Companies Are Quickly Firing Gen Z Employees

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1. As a Gen-X this warms my heart. There’s already a labor imbalance that my generation is taking advantage of, but our basic workplace competence looks better and better compared to the people coming up behind us.

2. Daman didn’t know FIFO applied to people too.

3. Can confirm as a Gen Z who got fired. I don’t know how it’s playing out across the globe, but Jesus Christ we truly live in hell. There is no god.

4. I don’t know what’s worse: this article or the comments section.

5. Marxist professors? Did you even go to college. Sounds like you’ve been listening to too much Faux News. Every time I hear these conservative fucks talking about Marx, communism, and socialism, I roll my eyes. These people couldn’t even write a clear and concise paragraph explaining them

   The reason Gen Z is not prepared for the workforce is likely due to bad parenting, declining investment in elementary and high schools, and little or no work experience before graduating from college,

   Universities offer plenty of classes that teach communications skills. The purpose of education is not solely to prepare you for a job. It is also meant to produce creative thinkers and increase the capability to be engaged as citizens. The purpose of education is to cultivate the student’s capacity for mental growth and moral reasoning that are required for a good human life. It should instill a commitment to public service and emphasized the importance of lifelong learning.

   Vocational skills are not universal skills that prepare a person for life long learning or emphasize continuous self-improvement. People need more than vocational skills to be fully engaged in the community, but because an education has become so expensive, it’s value has been reduced to job training, which is a mistake.

   The solution is to invest more money in public schools and make a college education more affordable and accessible. Not everyone needs to go to college, but high school should do a much better job at teaching the basics, so people can see there is more to life than being a worker.

6. Get a job op.

7. I don’t get this article. It’s about what “one expert” is saying. Then it’s “college graduates may struggle to enter the workforce” and “they aren’t prepared for a less structure environment” and “lack practical real-world experience” except the numbers reference later (but don’t see cited) say that employers are firing then because 50% say they lack motivation, 39% lack communication skills, and 46% lack professionalism…..none of those have anything to do with weight college vs workplace experience before being hired.

   Then they move on to what some random HR consultant says (why do we care what he says?) about about college? This guy just bashes it with eye-rolling remarks having nothing to do with college. Again, just “communication and professionalism” which nobody goes to get a degree in at college, putting aside marketing and communications degree. These things have nothing to do with each other and he’s passing off traditional griping about college as some expert opinion. Maybe he should have learned in college how to make claims based off of evidence and causal connection, or that was too long ago for him to remember, we don’t even know who this Bryan Driscoll is.

   Overall point, this article is ridiculous. It’s hearing ranting from your uncle at Thanksgiving dinner and a bunch of handwaving that would be eye-rolling even if this was just being posted as an Opinion piece.

   >”Instead of teaching new hires what they want from them, employers are simply firing workers for not being prepared. It’s a cyclical issue that reflects systemic failure on multiple levels,” he said.

   Frankly this sounds to me like an EMPLOYER problem. You’re not going to hire someone fresh in to the workforce and have any reason to expect that you won’t have to train them on professionalism and workplace communication. All that’s left in the article is generational griping and college bashing without any kind of research or study they are citing to make anything they are saying interesting or to base their claims on, *and what ONE statistic they do cite doesn’t back up anything they are saying!* Where did that statistic even come from, anyway? It’s not cited and it’s not even clear what they are attributing it to. Ironically, this is something you WOULD HAVE learned not to do in college.

8. A lot of the companies don’t let them learn on the job and don’t give instructions or backup

9. Business are there to make money and if you’re not piling the gears, you’re clogging them. The workforce isn’t school and no, employers don’t owe anybody anything. You either jive with the program or you find a new job. It’s not personal. It’s business.