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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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.  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]

Another early GenX. I was always on time and put in the extra hours to get proposals out, etc. before virtual work. Everything had to be at the office and I had a long metro commute to my crappy apartment! I was definitely underpaid--remember finding out the admin assistant old ladies made more than I did, and I had to help them figure out everything on the computers like formatting and pagination, etc.! It was a bum deal all around, but I would have never dreamed of just slagging it all off. When I was sent on business trips I was very cognizant of the corporate amEx and never took advantage.

Agree with the PP that said if people are consistently late or missing meetings, that's an easy paper trail. Nothing complicated about it. And it's just that young person; not all of them. Take a chance on one right out of school. I hear they're getting the shaft right now. [/quote]

So true! It’s horrible. I would make sure they had worked a menial labor job at some point in high school or college or earlier. Far too many “top 25” grads who have never worked and don’t get the basics. [/quote]

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