Not Gen Z here. Just a manager who actually dives into the data to understand what my team is experiencing. Owners and managers must listen to their employees, especially if that large of a percent is saying the exact same thing. You are tone deaf otherwise. A big part of the reason is because a young adult today can be in a position where they work a full-time job and not have enough to cover rent, or barely be able to. Entry jobs in my areas hire at about $15/hr. About $2,340 after tax. The USDA Thrifty budget for an 18 year old male is about $310 per month. $2,030 now. Rent with a roommate in a 2/1 apartment here is a median of $1550. So pay half - now at $1,255. Power/gas/Internet at that size of a place is about $200 so half and you're at $1,155. Gas... I still drive a "beater." 11 year old Corolla, so I'd say I can use what I spend. $175/month. I found a 2015 Corolla with 88k miles for $8k sale price. I'll assume this kid comes from nothing is just starting off with $0, and got a card as soon as they could do they have an okay credit score. I'll use the national average prime rate for a 3 year used auto loan. $256/month. I also just renewed my insurance, but I know a young male will have even steep insurance... I'll use my recent amount as a basis though. $114/month. $30 set aside each month for maintenance/registration costs. Now at $580/month. I spend a frugal amount on household and hygiene. Mostly buy Great Value from Walmart. Comes out to ~$110/month only accounting for household (cleaning) and my hygiene costs. Now at $470. Long term health is not a "nicety" it is a necessity. Cheapest monthly gym near me is $40/month after annual fees are included. $430/month left .Health/dental insurance I'll assume is $100 (less than my workplace for a HDHP core plan). If you do an HDHP plan, you better be setting aside some for OOP costs. $100 there too. $230 left. That $230 needs to cover saving up an emergency fund, other insurances (1 in 4 Americans experience disability in their lifetime), saving for the next car (inevitably, an old used car will eventually crap the bed), maybe a little to spend socially because we are social beings. Oh, and I didn't account for another real necessity unless you want to be paying more in taxes when the retire. How much of that can go to retirement? I'd love to see most my age and older try to live the life they are right now. Remember - the last four years happened to them too. Inflation hits the lowest earners the hardest because they have zero margin in their budget to begin with. Listen to your damn employees or get out of being a business owner or manager. Note: I also fully acknowledge a company only has so much of a budget... As long as you are not like Patrick and you actually say, "hey, yeah there's an issue and we are doing everything we can afford to help" then you are not the target of this. It is solely for the owners/managers who think that 97% of people in any generation are "wrong." If a significant consensus is being stated... It's real. Saying it isn't is ignorant at best and sociopathic/narcissistic at worst. Be better, Pat.
I recently hired a 19 year old who grew up in a commercial fishing family in Alaska. She’s been working and going to school for nursing. I think there are some Gen Z youth who aren’t lazy whiners but they are few and far between.
I’m 54 and can relate. We’re not all cut out for the 9-5 lifestyle, nor should we be.
We often discuss GenZ as if some of us are not parenting them lol You raise your kids how you see fit. Be the main influence in their life and not social media & ‘culture’. My son watches 90s sitcoms, listens to 90s music, etc. We also follow Christ so that’s definitely a game changer. One you get to the teenage years you become parent/life coach. Make sure you really KNOW you’re children so you can guide them appropriately. Teen years don’t have to equate to ‘kids in the room, don’t talk to parents’. God bless the mothers and fathers. It’s not a cake walk.
25hrs? I work 6 days a week, 60 hrs. Im blessed to be able to.
We are grandparents raising grandchildren since they were 3.5 and 16 months because of their mothers (our daughter) death from DV. They came to us with PTSD, we adopted them. The now 17 year old does football, wrestling and lacrosse, works to save for his car, volunteers coaching, gets great grades. The now 15 year old, makes jewelry to sell, has had 2 spinal surgeries, volunteers, advocated to have sign language in the high school as a language (and succeeded) does archery, gets great grades, and is looking for a job to save for her car. The school and member's of the church have always complimented us because
Everyone complains about working, I’m a 21 year old plumber and I don’t like working just suck it up and keep going
As my Grandfather would tell me “They’re not paying you to have a good time”
Videos like this pointing the finger miss the entire point. Gen z isnt the problem its the system. The price of everything is higher than ever and wages aren't increasing. What worked for older generations doesnt work for younger generations anymore yet will live in a society that constantly tells gen z it stills works. Gen z is being pressured to go to college because "thats how you get ahead" and make money when in reality student loan debt cripples most graduates and a college degree has lost most of its value. Yet our parents, older generations, and mainstream society look down upon kids going into blue collar work and see getting a college degree as the only path to be successful and respected. And then you get videos like this from older generations acting like gen z are spoiled brats who cant work hard when IN REALITY gen z is having to work harder than any living generation that came before us just to make ends meet. And your solution is for us to simply grown up and work harder? As if we deserve to be shamed for not wanting to work in a broken system that keeps getting worse. Who the fuck wants to run a race where the finish line keeps moving and everyone who ran before you only had to run half the distance? Do you really think the best idea is to bully your kids into whoring themselves out for the system instead of trying to fix the broken system your kids were born into? Are you really gonna base your idea of success for your kids on successfully being underpaid, overworked, and in debt? How about lets all work together to talk about and fix the system instead of fighting and blaming each other
Thank God I raised my daughters, 27 & 25, the value of hard work. They both have flourishing careers and don’t complain at all!!!
