Gen Z Exposes Massive Issue In The Workplace

[@ACBMemphis]

Trust is on the decline, in my opinion mostly due to corporate legal departments. The first conversation 20 years ago with a new hire might be "Welcome aboard let's meet the team!" and now it's "Welcome aboard, please sign this NDA, sign this non-solicit agreement, take this drug test, attend this seminar so we don't get sued, and if you're in IT prepare to be micromanaged by our 'Agile' process..." - None of that communicates trust or inspires loyalty.

[@phantomvox951]

Excellent comment

[@JVWT]

Absolutely!

[@jefffletcher8761]

Trust also includes that the company will not lay them off just to make short term profits.

[@Seraphina_Atley]

Company leaders are sketchy and only out for themselves, I don't trust them either...

[@KungPowEnterFist]

Are you pretending that the workers are every bit as sketchy and definitely only out of themselves? You must not be in the workforce.

[@gottasay1157]

yeah it's called WORKING FOR SOMEONE. Gen Z are not their children of the company but EMPLOYEE.

[@timgibney5590]

When you look out for them and make sure they look good and have the work they need maybe in return they will look after their employees. Workers/employer relationships are not family ones. They are purely transactional. Nothing wrong with that. Jobs are a privledge. Not a right. Why should you need a job?

[@furiousdestroyah9999]

​@@timgibney5590If having a job is a privilege then make that statement reflect real life. That's like saying "life is a privilege"

[@chris7285]

I got really lucky recently with my new job. My local McDonald’s knows what they’re doing. It’s amazing how much our workplace thrives due to the right leadership being in place. They treat us with kindness and respect. My co-workers are easy to get along with too. My location doesn’t tolerate any drama, drama queens get kicked out fast. I may not get paid much but WOW, work has never felt so easy and fun. Of course, I’m still working towards more but I wish all minimum wage jobs were like this place.

[@karihosny9420]

If work/life balance is so important than why don't corporations still include hybrid instead of forcing everyone can be in the office 5 days a week.

[@jasonbourneistreadstone]

I've seen KZbin pieces on at least 5 major global companies, all of them forcing RTO (Return to Office). We have 2024 technology where anyone who isn't doing physical on-site service can work from home. Yet, companies want people to go back to 2004 where we're spending 2+ hours commuting, plus gas, plus parking expense, etc.

[@123darkdeal]

Face to face collaboration is much different and productive in person. Teams and Zoom are convenient, but lead to problems. Body language and such. Innovation took a pretty steep decline when everyone went work from home. "grunts" who don't have meetings and just click away on their keyboards with no eye on moving up in the company, I don't see a problem with them doing WFH. They don't really have a right to complain when they keep getting passed over for promotions though. They chose that.

[@timgibney5590]

Because it is their company and get to decide how their workforce works. If you do not like it work somewhere else. ... however if they go too far they won't have high quality workers so it is a give and take. You need to be more valuable to be able to pick the remote jobs if someone else is willing to go in for cheaper than you and still get the job done.

[@timgibney5590]

@@123darkdeal Studies have shown that is not true at all.

[@aroggo16]

Americans are some of the most hardworking people especially if you have your own business. I would say other than remote/hybrid work we need at least 2 weeks or more of paid vacation per year that does NOT include sick/personal days. My reasoning is during the week M-F most business close by 5-6pm. Auto mechanics, doctors offices, dentists, tax prep, customer service call centers, barbershops certain small businesses etc. How are people supposed to be get car fixed during the week or visit the doctor while working a 9-5? It won’t happen unless they take a personal day while their wife, husband is at work? Go on a Saturday I’d rather go during the week.

[@gameologian7365]

I think the two weeks notice vs letting people go imbalance illustrates this point poignantly

[@stealthzi7465]

You need to not repeat yourself so much but trust works both ways.

[@user-mm4qv6vr5z]

I’m a millennial and I’ve been preaching to my Gen Z brothers to not go through what we’ve had to

[@desiv1170]

Great way to make sure that GenZers don't take your job. Smart...

[@user-mm4qv6vr5z]

@@desiv1170 yea true

[@churchofpos2279]

i am a boomer and have tried to teach Gen Z to look out for themselves first and screw the corporations.

[@christianchellis9057]

Gen Z is so right to hate work. It’s a rightful hate.

[@Christinekueblerartist]

Collegial learning opportunities. I’m a former teacher and for 10 years I worked in one of the highest achieving public schools in the nation. We got 85-90% of students to pass state exams (which are NOT easy) in all grade levels, for all subjects. This is almost unheard of for our schools. There was a lot that went into it, but deep collaboration and collegial learning (meaning we had opportunities to observe what our colleagues were doing and how they got results so we could do it in our classrooms too) played a huge role in our success. We worked together, helped each other, planned together, evaluated and graded student progress together. No one was left to do it alone and THAT’S why we were the BEST.

[@DanielRicany]

Crazy. This dude says everything but raising wages 😂😂

[@Vacationhiker27]

He’s talking about trust not wages.

