Will Gen Z brats be able to take over one day?

Some teachers discuss the grim future of Gen Z brats in the workplace

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ButIDntWanaBeAPirate
Is Gen Z going to be able to take over someday?

After reading what I’ve read here, I’d be a fool not to ask…

Am I just a juvenoiac, or are these kids being sent out into the world woefully underprepared? Is the bell curve still… well… a bell curve? Are they better/worse/do they need help?

I am beginning to encounter Gen Z in the workforce in a meaningful way, and, uh, well… I see a lot of humor here, so I’m asking the experts, completely in earnest…

I’m a Millennial, myself, and I have no professional educational experience, so I’m not here to judge, but these kids don’t [seem to] know anything about anything, and I want to know if it’s just the ones with whom I work, or if I should get used to this… I work in the tech industry.

So let’s hear it, my ostensibly professionally enlightening friends! What say you?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1gzjpbe/comment/lz3m4y3/

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musicmaj


People thought the same about millennials and yet here we are.

As I mentioned in a comment a few days ago, my husband's business has a particular problem with the Gen Z employee continually calling out each week for the most ridiculous things, like it being his best buds bday that day. My sister's husband just clocked a Gen Z employee at his work because the guy kept kicking his tools around the construction site, he told him to stop, guy kept kicking them on purpose, so he got clocked. These kids haven't experienced any real world consequences for things like absences or being an annoying little shite, and they think they can continue the same behaviour at work.

But these kids will get fired or punched, many will learn, some won't, and the world will eventually sort itself out, and then the ocean levels will rise and we'll all die anyways.

It seems gen z is doomed and its mostly the fault of lazy breeders who couldn't/wouldn't teach them basdic life skills and gen alpha is even worse.

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musicmaj


Yeah. I'm even more scared for Gen Alpha. My friends are raising Gen A kids and it is...fucking scary. One has a 4.5 year old who isn't potty trained because "her kid doesn't want to and she doesn't want to traumatize her" and for all my friends, none of their kids sleep in their own beds and all bedshare because they can't bear leaving the child alone. Some don't even own separate beds at all for their children.

I have an almost 6 month old. She sleeps great in her own bed in her own room because I never let her bedshare because all safety experts said don't, and then I sleep trained her once it was developmentally recommended. She rolled both directions nice and early because I prioritized her hated tummy time. I have done quite a few things to keep nudging her more and more towards independence, even at almost 6 months old. Because, although this seems to be an unpopular opinion amongst parents these days, I believe the goal of most parenting should be to raise independent humans who have empathy and resiliency. And I just see way too many these days who seem to want to raise entitled kids with no ability to think or do for themselves and melt down at inconveniences or challenges.

Yeah, I check the the stepparents reddit often and it is amazing how many kids just dont sleep in their own beds, and since the subreddit is very polite, many parents just accept this. 8 yr olds sleeping w/ daddy, then stepmom/GF comes into picture and the Dad wants the grown woman to not sleep in their bed but another room every other weekend. Or, she sleeps w/ both of them and the kid and dad are cuddled up together and she's off to the side. No one wants to disturb Precious. As I said, many divorced parents parent outta guilt, so thats never gonna change. The stepmom doesnt want to be introduced into the relationship and boom, BTW brat, 'you lost your bed too'. This obviously shoulda been worked on from day one for normal reasons, and at least a month before since you knew you were moving stepmom in. Per these stepparents, whether mom or dad is the bio parent, few of them want to have any rules/boundaries on their weekends, which includes normal food, chores, cleaning, use of vid games that are actually the parents' stations, attitudes, noise, outings, treats, shared areas. The long term stepparents want to move out of their homes after 20 yrs bcz the Bio parent refuses to make the adult kids ever get a job and move out. The days where the parents/adults are in charge and you listen to them bcz they live here now and ARE part of the family are gone.

We've been saying it for decades, modern parenting has done no one a good service. Yes, we did say it about Mils, but they are the ones parenting some of this new nonsense, many were still failing to launch before the economy. Many office shenanigans take place because of them too. We let every feeling rule the home, the school, and now the offices and workplace. Who coulda predicted this other than the Bratfree Board!?!?! Teacher YT said many young teachers are just quitting bcz the school gives them no support when it comes to the kids. We've already seen the vids where students are allowed to bludgeon teachers, especially if they are some type of special needs.

Adults started this shit and nothings gonna change soon, bcz you just cant be a 'big meanie' anymore. And, you just keep enabling the young adults too, extend their adolescence. One example from my fam this holiday. All my nieces/nephews are 17 and up to 30, most are over 25. My SIL had a gathering and she had all these simple but silly games for them, like she had to keep them entertained like it was a grade school bday party. When we were this age, no 60y.o. adults were keeping us entertained, we sat in the homes and talked w/ other adults (and of course we were expected to start breeding children for the fam by this age too), like an adult, whether or not we wanted to. Last yr she invited us to this expensive downtown dart place, which woulda costs us 100-200 dollars for the nite w/ everything involved including parking, etc. This was just to entertain the kids that came in from (grad) school. This all before the normal Xmas parties. Why cant we treat GenZ adults like, well adults? I had my own apt, and gifts to buy, and other adult responsibilities a couple days before Xmas, these guys get entertained by their Aunts?

Will they be able to? Eventually, they'll have to. But because their parents are/were completely useless, they will have to be parented by other people/forces in adulthood in order to learn how things actually work.

Kids now and people who are becoming young adults largely grew up with zero boundaries, common sense, consequences or discipline. They get taught how to weaponize therapy talk to deal with not getting their own way. Their parents pad their whole lives so they never have to be told no and never have to deal with the fallout of their poor choices. They have never been expected to actually do anything. Education is a joke now because kids can learn nothing, blame it on any number of bullshit reasons and still pass because I don't think kids even get held back anymore, do they?

It'll probably be sad, yet interesting to watch how bad things will get as all the sane people die and the incompetent ones are all that remain. Jobs and colleges will need to severely lower their standards just to get applicants. Crime will go up because when Mommy and Daddy failed to spank Junior when he was bad, the police and judges will be the ones who spank him as an adult when he thinks he can do whatever he wants whenever he wants. I imagine jobs like plumber, electrician, trash collector, cobbler, jeweler and many other careers will go unfilled because kids are too stupid to do them or don't care to do them because they are too enamored with their phones. A lot will probably just plain die because of distrust in vaccinations. Mentall illness will skyrocket because these brats won't be able to cope with life after a lifetime of coddling and foam-padding from their worthless parents.

Obviously there are some sane kids who will probably turn out fine, but the majority of them are so fucked.