Gen Z

[Rita_Poon]

I get anxious if I put plastic in the general waste. There, I said it.

so you should, you contemptible deviant! Save the earth one crisp packet at a time...

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

so you should, you contemptible deviant! Save the earth one crisp packet at a time...

Cracking article in the 'long read' section of the Guardian which calls this approach into question. Laudable, but pissing in the wind. Systemic, fundamental change is needed.

Gen Z can save humanity from eating itself. I hope.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Cracking article in the 'long read' section of the Guardian which calls this approach into question. Laudable, but pissing in the wind. Systemic, fundamental change is needed.

Gen Z can save humanity from eating itself. I hope.

The irony. and the pressure.

 

[ClausThomsen]

I've seen more than enough for anyone. Truely sickening.. I desperately hope my kids never come across stuff like that any more. Although internet filters are much much better than in the 90's when a quick search found anything...

On kids of today. In my industry, Engineering/construction. I see a huge amount of newly qualified graduates working for various consultancies and main contractors, and more and more we are seeing their reluctance to work. Not in general, but in the way of getting stuck in when on site visits. They want to be sat in the warm and staring at a screen, and have refused to go out on site to inspect works or do audits, because its cold!! AND you cant say anything because they go to HR then.. Seen it over and over and over, more and more. I've actually seen grads refusing to help when asked to lift things or get things for the drillers/fitters etc. They literally don't want to get dirt on their hands or PPE!! Its quite bad really.

Obviously not everyone is like that. But there is still plenty..

I think as we all know its a generational mindset and how people have been brought up. But I see it as a shame.

I don't think it's generational. I entered the big, bad grown up world of work in the 90s and there has always been a considerable number of people who will always look for the safe, comfy and warm option and use every trick in the book to avoid dripping so much as one bead of sweat or doing what they consider the grunt work.

Today I could go in and point out several of the younger ones who get stuck in and work to the best of their abilities and I could point out several my age or older who actively avoid the work they'd rather not do, fail to recognise their own shortcomings and devote an enormous amount of energy to making others look bad to cover those shortcomings.

In the same way that plenty of 'boomers' are more considerate and 'woke' than a lot of young people.

 

[cronullasharks]

They'll never have the joy of playing knock and run or rocking the roof of someone they don't like because every house has more CCTV than a prison these days.

 

[TommyDavo]

All I know Gen Z, is that in 35 years Gen BB will be blaming you for all their ills

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Shout-out to the "forgotten generation"...you know who you are.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Gen Z are disliked by some because they see through the crap and call it out.

 

[Rita_Poon]

I certainly wouldn't like to be a young person today. Friend of mine has a 12 year-old and he's the only kid in his year who doesn't have a mobile and he's basically ostracised for it. All the kids are playing sort of together but with their phones in break times, so he's kind of excluded. Probably the right thing in the long run that he doesn't have one but must be hard for him.

Kids with parents that smoke tend to do similar. So, if you want to set an example of not being glued to a phone, if you don't want your kid to have a phone, go without one yourself. And the excuse of 'emergency' is exactly that, an excuse.
With times tougher for parents currently, the ship rolls down the hill and kids often cop the brunt of it. Every metric points to a crisis in mental health for the youth and no means of tackling it or even appetite to address it. Adapt or die. These will be the people that choose not to have children over the next 20 years. They've learned the lesson conveyed abundantly - money is everything, only the wealthy can afford a family, know your place and get back in (the bread) line.

 

[Cels]

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