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Recent Gen Z college graduates are unprepared for the workplace and in need of etiquette training, according to a survey of business professionals. Victor Ocasio reports on Newsday.com that according to the survey by Intelligent.com, which polled 966 business leaders involved in hiring decisions at their company, 46% of respondents said that recent college graduates should definitely take office etiquette training; 42% said they probably should. Intelligent.com is a Seattle-based online higher education publication that conducts college-related polls.
About 1 in 6 of respondents said they were hesitant to hire recent grads.
Only 25% of respondents said all their recent college graduate hires from this year "worked out well," while 62% said only some hires were successful. Worse yet, among frequently cited reasons for why hires didn’t work out, 50% pointed to lack of motivation or initiative, 46% blamed lack of professionalism, and 39% said poor communication skills.
The survey, conducted in August and released in September, paints a bleak picture of young workers' ability to adjust to the workplace. But those who work closely with Gen Z and recent grads say surveys like this may rely on bias and don’t reflect the reality they see.
"I’m shocked by these results," said Marianna Savoca, associate vice president of career readiness and experiential education at Stony Brook University’s Career Center. "Stereotypes are fun to talk about, but it’s really hard to classify a whole generation of people."
Savoca, who took issue with some of the survey’s findings, says it’s been her experience that today's college grads, by and large, receive or seek out more job preparedness services than previous generations.
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Early Sunday afternoon, Southampton Town police officers responded to a report of a lost dog at the Bridgehampton LIRR station on Maple Avenue.
But officers who responded yesterday to the call quickly realized this was not a typical lost or runaway pet scenario.
Police said a woman told them she had taken her 16-year-old son to the station to catch a train to Babylon, but after arriving at the station they discovered that the train was being replaced by a bus.
As mother and son discussed the situation, they failed to realize that Biscuit, their 8-year-old Yorkshire terrier, who was relaxing in his pet carrier, was being loaded on the bus.
The mother and son decided not to take the bus, but after it left the station, they realized Biscuit was nowhere to be found. They looked high and low and called 911.
The responding officer relayed the information to Southampton Town Police Dispatchers who began making calls in an effort to locate the bus - and Biscuit.
Dispatchers were able to contact Babylon Village code enforcement officers, who responded to the Babylon train station, where the dog was found safe and sound and shortly thereafter reunited with his family…presumably Mom drove her son all the way from Bridgehampton to Babylon after all.
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A fatal crash involving two motorcycles claimed the life of a 21-year-old East Hampton man yesterday on Route 58 in Riverhead.
Denise Civiletti reports on Riverheadlocal.com that Riverhead Police said the crash occurred in the vicinity of the Target shopping plaza at approximately 8:20am Sunday.
A 2024 Kawasaki Ninja ZX6R, operated by Christian Gutierrez, 21, of East Hampton struck a 2006 Yamaha R6 operated by Rodolfo Castillo, 54, of Southampton, police said in a press release this afternoon. No information was provided about how the crash occurred.
Gutierrez suffered numerous injuries and subsequently succumbed to those injuries on scene, police said. Police did not say whether Castillo was injured in the crash.
The Riverhead Police Department Detective Division and the New York State Police Forensic Investigation Unit responded to the scene to assist in the investigation, according to the press release. No criminality is suspected in the case at this time, police said, however the investigation remains ongoing.
Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or have further information pertaining to the investigation is encouraged to contact the Riverhead Police Department at [phone].
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Bob DeNardo once salvaged a John Deere riding mower out of Shelter Island's recycling and trash yard. John Duo said he drove a 1969 Volvo out of the facility in the 1990s. Robert Waife recovered a steel, spiral staircase that he keeps in his barn. Joe Werkmeister reports in NEWSDAY that the "pickers" of Shelter Island, as they are known, describe the town’s transfer station as a community hub - a daily gathering place where residents hunt for treasures. The tradition dates back decades on the island where affluent summer residents in mansions coexist with the smaller year-round population.
But the pickers are fuming after a policy change over the summer restricted access to discarded lumber and metal - known as the "C & D pile" for ...