all when i needed to, why would i suddenly have all those skills now when i was never allowed to develop them? "But i want grand kids" and what woman is excited to be the wife of THIS!? LUL!
Despite living a life of leisure, i think i would have been happier being the kid who became a butcher at 14.
And to clarify by fight your parents I mean be WILLING to have a screaming match, and also be willing to sleep on the street. You have to stand firm and be willing to take the consequences.
Same thing happening to me but am not 35.
Maybe try writing? Business and pleasure might be had in a constructive synthesis.
My grandfather didn't find a steady gig that he loved until he was over 50. If you got the time, try a trade.
They're in demand, and at least give you something to do with your time.
I just turned 32 8 days ago. I'm just at the beginning of my IT career and I'm autistic. It's not easy finding jobs tbh. Not to mention that I my career field requires me to keep getting new certs in orders to qualify for some jobs.
I'm gen Z. I took my mother to my most recent job interview.
the difference is that I'm on the autism spectrum and don't exactly understand a whole lot, and also don't know the difference between lots of documents I needed. EVEN THEN, I didn't need her there for anything outside of being able to sort between the documents I needed.
I'M ON THE SPECTRUM, I HAVE A SOCIAL DISORDER, AND I STILL SOMEHOW MANAGE TO HANDLE THESE THINGS BETTER. I'm ashamed to be a part of this generation.
As a Gen Z guy I'm absolutely at a loss for words. I can't believe how pathetic this generation is.
On the bright side, at least we have a lower bar for entry into greatness I guess.
@@Gameboynitro they wanted to be influencers since age 12, time passed, they became adults and still haven’t realized that they wont make it
No worries. Us millennials feel the same with our generation. We're in our 30s and we're somehow crying about words online and feel threatened?! Grow the hell up.
not on GenZ, they are widely showing the failure of our institutions and parents.
@@bryana.escaleralopezI knew how the whole TH-cam steamer back in the 2010s were a sham in my mind
The whirling blades from the helicopter parents are drowning out the interview questions!
Funny enough... I heard, a decade ago, of an interview where the interviewee would not look at the interviewer and kept texting his responses to the guys phone. His parents were happy to talk to the man.
He failed to get the job. The parents demanded why and he said; "he never looked at me and never spoke to me." It was only later when he turned his phone back on that he found the messages. It was insane.
Gen Z are the children of parents who were raised by helicopter parents and Tiger Mom's, they were doomed from the start.
Gen Z here, and I can speak for myself and a lot of my friends, and we don't do that. If some gen z does this, it's weird .
I’m not exactly the best case study, I’m a lot more old fashioned than most of Gen Z, but yeah far as I’m aware this is just weird.
Some rotten apples are making the entire barrel look bad.
@RKNancy they are pros and cons for each generation.
It just got emphasized no thanks to social media and all those camera-equipped cellphones out there. 🙄
We are speaking law of averages. There are always exceptions. Like the occasional screw up from the greatest generation. However among “gen Z” there are as many success stories as there are failures among the greatest generation. Gen X was forgotten, Millenials are the lost, and gen Z are the damned. They are lesser sons of greater sires. At least the generations prior to Z knew what a woman was and did not think 2+2 equals racism.
*I’m Japanese and Gen Z. I spent 6 years of my childhood living in Los Angeles, so I speak English well. Went back to Japan for High School and Graduated with Honors. Graduated my local community college with Honors. I got hired at my town’s garden / nursery store and got promoted to Store Manager in 3 years. Now at age 22, I got my own House with my Best Friend, who also lived in Los Angeles for 6 years, graduated with Honors, and became a Store Manager at our town’s local Beach Store.*
*And we’re Published Indie Musicians*
*It’s not Gen Z. Its their Lazy and Unaccountable Parents for spoiling these brats!!*
To be fair Gen z only really covers the western world. Other nations youth are built slightly different. Most of them better.
dumb take.
just went into Glassdoor forums (its a job hunt website) saying they've sent 100 resumes and not a single interview. it's not laziness. the entire job market is in the craphole right now with all aftereffects of the covid lockdowns
Yeah, we're talking about American (and maybe Western European) Gen Z.
