JODIE FOSTER SLAMS GEN Z! | Film Threat Rants

Chris Gore and Alan Ng rave about Jodie Foster's recent comments on Gen Z.

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[lance]

The good news is if you're Gen Z and a reliable hard worker, you already have an advantage over 80% of the people your age. The bad news it might be tougher to get your foot in the door to good jobs because of your age, but I think it's always been like that.

[rjhemedes]

I am a Recruiter and to me the worst part of Gen Z are their parents. Its their parents cakling me trying to get thrir kids a job. Sorry, but I will never hire adult children who have their parents reach out directly to employers. These parents completely failed in raising their children.

[mattrowntree]

There's no risk in Gen Z. They have been bred to play the victim and be rewarded for it. Core values are negotiable and sadly irrelevant. Always had respect for Jodie, hearing her say this only confirms that sentiment.

[Ciao_Bella]

Lol, Chris, also a graduate of BKU, moved from fry station to cheeseboard to pusher to drive-through cashier to trainer. Learned so many valuable lessons, including the most important one: I *never* want to work in the food industry again. 😅

[mysterion]

I am a 22 year old graduate and have about half a year of production experience on short film sets and a year of video editing experience and can't even get a response on job applications or even internship applications. I am dying to get a job ANYWHERE and nobody even wants to interview me, I think this goes both ways. There definitely is an abundance of people in my age group are like you describe though.

[meganely]

As a 20 something year old I feel bad sometimes I took myself out of the work force to be a stay at home mom and wife. I would show up early and stay till I wasn't needed, I just don't understand the entitlement of people my age and younger, I also was raised by older people and grew up on a farm where if you don't put in the work you could not eat or even lose the farm. Love you guys thank you for the vids

[phoebea]

Most companies no longer value their employees, so the good ones always move on when they get a better opportunity elsewhere. Being loyal to a company no longer come with perks and employers know that.

[brickgarden]

I hate it for the GenZ who actually do work hard and want to succeed in life who are overshadowed by the lazy ones.

[TKFKU]

No one likes Gen Z, not too thrilled with Gen Y either. Used to be that you couldn't trust anyone over 40 and now you can't trust anyone under it.

[samuraichicken]

Gen Z: I don't feel like working today.
Boss: I don't feel like paying you today.
I don't see what the problem is.

[CollinGerberding]

4:00
I used to work at Sam's Club, and back in 2021/22, a member and I were talking about things getting "back to normal".
I mentioned that things really hadn't gotten that much busier and my boss chimes in how profits are up 20% in my department and as much at 40% in others.
I ask about a raise and he just sputterd out some corpo crap.
I looked at the member and we both stayed silent.

I'm 43 now. This concept of "if the company benefits, so do I" is a reality I've never seen. Or does that only work for people in management and us lowly physical laborers are lucky to be allowed to work in the first place?

[captinzoom]

I don't buy it. I'm 42. All the gen z I've worked with have been hard working. They have Anxiety for sure. Gen x and boomers seem to not want to pay people and expect free work cause they did stuff for Free. It sounds like he was offering them a letter of recommendation and thought that was worth something in 2024.

[matthewronson]

A good rule of thumb is: The way you do anything is the way you do everything. However, your passion for the success of the company may very well be one-way. Learn to read the room and the reality. If it isn't two way, go your own one way to the next best job you can obtain.

[greyeyed]

I'm a teacher, and it's gotten worse over the years. Covid made it even worse, but it was already really bad before that. Half of my first period class is late every day. Everyone expects 3rd, 4th, and 10th chances, so why bother the first time? (It has been decades since anyone required middle schoolers to pass any of their classes. We at the high school get a huge percentage of students who haven't passed a class in years, and are shocked they have to pass classes in high school to graduate. They just figure they'll hang out and get passed along, same as all the other years they've had in school).

[allys]

As a member of Gen Z who is embarrassed by the overwhelming majority of my generation, I agree with Jodie. Of course there are exceptions, thankfully. And yes, Chris, people not responding to messages is frustrating, whether that be text, email, etc. I may be quiet and shy myself, but if I need to contact someone with work and they don’t respond, it’s awful.

[twofargne]

I owned my own business for 35 years. I stopped hiring interns in 2021 because Gen Z make the worst employees possible. They wanted pay equal to people who had worked for me for five years. They were constantly late. They wanted to leave early. They got angry when we wouldn't use their "pronouns", so I said no more. Let them work at McDonalds.

[TalonsOfFire]

It's appalling how parents and college have allowed this generation to be so delusional, entitled, and disrespectful (and I say this being under 30 haha)

[CFK]

If I'd had to work for Jodie Foster, I'd have been always on time. And respond to all her requests.

[Comptroller]

10 minutes early is on time. Punctuality is respect.

[ApesAmongUs]

I'm going to do something rare for me and come out in defense of Gen Z. Back in my GenX days, I left my first job (after college) after 8 years of fucked working conditions being owed $27, 000 in back wages based on the old chestnut "when this start-up finally hits, we will make it up to you". Then you have people like the recently remembered Brendan Frasier who had his body destroyed because he was willing to do anything asked of him.
We gave younger people the much needed advice to not be taken advantage of, learned in a world where most people no longer belong to unions. But since they have no perspective of what being taken advantage of looks like, so they can't tell the difference between a reasonable job requirement and someone trying to squeeze an 80-hour-week out of a $35k employee. I mean, when Chris said employees weren't answering calls/text, I would be lying if I said "well, when did you call them" wasn't my first thought. As much as the kids may be lazy, the default assumptions expected by some employers has also gotten out of hand in a lot of cases.