Gen Z ‘can’t handle life’ – blames lazy Gen X parenting

Gen Z gets a lot of flak for being a snowflake – and they are.

Many of them cannot cope with life. Any speech or idea they don’t like is offensive, criticism is offensive – and they can’t hold a job.

However, it is not entirely their fault.

A big part of it is how they were raised and educated.

This mast reported earlier this week that, according to an industry survey, three-quarters of US companies were unhappy with their Gen Z employees and 60 percent were firing newly appointed college graduates within a year.

The biggest complaints were that the new workers were unprepared, didn’t want to complete a full day’s work, wanted to start late and couldn’t communicate properly.

The Daily Mail also quoted recruiter Tammie Christofis Ballis, who said young people were suffering from “interview anxiety”, including dreading picking up the phone for a potential employer and even taking their parents as moral support in interviews.

This doesn’t just happen in a vacuum.

Mental health has a lot more care and awareness than it did a few decades ago – and rightly so – but the pendulum has swung so far that any kind of unpleasant experience is a major issue.

Children are no longer taught resilience and are stripped of all responsibility.

There is no danger in life. All fun equipment has been removed from playgrounds for fear that a child might hurt themselves or break an arm.

They are not trusted to ride off on their bikes in the morning with friends and return when the sun goes down – they must always be in sight.

And when they are out of sight, they are often tracked via an electronic device.

Those devices have become a poison – enslaving children in a digital world instead of the real one.

Is it any wonder they can’t communicate properly when so much of their interactions are no longer verbal or face-to-face?

The concept of winning and losing is dispensed with in favor of everyone receiving a participation medal.

Youth sports leagues no longer keep scores or standings. There are no finals – just “fun” to participate.

But this is not the real world. In all aspects of life, there must be winners and losers.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you fail. But if you don’t learn how to deal with it at a young age, then it will certainly seem like the end of the world when you’re a teenager.

Winning your football match or school sports day teaches that effort and hard work are virtues.

It also teaches sportsmanship and how to properly handle success.

Losing shows that you can’t succeed all the time and how to deal with the sadness of failure.

Moving out of your parents’ house at 18 used to be a right of passage – now it’s a scary proposition.

My grandfather left school at 14 to become an apprentice butcher, which was not uncommon in his day, partly to support his family.

I’m not suggesting that children leave school and be sent to work full time, but it certainly instills a sense of responsibility that is lacking today.

The process of developing responsibility – whether for self, property, work or family – is delayed.

Many school leavers go to university to study degrees they have little interest in because they have been told it is the right thing to do, thus delaying their development even further.

So is it any wonder Gen Z can’t hack it in the workplace?

They’ve been patted on the back throughout their childhood, told they did a good job no matter what, holed up in their bedrooms staring at screens – and now the idea of ​​applying for or keeping a job. seems impossible.

Young people are not inherently lazy, but they have grown up in a world that encourages laziness and mediocrity.