@@aurahoneydew9607 Not really. None of my employees are under 29 years old. I live in a small semi-rural town, and 96% of the High School Grads move on to the Major Cities for College (Not really, they want to party and be dumb). Some return after getting their degrees and refuse to work in our town. They have superiority complexes. They just want to find any way they can to go back to the major cities (to party and be dumb).
@@aurahoneydew9607 Not really. None of my employees are under age 29. People my age don't want to work.
If you need mommy and daddy to call me to hire you, I ain’t hiring you.
Seriously they need to get off Mommy's teat and grow the F up
My friend (we are both late Millennials) moved to Washington and got a retail job immediately after the interview because the manager liked that he knew how to talk on the phone, apparently the Zoomers applying there were too afraid to answer the phone. I definitely blame the parents for that, like it is scary if you were never made to do it growing up, my parents made me call relatives and now I'm fine. My Boomer mom said she used to be scared of talking on the phone and her parents made her call people and she got used to it. 100% a parenting problem
I answer the phone if their on my contact list, or I know I'm waiting for a call. Otherwise I never talk on one as all the other calls I get are spam.
And if they happen to not be, they usually leave a voice-mail so I know it was them and I can call back.
I'm Gen-X and recently encountered my first Gen-Z work colleague recently. He's less than a year out of college and has the mindset 'I've done a four year degree so that makes me a professional'.
He really believes he knows it all. In reality, he knows nothing of any use.
You should insult every single facet of his being and constantly belittle him.
That fear of failure or rather thinking nothing will change no matter what I think is definitely crippling anyone coming out of high school or college right now. I have it too. I’m glad I got another job cause while I still have that fear, I at least know I’m not stuck forever now.
Nobody is "stuck" in their early 20s unless they got someone knocked up. That's a mindset nobody can fix except you. It's not the responsibility of your employer to make you feel better about your life.
I’m gen-z and I can agree that most people in my generation are very disinterested in working. I personally have a CDL and have nearly earned my HVAC license. In my first job there was a kid who was 2 years younger was constantly complaining, smoking weed, sleeping and putting in even less work than the bare minimum.
Although, I can understand why my generation wants their parents to show up for their job interviews. Many of our generation have been coddled and haven’t had to deal with the grit called life. My older brother and I feel like we were born in a different generation, especially when my younger brother who is only 3 years younger is bordering on brain rot. I love him, but I gotta show him some tough love and get him used to working.
I had to force him to join the HVAC class with me. He watches XQC and thinks he can earn money by simply playing games online. He’s so smart, but he doesn’t care about anything. Hopefully, I can help my little brother iron out his problems before it becomes irreversible
I wish you nothing but the best of luck 💝
I was 16 when I got my first job (2006). Yeah my mum came with me but didn't actually come with me into the interview. After that, I went myself. My parents did nothing to help because they aren't allowed to.
Just when I'd thought I'd heard of every bad parenting skill.....here comes another one.
Have a little dignity, genz mom and dad.
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@@darthlaurel the fault was giving them ipads. The only thing they want to do is be influencers and most havent realized that gaining an audience this late stage into social media apps is the toughest thing to do. A lot just buy views until a company starts sponsoring them
When I - born in 1982 - look at these kids, I really wonder how we, their parents' and grandparents' generation, failed them.
Edit: "Why are they blaming Gen X"? These kids were thrown into societies that gave them no chance to grow up, coddled all the time with participation awards, school systems not really teaching, utterly toxic positivity and helicopter parents. I don't blame the kids for not doing what wasn't an option for them.
Easier to blame others than take any responsibility? Or maybe its because according to this video and so many they somehow had the power and organization as young kids to force adults into giving participation trophies and everything, so getting a job should be easy?
Generational thing
College thing
I consider it as a failure to instill the drive to seek independence from parents, and the failure of the "child" to even grasp it for themselves. Kids can't read even at highschool nowadays, can't cook, can't do the basics of home or automotive maintenance. You leave them with a set of tools and instructions, and they'd rather call and pay someone else to do it. The generations now, are too geared for an automated world, that doesn't exist yet, and are horrified at the prospect of physical labor.
