The term slacker was invented for Gen X. Complaints against self absorbed and lazy millennials have been an annoying trope for my entire professional life. Th

The term slacker was invented for Gen X. Complaints against self absorbed and lazy millennials have been an annoying trope for my entire professional life. The ancient Greeks complained thier kids were disrespecting them. I do enough work with new grads to feel comfortable declaring the kids are alright. Gen Z doesn’t feel different fundamentally from millennials to me. We’ve had good (mostly) and bad hires over time. College hires (really any early in career hires) have more variability over experienced hires because they may not belong in it profession they’ve chosen, but that’s been true over time. The one really shocking number is the 6/10 have fired a recent grad. Given how hard it is to get rid of someone generally that is a huge number. FWIW, the last firing of a new hire I was remotely a part of involved a Gen x or elder millennial woman who could not behave appropriately at work and managed to document her inappropriate behavior on company IT assets.