Generation Z not winning employee generation of the month

Covid didn't help

This is a reprint from the Telegraph.

It rings true. The refusal to pick up a phone, the entitlement, and the idea that leisure is the norm and that work interrupts it is very Generation Z.

I’ve seen students who seem to think a mediocre BBA and being in some club at uni nobody has heard of left them ready to make senior manager strategic decisions.

The concept of working your way up in an organization vanished during the COVID break, and the demand to set up a personal face-to-face meeting with someone is met with an “okay boomer” smirk.

I asked one young lady what she was looking for, “60K a year and working from home.” Good luck with that. I’ve assigned work that I later timed myself on, about 45 minutes. My Gen Z apprentice? Twelve hours working from home. I paid her off and was done with her.

My biggest success story is the kid who nobody noticed but who prepared like mad for interviews, the kid who wasn’t the big man on campus but sat in the front row and opened his mou…