The only thing I can figure out is that their parents didn't do those things either. As children, we learn by observation. That's how we learn to function in the world around us. My kids have no problem doing those things, but I was a SAHM, so they had home cooked meals all the time, and my husband (though not his profession at the time) was a carpenter by trade so fixed the house. He also would fix the car if it broke down. So our kids saw that and wanted to do it too.
This is why we need to bring back feudalism. If we simply forced people to work, we wouldn’t need to waste time teaching them. Sure, they might complain about rights and liberties, but since most of them can’t even read, we could just have them sign contracts that strip those rights away without them knowing.
I cannot think of anything less appealing of having tons of followers on social media…an army of people that are either kissing your ass or hating your guts. No thanks. I’ll stick with my “real” job.
This is why we should ban all of social media; it's completely useless, divides society further, and provides nothing of worth.
At a therapist, the problem we see with GenZ clients is their inability to overcome adversity. Whenever they get knocked down, they struggle to pick themselves up on their own.
Probably because we have been shatted on our whole lives and lied too we are tired already just the truth. When you riddle a group of kids with pills to act right at school lmao good luck that’s just one scenario where this country is a failure
Gen alpha better be good
That's because their parents did everything for them. 🙄
Nothing wrong with them helping out with finding a job but it’s purely up to you and you alone in the interview.
Wow. Before graduating high school seniors had to take job search training courses. For the final exam you had to come to school dressed in your best, most professional looking clothes and take part in an test interview. Which was video recorded.
The whole class had to critique your performance; your attire, posture, voice and how you conducted yourself. GEEZE. Schools used to care enough to prepare you for the "real" world.
@@skylx0812 when was this😂
I never had to do any of that. Speech was required, though.
That is just sad, humiliating for an entire generation.
"There are failures in a generation"
Pretty sure that's every generation. I'm not embarrassed by a few losers that have no connection to myself, doing something I've never heard of people doing till this video.
@@anameofsomesort959 Yeah... Because it's not like 90% of them are like this or anything.
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@@The13thRonin yeah, they aren't.
@@anameofsomesort959 Incorrect.
Embarrassing for the generation that raised them your right
Parents coddle the kids all throughout childhood then expect everything to just click when they reach adulthood.
I could see this coming a mile away.
When I worked for a University, the advisors would complain about kids bringing their parents to register for classes and debate grades for them if they felt the professor didn't grade properly. The hand holding never stopped.
Why would they complain? Could they not say "Thanks for coming in, just let me start by saying Ive enjoyed teaching [childs name], and that no amount of you talking will change the grade."
I was going to say... my mom registered my classes, but I was also a young teen who was duel enrolled and knew nothing about what they were talking about.
I'm taking some community college courses to up my licensure at work. Told by my professor that I'm the only online student to come talk to her personally about improving my grades (it's a challenging course). Everyone keeps complaining about how the course is unfair and wants the answers given to them to memorize.
Despite that B.S., there are honestly some valid complaints. Digging for the useful information is irritating. The study guides are so lengthy it might as well say "know everything" (which is fine, just makes it superfluous). The textbook is written by someone who doesn't speak human. And to monitor cheating, the college requires you to install google malware on your device to record you in your own home.
When it comes to school anyway, it's absolutely a two way street. No one knows how to teach anymore, and with the advent of AI, it makes it ridiculously easy for teachers to be as lazy as the students.
When I was teaching at a university, I only had one parent contact me. Her child had posted tests from my class to a public website and so I had called her out on it and asked her to remove the tests, saying that I was disappointed she had done it. (She had been in my class the year before; so I didn't even say that her grade would be changed.) The parent was irate and sent me an email about how dare I accuse her child of cheating. She has been so upset and on and on. And she was going to contact the president of the university to protest my horrific treatment. I asked my department chair what I should do about it. He said, "Nothing." The student is an adult and as such I'm not at liberty to discuss grades with other people unless they are specifically allowed to on the university records.
I washed my hands of it and went on.
I got told a long time go by a manager that he did not hire people with average score superior to 8.5 (like a 3.0 GPA and above i think in the US), because for the MOST part those were fake, which was the problem with millenial schooling, a lot of people were getting grades that they did not deserve, now education has crashed and having degrees means nothing because the newer generations don't have the skillsets even the basic ones.
