[Misc] What do you think of Generation Z?

[Cotton Socks]

No no no, you have forgotten our collective fake shared memory. We never took time off and went to work hungover/still drunk.

I think it was to do with drinking from the hose.

You'll never get your grumpy old bastard stereotype certificate at this rate.

Gen X went to work hungover or still drunk. I'm a proud Gen X that used to go out on a Sun night & go to work Monday morn. Once it cost me £20 to get to work in a cab on time. That's a proper work ethic, denied any going out the night before even though I must have reeked of alcohol & was drinking coffee like water. My great, great, great aunt Greta may have died once or twice though.
Actually they're missing out, there's pride in saying you managed to go to work wasted (as long as you're not doing anything important like nursing etc) & you didn't lose any money, even though you may as well have not been there.

 

[Coxovi]

Is 100+ years ago modern times?

It will be, just wait. Around the time standing up involves a decision matrix.

 

[BadFish]

Gen X went to work hungover or still drunk. I'm a proud Gen X that used to go out on a Sun night & go to work Monday morn. Once it cost me £20 to get to work in a cab on time. That's a proper work ethic, denied any going out the night before even though I must have reeked of alcohol & was drinking coffee like water. My great, great, great aunt Greta may have died once or twice though.
Actually they're missing out, there's pride in saying you managed to go to work wasted (as long as you're not doing anything important like nursing etc) & you didn't lose any money, even though you may as well have not been there.

Its good to have the odd war story about going to work hammered but let's not pretend it happened all the time. I may have soldiered on plenty of time and gone to work a complete liability but I also took days off because I simply couldn't be arsed. I particularly remember chucking a sicky on my last day at an outdoor shop in town because I couldn't be doing with going for a drink and stuff after.

The thing I think about this stuff though is it is less about the generation about more about how employees see the companies they work for. At a few jobs I felt unsupported and treated like shit so why would I bust a bollock for them? I suspect this is still the same now.

 

[Pevenseagull]

The ones that I get along with are fine.

The ones I don't are clearly flawed individuals defined by their date of birth.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

As with every 'generation', some of them are amazing, inspirational and lovely people and others are insufferable bellends.

Which category do I think people who start pointless and possible divisive threads on a football forum fall into? I'll let you decide

 

[Cotton Socks]

Its good to have the odd war story about going to work hammered but let's not pretend it happened all the time. I may have soldiered on plenty of time and gone to work a complete liability but I also took days off because I simply couldn't be arsed. I particularly remember chucking a sicky on my last day at an outdoor shop in town because I couldn't be doing with going for a drink and stuff after.

The thing I think about this stuff though is it is less about the generation about more about how employees see the companies they work for. At a few jobs I felt unsupported and treated like shit so why would I bust a bollock for them? I suspect this is still the same now.

You do have a very good point there thinking about it. I did like my job & my boss (my manager not quite so much) but I guess I didn't want to let them down. The job wasn't an essential role as such, but it would make things difficult if I wasn't there. If my boss was an arsehole I probably wouldn't have spent £20 on a cab.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Shame boomer has become a lazy pejorative term these days. Not that those who use it as such would even understand pejorative.

I’m sure there’s an emoji for it.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

Every year I work with small teams of university students from the US on projects for a charity in Camden. I have to say I have been really impressed with their balance between fun and work and their willingness to work and learn. A small sample I know but I am 66 and I think the world is in far better hands with people like them than it has been with my generation.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Generation Z are those born between 1997 and 2012, so, 13 to 28 year olds today.

They are the social media generation - glued to their smart phones, spend a lot of their time browsing social media, watching memes, online shorts and influencers. They're very conscious if not passionate about mental health and social inclusivity issues... and generally really not into the hedonistic desires of young people of the past, such as sex, drugs and alcohol.

I personally feel they're missing out on life, quite significantly. But that's not say my (millennial) generation was right, but we definitely did things differently. But I am eternally glad that I was not born into the smartphone/social media era. It can't be good for our young people, at all.

Missing out on what? I do feel for the younger generations in some aspects like employment and housing. Culturally and socially are they missing out or reasonably okay and merely accessing and living their lives differently to us? I think it’s the latter.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I go away with a group that’s got Gen Z, Millennials and Gen X in and it’s pretty much the same as when I went away with my mates in the 80s and 90s. Lots of drinking on trains and in boozers, singing and general headloss at away fans and referees.

That said there is one MEDIA WHORE who will insist on posting an Insta story or doing an interview for an Azerbaijani football vlog or something but he drinks more than anyone else to make up for it.

Stop putting people in buckets and take them as they come would be my advice. You’ll be a lot less angry and won’t resort to a stereotype to blame.

 

[The Clamp]

Generation Z are those born between 1997 and 2012, so, 13 to 28 year olds today.

They are the social media generation - glued to their smart phones, spend a lot of their time browsing social media, watching memes, online shorts and influencers. They're very conscious if not passionate about mental health and social inclusivity issues... and generally really not into the hedonistic desires of young people of the past, such as sex, drugs and alcohol.

