Are you tired of whiny millennial parents / co-workers
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Anonymous
Those of us who own or have equity in a business disagree. Adopting their attitude is probably easier if you work for the federal government, but when you hire a 20-something to lighten your load and contribute to the success of your firm/company/business, you might feel differently. |
Anonymous
The person you hire doesn't have equity in your business. What are you doing to make it worthwhile their while? |
Anonymous
They DID adjust by reducing their commitment to work. Something has to give. They decided it would be work and not, as you suggest, having a family and a house. "No one wants to live in a box and give up their personal dreams for their jobs anymore!" |
Anonymous
+1 Seriously. You don't own the people you hired. As long as they do their job, they should be able to take PTO and not think about your business. |
Anonymous
You think you're clever, but it's precisely because they cannot defer parenthood (age matters) that people in their 30s and 40s are squeezed by school debt, home buying with commute tradeoffs, daycare costs, and career pressures all at once. It's not a new struggle but it is more expensive than it ever has been. WFH helps make it a little easier and cheaper, and a certain type of person hates that for other people. |
Anonymous
I'm looking for their replacement because entitled twenty-somethings are a liability, not an asset. |
Anonymous
So you're expecting a bunch of personal sacrifices from your employees but aren't compensating them adequately for said sacrifices. Knowing your worth and not to put in uncompensated effort isn't laziness. |
Anonymous
What does any of this have to do with my <40 coworkers casual attitude about showing up for work? You: The Silent Generation was able to buy a SFH on a just single factory worker's salary in the 1950s. Gen X me: That is no longer an option for my generation -- therefore I will call out "sick" every Monday and many Thursdays, after taking a full week vacation at Virginia Beach. I will post children's museum pix in IG from the day I was "sick" last week. |
Anonymous
Well, it's easy to see in the case of said entitled twenty-something that they are getting paid more than they generate based on how our business works. We have a compensation structure that rewards people for exceeding expectations and a base pay based on base expectations that they haven't met. |
Anonymous
I can take this one! If homes cost more, people live further out. They may be more strapped for cash if they did purchase a home. They may be strapped for cash because they are saving. Other things cost more too, like college, so a lot of <40 people, including your coworkers, have student loan payments that are excessive, as compared to what similar payments were 20 years ago. The material impact of this is that people have to travel longer to get to work, and more families have two parents working, which means they have to pick their kids up from expensive day care by 5, 5:30, 6pm. With commutes being what they are, it's both MORE productive and less stressful and less costly (in the form of gas, late fees, wear and tear, takeout because you're too tired) to WFH instead of commuting. If you have employees that lie, that's another story. In my experience, the liars I deal with (of the "I'm sick" but you're clearly at a winery variety) are spread pretty evenly across generations. Is it possible this is the case for you too, but Linda in Accounts and Bob in HR just aren't very avid IG posters? |
Anonymous
It's also so sad that Someone forced PP and PP's spouse to take out student loans vs. attending the least expensive in-state college and/or accepting merit aid at a lower-ranked college than the one they attended! The REAL travesty among Millennials is that so many were forced at gunpoint to take out loans and sign their names on the loan papers under duress. We really should do something about that as a nation, such as having non-degreed workers picking up the tab for their student loans. Won't somebody think of the private school graduates???? |
Anonymous
This!! And for the VA nurse, sounds like a management issue. If your coworkers are truly using all of their sick and annual leave and continue to call out sick, they must be using LWOP. That’s either covered under FMLA or will become a larger issue with HR and management soon enough. It’s not like they’re using all their leave, calling out, and still getting paid. |
Anonymous
Sure, use your vacation. It's a benefit and part of your compensation. Don't also disappear and take off dozens of additional days every year because you "just can't." Especially when you lie about the circumstances to try to get a BS accommodation That is what makes you a shitty coworker |
Anonymous
Do they get a paycheck, yes? and some benefits? There you go! |
Anonymous
Just getting a paycheck isn't actually enough. You want good people, you make yourself attractive to the hard workers. |