Many, if not most people who own a smartphone don't use half the features their phone has or is even aware that their phone has them.
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Influencer explains why Gen Zs don’t want to work: ‘Old people need to check their priorities’ (Video)
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Many, if not most people who own a smartphone don't use half the features their phone has or is even aware that their phone has them.
OperationNumbNutts
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True but those roles are few. Personally I don't agree with folks growing up trying to be influencers. However, I didn't agree with the amount of brehs in my generation trying to be rappers, professional athletes, or hustlers. Gen Z is in a position where school is expensive and buying a home is out of the question. Yet, the older generation does nothing but point fingers while knowing these young people didn't create the problems they inherited.
I'm part of the older group and will be the first to say we can be disappointing.OperationNumbNutts
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Nah, they should create their own. There are a lot of people in the program not benefiting from it.
OperationNumbNutts
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Actually they did. They made commercials and infomercials telling everyone they can get rich too by taking their real estate investment classes.
Godless Socialist CEO
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You have zero proof of this. Thanks for playing tho. Also who the fukk says "imbecile" except for TV villians
And if you disagree with my positions a lot it makes me comfortable since you're confirming how smooth that brain is already
AquaCityBoy
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"Gen Z is lazy because they spend too much time on TikTok"Oh look, another thread where people mirror the exact same talking points they were saying about millennials in the 00s and 10s
"Millennials are broke because Starbucks and avocado toast"This isn't a gen x thing though.
Most people cannot do those things right off the bat. I found myself having go teach people older and younger than me how to do Vlookups, Pivot Tables and Mail Merges.
But guess what? I didn't know how to do those things until someone showed me how when I needed to do a piece of work.
There's too much selective memory going on. People just erasing what they were like when they entered the workforce for the first time.
O.T.I.S.
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fukk excel too
Thats a boomers choice of application imo.. spreadsheets on spreadsheets to justify their job security while getting nothing done
“Let’s look at the data” while nothing actually gets accomplished
Thats a boomers choice of application imo.. spreadsheets on spreadsheets to justify their job security while getting nothing done
“Let’s look at the data” while nothing actually gets accomplished
The younger generation doesn't feel obliged to work hard and sacrifice like the older ones do. My parents generation had that work ethic and dedication to a job drilled into their sense of wellbeing and belonging, and was it worth it? I wonder sometimes
If it doesn't resonate with Gen Z-ers on some personal level or feel meaningful, they aren't buying in. Most corps are just moneymakers with no actual purpose so it's affected the workplace in a major way when most of the new staff doesn't give a shyt lol
It's kind of ridiculous as most of them aren't starting new businesses or trailblazing themselves, just complaining about their jobs.
That said, they aren't buying into the corporate bootstraps mentality and I kind of applaud them for that. I hope it works out for them, honestly. We waste insane amounts of time prioritizing the profits and success of others and we've seen how employees are treated when things get challenging
If it doesn't resonate with Gen Z-ers on some personal level or feel meaningful, they aren't buying in. Most corps are just moneymakers with no actual purpose so it's affected the workplace in a major way when most of the new staff doesn't give a shyt lol
It's kind of ridiculous as most of them aren't starting new businesses or trailblazing themselves, just complaining about their jobs.
That said, they aren't buying into the corporate bootstraps mentality and I kind of applaud them for that. I hope it works out for them, honestly. We waste insane amounts of time prioritizing the profits and success of others and we've seen how employees are treated when things get challenging
The issue is that Gen Z kids who grew up with technology aren't coming into entry level jobs knowing how to do this basic stuff. The three things you've mentioned is covered in a business foundation course at my university. This didn't always exist - the older people you taught didn't have this in their college.
Additionally the issue people have brought up in this thread is even if these younger folk came in without knowing how to perform one of the basic functions, they are challenging people already in the workforce trying to teach them this stuff. There is not a lot worse than a new person who comes in, not knowing shyt, and then challenging people who are trying to teach them.
I actually agree with both points of view in this thread. I think Gen Z should challenge some of the stuff that goes on in the workplace today, but I also think they are doing it the wrong way.
O.T.I.S.
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They’re not complaining, they’re using them.
Nobody wants to bust their ass for nothing, I saw it first hand. Dudes were job hopping just to get more money and experience on their resume.. thats it
Then the company randomly let people go left and right without any real reason or cause.. just over budget politics, so why should they bust their ass for that?
No. It is very useful when it comes to data analysis. That analysis is then used to assist with finding out the root cause of an issue, determining the impact and remediation required.fukk excel too
Thats a boomers choice of application imo.. spreadsheets on spreadsheets to justify their job security while getting nothing done
“Let’s look at the data” while nothing actually gets accomplished
There might be other applications that do a better job but if that's not what you're considering, what you said was stupid.
What's funny is that Excel - or spreadsheet applications are still relatively new - 30 years or so - the more accurate boomer stereotype would be using paper and pen for everything lol.
O.T.I.S.
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It’s not
There’s literally other software that can do the same thing quicker to get the point across… sometimes built into the applications theyre taking the data from
I literally just left a place that did this shyt and got mad when I stopped using most of them because it was over done and it hardly worked…
And more importantly, it got NOTHING accomplished
No one wants to sit and stare at spreadsheets all day and if so, good for you. Get the job done should be first priority.
Thats why those clowns couldn’t keep anyone in the position and why they got audited 3 times in 3 years. Even the auditors told them that shyt directly.
How many people are enrolling on a business foundation course? No shyt it is taught in a subject where people need to crunch numbers.
It doesn't exist everywhere which is the point that matters. It is very disingenuous to act like it is a gen z problem when the majority of people pick these things up on a need to know basis.
The second paragraph is a personality issue found in each generation. It is easy to focus on young people but the reality is there are plenty of older heads stuck in this "I did things this way and will continue doing things this way mentality".
It's why some companies refuse to adapt to working from home I'm spite of figures showing it increases productivity. And why they're just starting to phaase out the use of floppy disks in Japan.