I personally feel they're missing out on life, quite significantly. But that's not say my (millennial) generation was right, but we definitely did things differently. But I am eternally glad that I was not born into the smartphone/social media era. It can't be good for our young people, at

I’d dispute the alcohol, partying and sex thing.

They’re are plenty of Gen Z doing plenty of those things in the city from what I see.

It seems there’s more extremes these days.

The young people that party, party really f***ing hard.

The boring ones are extremely boring and woke.

I dunno. Not my generation. I don’t have kids and I feel no compulsion to understand them.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Currently reading Steve Coogan's latest Alan Partridge offering, the book Big Beacon.

Whilst obviously in character Coogan delivers a line about "People now get upset about things that never used to upset them."

Perfectly captures the moment for me, I think whilst you specify the age range it goes way beyond that age range, the 'offended' can stretch right through the 30's age bracket.

Can't believe its nearly 5 years ago but I encountered a situation just after lockdown in my garden at a small gathering, a small group of us were discussing Portsmouth and Oxford United being the first clubs to have to take the knee on TV, play off semi in Div 1, it transpired that whilst Kenny Jackett wanted to discuss the matter with the whole squad and effectively put it to a vote, club owner Michael Eisner said they were doing it.

I said I thought that was wrong, if the team voted to do it, fair enough, but grown men being told what they could and couldn't do by a multi-millionaire in Los Angeles was not ideal in the situation.

My millenial guest said "You can't say that"

To which I replied "It'll be shut today because its Sunday, but tomorrow go down to the Land Registry office at the Town Hall, you will find I won where your sat, and all the time its my garden I feel I have the right to free speech"

She's not been back.........

 

[DJ NOBO]

Generation Z are those born between 1997 and 2012, so, 13 to 28 year olds today.

They are the social media generation - glued to their smart phones, spend a lot of their time browsing social media, watching memes, online shorts and influencers. They're very conscious if not passionate about mental health and social inclusivity issues... and generally really not into the hedonistic desires of young people of the past, such as sex, drugs and alcohol.

I personally feel they're missing out on life, quite significantly. But that's not say my (millennial) generation was right, but we definitely did things differently. But I am eternally glad that I was not born into the smartphone/social media era. It can't be good for our young people, at all.

Everyone is glued to their phones, it’s not a gen Z thing.
And the profile you present of what Gen zers are like, isn’t true in real life for the vast majority. They chase sex, like boozing and are non plussed by gender issues etc.
Anyway, the whole thing of categorising people in Gen X , Y or whatever is nonsense. Invented by the media probably.
Aside from that, good post.

 

[portlock seagull]

People are terrified by what others think more today I find, especially younger generations. They’re afraid of giving their opinions.

 

[Albion my Albion]

This thread is lovely. If you like divisiveness.

I think we all know who the most divisive "man" in the world is and that his divisive nature is dividing the whole world. He isn't making any country "great" again. He is ruining all countries at the moment.

 

[SweatyMexican]

I’m born in 1997. I was born a few weeks after Hereford.

I’ve since deployed and served my country for 9 years. I’ve got a mortgage and investments and built a life for myself. I also use my phone way too much.

Every person you meet is completely different.

 

[cunning fergus]

Is that really true?

I'd say my dad's generation, the 'baby boomers' of the first world war had it far harder. A childhood during the depression of the 30's, young adulthood during a world war followed by a housing shortage of the 40's and 50's.

My old man was born in 1931 and was brought up in Edward Street the youngest of 6. During the war they and their neighbours supported families that were bombed out of homes in Edward Street area during a raid. National Service for him was extended as he was out fighting communists in Malaya. Returned to a U.K. still under rationing until 54. Worked as a roofer till 92 (retiring due to injuries) at 61.

People who think Gen Z have it tough don’t know what tough is.

 

[WATFORD zero]

My old Grandad used to get up in the morning at night at half-past-ten at night, half an hour before he went to bed, Eat a lump of freezing cold poison, work 28 hours a day at mill, and pay da mill owner to let him work there. And when he went home his dad used to murder him in cold blood, each night, and dance about on his grave, singing hallelujah.

Yah, you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you...

 

[Chicken Run]

Generation Z are those born between 1997 and 2012, so, 13 to 28 year olds today.

They are the social media generation - glued to their smart phones, spend a lot of their time browsing social media, watching memes, online shorts and influencers. They're very conscious if not passionate about mental health and social inclusivity issues... and generally really not into the hedonistic desires of young people of the past, such as sex, drugs and alcohol.

I personally feel they're missing out on life, quite significantly. But that's not say my (millennial) generation was right, but we definitely did things differently. But I am eternally glad that I was not born into the smartphone/social media era. It can't be good for our young people, at all.

2 of my three groin goblins are Gen Z’s , the other is a Millennial who irritates me more

 

[Chicken Run]

What are 1989 - 1995 called?

edit: I looked it up: Millenials.

What are there defining characteristics?

Gen Z’s being managed in the workplace by millennials, wtf could go wrong