As a man born in 97 but raised in the Ghetto, this shit is Hilarious. Yes it sucks especially when you see so many online making "easy" money. But easy money rarely last and it's either adapt or die 🤷🏾♂️ LUCKILY we have more access to knowledge, Opportunity and HOPE of making out the rat race than Any Generation before us. I want to provide for my mom, have freedom and leave a positive impact on this world. Also as a African American I am currently my ancestors Wildest dreams, I owe it to THEM to go hard because people literally Went Through Hell just so I can have the Opportunity I have now. The bar is low rn, time to get it!
Delusion creates unrealistic expectations. Pain is weakness leaving the body. Stress is delusion being slapped around by reality.
You’re handling this topic with ignorance like most jaded older people do. It has to be looked at with an open mind because these simply aren’t the “good ol days” you grew up in… 1. Obviously you picked the clips of the worst of gen z to exaggerate a point. If boomers had smartphones you would undoubtedly catch a ton of weak moments as well. 2. These aren’t the good ol days where the American dream is alive and well and you are getting what you’re worth in return anymore. On top of that the ridiculous taxes, fees, price hikes on insurance, etc post 80s that are basically designed to keep you stagnant make it HARD to be motivated and positive about work. 3. You can’t just roll up your sleeves and develop values you weren’t raised with. Guess who’s fault that is? The boomers and gen x that raised gen z. If you want to direct disappointment towards someone, direct it towards them for spoiling their kids and raising them like we still have a 70s economy. 4. Lastly, I do think that as intelligent beings our purpose in this short life shouldn’t be to spend all day at work. Especially with the majority of jobs being essentially meaningless nowadays. I mean what’s all the “progress” for if we’re still supposed to work like our grandparents.
Honestly, I feel like gen Z is like this way because of the state of the world itself, how the economy is going how everything is going, how we give our lives in the hand of older people in politics expecting they will do something for us, and they don't, we don't have much hope for the future, and combine that with the fact that big techs have addicted us in social media, well, then you have a recipe for disaster, companies have to change their way to work with my generation because if they don't the market will fail, because our generation realized that companies don't really care about us, then gen Z is just giving up, there is a reason why most of our generation is like this, I honestly don't mind hard work cause I study 6 days a week, 8 hours per day, but you can't simply ignore those issues, and that's why the work market needs to change to suit the new generations
In my 20s i drove a 3hr round trip commute. Worked from 5am-5pm and voluenteered for every extra bit of work I could and I was fine. A regular 40hr week was nothing and I got from the lowest job to the corporate office in 5yrs.
Too much time on the phone (internet). Without self regulation, the bombardment of ridiculous amounts of information is overwhelming and leaves one stressed (but unaware of it). They continue on in life with a lessoned threshold for stress, and freak out when asked to do things they don't get a dopamine hit from. It's gross!
This is hilarious to me! I’m 23 and work 50 hour weeks sometimes more than that. After work me and my boys hit the gym too. Being active and busy isn’t a bad thing. It is UNBELIEVABLY EASY for young people to win right now because so many people are lazy
Have you ever thought that the new generations have to deal with more stress due to a worse economy, changing social dynamics, the increasing complexity of careers and jobs in general along with the fear of poverty? Just a thought.
I'm Gen Z. I work a minimum of 60 hours a week, often over that. I rarely take time off. I even work my days off. I work hard and take pride in my work but after years of grinding and only making enough money to survive, I can't help but experience burnout. It's easy to say we're lazy when previous generations could afford a home and car on top of basic living expenses.
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