Gen Z doesn't seem to care about career advancement??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a fantastic employee who is Gen Z. He has a great attitude and work ethic. He always overproduces on projects, never misses a deadline, and my favorite of all - his work needs very little editing.

I have a lead PM who put in her notice and I absolutely think this guy would be a fantastic fit. The team she was leading also skews young so promoting him wouldn't ruffle any feathers of some of my employees who have been here longer.

I called him in for a meeting Friday morning to tell him about the upcoming position and let him know I'd like to toss his name in the ring for the position. He declined. He said he's happy at his current position, even after hearing the salary bump, because he doesn't want more duties. He said his current workload is perfect for his work-life balance. I think I made a face when he said that because he clarified that he's working on building his brand in his downtime because his ultimate goal is to be able to support himself as a content creator and streamer.

I guess he is a Twitch game player in his free time. I've heard of Twitch but I'm not super familiar with it. He explained it to me and basically let me know that while he loves his job, it's not his passion like gaming.

I had my son show me some steamers this weekend on TikTok and Twitch. He explained how both platforms monetization works. It is still blowing my mind that people pay to watch another person play a video game. Anyway, I was chatting with both BILs who are also in management and they've noticed the same thing. Gen Z are great workers but overall, don't care about advancement. Anyone else seeing similar?

Wow, very similar experience here. I’ve had Gen Z workers turn down additional work that senior management asked for. I certainly don’t crave more work but I would have a very hard time telling a director or VP no.

[Anonymous]

at least he shows up to work

[Anonymous]

Good, maybe they won't burn out as fast.

[Anonymous]

They know how the real world works younger than previous generations. For example if you’re short and have an ethnic sounding name you know the tall white guy whose dad is an SVP is probably going to be the boss. So why stress over it and work too hard for no gain.

[Anonymous]

I feel for those just now generations entering the work force. They feel entitled to a "balance"and the current job market affords them that luxury. In 5-10 years AI will have advanced eliminating many WFH positions, replacing entry level and mid level workers with a much faster, cheaper and more capable AI solution. At that point they will missed the opportunity to establish business relationships and have very few options.

[Anonymous]

Give them time. It's easy to turn down advancement ($$$) when you're single with no kids or mortgage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a Xennial and I fit this description and have had the same conversation with supervisors.

+1. Same here. I have a house, on track for retirement, I don't need or want the extra money and the extra work.

[Anonymous]

Gen Z lower level IT people have 2-3 jobs. My coworker said hid 34 year old nephew is all “bro upped”” with his 22-29 year old staff. He did performance review and all were Meets Expectations and coasting making 70-90k a year.

He then gave speech that could take on extra and work harder and make like a 30-40 percent. After a long pause. One guy goes dude you know we all have 2-3 Low level IT jobs paying 80-90k a year. We only want low bare minimum jobs.

He was pisses he was lowest paid person in department as he was only one with one job.

[Anonymous]

Try females.

[Anonymous]

Gen Z will be mostly single & childfree (this is backed by data). However, they’ll eventually want to buy houses, travel, have insurance etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give them time. It's easy to turn down advancement ($$$) when you're single with no kids or mortgage.

They won’t be marrying, having kids or getting mortgages. Not sure why that’s so hard for many of you to grasp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gen Z lower level IT people have 2-3 jobs. My coworker said hid 34 year old nephew is all “bro upped”” with his 22-29 year old staff. He did performance review and all were Meets Expectations and coasting making 70-90k a year.

He then gave speech that could take on extra and work harder and make like a 30-40 percent. After a long pause. One guy goes dude you know we all have 2-3 Low level IT jobs paying 80-90k a year. We only want low bare minimum jobs.

He was pisses he was lowest paid person in department as he was only one with one job.

😂

[Anonymous]

So one anecdote is proof of your asinine theory? Please refer back to logic 101.

Not every GenZ is going to try to pursue two careers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Try females.

I’m a woman and the Xennial who said that I’m the same way.

Stop making everything about gender.

I also work in IT.

People of all ages in IT have multiple jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Give them time. It's easy to turn down advancement ($$$) when you're single with no kids or mortgage.

They won’t be marrying, having kids or getting mortgages. Not sure why that’s so hard for many of you to grasp.

Stupid stupid take. Both my Gen Z siblings want to marry and have kids. It’s the minority of their friends who are against it.