Dave Ramsey’s Method For Working With Gen Z Employees

Dave Ramsey’s Method For Working With Gen Z Employees

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[calwooten]

It's really crazy, if you are 18-21 right now and can show up on time, communicate reasonably well, and act appropriately you are in the top 5% of people in your age bracket. It's ridiculous.

[delfinadelmar]

Glad to hear companies are finally doing something about the lack of professionalism I’ve been encountering.

[CDX]

We have problems with gen z receiving feedback. Both times we’ve had to have tough conversations they started crying and playing victim immediately. This strat may work on a helicopter parent, but it can’t continue in the workplace. So now it places the onus of parenting on my managers and causes them to burnout.

[tonypittsburgh]

We fired one 22 yr old after 5 weeks. He came into work with green hair and stained white t-shirts and said he knew everything. He did things his way when told do not do that it will screw up the instruments and screwed up every project he was given along with being on his cell phone a few hours a day.

[marjake]

When I hired drivers for my delivery business, I made it very clear what was expected; show up on time, tuck your shirt into your pants, speak clearly and distinctly and most of all politely. It made it especially clear that while they were at work they would keep their pants pulled up that they could do their "styling" on their own time. In other words, explain to them that I expected them to respect the job and other people. If they didn't they would feel the very sharp edge of my tongue-once. If it happened again they would be gone. I had the best most reliable crew in the building.

[MisterMonsterMan]

I dont work in a big company, but the small business I work at hasnt hired an employee under 30 in over 5 years now and the company runs smoother, better and more problem free than I have ever seen it run in my 15+ years here.

[censorshipsucks]

On the opposite side the employers need to stop with this "perception is reality" crap. I was fired from a job because I was told I yelled at another rep over the phone. They played the call. I asked them when was I yelling. They said "well they felt like you were yelling, and perception is reality."

On the plus side within two years of me being fired that whole division moved which would have doubled my commute, and then a year after moving it was shut down, and consolidated with the the other part of the company half the country away.

[PinballPreparedness]

I was a recruiter. I was interviewing a prospective accounting clerk. She had an AA in accounting and her only experience was as a waitress. When I asked her how much she was looking to make, her answer was "My Accounting Professor said with my degree, I should make $70K/year". I looked her right in the eye and asked her, "What did your Economics Professor tell you?". She didnt get hired.

[LoriNomey]

I’m gen X always been so grateful to have my job and had a great work ethic not because I should but because it’s in my moral make up … it would have been a privilege to work for you Mr. Ramsey I believe in your mission and I just love your videos! Todays kids ( not all) are so entitled and lack work ethic and mutual respect, partly not their fault but they do need to wake up and get with the program because our world is not going to be kind to them and making a living will be their only survival because what’s coming next especially with our economy is not good ! May God Bless us all !

[jogregg]

Dave, people in rural areas are often much better mannered than people in the cities. For example, the people in Wyoming and Nebraska are so nice, so friendly, that those of us from major metropolitan areas hardly know how to respond.

[tonypittsburgh]

3 yrs ago in a manufacturing setting we hired a young lady for quality control. She quit at the end of the first day saying she did not think the work was actually going to be a dirty factory but in a clean room and she would be wearing a lab coat

[rfpnc]

Sorry Dave, but the brightest, most polite, hardest working, most reliable people I know live in rural USA. They have integrity and care about their communities. They are civilized, in the best possible sense. Not so in urban areas, esp big cities.

[thomasmorrison]

I am over 50 years old and we had the same problem back in 2001 at our law office for old and young people. We had training on what was considered to be "business casual". It is not just a new problem. We had secretaries showing up in very revealing clothing and lawyers showing up in tee-shirts and jeans.

[stephengamber]

"and then we'll let someone else have you as a problem" - love it!

[lucasley]

I love this! Professionalism in the workplace is a must!

[billmartin]

The most helpful thing a job applicant can do is provide a list of their pronouns. At our company, that tells us all we need to know about whether they'll fit into our culture. (They won't.) Low-maintenance people make better workers.

[eleveneleven]

Around the turn of the millennium in London I noticed a change in the nature of new, younger, staff.
I was responsible for finance and IT and had no problems. Tech staff tend to be disciplined and many were from Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, Africa and middle/northern UK working class guys with traditional work cultures.
But in other departments we had to deal with emotionally uncontrolled women, lazy staff, uncooperative staff, stupid staff, absent staff and others who seemed to have mental problems.
They were unreliable, emotional, quick to take offence, complain, would not meet deadlines and leave on time when they should have put in more time.
What i saw is how incapable many were in interacting and working in teams.

[minimatemasterworks]

We've been lucky at our job(water, waste water utility). All of our employees under 25 have been great. One didn't have much life training, but he was mostly raised by his single mother since his father lost the custody battle and could only see him 6 days a month and died of cancer in his sons teenage years. He was still enthusiastic about working and learning, so he still turned out to be an amazing worker after a few years.

[sleepy]

A time ago when I was a sophomore in high school, the school taught a mandatory etiquette class.

[ghostrider_]

I'm a millennial and I currently work in retail with a bunch of Gen Z kids. There really are 2 types. There are a few who are some of the most respectful hardworking people, come to work dressed nice and are always looking for something to do at work. Then there's the other Gen Zs who come to work in a dirty tank top, sweat pants and flip flops everyday and spend large amounts of time in the bathroom and walking around on their phones doing absolutely nothing all day. If you tell them to do something they argue with you about it or they just disappear. I'm an assistant manager but the manager above me doesn't care whatsoever so he doesn't punish or fire anyone. I don't have the authority to fire anyone, but if I did half of these people would be gone. Yesterday the guy who wears the tank top and flip flops was changing his shirt right in front of customers at the cash register, and he's a very large guy with a chest like Dolly Parton. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. And where was the manager? Standing right next to him... the manager is also Gen Z....