Whilst I understand that they have experienced frustrations with younger workers, isn’t specifically stating that you won’t hire anyone under 21 age discrimination? Especially if there is no legal or regulatory requirement for staff members to be of a certain age.
The laziest and most stubborn to adapt workers have always been the elderly at my company. They refuse to learn new technology and concepts and still blame the young.
Young people not happy working just to survive -being overworked and underpaid.
The young people I speak to are all despairing at the bleak future ahead. When I was younger things were already shitty – they’ve just gotten even worse.
If you systematically excise all incentive to work hard while demanding twice the effort for less than half the pay, with little chance of home ownership or ability to save money beyond the bare essentials, you are going to get a demoralised population and younger people are always hit the hardest.
You have attacked society on all fronts, turning the country into a dreary open air prison with few things to aspire to or hope for. The best a young person can hope for today is a heavily mortgaged Deano box with paper thin walls and an astroturf “garden”. Maybe he will manage to breed another worker bee with his overweight, unfaithful girlfriend and flood his house with plastic toys and cacophonous nursery rhymes. They will do everything to avoid spending time with their doomed spawn until they can shove it off to an underfunded, understaffed school where it will learn its place in what remains of this society. If the child manages to make it through secondary school without being stabbed or impregnated, the cycle will begin anew, with slightly more depressing conditions than its parents had to face.
Ironically, this problem will self-correct, as eventually you will cause the population to degenerate to such a degree that they will no longer be productive. How long that will take is up for debate, I suppose.
Maybe they would be more reliable if they were being paid the full minimum wage.
Sounds more like young people won’t put up with shit and will just find another job after a week.
And why are young people unreliable? Because they want to be paid fair wages?
A better title would be
“Young generation get shafted by capitalism so they have found a small way to fight back.”
Haha joke’s on them, I’ve just turned 40 and I work way less hard (for way more money) than I did 20 years ago.
Alternative headline: Companies refuse to address their poor recruitment and working practices.
Consider disclosing the salary as part of the ad and accurately depicting the expectations rather than some copypaste by HR from one ad to another that at best is just lazy/incompetent or at worst is deceptive.
This is the usual “millennials are killing X”. previous gens have fucked everything and companies need to adapt to their own greed to give people some hope that there’s any point.
Weird, I’m a hiring manager software industry and I mostly hire young workers. I haven’t noticed any difference in reliability.
The big difference is that I often can’t get the budget for a senior (who earn almost double) and seniors are actually more of a mixed bag because they all want high salaries but some of them aren’t actually massively better than juniors. Hence hiring a good senior takes a lot more effort because you have to be really sure.
Pay peanuts & you’ll get a monkey.
It’s not hard to work out that people are sick of working full-time in demanding jobs for less money than is necessary to survive on your own.
Companies shocked as workers don’t want to be treated like shit in return for a shit life
90% of the comments here aren’t even about the content of the article. The unreliability here is about people who don’t turn up to interviews and/or leave after the first week. In that first week, you’re not doing anything in the manufacturing industry. At best, you’d just about have got through the health and safety briefing, so you can hardly complain about being overworked in your first bloody week.
Been hearing this since the 2010s.
Seems like a combination of ‘pay peanuts’ and sloppy hiring practices. Also many employers seem to be of the opinion that training isn’t their responsibility. They want perfection out the gate.
My generation continuing to be a disappointment lmao. Shame to even be part of Gen Z
The company I work for has been expanding recently and have been seeking to hire half a dozen people over the last few months.
But only half of the candidates invited to the interview turn up. It does feel worse than usual.
I wonder if this is more to do with employers expecting “young workers” to be as easily exploitable as the migrant workers that they are having to replace in these industries?
I think young people just don’t want to be exploited. They don’t see being underpaid and working hard for millionaires as virtuous like the boomers did.
As an unreliable older worker I completely support this.
In my experience older people show up religiously but they do fuck all.
