🚩GEN Z WORKERS 🚩

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I see it as a means of control and scapegoating. People in power have an interest in making sure that the working class doesn't turn on them, so they are constantly offering alternatives for your problems. If they can get the working class to split and feud with itself, they don't have to worry as much about them organizing and they can take more advantage of them.

They want us clashing in generational divides, political divides, worried about immigrants and other countries. They want us worried about gay people, trans people, Mexican people and black people, China and Russia.

And so articles like this get made. To either plant the idea or to continue to reinforce the idea. "Young people don't deserve more pay or better benefits because they aren't good hard workers." "You didn't have all of these benefits back when you were young, so why should kids today get them?". If people in power can convince older generations that young workers today are undeserving of labor changes like higher pay and better benefits, then things are less likely to change and that is good for people in power.

Interesting viewpoints. I think what's lost in a lot of generations is that they don't do their research and gather second opinions. If I notice that X is talking about so and so, I'm going to do my research and look for legitimate facts and statistics that states this. Otherwise, I might be a little skeptical to adopt information that I read online. It's all a chess game that they've successfully mastered amongst the people.

So yeah, I can see where the elites use political issues as a distraction to incite us all to rage over something so that we don't see what they're doing behind closed doors.

*I have noticed that their socially ineptitude. I have encountered a lot of awkward situations in which I would call up a customer and they would come to my desk and stand their mute. I am not a mind reader and I need something to continue their transaction, 9 out 10 times, I have found them just look towards their parents for help. This can also be applied in situations where they cannot read the room and behave in a manner that is not helpful to the objective, such as disrespecting executive members. I could say that this could boil down to the iPad generation and the pandemic did not help the situation.

*Easily influenced by social media and their bubble. This one is kind of troubling as they tend to believe whatever is posted in social media or in other words just take these posts at face value with little to no independent research. It is wild the amount of claims that go viral can be easily debunked or missing context.

*Sensibilities. This is something I am working on with my Zoomer coworkers. This is something that could be considered coddling them as you have to phrase things in certain ways so they don't become offended or have a break down. Even in the process of writing them up, I usually have someone else with me just in case things head south. I can say this is probably due to helicopter parenting and always having to baby them. My friend recently interviewed an applicant who brought their parents to the interview. It is not a good look.

• Interesting viewpoints. All these issues sound like symptoms to the root problem of parenting. Most Gen Z kids were raised by millennials and late Gen Xers who've clearly failed to raise them properly. If I notice that someone is "socially inept", then I see it as a symptom to a much more bigger problem that led them astray in the real world. I've heard many times where people will say that the Gen Z generation is lost and there's basically no hope for them. It starts at home - Parents behave lackadaisically towards parenting their children, so as a result, you get disrespectful kids.
  

• Mostly Gen Z kids grew up with social media, where as other generations did not. The millennials kind of did if you were a child from the early 90s like me. I don't want to sound stereotypical because some of them are smart and competent enough to think for themselves. I hear it all the time where social media raises these kids instead of the actual parents.
  

• Exactly what I was thinking. The symptoms always start at home based on the things that they're exposed to. I think the terminology is called "snowflake". This is why they've made a big controversial-deal about the "R" word, which just sounds illogical.
  

Is this not the case for all generations?

I think it started with the Millennials first, and then the Gen Z's picked it up and made it worse.