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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 58 (so early GenX).  I'm sitting here trying to remember ever being late to a meeting.  Only if one meeting ran into the next maybe.  I was late for work once when I was rear ended on my way to the office.

I've worked nights and weekends (proposals).  Took work home before there was WFH.  Worked remotely and in office.  Virtual meetings before zoom existed. All of that early in career.

[b]There are good Gen Z employees, but they are far and few between and I suspect they are either ambitious or were raised by militant parents.  Or both. Not showing up to meetings, missing deadlines, being late, not wanting to be on camera, it's really annoying. [/b] Thankfully I'm a VP at a large corporation now, so there are inevitably several layers of mgmt between me and most GenZ employees.  But I have also noticed that they tend to be far less....respectful?  of senior management than I was at that point in my career.

Times change.[/quote]

This is interesting to hear. My son graduated from college in June ‘24 and is working 60 to 80 hour weeks in finance, so not everyone is like this, but it does a lot to explain why the hiring process is so intense. Yes, he’s ambitious, and yes I guess I was “militant,” though he said I was “the only mom in Bethesda who won’t let her kids do X” and would describe our friends, with whom we share similar parenting philosophies, as “legit parents.” My younger son complains that there are a lot of parents out there who are just not involved with their kids’ lives. I guess that includes the unchaperoned kids at Beach Week! [/quote]

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