[@TL-rh1lf]

@@Vacationhiker27 I trust companies to replace someone the moment they can save $1 in the short-term

[@BOSSDONMAN]

He's a corporate shill, what do you expect?

[@ewanfraser]

“I’m paying you to be here” most bosses

[@thispersonrighthere9024]

*your boss is not your friend, gen Z. do NOT stay loyal to them.*

[@lamartv3d366]

Yes it’s time to make change with our workplace

[@Boc3phu5]

What is this the channel that kept saying to go to work hard and Trust Companies?

[@Ghaz013]

Let’s be honest most companies suck.

[@techno1386]

Gen Z here (this is my take on companies): Boomers- most won’t retire because their work is their life and they have tunnel vision when it comes to the economy (giving low wages). Gen X- accepted and promoted the job marrket we have today (terrible work life balance w/ more responsibility and less pay). Millennials- realize how trash the economy is but are still trying to prove the higher ups their worth thinking they’ll get a promotion. Gen Z- We don’t give a f&$! about climbing the corporate ladder it’s not worth it anymore. Before Covid things were possible and now everything seems damn near unattainable. Sorry for all the grammatical errors lol Background: 24M, Engineering Specialist, B.S. in Egn, 4 YOE.

[@furiousdestroyah9999]

Pretty spot on

[@Yoyoma55]

27 manufacturing engineer here. Pretty spot on. “Get this done with little to no support” then “I can’t believe we ran into these problems. And repeat

[@TheColorCubicle]

It's not just about caring and nurturing and kumbaya. Pay people wages that are in line with the cost of living. When worker compensation reflects company productivity, just watch what that does for loyalty in the workplace.

[@markfunkhouser791]

As a Gen X'er, I've had trust issues with corporate leadership all my life. It's because their actions reflect that they don't care about anyone but themselves, and the worst thing is that people buy all the excuses for this!

[@geoffoutdoors]

The ONLY work life balance that exists is for salary employees. Hourly employees get screwed...period. I worked 20 years for a company that always talked about "People, Service, Profit"....but always practiced it backwards..."Profit, Service, People". When COVID hit and business slumped...it was stated "we have a business to run" whenever anyone talked about needed appointments or vacation. Horrible company and i left 6 months ago. Not to mention verbal warning on attendance because i went to see my father in the hospital who was dying of cancer, after explaining to my boss months and months in advance what was going on!

[@Seraphina_Atley]

Uh...salaried workers get royally screwed over, as well. You sign on for 40 hours and they feel entitled to 60 because you are salaried.

[@eli-bt4he]

Um, it's literally the other way around. With hourly employees, the company is motivated to only let you work 40 hours or they have to pay you overtime. With salaried employees, the company can essentially work you as much as they want for the same amount of pay. In my line of work, the managers (salaried employees) are more or less on the clock 24/7.

[@jasonbourneistreadstone]

He's right. I'm an X'er and companies will simply take advantage every possible way they can.

[@Gheir-xe4mv]

What's messed up is that I'm am a genz and I thought required work time over 40 hours a week was illegal when I was growing up, both my parents had college degrees and worked 40 hrs each week.

[@titolovely8237]

the overreliance on degrees and college destroyed leadership in big companies. too many people unfit for their titles existing in top roles. we need to bring a merit system back. high performers, regardless of education level, need to be promoted. we need the best at the top, not the most degreed.

[@maylani3697]

Companies don’t care about your work/life balance or your stress. If you can’t be there when they need you and produce, heave ho, out you go. Onto the next guy who they can pay even less to do your job.

[@TonyTheTGR]

No, they've had two entire generations ahead of them and enough secondhand experience through them to know what's up. But "Giving People The Ability To Take Care Of, What They Need To Take Care Of" is ABSOLUTELY an essential - and missing in most cases - ingredient.

[@ixiahj]

The corporate company I used to work for believed what this guy was saying. That was 2015. Apparently the saying "give them an inch and they'll ask for a mile" is true. There were employees that took advantage and made life for the rest of us bad.

[@Gheir-xe4mv]

Absolutely on the work life balance point, nobody wants to work over 5 days a week if they know any better. And genz knows better haha

[@stardarkk]

companies have to do better

[@nicomyth]

Gen X and I don't trust upper leadership either. Why would you trust people who lie to you? Trust needs to be earned and upper leadership has not earned that privilege.

[@anniesshenanigans3815]

the lies never end

[@malakturk6887]

As long as I work from home I don’t care. No really I don’t care. Iam not going back to the office. Then you earn my trust

[@timgibney5590]

60% of employers in another survey also have fired gen z employees this year with 70% said gen z graudates were not prepared for the workforce. Attendance, performance, appripriate attire, and professional communications were all cited by HR. This is why there is a disconnect. Participation trophies, degrees handed out like candy, and covid gave the illusion of students picking their own time to get work done when they feel like it and being isolated where in person communication is not a consideration. The rest of the world is a harsh place where attendance, in person work and communication, and consequences for not listening and getting deadlines completed means termination. Gen Z is not used to being held accountable and many sue and blame their bosses. So a distrust is involved in both parties.

