As a millennial, some of this isn't that different than what we wanted to do but felt we couldn't because of the economy at the time. Now Gen Z is entering the workforce at a time when there is a worker shortage instead of a job shortage. They have never experienced a recession. Of course they want to use sick time when they have cramps or emotional issues too intense to work. That is reasonable, who wouldn't want that? But young millennials would have gotten fired for even asking in many cases.

Other things are definitely different, though. The politics at work thing is very strange to me. I do not want to express my political opinions through my job... Corporations don't have morals and they don't have feelings. They are a tool to create profit through selling goods. Why would I want to express my beliefs through such a fake and meaningless medium as advertising? If the company is doing something immoral or harmful, that is a need for regulation or taxation. Because when the shit hits the fan in the economy and we have our next recession, any political changes that aren't meaningless platitudes will be gone if it gets in the way of the bottom line.

As GenX, I don't think we've had much more to say other than everyone fucks up in their own time. I don't hate on generations, except for the boomer's, but that's only natural given the relationship.

This is one of the first for Millennial vs Gen Z.

Enjoy.

how can you not

Researchers call this the “kids these days” effect — and note it has been happening for millenniums.

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Ali Kriegsman, 30, co-founder of the retail technology business Bulletin, wasn’t sure, in the past, how to respond when her Gen Z employees insisted on taking days off for menstrual cramps or mental health: “Hey I woke up and I’m not in a good place mentally,” went the typical text message. “I’m not going to come in today.” Instinctively Ms. Kriegsman wanted to applaud their efforts to prioritize well being — but she also knew their paid time off could undercut business.

“As an entrepreneur, I want to call out of managing my team sometimes because my period is making me super hormonal,” she said. “But I’m in a position where I have to push through.”

OH HOLY FUCK THE MIDDLE MANAGER'S OUT OF OFFICE ERRBODY BURN THE BUSINESS DOWN

So speaking as GenX it was fucking hilarious watching the 'boomers switch from excoriating my generation to buying every goddamn dotcom stock they could find. Pretty much the minute 'email' became a verb the 'boomers were required to STFU forever.

Until their kids grew up, of course, at which point they dumped 20 years of pent up entitlement on everyone else's kids, who basically sat there and took it because they'd been raised by helicopter parents and besides economic conditions were so shitty that they all got allowances well into their 30s anyway. Obamacare: you are still a child until age 26 for tax purposes.

Having spent four quarters among the community college crowd, was absolutely stunned (initially) by the utter lack of respect GenZ expresses towards millennials. They were worse than the 'boomers! But i mean, I get it. From their perspective, millennials basically perpetuated the same shitty system they inherited without so much as a peep. You haven't lived until you've watched a 17 year old scrunch up his face and say "adulting? what the fuck is wrong with you?"

I think if anything, i differ from the GenZ mindset I encountered regularly in that I don't think it's the millennials' fault. GenZ gives no fux. I think millennials inherited the wisdom that the system was the system, best live with it, while GenZ inherited the wisdom that their forebears betrayed them.

“What is your advice for our company?” the young woman asked.

“Make you a vice president,” Mr. Ahmed told her. “Rather than an intern.”

LOL she's interning to make the connections that will allow her to undercut you to all your distributors.