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Whilst I understand that they have experienced frustrations with younger workers, isn’t specifically stating that you won’t hire anyone under 21 age discrimination? Especially if there is no legal or regulatory requirement for staff members to be of a certain age.
The laziest and most stubborn to adapt workers have always been the elderly at my company. They refuse to learn new technology and concepts and still blame the young.
Young people not happy working just to survive -being overworked and underpaid.
The young people I speak to are all despairing at the bleak future ahead. When I was younger things were already shitty – they’ve just gotten even worse.
If you systematically excise all incentive to work hard while demanding twice the effort for less than half the pay, with little chance of home ownership or ability to save money beyond the bare essentials, you are going to get a demoralised population and younger people are always hit the hardest.
You have attacked society on all fronts, turning the country into a dreary open air prison with few things to aspire to or hope for. The best a young person can hope for today is a heavily mortgaged Deano box with paper thin walls and an astroturf “garden”. Maybe he will manage to breed another worker bee with his overweight, unfaithful girlfriend and flood his house with plastic toys and cacophonous nursery rhymes. They will do everything to avoid spending time with their doomed spawn until they can shove it off to an underfunded, understaffed school where it will learn its place in what remains of this society. If the child manages to make it through secondary school without being stabbed or impregnated, the cycle will begin anew, with slightly more depressing conditions than its parents had to face.
Ironically, this problem will self-correct, as eventually you will cause the population to degenerate to such a degree that they will no longer be productive. How long that will take is up for debate, I suppose.
Maybe they would be more reliable if they were being paid the full minimum wage.
Sounds more like young people won’t put up with shit and will just find another job after a week.
And why are young people unreliable? Because they want to be paid fair wages?
A better title would be
“Young generation get shafted by capitalism so they have found a small way to fight back.”
Haha joke’s on them, I’ve just turned 40 and I work way less hard (for way more money) than I did 20 years ago.
Alternative headline: Companies refuse to address their poor recruitment and working practices.
Consider disclosing the salary as part of the ad and accurately depicting the expectations rather than some copypaste by HR from one ad to another that at best is just lazy/incompetent or at worst is deceptive.
This is the usual “millennials are killing X”. previous gens have fucked everything and companies need to adapt to their own greed to give people some hope that there’s any point.
Weird, I’m a hiring manager software industry and I mostly hire young workers. I haven’t noticed any difference in reliability.
The big difference is that I often can’t get the budget for a senior (who earn almost double) and seniors are actually more of a mixed bag because they all want high salaries but some of them aren’t actually massively better than juniors. Hence hiring a good senior takes a lot more effort because you have to be really sure.
Pay peanuts & you’ll get a monkey.
It’s not hard to work out that people are sick of working full-time in demanding jobs for less money than is necessary to survive on your own.
Companies shocked as workers don’t want to be treated like shit in return for a shit life
90% of the comments here aren’t even about the content of the article. The unreliability here is about people who don’t turn up to interviews and/or leave after the first week. In that first week, you’re not doing anything in the manufacturing industry. At best, you’d just about have got through the health and safety briefing, so you can hardly complain about being overworked in your first bloody week.
Been hearing this since the 2010s.
Seems like a combination of ‘pay peanuts’ and sloppy hiring practices. Also many employers seem to be of the opinion that training isn’t their responsibility. They want perfection out the gate.
My generation continuing to be a disappointment lmao. Shame to even be part of Gen Z
The company I work for has been expanding recently and have been seeking to hire half a dozen people over the last few months.
But only half of the candidates invited to the interview turn up. It does feel worse than usual.
I wonder if this is more to do with employers expecting “young workers” to be as easily exploitable as the migrant workers that they are having to replace in these industries?
I think young people just don’t want to be exploited. They don’t see being underpaid and working hard for millionaires as virtuous like the boomers did.
As an unreliable older worker I completely support this.
In my experience older people show up religiously but they do fuck all.