They think they're going to adult daycare.
Things that mess up your resume for life:
- Pronouns
- DEI companies
- Putting your parents' contact information in
Parents' contact info is fine if your place of residence is their home, or if say you had a medical emergency they were the ones your new employers knew to call. Bringing them to an interview like it's a breakfast club will not get you hired most likely unless the job you're going for has "connections" you need to even be considered. In those situations have them come, but they're not there to speak for you. You're there for yourself and need to advocate, "My mom did this job once and trained me to do it as well," something like that without them explaining it to the person you hope to have as a boss.
9 years in college
From game design to fine art drawing and painting, to media design, I'm working at an airport trying to slowly design my comic knowing that it's a dead industry because my passion is visual art and storytelling.
Kneon, what damn art student said: "I dont want to be in-betweener." I'd kill to have that job. I didn't even think we still had jobs like that in the States.
Are you kidding? I did not take my parents when I was a teenager. If someone came to a job interview with their parents I would have them escorted off the premises.
Kneon's mother has a realisation while on the plane...
"WE FORGOT KNEON!!"
XD Kneon: Mom?....Dad? Hellllllooooo?....ah screw it, im fine *starts cooking breakfast*
I knew someone who was on “Mental health leave” from work because her new supervisor didn’t want to hear her opinion in meetings. She just wanted her to take notes.
You mean her job?
I’m gen z and I went from homeless after my parents kicked me out to doing engineering. All my gen z friends have had a similar brutal experience. Idk where these people who are this socially inept are coming from 😂
I have mental problems and I bear with the anxiety and go to the job interview alone (with my mom waiting for me outside.)
Such an embarrassment to humanity, Gen Ball Z has stooped into.
Don't insult Dragon Ball Z like that 🤣💩
On the flipside, I guess one can stand-out even more just by being a normal, stable human being.
Candlelight grows brighter when surrounded by immense dark.
You have to collect the 7 Gen Balls first.
People sure do love blaming the kids they raised, don't they?
@@innerludeGo play Aether Gazer and Snowpeak Containment Zone
I had my first job (that wasn’t working on the family farm) when I was 16. One of my friends at school once suggested I could have my parents tell my employer I needed time off because I was still a minor (I can’t remember the reason I needed the time off work). I thought that was the most embarrassing thing I could do - have mommy and daddy interfere with my part-time job. And I was 16, still in high school, still living at home! I was just working as a cashier at a fast food place, but still.
I can’t imagine being in my 20s and dragging my parents to an interview or anything like that!
If I were an employer or assigned to interview potential candidates.
The second some schmuck brings in "mommy and daddy" to a job interview...
My immediate reaction will be to point at the door and in no uncertain terms, tell'em to get the hell out!
XD I'd ask two questions "Are you X?"
"Yes"
"Are you here to work or your mom?"
XD and depending on what I hear, I will decide if phase 2 is "we'll email you" or *quietly shreds application*
I remember back when I worked for Blockbuster Video in the 90s and we'd have the occasional parent be the one to call if we were hiring, come by to pick up the job app, be the one to fill it out and drop it off as well as bring the kid in for the interview and pace the store until it was over. Needless to say, they didn't get hired. We expected the potential new hire to at least put pen to the application if they were interested.
That parent was trying to force the kid to get a job.
My first job was working for my Uncle, he was the worst/toughest boss I ever had. He said "I know I'm giving you a lot of shit, but when you go to get a job somewhere else and the manager tries to yell at you for something you'll say 'is that it?' and you'll never get flustered again." He was right. Being exposed to that extreme made it very easy for me to work in some tough conditions, because they weren't as tough as working for my Uncle.
Gen Z will tell their boss "I need a digital detox" then go home and play video games.😂
When my friend had an interview many many years ago, they said they picked her for in person interview because her resume showed 4 years at gamestop. They figured that meant if they hired her she'd be with them for a while. Didn't give a crap about her degrees.
Yes. They care about if you hop jobs.
