Seems to be the recurring theme for Gen Z across the country’s workforce

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmon...es-firing-gen-z-workers-record-time.html

Saw this problem coming many years ago when the rule was Hire 5 to keep 1
3 weeks was always the time frame when newbies would either shine or quit or be fired
2 years was about average of keeping an employee
This was 20 years ago

Says the Higher education system is completely broken. But..but..foosball..

The entire K-C4 system needs to be scrapped.

This was actually done.
The people at the US Department of Education not long after Obama got elected did a study that showed that since the Department of Education was founded, performance has dropped consistently.
So Obama increased their budget by 90%. He wanted to speed up the decline, and now we have GenZ.

The wife will interview 10 and get 1 worth a damn. And then that 1 is gone in six months.

Set the interview at a Waffle House at 6:30 AM across town, it will weed out most of the crap

There are two staff accounting roles on my team that I've turned over twice each in the last 2 years. I've got one in there that I think will stick and the other one may not work, we'll see over another month or so.

I'll tell you what I'm not going to do, and that's lower the standard. The standard isn't changing.

Had a convo with an AA female in office yesterday. She was all in with the pathetic state the employment pool is. She handles unemployment for the state and she says they are still fighting the effects of COVID and the stimulus checks. She says NOBODY wants to work anymore and that just ain’t the way life works. We are understaffed and having trouble filling spots with qualified and trainable people.

A source close to me said that his company (a very large national company based in Bullock county) let a lot of older, experienced employees go (or strongly encouraged retirement) in favor of a lot of younger, hip, late 20s early 30s kids with no experience but plenty of DEI and liberal ideology and paid them sick money. Well, it’s coming back to bite them. They found out that generation has a serious work ethic problem and those guys are starting to get pink slips now.

Try hire a truck driver or ANYONE to work in the logging business.hope they find an alternative beside wood to build houses with in the future . Lazy ass drivers now can get a CDL license to drive a no straight shift truck . Automatic only or they can’t drive it .

Had this problem well before Covid. One year back, I interviewed and sent 21 through a paid orientation and had three last 3 months. I've had them quit within 30 minutes of starting the job. I've had them beg us to fire them because "I'd really rather sit in momma's basement, play video games, and smoke weed." We've had them walk out on Thursday because they were reaching the point on that week's earnings that was going to reduce their gov't check. We've had them finish orientation, start the plant tour and quit before the tour was really started because "I can't work here. It's too hot."

Anyone and everyone that is trying to staff a labor job is seeing the same deal. And it is not just kids. Many of the folks we've hired that quit immediately were in their 30's or 40's.

Some of this predates Covid, but I'm going to tell you...Covid is to blame for a lot of it. I'll will admit it! Covid screwed my mind up when it comes to working. When Covid hit, I was forced to leave work for 7 months!!! But guess what? I still got full pay. Full Pay. And I got to go turkey hunting every. single. day. that season. Jesus Christ! I got to get a taste of what retirement life might be. NO work. Hunt all the time. Still get paid...Since then, I don't want to work. I still do go to work and do my job as expected, but I don't want to. I'm 45 and can retire with full benefits in 4 years. And that's exactly what I'm going to do. I have a side gig lined up that doesn't feel exactly like work, so hopefully I'm set. Just saying...Covid did more than make people physically sick.

Is that really necessary? Its certainly not appreciated.

Sorry, Ridge Ranger, I'm not sure what I did that was offensive?

Low unemployment rate equals low qualified hiring pool! We are trying to hire the unhirable.

I was dealing with this years ago. You don’t have to work to survive anymore. You can get by on taxpayer handouts so there’s really no incentive to put yourself out.

What I can't figure out, and its not just Gen Z, but how many people cannot solve simple problems. How about doing a quick google search chief?

Alabama Power is not having issues finding employees... why? Because they pay well and have great benefits. There are tons of great hard working Americans but you have to be willing to pay for one of those. Everyone I know who complains about, "can't find no help" is paying $15-20hr and no or really crappy benefits.

It's also Gen X Parents who have allowed or "hovered' over their kids. They are the generation who need apps like Life360 because they are hover parents... the older generation didn't have these same traits. They were all about preparing you for real-life and kicking you out the door. The old generation found value in struggle and hard times. Not that way anymore.

It's not the governments fault, it's the parents fault.

Ya'll making me blush. My son works as hard as anyone I've ever met. But he ain't cheap and he's worth every penny he makes. Planning on doing the same for my girl if I live that long.

That is the most genius post ever