I love Gen Z openers about their struggles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, they had to deal with Covid as high school and college kids and now Trumpism and the failing economy. They have a right to complain.

As opposed to people who had to deal with Covid, Trump and a failing economy as adults supporting a family and raising kids?

Right! It would have been awesome to have no personal or financial responsibilities at that time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen Z has a lot to learn about TMI. The number of cover letters and responses to questions I sorted through for one set of interns revealing inappropriate information in a job application about medical issues and trauma was astonishing.

In person as well. When I said "good morning," neither I nor the 5 young men and women within earshot needed or wanted to hear that you weren't feeling great because you just had your new IUD inserted and were feeling crampy.

OMG - I had to check that I hadn't posted this because a direct report told me this exact same thing. I was dumbfounded and couldn't think of an appropriate response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, they had to deal with Covid as high school and college kids and now Trumpism and the failing economy. They have a right to complain.

GMAFB.

Have you heard of the greatest generation?

Also, not everything is related to Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Gen Z openness about their struggles...many of them openly share their layoffs, disappointments etc with the world. Their feelings are not new. I am 47 and they are saying things I wish I could say loudly when I was laid off in my 20s but couldn't because we viewed corporations as these biiiiiig super important entities that we needed to bow too.

We criticize them a lot but honestly they are not gay off base. We just took crap and keep taking crap. I think I am Gen X right, yeah we are very good at keeping our mouth shut....

I think that we just whined less...

We had less to whine about. Things are measurably worse for younger Millennials and Gen Z.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Gen Z openness about their struggles...many of them openly share their layoffs, disappointments etc with the world. Their feelings are not new. I am 47 and they are saying things I wish I could say loudly when I was laid off in my 20s but couldn't because we viewed corporations as these biiiiiig super important entities that we needed to bow too.

We criticize them a lot but honestly they are not gay off base. We just took crap and keep taking crap. I think I am Gen X right, yeah we are very good at keeping our mouth shut....

I think that we just whined less...

We had less to whine about. Things are measurably worse for younger Millennials and Gen Z.

Bo.

Not at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen Z has a lot to learn about TMI. The number of cover letters and responses to questions I sorted through for one set of interns revealing inappropriate information in a job application about medical issues and trauma was astonishing.

I came across a video on YouTube where a girl was saying how she had herpes, describing her outbreaks etc....

For better or worse, a culture of shame is kind of dying.

This is true! For better and worse. You cant shame these kids in to nothing.

Well and the script is switched so the shameless have the upper hand, too.
You can't note all the TMIisms and ask them to knock it off or unhear it because then you sound creepy as a Gen X coworker.

So you have to keep quiet about your personal life AND keep quiet about your reactions (dismay, abhorrence, facepalm) to their oversharing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too Much Information

TVMBYAITMA is …
Thanks very much but you are inventing too many acronyms

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[Anonymous]

Come on—You can’t blame Trump or Covid on the IUD girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Gen Z openness about their struggles...many of them openly share their layoffs, disappointments etc with the world. Their feelings are not new. I am 47 and they are saying things I wish I could say loudly when I was laid off in my 20s but couldn't because we viewed corporations as these biiiiiig super important entities that we needed to bow too.

We criticize them a lot but honestly they are not gay off base. We just took crap and keep taking crap. I think I am Gen X right, yeah we are very good at keeping our mouth shut....

I think that we just whined less...

We had less to whine about. Things are measurably worse for younger Millennials and Gen Z.

You know what happened on the 6th day of my first grown up job in NYC? 9/11. We had plenty to whine about.

This generation is the product of helicopter parents. They were raised thinking their parents really really cared and wanted to hear about every time they went to the toilet. Now, their coworkers get to hear it because they never learned that people just don’t care about the minutiae of their lives and you absolutely, 💯 % should not be word vomiting that stuff to your coworkers.

[Anonymous]

I like when they share all this stuff because it makes it easier for me to figure out who should be assigned to which projects, and who should be fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, they had to deal with Covid as high school and college kids and now Trumpism and the failing economy. They have a right to complain.

As opposed to people who had to deal with Covid, Trump and a failing economy as adults supporting a family and raising kids?

Right! It would have been awesome to have no personal or financial responsibilities at that time.

Genz was impacted hard with covid isolation it set education and social maturity back a lot. Trumps pairs and humor resonate with genz especially all the TikTok and ai posts. Only genx boomer left parents are faux raged and trolled by trump

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen Z has a lot to learn about TMI. The number of cover letters and responses to questions I sorted through for one set of interns revealing inappropriate information in a job application about medical issues and trauma was astonishing.

In person as well. When I said "good morning," neither I nor the 5 young men and women within earshot needed or wanted to hear that you weren't feeling great because you just had your new IUD inserted and were feeling crampy.

OMG - I had to check that I hadn't posted this because a direct report told me this exact same thing. I was dumbfounded and couldn't think of an appropriate response.

To be fair they don’t feel shame about women’s health anymore. It’s not any different to them as telling you they feel sick after a flu shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gen Z has a lot to learn about TMI. The number of cover letters and responses to questions I sorted through for one set of interns revealing inappropriate information in a job application about medical issues and trauma was astonishing.

In person as well. When I said "good morning," neither I nor the 5 young men and women within earshot needed or wanted to hear that you weren't feeling great because you just had your new IUD inserted and were feeling crampy.

OMG - I had to check that I hadn't posted this because a direct report told me this exact same thing. I was dumbfounded and couldn't think of an appropriate response.

To be fair they don’t feel shame about women’s health anymore. It’s not any different to them as telling you they feel sick after a flu shot.

But…it’s your choice of contraceptive. No one needs to know that! It would be like a man in the office telling you what his favorite type of condom is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too Much Information

TVMBYAITMA is …
Thanks very much but you are inventing too many acronyms

TMI is not a new acronym

+1 LOL I'm 56 and we used that eons ago. How old is that ^PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, they had to deal with Covid as high school and college kids and now Trumpism and the failing economy. They have a right to complain.

As opposed to people who had to deal with Covid, Trump and a failing economy as adults supporting a family and raising kids?

Right! It would have been awesome to have no personal or financial responsibilities at that time.

Genz was impacted hard with covid isolation it set education and social maturity back a lot. Trumps pairs and humor resonate with genz especially all the TikTok and ai posts. Only genx boomer left parents are faux raged and trolled by trump

I don't think you understand what you just said.

Think real hard about what you wrote.