I've given that speech to a new hire who couldn't write 3 words without a typo "You job is to make my job easier - if I have to spend time correcting everything you do - then you are worthless and I will find someone else". And I have hammered that into my daughters - you find fulfillment in your family/friends/community - you go to work to eat. If you happen to find fulfillment through work REJOICE - because that is rare. Because if you find fulfillment at work - why are they paying you?
This! Teachers and counselors fill their head with finding their dream job where they feel they make a difference instead of viewing a job as just a means to an end. That end being taking care of yourself and hopefully having a little extra to do something every once in awhile for fun.
I'm 73. I cannot remember a single time that my parents and their friends EVER said that my generation was lazy. It NEVER happened. They did joke a bit about how lucky we were. You know, "When I was a kid we had to walk to school both ways uphill."
I’m a first year GENX and my dad use to say they would walk to school in 10 feet of snow in 100 degrees weather 😊
If I asked my mom and dad to come with me to an interview, they would look at me like I was stupid.😆
These kids would love my mom though, she's so controlling that it turned into Munchausen by proxy. Thank god I'm at the tail end of Gen X though, because I still had at least some independence after school, and a high school job that suited people my age (local mom and pop video store, best job i ever had)
To be devil's advocate, companies nowadays have atrocious and predatory hiring practices that an inexperienced worker for hire will need someone more experienced to force a fair contract from the companies.
Yes, that's new. Oh wait, it's not. You make a bad deal, you learn to do better next time. That's called learning.
@debanydoombringer1385 Looks like you are unfamiliar with the current hiring practices of companies today. Try and look for a job today to get a feel of it. Sometimes the term 'boomer' sticks as it should.
Job hunting is a learning experience for you but, bring your parents is extremely embarrassing and shows you can't handle things on your own or do the job that your suppose to do. In life everyone can't hold your hand forever, if your parents is gone what are you gonna do, you have to put on your big pants on and grow up.
As a younger millennial in his 30s I see this as pathetic. I'm currently at the beginning of my career and these people can't go anywhere without their folks for jobs?
That is pathetic. I would never hire anyone who cried to their mummy to get a job
This sounds more like a parental mistake rather than a gen z mistake.
My dad May occassionally drive me there but he waits in his car, he does not enter the building.
There is an inherent flaw with the education system here in America. The fact that tests are NOT open note and open book. When was the last time you were on a job where you were not allowed to research something? I think it is appropriate to have a timed exam, however. The reason being, if you ask a relatively simple question, and it takes a week to get a response, most people will NOT be happy. There tends to be a time frame where a customer will get angry if an answer takes too long.
We need to get back to people thinking "how would a customer react if I did...such and such..."
When my son is tested to qualify for the next higher position at the oil refinery, it's not open test. He has to be able to point to each pipeline running through the area, identify what's going through it, and say where it goes to. When there's a fire and a valve needs turning off, you don't have to time to look it up. It's about being to respond quickly and efficiently is why you're taught to memorize stuff and remember it.
Is a company going to promote someone that has to constantly stop work to look up someone or the person that can immediate recognize what needs to be done and do it in less than half the time?
The mental health days cracks me up, especially for people who work a traditional work week. Like, dude you already get 2 mental health days a week. Its not anyone elses fault if you fill up saturday and/or sunday (or whichever 2 days a week off your job gives you).
Honestly, the concept itself doesn't bother me much. Depending on what their lives are like, they may have their weekends full of other things (taking care of family, maybe a second job if needed, etc.). If a person has vacation days built up and they want to take one just to have a day off, that's totally fine with me, but it needs to be scheduled in advance. You don't just up and take off on the day of and leave your fellow employees in the lurch.
@@ChaoticYak1 Yeah I am not talking vacation days, good companies give those to you and use them as you like within their scheduling rules. The idea though that you can just wake up and decide you don't want to go to work that day, and we are all supposed to understand it as some sort of "mental health" day is more of what I am making fun of. Again you get two days off work every week, why not use one of those as the mental health day? I think that is kind of what religion did back in the day, a day to sit and not work and meditate on your god or the meaning of life or whatever.
The demand for "mental health days" now just seems like a lazy person's excuse for not working, and then they complain they can never get ahead. Do they think pro athletes or other successful people give into themselves everytime they don't feel like doing something. No they get up and do it anyway because it is what they have to do to get to where they want to go. No one is going to carry them.
