Get ready for Gen Z, employers. First hint: They're not millennials.

Big-E

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Why would helicopter parents go away for Gen Z. I thought the helicopter parent thing is an increasing trend. Not some 1980s and 1990s outlier?
 
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I don't think there's a significant difference between "gen z" and "millennials".
There were a couple years I had no internet experience, and then several years where the internet was still the Geocities wild west.

Gen Z? At best they remember being, like, four years old when the old school Internet bubble burst. And then social media happened, and everything changed, Metal Gear-style.

But either way we grew up with the net.
 

丁寧懇切

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a lot of the stuff sounds just like every day behaviour for people my age. (born 1986).

so GenZ is Millenials+? That's nice.
 

higemaru

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Why would helicopter parents go away for Gen Z. I thought the helicopter parent thing is an increasing trend. Not some 1980s and 1990s outlier?
The article, like any article about generations act in the workplace, is bullshit. I know parents who stalk their kids via geotagging apps and message them when they go off route.
 

Bronx-Man

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All of these articles are always Boomers vs Gen X, Boomers vs Millennials, Millennials vs Gen Z.

But I wonder why no one ever put a spotlight on Gen X vs Millennials.
 

teague

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I keep having to go to work-related events about appealing to/understanding Millenials lemme tell you Boomers are not ready for Gen Z
 

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Are Gen Z the ones who see traditionally pretty folks on instagram say HEY CHECK OUT THIS JUICE ENEMA DETOX and are like "hell yeah I have to get me some of that" because I hear they're the ones who do instagram and if that's true I really don't understand Gen Z
 

teague

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Are Gen Z the ones who see traditionally pretty folks on instagram say HEY CHECK OUT THIS JUICE ENEMA DETOX and are like "hell yeah I have to get me some of that" because I hear they're the ones who do instagram and if that's true I really don't understand Gen Z
don't forget condom snorting
 

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Are Gen Z the ones who see traditionally pretty folks on instagram say HEY CHECK OUT THIS JUICE ENEMA DETOX and are like "hell yeah I have to get me some of that" because I hear they're the ones who do instagram and if that's true I really don't understand Gen Z
Those are probably more likely young Millennials (>22) than old Gen Z (<22), although it's probably some of both
 

HyperFerret

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I don't know why they make it seem like Millennials are rivals to Gen Z, Gen Z kids are pretty fun to hang with.
 

cdyhybrid

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Millennials are the last generation to remember life before the internet as we know it today
 

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Doesn't matter if you can't change the system.
People act like the baby boom produced a uniquely selfish generation who use nostalgia for their lack of respect for themselves or others and it's not true. The people out there buying fuckin' Nickelodeon Gak for $90 on eBay aren't in their damn 60s, and they're doing it because they have enough money to outlive the rest of us.
 
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People act like the baby boom produced a uniquely selfish generation who use nostalgia for their lack of respect for themselves or others and it's not true. The people out there buying fuckin' Nickelodeon Gak for $90 on eBay aren't in their damn 60s, and they're doing it because they have enough money to outlive the rest of us.
Yeah, in seriousness, there'll be super shitty people in every generation. They're out there now. They're just not the elders yet.
 

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Awesome, your cubicle is on the left. Enter this data into a spreadsheet.

Thanks. (Sarcasm... sorta)
 

Peltz

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People act like the baby boom produced a uniquely selfish generation who use nostalgia for their lack of respect for themselves or others and it's not true. The people out there buying fuckin' Nickelodeon Gak for $90 on eBay aren't in their damn 60s, and they're doing it because they have enough money to outlive the rest of us.
The boomer generation isn’t hated because they’re nostalgic. They’re hated for a recent recession and decades of environmental destruction.
 

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What is this? “The rule of two one?” Capitalism loves pitting one group against another. Hope gen Z is more skeptical of status quo norms than everyone else.
 
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I don't think there's a significant difference between "gen z" and "millennials".
Yea there's way too much overlap due to technology specfically social media and the like. The lines are much more blurred between Millennials and Gen Z compared to say Boomers and Gen X.

but what jobs are they getting that are paying more than someone who probably has the same training and more experience? that's the part i am confused about. are companies really being ageist over a 7 year difference?
Nah, it's because many millennials graduated around the recession so wage growth was pretty stagnant for them even job hopping for a good 5+ years. Where as Gen Z are coming into jobs in a booming economy so their wage trajectory looks much different age the same age.

Millennials are essentially playing catchup in that regard.
 

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Hell yea they are cool. The overlap between Gen Z and Millennials are pretty obvious. The only difference is that all of Gen Z grew up with a connected world and learned the power of amplifying their voices much sooner than previous generations.
I'm pretty sure Gen Z is the neo-nazi generation

it started with pushing back against Milennial "political correctness" i.e., not tolerating anti-Trans bigotry

now all the white Gen-Z kids are nazis