[@Ravi-rl8tt]

They can quit trying to RTO us to show us that they trust us lol. It’d save me the headache of trying to act as if I’m fine with hybrid only to try and negotiate remote at the offer stage. It’d save everyone time.

[@33asiamonet33]

Thanks for the video!

[@katarzynakapusta2525]

Don't tell me these brilliant people really struggle to find one employee to fill a role among hundreds of candidates that exceed role demands.

[@anniesshenanigans3815]

they want brilliance at bargain basement prices.

[@crohunter100]

Or bring back conscription

[@blakeharrison3972]

I want to be able to work up a ladder and not have to switch companies every 3 years, I don’t feel like leaders care about promoting, I’ve seen so many people leave and come back to get the position they originally wanted

[@manoftomorrow5987]

But to move up the ladder it means that someone has had to have left the position or else you’ll be making up shit positions and roles.

[@donaldjohnson-e8f]

"The data does not lie" - unless it is from Harvard

[@Pointlessparodys]

It's not a Gen Z issue it's a supply and demand issue. Employers send all the money to the top and then wonder why there's no demand for employment at the bottom. Entitlement is not just an employee problem

[@jotheskier6462]

Trusting the company? These kids grew up during the great recession with parents who have been LAID OFF. They witnessed and lived through what their parents went through

[@lextacy2008]

If you cant work from home, then all online sales should also be banned

[@dawolvx3098]

When you can fail so miserably and drive a company into the ground and get rewarded with millions of dollars in the form of Golden Parachutes...but if you fail your out on your ass.

[@AnthonyRusso93]

Leadership is about solving problems The day your soldiers stop coming to you with problems is the day you stop leading them they have either determined that you cannot help or that you do not care either is a failure on your part" Colin Powell Oh was he a zoomer? Did he get this attitude from his parent's parenting style? No he was an actual leader who actually had leadership skills

[@brandondavis9016]

Ken, as a 22 year old recent graduate who works in accounting, I think most people around my age are simply too entitled and expect life out of college to be easy, particularly in the corporate environment. I never expected life after college to be easy and when it comes to the workplace, expecting managers to be nice to you is extremely naive. You have to take control over your life and not allow yourself to get take advantage of.

[@andrewh2u]

Does Ken Coleman trust company leaders..... because there are stacks of his videos on this channel saying workers should go in to the office and work like a dog and they will be rewarded. Thats NOT the experience that most workers have with the self-interested owners and executives and C-Suite of most companies, who are wholly interested in their own fat compensation.

[@looseycanon]

No... Work life balance is not just letting people go take care of shit and then forcing them to work up the hours. We're already doing overtime, sometimes even unpaid one, that the employer NEVER even learns about. Wages? always at least tripple over costs of living in the area of business activities. No, not helping someone with a loan gone bad. Your role is to make sure, these people don't need to get into that situation in the first place! Return to office? Nope, you must you trust your employees, by eliminating office space and letting everyone work from home full time, instead of drowning yourselves in copeium. And most importantly, no more curating, what the low ranks get to hear and in what way. Truth, particularly if it harms the company! Trust is not, when you can't be harmed. Trust is, when you can die, if the other party decides to stab you in the back.

[@euphrates74]

Goid stuff

[@KungPowEnterFist]

This guy is so out of touch with reality its not even funny. Gen Z is well on their way to being the most unmanageable and untrainable generation ever seen in the workplace. As long as Gen X is in the building, the Titanic stays afloat with violins playing and cigars smoking. When Gen X gets off at the next port and Millennials take over the ship and have to deal with Gen Z crew, this ship is headed straight into the iceberg. They'll both have plenty of life balance sitting at home laid off because they put the company out of business.

[@nosam1998]

Blame everyone, and take zero accountability. Great idea! People should definitely trust you, right? LOL

[@subjecttochrist]

lol I like going into the office. Works way better for collaboration. I’m an old soul “millennial.” AND I am an IT professional. I just like being around people.

[@JeremyTheEntrepreneur]

Just act like the boomers and your make money

[@Boc3phu5]

Eat the rich.

[@nickzema4683]

Work life balance means to gen z: work whenever I want, how I want, where I want.

[@nosam1998]

This is precisely how I run my own software company. I ask a few things: Get your work done on time, meet your goals, and that's it. I could care less about how, when, or where you got it done. I've hired multiple employees this year, and we're growing 400% YoY. I'm putting my money where my mouth is, too. Opinion mean nothing, and I've seen firsthand how well this works. You can believe what you want, but at the end of the day, numbers don't lie, and what I'm doing is working. F corporate and the yesmen, and good riddance. When you strip away what employers have (power), they have nothing. I've told everyone throughout my life one thing: "Watch me". People love to talk and act like they're right, but actions speak louder than BS.