@@ChaoticYak1 That's not your employer's or your fellow employee's problem. All of whom your choice to just not work that day effects. I don't think you understand what a "mental health" day is. This started in the tech sector. Thanks to TikToks of A Day in Life Of videos, young people are expecting it in every workplace now. It's you being allowed time off because you can't mentally handle work. In some tech places, they'd be off for months and because they're salaried workers, still be getting paid.
@@debanydoombringer1385 I must not understand it. I'm not on TikTok. :) I was just thinking that it was a day off.
In the workforce is hard to find good help these days. The real world is hard and we all have to deal it of all ages. Things definitely need to get better.
We really are finished as a society.😞
Your society was doomed the moment you invented electric lights, clean drinking water, air conditioning, and central heating. The fact that you no longer have to worry about marauding bands of Indian tribesmen has made your entire society weak and pathetic.
As a part of gen z who are not idiots. I want to say I’m sorry. I’m just sorry
Join me in disowning our generation.
As a X-er who normally just assumes that everyone in Gen Z is aZoomer, the bad reboot version of the Boomers except with the Internet rather than television and the Woodstock and LSD. The small minority of your generation that are actually functional people are disgraced by the others.
I hate to break it to you but as an HR manager in charge of interviewing. We already have a very bad opinion of your generation. Not your fault personally but people of your generation. I'm going to give you a couple of hints to really impress.
1. Dress for the interview Make a good impression. Clean shirt short hair tie pressed trousers sports jacket or suit and leather shoes preferably with a high shine.
2. Remember you are probably the 100th interview that we have had and we are praying to the gods that you are the one so we can stop interviewing people. We are on your side We want you to impress us We want you to get the job so we can stop interviewing people!!! We are on your side You can relax!
3. ask yourself one question and if you can answer this question with enthusiasm you will 99% get the job. Why do you want to work for this company?
4. work ethic work ethic work ethic!! We are HR managers that have had to interview hundreds of people so we can smell entitlement a mile away. It's not a nice smell and you won't get the job if we smell it on you. be humble Do not automatically demand things.
I actually had one person that wanted to file a complaint at me for the interview! 😅😅😅
Why are you saying sorry, you are not their parents for those gen
Less competition for you.
Imagine getting to be one of the few sane individuals.
You're literally going to have such a great life when that's who you're competing against for jobs and partners.
I have seen a Gen Z girl show up with her mom on the interview and she spoke for her the entire time. We didn't hire her. We also have employees parents show up and hang out regularly. It gets awkward when they are there for an hour. One manager said he saw a girls parents more than he saw his own.
Back in the good old days of the Hanseatic League, we would separate children from their parents, and the parents wouldn't even know which boarding facility their children were being sent to. Most of these children would only reunite with their parents once they became fully-fledged merchants.
I believe most Gen Z do not know how much work goes into any "show" on any platforms. They seem to think if they start a 30 minute show, then they will only have to work 30 minutes a day. They do not understand that they will need someone to look up information on the subjects on their shows. And they need someone to edit the footage of the video that will be shown on their show. Also, they will not make much if any money until they get 500,000 subscribers or more. It takes a LOT of work, something they do NOT want to do. They want everything handed to them!
I am 34, work 6 days a week, spend 68 hours not at my home. I still can barely afford my bills.
Please let me get one of these Gen z interviews with parent in tow, at the end I'll offer the job to the parent
I run a business too. I dont call anyone for an interview until I read their email first THEN the resume. I can easily weed out the nincompoops if they have pronouns beside their name.
as gen z (or not idk, 1999??) i would be E,MBARRASSEDDD to have my parents have to advocate for me in a job interview wtf
1997-2012 is Gen Z
This seems to be a bigger issue with younger Gen Z than older ones. I know mine are the same age as you and none of their friends are like that except one and they rag him constantly. Pretty much everyone they grew up with has stable lives and are living on their own. My eldest's wife just turned 23 and this seems to be more along her friend's attitude. Her younger brother is even worse.
I have seen this most of these gen z fools are always on the phone even on the job then they get angry when the boss scolds them for being on their phone instead of doing their job.
