Quite. The truth of it, as is so often the case, is that most of Gen Z are perfectly normal people. As in every generation there will be people who buck that trend positively and negatively.
Doesn’t surprise me at all. Obviously they aren’t all the same, and I have hired some decent ones. But the ratio of incapable, entitled idiots to decent ones is incredibly low. The strange thing is it’s not like they necessarily lack a work ethic or don’t want to work. It’s not a laziness problem. It’s just that they need everything handed to them and can’t understand the mentality of just getting on with it, and when you mess it up, you’ll be able to do better next time. They don’t get this at all, and feel they should be put on some extensive training course to teach them how to do it perfectly, so they then won’t make any mistakes. But the world doesn’t work like that- you can’t learn everything from someone telling you what to do!
Generation amaZon as my mate call’s them down at the Armed Forces Careers Office. If you think you’ve got challenges you need to see the calibre rocking up there each month… Majority do not participate in any team sports at all which apparently is of concern.
But was her fit drip?
As you know, when I secured our Roma away tickets on Thursday 29th February, I had not booked ONE single thing - for an overseas trip in 5 days' time - as I had limited confidence we'd be successful.
How did you draw new letters?I was brought up on scrabble - started playing as an adult with a close mate I met 20 years after leaving home who was playing several times a week. But hey ho - they were the new generation of adult scrabble players who used a plastic sheet covered in 2 letter words etc as ‘guidance’. I hated a scrabble board that was blocked in with two letter words anyway, but 2 letter words no one has ever heard of or uses outside scrabble, pah! I was having none of that and confiscated the word card during our games and no two letter words that you didn’t know the meaning of wouldn’t use in every day parlance
When my friend put down ‘Zo’ and I asked him what it meant - they said with a dead pan face, it was a sort of Himalayan yak. ‘A Himalayan Yak!’, I remonstrated - “since when have you used Himalayan Yak in a sentence?”. ”Oh“ they said, “just the other day, I was saying to someone that Himalayan Yaks are from the Himalayas”. Bosh!
Needless to say, I gradually learnt, Zo, Da, Qi etc and started using all the 2 letter words when it suited me (usually to enable laying down a much longer word.)
Years later, we developed a game of scrabble we would play all through lockdown over Facetime - my friend in Brighton with their board, me in Norfolk with mine, taking it in turns to go, each adding up both scores on our own notepads. Exactly the same rules. It worked perfectly- needless to say, my scores were much higher because my friend couldn’t block my own board with 2 or 3 letter words (which used to drive me crazy.) I could also work 3 or 4 moves in advance, setting my self up for triple word scores that my opponent couldn’t use
DR - it’s a great game, no need to dumb it down
Funnily enough I think WOKE absolutely perfectly apt here. No winners or losers, removes confrontation, leaves everyone feeling equally valued.
‘Gala pie’, mmmmmm. God I miss that.
When I said we both had our own scrabble boards, that included our own bag of letters too - basically we played two games of scrabble at the same time - the competition was who finished their own board/pieces first. It worked.
I had visions of you controlling the velvet bag and telling your pal "Oh, sorry, you have an X to go with your QZYKV and P"
Or possibly a generation who prefer to work in a co-operative and collaborative mannner as opposed to the winner takes all mentality that has given us the joys of neo-liberalism and disaster capitalism that are serving us so well.
Well, there is that of course.
I am sure I read something about monopoly originally being designed to be played like this.
I don't know if that was the intended way to play, but I've definitely heard that it's intended to demonstrate the perils of unfettered capitalism.