I worked several work expirence and part time jobs before I finally got a full time 40 hour contract. But damn, taking your parents in with you to the interview? That is embarrassing.
Funnily enough, the only job interview I've been successful at was one where my mom was there. 😂
I'm gen z and I don't want my parents coming with me to an interview because this is so embarrassing.
Yeah Gen Z is the absolute worst but it is the fault of their terrible helicopter parents, social media, the purveyors of the message and trash school system.
I'm old Gen Z. I'm going out and trying new things. Challenging myself. I've got my fair share of setbacks and failures. Just gotta keep your head up, learn, and grow.
Gen X here, and have an 18 year old daughter who is like this, she won't listen to a single word we say because her generation knows best, schools have a lot to answer for not preparing these kids for what is heading in their direction, so if they won't take advice from parents and schools are filling their heads with magic what do we do?
She won't listen to you not everyone. you became her friend instead of a parent because the other mom/ dad will judge you, now they say wow what dead beat kid All because you need be the cool parent.
@@zeroblack406 That's a lot of information about someone's personal life you don't know.
You have to let them fail. It's hard. Believe me, I know. But they'll be better for it in the long run. Don't help them if they have an issue. Make them deal with it themselves. They'll figure it out. They have to learn their problems aren't your problems anymore.
As a business owner, operator i would immediately put that kids name in my black book of HELL NO!
1972 does not get more Gen X than me, with 3 Gen Z children that no way in hell fit into any of this crap.
I only ever heard of one applicant bringing ther parent to a job interview, guy was a Hmong who just moved to the country and he needed a translator. It must have went well he got hired as a blacksmith apprentice on the condition he passed his language exam. he passed his exam 4 month later, on time.
I raised my kids as genX which avoided this issue of solipsism.
I will say from experience (mine and serval colleagues). This started in the 90's and it does not matter if it is a University, Community College, or Trade Schools. The instructors are told to only teach them how to pass a test. They need the test scores for funding and a lot of these schools threaten the instructors stop teaching normally and only teach them to pass the tests. It is all about funding.
Dude I'm 30 now and as a millennial I can tell you that we were not prepared for the fucking real world I sure as shit do not think that Generation Z is
6:00 - it's crazy because our parents did wild stuff like that but I don't know of any parents now that would do the stuff they did. I DEFINITELY didn't do stuff my parents did.
As a gen z guy I feel very ashamed. Bruh bringing your parents to job interviews??? Seriously????
My son is Gen Z and struggling to get a job, we help him as much as we can but he wont even let us see his applications or grill him on his answers but he has had so many interviews with no success. I think its hard for recent school leavers to have something special as they missed out on work experience and summer work due to Covid. Saying all that my uncle got me my first job and I'm gen x :D
Applying for jobs and getting nothing back whatsoever is quite demoralising.
It was very common when I was job hunting. I sent 5 applications a day and rarely got a reply, even a polite refusal. You just had to assume you would never hear back unless they wanted to interview you. 🤷
The crazy thing is, I've been applying and one that I've been trying for and kept getting alerts, they recently started asking to "record your responses" through camera with your face like an interview but there is actually nobody there to interview you, just to record you.
I'm already upset that they ghost or it's a total ghost listing, I'm not going to give them any more info (facial/vocal recognition data) than they already collect when I'm just applying for them to sell where ever instead of hiring me.
Don't even get me started when some of the online applications demand SSN, I refuse to give that out too until I get the actual job.
Try and go for trades. I'm serious. A job is a job, not an identity. Plumbing, Electrical, Business Apprenticeships, EMS.
These show that you can actually do something, and look fantastic on a resume.
Yeah, people can say whatever they want about Gen Z being lazy, but that doesn't change the fact that the job market and the applications have also become hell.
@@personmensch6664 They have always been hell, genX is just not WEAK ASS figs.
My wife and I just came back from the second two week vacation we have taken in 29 years of marriage. We both work and are college graduates - she in business me in computer science. We have had to work first what we have - including two kids that are also college graduates. We are -in our 50’s - finally where Gen Z demands from the first day of their first job. Makes zero sense…